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Echelon Used to Capture Terrorist
An anonymous reader writes "Echelon was used to track and capture Khalid Sheikh Mohammed." Ahh, bitter sweet victories. The article kind of explains what Echelon is, and pretty much says that those disposable phones really don't have much security at all.
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Looks like mr Mohammed wasn't wearing his tinfoil hat...
We can argue abou the wisdom of echelon, using it, or even writing articles in the papers about it... (Something I think is really not in our national best interest.) All I know is if I hear one word from the ACLU about this guy's civil liberties or privacy being violated, I'm going to start hoping they turn into cactus fertilizer.
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If they stuck with the sticks and clubs, no one would be after them. Running a camel into the WTC would not have caused much damage.
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That's why I (as a card-carrying paranoid whacko) take apart my cell-phone every night before bed.
First I was fine just removing the battery... but then I remembered that capacitors carry a residual charge, and if I remembered that, then the Man knows it. So, now I take apart each individual component, except for the LCD...
You don't think they can track me by the LCD do you?
Black and grey are both shades of white.
While this instance proves that Echelon can be used for good, who insures that?
Easy: "Crimson Permanent Assurance", and they'll win!
$25 million can buy a lot of box-cutters.
What's the going rate for a suicide bomber in Palestine these days? Isn't it something on the order of $5,000.00 or so? That's a lot cheaper than a cruise missle. Paying 25,000,000 simoleons to a filthy, radical muslim who maybe is an Al-Quaida turd burglar seems like it might lead to some of that money going into operations against the US.
Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony? Terrorists turning in each other to fund more terrorism with the reward money... Talk about a viscious circle.
Khalid: "We're running low on funds for new operations because of those imperialist infidels. We neet to raise cash, Osama!"
Osama: "The devil dogs have indeed reduced our sources of funding, but we do have one option remaining..."
Khalid: "Yes, Osama? How can we raise money to fight the imperialist crusad... Urk!"
Osama: "Heh..."
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Hah! I smash my phone with a hamer each night. That's starting to get expensive though. I think this guy may have something with taking the battery out.
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I have reason to believe they may have snagged Ron Jeremy instead! Don't believe me, do a side by side comparison of "Mohammed" and Ron Jeremy. Only one way to know for sure, though.
If I find my phone turning itself on at night, that fucker is getting thrown into the lot and run over with my car. A few... hundred... times. Yeah. None of that 'come-kill-the-paranoid-teen' crap for me.
Or you could just take the battery out... *looks at crushed and dead phone* *lip quivers* Damnit.
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911 happened because the FAA had a huge hole in their security. Box cutter knives were legally allowed to be carried on airliners. Without them, those planes would not have been hijacked.
How about the Necronomicon? That thing causes no end of trouble, or maybe the Artifact of Evil of course that may be a more Chaotic Evil kind of tool, but I think that it qualifies.
That'll keep them from finding you. After all, they'd never think to look in your bed.