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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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| 1339673 | 2013-05-07 00:13:00 | 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. yep Not that illegal spying happens in NZ ... er wait maybe not that those working for govt dept's & police have used info for personal reasons(revenge), or to supply info to a private detective mate, or a crim not that it would be too easy for those in power to use this info to spy on what the political opposition are up to : this happens all the time overseas, it would happen here eventually (perhaps allready has) |
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| 1339674 | 2013-05-07 00:21:00 | www.scoop.co.nz | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1339675 | 2013-05-07 02:18:00 | Meh, the more calls etc they try to monitor the less likely it is they will notice any normal person. Think about it, how many hours of phone conversation go on in any one day in even a small country like ours? it would take a significant percentage of the population as a workforce to go through it all. In order to get noticed you'd have to somehow draw attention to yourself, and posting "bomb" in one forum once is unlikely to do it. Even to record a single days worth of conversations would take huge amounts of storage space and its pretty damn unlikely, plus they'd have to have equipment tied into the all the telcos exchanges and they just don't. Far more likely is they have the capability to monitor if given a reason to and that there are automated systems filtering for a raft of key words and phrases. I'd expect if you got flagged multiple times your name would come to someones attention for follow up and then you'd possibly have something to worry about. As for the unfortunate Poms, that was a silly error in judgement on their part. America has been understandably tense about such things since 911 and authorities aren't known for a sense of humour, posting that on a public website was asking for unwanted attention. Sure the authorities over reacted, that's what authorities do. |
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