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Has anyone altered their phone or e-m ail conversations with you lately?

Re: "Snowden," has anyone altered their phone or e-m ail conversations with you?l

  • Yes

    Votes: 2 6.5%

  • No

    Votes: 23 74.2%

  • I'm too busy voicing strong opinions to follow the news, who's "Snowden?"

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Responding to polls is fun.

    Votes: 6 19.4%
  • Total voters
    31
  • Poll closed .
Lutherf said:
I have personally made some rather significant changes.

As of late I have been adding certain phrases to random messages. For example, I'll dial a random number and say "Yesterday's chicken is in the pot. I repeat, Yesterday's chicken is in the pot." or during a normal conversation I'll drop in "Able has lit the lamp".

I don't know if it does any good but if, after reading this, you start seeing black helicopters please let me know.




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Discordianism at its finest!

Keep up the good work!
 
clownboy said:
I, like I believe most of my generation, have known since childhood that our phone conversations could be, and probably were, monitored. I behave accordingly, have all my life. From the beginning with computer communications I have known that privacy is an illusion in that sphere. That nothing is ever completely deleted (unless you use a BFM every single time and then shred the drive) and that eventually someone will see what I've written.
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And cell phone calls are legally available to whoever has the tech to hear them.

No warrants required.
 
What if...? said:
And cell phone calls are legally available to whoever has the tech to hear them.

No warrants required.
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Not true, they have banned snooping, and scanner frequencies in the cellular and wireless range in some locales; even banned having scanners in cars.
 
Oftencold said:
Perhaps I should lower my assessment of the cognitive mean of our my fellow members?
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Well, you posted the poll and wanted people to wait a few weeks to respond. Just seems kind of counter productive.
 
MACS-24 said:
Not true, they have banned snooping, and scanner frequencies in the cellular and wireless range in some locales; even banned having scanners in cars.
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Well that's good.

LE still doesn't need a warrant though, right?
 
I hope my drunk "I love you" calls I get/give made people laugh.
 
Oftencold said:
Perhaps I should lower my assessment of the cognitive mean of our my fellow members?
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For most people that grew up in the 60's and 70's, this isn't going to change the way they communicate. We've already been exposed to the fact that what we do or say can be recorded and used against us. Anyone ever involved in illegal drugs of any kind - even street corner weed - will have the same built-in caution already.
 
Oftencold said:
Since the Edward Snowden "revelations," I've had at least on person in a phone call express concern over something I said that they thought might draw attention from government monitors. (In this case it was a reference to the American Revolution.)

I'll be curious to see if this trend grows.

If no one has done this in your electronic communications, please give it a few weeks before responding to this poll. Lets see how many people encounter the phenomenon over the next month or so.
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Every day now I send an e-mail to one of my other e-mail accounts that consist of nothing but words that will send up a red flag at the NSA and the Obama White House.

It's driving the NSA, DOJ, DHS and the White House batty.

>" 2nd Amendment; Obama; Tea Party; bomb; birth certificate; NRA; illegal aliens; guns; Arpaio; pressure cooker; rule of law; militia; First Amendment; Obama Care; amnesty; NASCAR; AR-15; Fox News; freedom; Constitution; The Law of Nations; Big Sis; property rights; ammunition magazine; Alinsky; Barack Hussein; GOP; Hannity; OO-RAH "<
 
I've increased the volume and volatility of my emails and phone conversations just to piss 'em off and give 'em something to listen to. What a ****ing dead end job for them - no standard of excellence or higher ideals to aspire to - nothing of redeeming value at all. They're just sophisticated telemarketers in form and function.
 
clownboy said:
I, like I believe most of my generation, have known since childhood that our phone conversations could be, and probably were, monitored. I behave accordingly, have all my life. From the beginning with computer communications I have known that privacy is an illusion in that sphere. That nothing is ever completely deleted (unless you use a BFM every single time and then shred the drive) and that eventually someone will see what I've written.
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Even before all computers, the adage was "Never put anything in writing that you wouldn't want to see as a newspaper headline." Remember old Samuel Pepys? In high school I was forced to read excerpts of his diary, and that's when I realized that if you write, you're presuming an audience.

Now, because so many people are recording stuff on their phones and we see crowdsourced stuff on the news every day, I guess we all need to accept that we're on camera when we're out in public anywhere.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
I called my friend earlier this night, and right in the middle of the conversation I confessed my love to whatever NSA employee might have been listening in.
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Vatt iz your friend's name?
 
Paranoia does not run in this family
 
I rarely talk on the phone at all, and when I do it's about what to pick up while I'm at the grocery store. So, no.

I also rarely talk about stuff like this in e-mails. In fact, pretty much never. Definitely less often than the grocery store thing. So, again, no.

Pretty much everything I talk about is in places like this, which has always been public anyway.
 
Oftencold said:
Since the Edward Snowden "revelations," I've had at least on person in a phone call express concern over something I said that they thought might draw attention from government monitors. (In this case it was a reference to the American Revolution.)

I'll be curious to see if this trend grows.

If no one has done this in your electronic communications, please give it a few weeks before responding to this poll. Lets see how many people encounter the phenomenon over the next month or so.
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Not exactly. Several people I know who are regular on social media who work for some government contractors suddenly went silent for several days after that story broke, including the ones who work for Booz Allen & Hamilton, but they mostly have resumed.
 
I deleted my facebook. But mostly because I never use it. It's funny because facebook refuses to delete it until 14 days after you tell them to delete it, which makes you sorta wonder, do they really wait 14 days, and THEN delete it..

Facebook actually hides the function to delete your account.
 
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