On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:54:19 GMT, Bill Baka wrote:

> plenty900@yahoo.com wrote:
>>> It might be more complicated than this. They are said to have back doors in
>>> *standard protocols* (Linux included) [1,2,3,4] and these are hard to get by
>>> unless you are a security professional (I'm not). What about hardware-based
>>> hacks [5] (in which case "Intel" might be just an abbreviation)? Remember that
>>> they just need to sniff packets and then decrypt successfully in order to gain
>>> remote access.
>>
>> Finally a mature response. I was beginning to think I was dealing with
>> 11-year-olds.
>
> If you don't think the NSA (or anybody else) gets into your computer,
> how about this, my experience so far. I used a torrent engine to
> download 'Dreamgirls' for my daughter. What I got was a crappy copy and
> a nasty e-mail from the MPAA police.

Maybe you should have considered paying for it?

> About 30 years ago I got a visit from 2 FBI gorillas in $1,000 suits
> knocking on my door (at home, 8:00 P.M.) for a very minor infraction of
> FCC regulations, and they gave me a pink ticket and a warning that if I
> dot another warning it would be a RED ticket. The RED ticket is one step
> from having you license pulled for a year.

FBI agents don't make enough money to afford $1,000 suits.
Perhaps you meant $100.00 suits?

Sounds like you are an Amateur Radio operator who was violating FCC
regulations.
Maybe more than 100 percent modulation or something like that.

Rex Ballard is this you?
Rex is a HAM as well.


> If you don't think the FBI monitors your activities just write something
> that says "A$$a$$inate p-r-e-s-i-d-e-n-t 'WEED'" in it and wait for the
> FBI at your door.
> I'm not paranoid, I have been hassled over trivial stuff.
> A few years back, like 2004 (I think) I was detained by both DHS and FBI
> agents on duty at Beale A.F.B. for riding my bike on a PUBLIC road and
> taking a few pictures with me 1.2 M Pixel fixed focus el-cheapo camera.

I guess you were too young to read the signs that are invariably around
places like AFB, Nuke facilities and more recently since 9-11 bridges,
tunnels, skyscrapers etc that say "Photography Prohibited".


> Even after proving I was born here, 3rd generation, they held me for a
> local Sheriff to pick me up and take me straight home with the bike
> loosely in his trunk.
> They do it because they can.
> Bill Baka

Yea they can and they will, but you can avoid it by being honest.
It's like the loons that trespass at Area 51 and ignore the signs that
prohibit trespassing.
When the goons come for them they cry like you are doing.



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