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FBI Obtains Phone Records With a Post-it Note
angry tapir writes "The FBI was so cavalier — and telecom companies so eager to help — that a verbal request or even one written on a Post-it note was enough for operators to hand over customer phone records, according to a damning report (PDF) released on Wednesday by the US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General."
The "Canary Yellow" color of Post-It Notes is a trademark of 3M. See the legalese at the bottom of that site. Canary? Yellow? Too easy.... let's see some punchlines!
I wonder if this method would work at a bank?
I might save some time in the drive thru...
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
No, remember, exposing what the FBI is doing is what destroys America. If you don't want the FBI to illegally spy on terrorists -- and of course that's the only people they spy on, even if the report says the opposite -- then you want terrorists to destroy America. Because you love terrorists. And hate America.
The enemies of Democracy are
Curse Romy and Michelle for inventing something that the government is using to spy on it's own people!
I say we hang them for treason!
One of the rare times an AC goatse post should actually be considered insightful and informative.
Best "String" Ever!
Wrote on a post-it-note "Want $2,000,000" in small unmarked notes. All they did was have me arrested:( Clearly I need to work on my social engineering skills. Maybe next time I won't walk in with my helmet on, so they can see my big friendly smile.
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I don't really care about my phone records (I never really call anyone anyway). But how hard is it for them to sift through my credit card records looking for dirt?
... that there are those, even a major cable news network, who want to return to the days of the Bush era. What are they fuckin' thinking? Are they even thinking at all?
You mean like in 1984, where the government was quite explicitly and openly spying on everyone, and sometimes the spook spying on you would speak directly to you if you weren't being a good enough citizen? Yeah that'd be sooo much better.
This happens already. You've seen those people in black or blue uniforms outside, right? Sometimes they wear tan or brown, if they patrol "highways". Sometimes they go "undercover". Sometimes they walk into ATT's international data routing center and install an entire hidden floor in the building.
After all, I am strangely colored.
Whenever I tell someone I actuall do that they always start to wonder what I have to hide
Do they have curtains covering their windows? What do they have to hide?
The soylentnews experiment has been a dismal failure.
Steganography. Work out a code to talk to your friends: it's fun! Buy cheap pay-as-you-go phones and throw them away when you've used up the minutes. See how long it takes the FBI to catch on!
Break the law, go to jail!
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