The weirdest thing

[Evee]

I was talking to my nephew and he was telling me that now days they can get one piece of information about you from the internet and find out anything they want including satellite in on your place of residence.
Now I have been pretty open and never worried about these trival things but for some reason I am now uneasy.
If this is true though why cannot they catch the terriost and more criminals? I know he is a computer whizz and I am pretty illeterant when it comes to pc.
Is this true?

 

[robot23]

yep
its true
not everyone has the knowhow
but it can be done

 

[Evee]

yep
its true
not everyone has the knowhow
but it can be done

That is kind scary stuff why would someone want to do this?

 

[Clem is Me]

To catch the terrorists and the criminals.

LOL. We all trade our liberty for our safety every day, and we will pay. But it's what we want.

 

[Blackguard_]

If this is true though why cannot they catch the terriost and more criminals?

Becasue then they don't want to catch them. They make for too good of bogey men for scaring the Sheeple into giving the guvmint more power.

I'm sure they'd say "because of your lousy anachronoistic notion of "Rights" we can't spy on you all the time, at least not tell you about it or reveal it in a court case anyway. If you want to be safe from terrorists you'll give up your silly notion of "privacy" and give us the power to use all our techie gizmos!"

 

[robot23]

a friend and i used to get info from people in chat rooms and then find maps info about them etc for fun when we were teenagers
haha
although no one thought it was funny 'cept us

 

[Evee]

Becasue then they don't want to catch them. They make for too good of bogey men for scaring the Sheeple into giving the guvmint more power.

I'm sure they'd say "because of your lousy anachronoistic notion of "Rights" we can't spy on you all the time, at least not tell you about it or reveal it in a court case anyway. If you want to be safe from terrorists you'll give up your silly notion of "privacy" and give us the power to use all our techie gizmos!"

I was talking of an everday citizen is this possible to check up on you for instance?
I am really wondering about this???

 

[Evee]

a friend and i used to get info from people in chat rooms and then find maps info about them etc for fun when we were teenagers
haha
although no one thought it was funny 'cept us

Oh I never thought of that then it be good advice to not even let anyone know what state you are from then huh?

 

[robot23]

like Mc Minnville, TN ?

 

[Blessed2003]

To catch the terrorists and the criminals.

LOL. We all trade our liberty for our safety every day, and we will pay. But it's what we want.

I can just see the Burger King sign now,

"Have it your way"

Is that really what we want? (veering from op, excuse me, not intended for this audience, I just like to pass the buck *snicker*)



humor is not humor, if no one laughs.....

 

[vajradhara]

heh.


you know about Carnivore, right?

http://email.about.com/library/weekly/aa102901a.htm

 

[Evee]

like Mc Minnville, TN ?

Thats right?
This is why I ask he said I was giving out to much information.
He's young and know so much he is planning getting his own shop soon. Maybe he can teach me something useful.
Well see I shot myself in the foot.

 

[Garnet2727]

There is a lot of information that can be gleaned from the internet about a person. However, that does not necessarily make it THE tool to find criminals. Most of us don't have a reason to try to hide ourselves other than regular precautions to prevent a crime being comitted on us. However, a terrorist is in the business of hiding...both in the real world and on the net. Just as the net can be used to find somone, it can also be used to deceive.

 

[robot23]

kids are clever

 

[Evee]

heh.


you know about Carnivore, right?

http://email.about.com/library/weekly/aa102901a.htm

Thanks for that link it is interesting.
I will read more later.

I know I know just a dumb bunny!

 

[Evee]

There is a lot of information that can be gleaned from the internet about a person. However, that does not necessarily make it THE tool to find criminals. Most of us don't have a reason to try to hide ourselves other than regular precautions to prevent a crime being comitted on us. However, a terrorist is in the business of hiding...both in the real world and on the net. Just as the net can be used to find somone, it can also be used to deceive.

Thank you I appreciate your answer.
I always just used it to click on places I enjoyed and then click off untill ready to turn on again.

 

[Evee]

kids are clever

Yes they are!