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Feds Arrest Private Eye at HOPE
An anonymous reader writes "FBI agents today arrested Steven Rambam, the owner of a company that bills itself as the largest privately held online investigative service in the United States, according to Washingtonpost.com's Security Fix blog. From the story: 'Rambam was arrested this afternoon by FBI agents just moments before he was to lead a panel discussion on privacy here at the HOPE hacker conference in New York City. Rambam and three other panelists were to discuss how they dug up -- in just 4.5 hours of searching private and public databases -- more than 500 pages worth of data on HOPE attendee Rick Dakan, who agreed to be the guinea pig for the project.'"
land of free speach! - NOT...
Do us all a favour... Please STOP trying to impose your ideals of freedom on other nations!
land of the prisoners, home of the cowards
Guess you're out of the loop, guy, the feebs of the FBI aren't responsible to the American public, only to Terror Czar Gonzales of the DOJ and the neocons (and perhaps Bill Crystal and Richard Perle). The Total Information Awareness is only allowed to be accessed by the bad guys, not the good guys.... (do you think the FBI will ever do a criminal investigation of 9/11/01????).
Wow!!! You're probably right on track, dude. And the FBI can immediately track any hacking down now that Total Information Awareness is fully operational and online. Geez, is anyone safe anymore. Maybe now Bush can find his longlost brother, Osama bin Bush....
OK, wise a**, so I spelled his name wrong: it should read Bill Cristal, consider me chastised....I just can't remember all those neocon, draft-dodgers'names....
Don't be a fruitcake. Given the present administration, if you don't presume they're violating civil liberties to the fullest extent possible shy of tipping over to police state, then you're a fool. Personally, if I heard of something this administration did that was right, I'd think it a hoax. Note: this post is not humor.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
I am allowed to vote for any party or not vote at all in this country. I am allowed to attend any church or temple or shrine I desire (or attend none at all, if that's my preference). I can sit online and discuss my political views freely, without being whisked away by secret police. Between the open internet and other sources of information in this country, I can obtain countless sides of all issues so that I can see more of the truth and formulate my own opinions of what goes on in America.
I'm supposed to believe that these are my civil liberties being violated to the fullest extent possible?
Too many liberals in America are becoming overly exaggerated in their desire to slander and attack the current administration and most sensible conservatives. They say our country has similar rights to oppressive and fascist states. But we can spit on the president's name as well as praise him, without being shot on sight by soldiers. We can peruse the internet freely, without the extreme censorship that occurs in China and even in far less restrictive nations. What have been our recent losses of freedom in America? DRM? I hate DRM as much as the next Slashdotter, but I swear that it is nothing compared to living in fear of your own life.
And our churches? Liberals try to portray America as a theocratic dictatorship ruled by iron-fisted Christians. They try to draw correlations between the mainline / fundamentalist Christians (like myself, who are often well-educated with scientific backgrounds) and the radical Muslim extremists and terrorists who are devoted to our country's utter annihilation. Christians stand for love where the terrorists stand for hate. Christians offer hope, where the terrorists offer no solution but death. Once again, you are free to worship (or not) wherever you want - our government will not kill you! We will not imprison you for being Hindu or Sikh or atheist or Jew or agnostic. You are 100% free to believe whatever you like.
I'm tired of the venom on Slashdot! This is not 1984, despite your wild-eyed fears! America still stands for freedom!
So.....then. If invading a country on a lie, killing 100-140,000 of their citizens, ignoring habeas corpus and international law
Agreed. If any of those things happen, we'll have a problem. Since they haven't...
Emmanuel Goldstein was modeled after Leon Trotsky.
Leon Trotsky was a nasty person, one who belived in the same sort of oppression and state-terrorism as V.I.Lenin. He didn't survive Stalinism, though, so became an un-person.
It's amazing the complicated dance that many young people are led through to prevent them understanding that Orwell's '1984' is a direct indictment of Stalinism and Soviet Communism. It's almost as if there was a concerted effort made by those who revere 'Communism/socialism' in theory.