“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
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“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”
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#2Combine this story with this one [0] and guess what that means for the future of the US.
[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/nsa-storing-cel...
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#3The tone of this message reminds me of the game Paranoia[0]
[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
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#4The tone of this message reminds me of the game Paranoia[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
The only thing that sucks about Paranoia isn't even the games fault, as the wikipedia claims, when written in the 80s it was full of dark humor and tongue in cheek jokes, but American culture has changed so much since the game was invented that it now reads more like a DHS employee manual or Fatherland Security mission statement or whatever.
It should be required reading for kids, maybe college kids. See kids, this RPG is how things are now WRT security, but a generation or two ago, it was merely a punchline. Americans haven't always been cowards.
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#5Well at least they notify first.
US police would just start beating you and throwing you into pens, if you are lucky you won't get coated in pepper spray or hit by a sound cannon.
Watch the DNC and RNC conventions next year for examples with their multi-million dollar taxpayer funded "security".
But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people for "watching".
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#6The tone of this message reminds me of the game Paranoia[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
The only thing that sucks about Paranoia isn't even the games fault, as the wikipedia claims, when written in the 80s it was full of dark humor and tongue in cheek jokes, but American culture has changed so much since the game was invented that it now reads more like a DHS employee manual or Fatherland Security mission statement or whatever. It should be required reading for kids, maybe college kids. See kids, this R…
"first published in 1984" - such a nice coincidence...
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#7The tone of this message reminds me of the game Paranoia[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia_(role-playing_game)
The only thing that sucks about Paranoia isn't even the games fault, as the wikipedia claims, when written in the 80s it was full of dark humor and tongue in cheek jokes, but American culture has changed so much since the game was invented that it now reads more like a DHS employee manual or Fatherland Security mission statement or whatever. It should be required reading for kids, maybe college kids. See kids, this R…
Jim Morrison said it best (screaming):
"You're all a bunch of fucking slaves." ...
"Maybe you like being pushed around." ...
"Maybe you love getting your face stuck in the shit." ...
"How long is it going to last?"
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#8Well at least they notify first. US police would just start beating you and throwing you into pens, if you are lucky you won't get coated in pepper spray or hit by a sound cannon. Watch the DNC and RNC conventions next year for examples with their multi-million dollar taxpayer funded "security". But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people f…
> But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people for "watching".
Combined with the "meta-data" collected by the NSA, they can easily probalistically identify the core members of any dissident group to focus their national security efforts on.
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#9Well at least they notify first. US police would just start beating you and throwing you into pens, if you are lucky you won't get coated in pepper spray or hit by a sound cannon. Watch the DNC and RNC conventions next year for examples with their multi-million dollar taxpayer funded "security". But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people f…
> police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers
I remember that the dutch police some years ago already used so called "sms-bombs" to contact mobile phone subscribers that were around a crime scene months before.
It is simply inherent in the technology. You wear a mobile phone? (not even smart) So you are traceable with all consequences.
The solution? In any case not technical in nature. We will see.
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#10Well at least they notify first. US police would just start beating you and throwing you into pens, if you are lucky you won't get coated in pepper spray or hit by a sound cannon. Watch the DNC and RNC conventions next year for examples with their multi-million dollar taxpayer funded "security". But I guess this indicates police everywhere can now just record the phone numbers of everyone in the area to mark people f…
It was a post-notification that used historical geo-information like who was in a particular cell tower's coverage area. It only came out before the law enacted to counter what is going on kicked in. A man was shot and killed a few hours ago by Kiev police[1]. Now an APC is deployed[2] while both police[3] and protestors[4] trade Molotovs.
Here is a live feed of the scene, which is essentially an on-going street battle now[5].
[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BelRC9RCUAAbRNZ.png [2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BelT6nzCcAAWytp.jpg [3] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeljSy1CMAANJFo.jpg [4] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BelVNWSCQAAr1l-.jpg [5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrZcAsPKK74
edit: Video of the police scuffling with citizens in the street during the man's shooting then dragging his body away, along with an interview with the man that filmed it was submitted and published by the BBC[1].