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Thread ID: 131693	2013-05-04 07:22:00	Are the authorities eavesdropping on ALL our digital communications?	Zippity (58)	PC World Chat

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1339663	2013-05-04 23:26:00	Is that when they drop prices to match everyone else's retail?	WalOne (4202)
1339664	2013-05-05 00:38:00	Realistically I cannot see what the average law abiding citizen has to worry about. The two poms who planned a piss trip to the US, only to be interrogated for hours at the border then sent home again, after tweeting their friends that they were off to "destroy america" might beg to differ. The problem here is that with everything filtered and flagged, the human tasked with inspecting anything deemed noteworthy, is a humourless monocultural prick with the IQ of a garden vegetable.	fred_fish (15241)
1339665	2013-05-05 01:07:00	They certainly would not be interested in the majority of traffic. Too mundane. Some years back, I worked in the fault testing department. We spent our days testing and isolating faults, but we could not test a telephone line while it was in use. If we were not too busy, we would leave the test equipment across the line and wait for them to stop talking. People then were quite paranoid about anyone listening in on their conversations, and we could have done so, but why would you want to? Most people would be talking about something of which you had no knowledge and therefore was not the slightest bit interesting. We would leave the handset on the desk so that you could hear that they were talking and when the chatter ended we would test the line. We definitely did not listen in - the conversations were much too boring. I can only imagine that nothing has changed over the years - listening into conversations is boring! Why would you do it? Anyone that was listening would have to be very patient and not easily bored. So I would think that it would not be 'someone' that is listening but 'something.' Keeping an electronic ear for naughty words, perhaps.	Roscoe (6288)
1339666	2013-05-05 01:31:00	How extremely fortunate for us that the authorities are of such high moral fibre and are possessed of extreme intellectual development that we can rest assured that they are beyond question in their endeavours. We can rely on this because they told us so, and will tell us again just before the elections. Pay no attention at all to past blunders, that will only confuse the people.	R2x1 (4628)
1339667	2013-05-05 04:29:00	The two poms who planned a piss trip to the US, only to be interrogated for hours at the border then sent home again, after tweeting their friends that they were off to "destroy america" might beg to differ. The problem here is that with everything filtered and flagged, the human tasked with inspecting anything deemed noteworthy, is a humourless monocultural prick with the IQ of a garden vegetable. You quote an example that involves "Amurica" - irrelevant. Everyone knows that Homeland Security and Amuricans in general are paranoid to the point of institutionalisation. I heard (unconfirmed, but quite believable) that the day of the Boston bombings, a flight out of Boston was turned back after a couple of gentleman of middle-eastern persuasion, not seated together, were heard speaking their native language to each other in the plane while in flight. Shock! Horror!	johcar (6283)
1339668	2013-05-05 05:24:00	'Murica, @#$& yeah! :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1339669	2013-05-05 05:54:00	You quote an example that involves "Amurica" - irrelevant.And who, exactly, do you think is listening to us via Waihopai? And pulling the strings of our own agencies to get their way here too?	fred_fish (15241)
1339670	2013-05-05 06:05:00	The Dotcom case is fantastic evidence supporting you too Fred_fish	Chilling_Silence (9)
1339671	2013-05-06 10:35:00	www.guardian.co.uk	zqwerty (97)
1339672	2013-05-06 11:06:00	www.guardian.co.uk Wow! If that's true, just think of the server farms full of HDDs storing all those phone conversations!!!! Wonder who supplies them - Seagate or Western Digital? :)	johcar (6283)
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