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Originally Posted by Pete
I don't think the consent form has a paragraph explaining how they can create a fake Facebook account about you. Does it?
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No one knows, no one's read it.
That aside.
Neat article.
Ya know, I read that through recent technology they have finally discovered who Jack the Ripper was. A mystery that couldn't be solved for over one hundred years and a month ago they solved it (granted, not by Law Enforcement but by someone who went through the trouble of having evidence DNA tested using new state of the art procedures.) Even history can't hide your identity anymore.
With news like that, none of this surprises me. It also leads me to believe that Snowden makes a very good point. One day, your life may be ruined do to mere association. Or just a build up of intelligence that becomes toxic. For instance, maybe the IRS messes up your taxes and your left blowing in the wind, you're pissed, so you go on FB and vent. 5 years later you meet someone new at work, you get along, grab a few beers after work and that's that. You paid with a debit card. 6 weeks later he's arrested for having fought in Syria against the Assad regime 8 months prior. Now all of a sudden you've got a problem with the government and your meeting with people who have links to known terrorist organizations. Meanwhile you're sitting in a cell thinking "what the fuck is going
on."
It's only caused harm to Americans, hasn't made us safer at all (speaking in terms of America. As a strategy to counter insurgency in war zones it seems to be highly effective.) Here you've got this Alton Nolen guy with a completely public (as in no privacy settings) facebook that anyone can look at, with TONS of anti America and pro terrorist rhetoric and what does he do? Beheads a former co-worker. We could have seen that coming without any advanced systems or techniques, just a facebook account. Yet instead we're using the IRS to suppress conservatives.
Ya know the ironic thing? I can't help but wonder if ya'll QPs and servicemen in general are on watch lists for signing up to defend this country and it's constitution.
For reference on the Ripper thing
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...-kosminski-dna