Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
> 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?

Idiot. Then I would have bought a junk movie.
>
>> 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?

More like $1,000 suits when they go calling on people.
>
> 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.

And you are an idiot. I am not a HAM operator and never have been.
The license was for a first class radiotelephone engineer with shipboard
radar endorsement. That was required for me to work on transmitters.
>
>
>> 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".

59 is too young? I have time to read ALL signs at bicycle speed and
there were none since I was at a back entrance and they only keep
private planes and a few A-10 Warthogs and some KC-135's.
>
>
>> 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.
>
The 'goons' have harassed me enough to prove that it is really 'because
they can', from personal experience. I rode to the end of a gate road
that had been 'dead ended' by a chain link fence and 2 guys, 1 DHS and
the other CIA pulled up and asked me what I was doing there. I reminded
them that I was riding a friggin' bicycle and I was taking a refreshment
break, on MY side of the fence, and they finally went away.
It's real, even if you haven't been on the receiving end.
Bill Baka