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Using Your Privacy Against You

Posted by timothy on from the guns-butter-and-syrup dept.

guttentag writes: "Christian Science Monitor Reporter Warren Richey suspects he may have stumbled onto a credit card fraud ring that uses Internet merchants to quietly funnel night-vision rifle scopes to Middle Eastern terrorists and privacy policies to cover their tracks. Even if these are isolated incidents, it's worth noting that the privacy rules intended to protect us can also work against us."

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  1. Where are we heading to? by Jugalator · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yesterday: Open Source development might make it easier for terrorists to break into systems.

    Today: Credit cards might make us pay for terrorist actions.

    Tomorrow: Windows might actually be an act of terror. Umm.. Nah, that wouldn't be news. We knew that all along.

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  2. TV commercials. by Una · · Score: 4, Funny

    Strangely enough, This reminds me of the war on drugs commercial where they have multitudes of teenage children proclaiming "I support terrorists" and "I killed those cops", and at the end gives a message something to the effect of "If you use drugs, Your supporting terrorism."

    Now Id really like to see a new mastercard commerical along those same lines:

    Hotel room in Jordan: $125 a night.
    Crispy waffle breakfast: $5
    Knowing your MasterCard helped Al Qaeda terrorists buy weapons: Priceless.

    -Una

  3. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You paid for a waffle with a credit card?

  4. Re:Article's Real Issue by forkboy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Freud is being used to purchase weapons - hello and welcome to the world of gunrunning

    You know, sometimes an M-16 is just an M-16.

    There's another famous psychiatrist who was into terrorism, too...does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

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