I have to admit, https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-04-federal-surveillance-... is not something I would expect from Buzzfeed. Huge surprise.
Seriously, this is rather impressive for BuzzeFeed
Maps Showing Where FBI Planes Are Watching from Above
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#22Good on the FBI/DHS, I say. Not everything is a conspiracy.
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy to dislike it. Also, they tend to keep these actions secret, which doesn't bode well for government transparency and government trust.
Police investigations are generally secret for obvious reasons.
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#23I have to admit, https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-04-federal-surveillance-... is not something I would expect from Buzzfeed. Huge surprise.
The investigative side of BuzzFeed isn't given the credit it deserves, particularly from the HN crowd. When most major news organizations have reduced or flat out dissolved their investigative units BuzzFeed has been spending more and more money to produce high quality investigative pieces. It's been a while since they aren't just a "funny" listicles site.
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#24reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/
here's the summary,
> In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the sky had been there all along, they could scroll back in time and see - literally see - who planted it. After the war, Ross McNutt retired from the airforce, and brought this technology back home with him. Manoush Zomorodi and Alex Goldmark from the podcast “Note to Self” give us the low-down on Ross’s unique brand of persistent surveillance, from Juarez, Mexico to Dayton, Ohio. Then, once we realize what we can do, we wonder whether we should.
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#25I thought these weren't "watching" as much as they were using stingrays to slurp up cellular location and metadata.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy to dislike it. Also, they tend to keep these actions secret, which doesn't bode well for government transparency and government trust.
Agreed. Circling surveillance planes are unsettling no matter if it is routine or not. I believe they should have warrants for these and maybe they do, maybe they don't. There is not enough transparency to know (even just a report of the number of investigations and outstanding warrants in cities or districts would be enough).
Why would they need warrants for watching a person in a public place? You don't have an expectation of privacy in that situation.
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#27reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ here's the summary, > In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the…
Point of Origin (POO) analysis believe is the tech term.
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#28I have to admit, https://buzzfeednews.github.io/2016-04-federal-surveillance-... is not something I would expect from Buzzfeed. Huge surprise.
The authors even included their PGP fingerprints at the bottom of the article and invited readers to contact them securely.
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#29Curious, anyone know why the FBI takes the weekends off?
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#30reminds me of a radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/eye-sky/ here's the summary, > In 2004, when casualties in Iraq were rising due to roadside bombs, Ross McNutt and his team came up with an idea. With a small plane and a 44 mega-pixel camera, they figured out how to watch an entire city all at once, all day long. Whenever a bomb detonated, they could zoom onto that spot and then, because this eye in the…
Point of Origin (POO) analysis believe is the tech term.
WAMI is another. Wide Area Motion Imagery.