We Can All Resume Googling Backpacks And Pressure Cookers
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We Can All Resume Googling Backpacks And Pressure Cookers
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#2Who are you to tell me it's okay to compromise my privacy?
Re: We Can All Resume Googling Backpacks And Pressure Cookers
#3Well it wasn't a PRISM program or anything, simply a company monitoring internal internet usage. This I understand and makes sense, although I don't think it warranted a call to police...
My company does the same thing, turns out one of the managers had been downloading porn onto their computer for months and the first time we installed it we noticed. When we checked out his computer he had over 200 Gb of the stuff... so yeah, he was fired, clearly he wasn't doing his job to the best of his performance.
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#4Here's the HN thread when the story was first posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6140545. Its fun/important to go back and do a little autopsy about the way things played out.
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#5Cue the massive avalanche of 'I told you so' from all of the smart people on HN who were arguing that there was no way this was NSA related yesterday.
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#6Who are you to tell me it's okay to compromise my privacy?
The home owner voluntarily agreed to a search. Not sure what the privacy violation was... unless you think internet searches on your employer's network falls within your domain of privacy?
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#7I read this on my phone last night and was convinced it would have already been submitted to HN by the time I got to work. Sad to say I was wrong, but I'm glad someone mentioned it.
Here we have another win for tptacek in the "common sense and reason" column.
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#8Cue the massive avalanche of 'I told you so' from all of the smart people on HN who were arguing that there was no way this was NSA related yesterday.
This cueing could get real meta, real fast. :)
Point taken though.
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#9There can't be many people that have at least searched for the anarchists cookbook at some time. The notion that the authorities now think it's ok to turn up at my doorstep for that is incredible. The language used is pretty chilling as well, apparently just searching for "bomb" is now an "incident". I'm also aware that I now have a little voice questioning whether or not I should post this comment...
Re: We Can All Resume Googling Backpacks And Pressure Cookers
#10Cue the massive avalanche of 'I told you so' from all of the smart people on HN who were arguing that there was no way this was NSA related yesterday.
We already played this game yesterday evening: