So what are y'all going to do now that PRISM has been revealed?

[Willsson]

Originally Posted by UglyGuy

My question is what are the keywords? Are they being used for nefarious purposes other than catching terrorists?

mmmmm, considering the clever thinking liberal employees of the government keywords are probably something like tea party, patriots, freedom, palin...

[KickAssArmyChick]

I am trying to organize a march in DC.

[ellemint]

Originally Posted by UglyGuy

My question is what are the keywords? Are they being used for nefarious purposes other than catching terrorists?

List of words used by the National Operations Center to monitor social media (taken from the DHS Analyst's Desktop Binder):











Target on your cyber back: DHS has a list of words deemed ?suspicious? ? RT USA

[cdnirene]

One designer thought the worst thing about the PRISM revolutions were the horrible Powerpoint slides. So, he re-designed them: Dear NSA, let me take care of your slides. It's quite an improvement!

By the way, in latest latest survey by the Pew Research Center and The Washington Post:

• 56% of Americans think it is acceptable for the NSA to systematically track their call records in terrorism investigations.

• 45% think it is acceptable for the government to monitor emails to prevent terrorist attacks

More details in this article: http://mashable.com/2013/06/11/pew-n...llance-survey/

[Iamme73]

Originally Posted by UglyGuy

Let's face it, email, text messages, stuff you write online...


...They are all stored somewhere and from what we know NSA has access to it, for whatever purposes. Are you and your businesses going to disconnect from this electronic infrastructure? Are you going to protest the NSA hoping that it will get shut down? Or are you going to prepare and arm yourself in case they see you as a political dissident and come for you? Or maybe even a combination of those things? Or maybe you are going to do nothing, because you have nothing to hide and are not paranoid of the government.

Many businesses out there depend on this electronic infrastructure to make money, farmers, gun manufacturers, banks, the stock market, and many other things.

So what are y'all gonna do about it, tough guys?

People aren't going to do anything. This stuff has been the law of the land for over a decade. That was when the question mattered.

I was one who was against the Patriot Act back in 2001 when it wasn't popular to be against that legislation.
I was against the war on terror, I was later against the creation of homeland security, I was against those dumb terror threat levels that were used to scare the crap out of people. I was against the Iraq war, I was against torture, I was against indefinite detention. I was against GITMO.

In order to stop we have to stop all of it. We have to learn that these conservative policies were an unmitigated disaster.

Sadly, conservatives still don't want to end the war on terror, and still support the surveillance state, so it will be a struggle to end it.

[GCSTroop]

Bomb, jihad, terrorist, assassination plot, maritime domain awareness, gangs, national security, attack, cops, exercise, looting, nuclear weapons, nuclear facility, North Korea, infection, zombie apocalypse, drug cartel, pirates, extremism, militia, radioactive radiation, H5N1, cyber attack, computer virus, human virus, viral epidemic, E. Coli

Am I worried? Nope.

[no1brownsfan]

Originally Posted by Iamme73

People aren't going to do anything. This stuff has been the law of the land for over a decade. That was when the question mattered.

I was one who was against the Patriot Act back in 2001 when it wasn't popular to be against that legislation.
I was against the war on terror, I was later against the creation of homeland security, I was against those dumb terror threat levels that were used to scare the crap out of people. I was against the Iraq war, I was against torture, I was against indefinite detention. I was against GITMO.

In order to stop we have to stop all of it. We have to learn that these conservative policies were an unmitigated disaster.

Sadly, conservatives still don't want to end the war on terror, and still support the surveillance state, so it will be a struggle to end it.

Again as pointed out to you in a previous thread by another poster, NONE of this is conservative in nature! Just because someone has an (R) in front of their name, it does not make them conservative. I am a Libertarian which leans conservative in ideology (at least when it comes to fiscal matters, and limiting the size and power of the of the government) and I can assure I support NONE of the above referenced!!!! Didn't then!!! Nor do I now!

[crone]

Go to the NSA website and peruse the management. It is where all the retired generals and admirals go when they retire. It is nothing but an extension of the Pentagon. Their budget must be huge.

I'd like to see the congress person who has the strength to tell then no.