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Careful What You Post, the FBI Has More of These

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-you-see-what-i-see dept.

jamie writes "A comment posted to a website got its author's *friend's* car an unwanted aftermarket addon. The Orion Guardian ST820, a GPS tracking device, was attached to the underside of the car by the FBI. No warrant required. The bugged friend, a college student studying marketing, was apparently under suspicion because he's half-Egyptian. As Bruce Schneier says, 'If they're doing this to someone so tangentially connected to a vaguely bothersome post on an obscure blog, just how many of us have tracking devices on our cars right now ...' The ACLU is investigating." This follows up on our earlier mention of the same student, who turned the tracking device over to the FBI.

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  1. Re:got spyware? by egamma · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lawful execution by Castle Doctrine law.

    Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.

    Don't you watch the news?

    2 killed

    1 killed

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  2. WTF? by MikeRT · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The purpose of the Second was so that those that carried arms could organize and could protect others from our own government. Now, it means self-defense.

    What... the... fuck...

    How can anyone with an above room temperature IQ say "sure, the founding fathers fully intended to secure the right of armed revolution, but they'd be shocked---SHOCKED--at the idea that someone would claim a right on the basis of the 2nd amendment to carry a 9mm handgun in public."

    So, let me get this straight. The founding fathers fully intended for people to be able to form a militia--which necessitates private citizens owning military-grade hardware--but never intended the same amendment to cover carrying a civilian-grade weapon by law-abiding citizens?

    That's like arguing that the founding fathers never intended for the first amendment to protect what you write down in a notebook because it says "freedom of the press," not "freedom of the notepad" (which is an inferior means of putting your speech to paper for publication).