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Prankster Calls NSA To Restore Deleted E-mail
First time accepted submitter manu0601 writes "Since the NSA snoops, intercepts and store our e-mails forever, why not use it as a backup service? It just lacks the API to restore files, therefore this guy [YouTube video] called the NSA to ask for a backup restoration. Guess what? It did not work." After all, why should we have to pay twice for services already performed with tax dollars?
I'm telling you, the government just isn't providing service. So what are we paying them for, anyway?
It's funny, but could you get yourself into legal trouble with this?
I'm sure they could come up with some trumped up charges under the Patriot Act or something.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I love how the lady kept trying to get this guys information even tho they supposedly couldnt help him. WE HAVENT BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF YOUR EMAILS BUT WE SURE WOULD LIKE TO.
Rather boring and uneventful. How did this ever get posted anyways?
Damn you, XKCD. See what you did?
Great demonstration of great telephone manner and customer service for a challenge customer, Respect NSA. I for one welcome our new customer service overloads!
Just wait until this individual attempts to travel in the near future. If you phone the NSA and acknowledge that they have your email, they will retaliate.
After all, the government right now is persecuting a "leaker" who they "claim" is lying because after all, they swore up and down that they weren't reading email and listening to phone calls of average Americans. And the government wouldn't LIE, now would they? So the leaker has to be wrong. And yet, they pursue him like he has some relevant information that can cause damage.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Is the water you drink clean?
Is your food supply safe?
Do the lights come on when you flip a switch?
Can you travel through the air at nearly the speed of sound for a few hundred dollars?
When you turn on the radio in your car, do you hear voices/music coming out of the speakers?
Can you read this message?
Are you speaking English?
Because if you are, you can be assured that your government is doing at least some things you find useful. There are places - quite a few actually - for which the above do not all apply. The taxes there are exceptionally low, and you may wish to consider relocating to take advantage of the savings and buy the above items yourself. Note: if you form a group to provide such services, that's cheating. another word for that kind of cheating is called "Government."
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
The real problem is that even if you did get your email back it would be heavily redacted. :-)
As a future convenience, you have been added to our service, all at no charge to you.
Our whole goddamned civilization is going to collapse under the irony. It's all lolcats from here on out. Damn, the alienz are going to be dumbfounded when they finally stop by to check up on us.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Once, in a previous life before becoming an enlightened free software user, I had a windows 95 install that got infected with a virus and died. For reasons that are obvious or easily guessed I probably deserved it but I also lost valuable data when I sanitized the harddrive. If the NSA could retrieve a pre-infection copy of my clipart folder from 1997 I'd pay up to a 5$ service charge without hesitation. I can't imagine I'm the only one who might actually have a legitimate use for my own intercepted data, either.
Becoming part of the foundation of a building is not considered construction.
So, we have to enable the backup service first? No problem:
al Qaida, Jihad, Backpack, Pressure Cooker, Fourth Amendment.
There. That should do.
Have gnu, will travel.
The opposite of providing that thing ... poorly.
See water, food, electricity.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Why does getting jailed for recording a call to an agency known for recording everybody's calls without legal oversight, in order to get a recording of a conversation (even if by email) strike me as just a tad ironic?
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.
Well, sort of. one government service is protecting water rights.
I cannot dump my sewage in the stream upstream of you, nor can I dam up the stream and keep all the water for myself while you die.
Nor can I dump the waste from my factory or hog farm into the watershed.
This is a problem going back for millennia, and one of the reasons that people formed governments.
It has to do with what economists call "tragedy of the commons", a problem that governments are probably the only workable solution.
The government regulates those things.
Or are you just dense?
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
True, sorta, but the worst excesses occurred before government intervention and "appropriate licenses" were required. here's an example: http://www.environmentalcouncil.org/priorities/article.php?x=264
Also, ask anyone who lived in Los Angeles in the 1960-70's
It was a free-for-all before the 1970's , and then we elected representatives who promised to do something about that and they did ( see Nixon, EPA (1970), Clean Water Act(1972) . BTW, I'm an old person, and I remember very well the days before local, state and federal government intervention into protecting the environment.
What companies can get away with now-a-days is nothing compared to before government got involved.
BTW, many people have made a good case that the reason so many jobs left the USA for third-world countries isn't so much cheap labor, but rather the non-existent environmental rules in those countries.