Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds

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Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks: Get a Visit From the Feds

Posted by timothy on Thursday August 1, 2013 @05:24AM from the advise-you-to-do-this-right-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Massachusetts resident Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which raises the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling?"

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Bush by Anonymous Coward · 2013-08-01 05:28 · Score: 5, Funny

If only we could get this Bush guy out of office this stuff wouldn't happen.
1. Re:Bush by Kaenneth · 2013-08-01 07:01 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  In short "Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos"
Re:Refuse the search? by gandhi_2 · 2013-08-01 05:32 · Score: 5, Funny

This is why I always answer the door wearing a balaclava.

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They can't get all of us by XxtraLarGe · 2013-08-01 05:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Maybe overload is the only way to combat this sort of thing. Encourage all of your friends to search for pressure cookers and backpacks today.

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I know what I am doing when I get home by Sparticus789 · 2013-08-01 05:34 · Score: 4, Funny

$i = 0
while $i = 0
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Pressure+Cooker"
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=backpack"
'Nuff Said

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Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli by Remus+Shepherd · 2013-08-01 05:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh, god. Now I really want to Google 'stewpit', but I'm worried it's some keyword for a terrorist cannibal org.

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Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli by virgnarus · 2013-08-01 05:42 · Score: 3, Funny

You really need to ask this question? Or you just playing stewpit?
Honestly! Redundant questions like that really get me steamed up.
Proof! by ThatsNotPudding · 2013-08-01 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny

This is proof we're still living in a free country! They didn't die in a hail of military-grade automatic weapons fire.
Re:Wireshark by TWiTfan · 2013-08-01 05:53 · Score: 5, Funny

.I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy?
But, but...the NSA head and several Congressmen have assured us that they aren't blanket monitoring everyone. And surely they wouldn't lie!

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Re:Refuse the search? by mooingyak · 2013-08-01 05:54 · Score: 5, Funny

This is why I always answer the door wearing a balaclava.
Answer the door eating baclava too if you want to get a real reaction.

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Re:Refuse the search? by gewalker · 2013-08-01 05:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I had to look up balaclava on Google -- hmm, someone banging on my door
Re:Refuse the search? by Hatta · 2013-08-01 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Ooh, madlibs!

Those people will turn out to be poopy-wing domestic terrorists, who were also ugly.

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Re:How'd the government know what they were Googli by JWW · 2013-08-01 09:08 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, I got the memo, but too much of it was redacted to know what it said.... ;-)