Do you know about LinX yet?

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If you're at all interested in how far Big Brother's nose is up every American's business...

...read the article to learn how far we've gone even beyond 1984, and ponder the implications of the military police as a foremost head of citizen data collection and retention in the USSA today:

A parking ticket, traffic citation or involvement in a minor fender-bender are enough to get a person's name and other personal information logged into a massive, obscure federal database run by the U.S. military.

The Law Enforcement Information Exchange, or LinX, has already amassed 506.3 million law enforcement records ranging from criminal histories and arrest reports to field information cards filled out by cops on the beat even when no crime has occurred.

LinX is a national information-sharing hub for federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. It is run by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, raising concerns among some military law experts that putting such detailed data about ordinary citizens in the hands of military officials crosses the line that generally prohibits the armed forces from conducting civilian law enforcement operations.

Those fears are heightened by recent disclosures of the National Security Agency spying on Americans, and the CIA allegedly spying on Congress, they say.

Eugene Fidell, who teaches military law at Yale Law School, called LinX “domestic spying.”

“It gives me the willies,” said Fidell, a member of the Defense Department’s Legal Policy Board and a board member of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War.

Fidell reviewed the Navy's LinX website at the request of the Washington Examiner to assess the propriety of putting such a powerful database under the control of a military police entity.

“Clearly, it cannot be right that any part of the Navy is collecting traffic citation information,” Fidell said. “This sounds like something from a third-world country, where you have powerful military intelligence watching everybody.”

LinX grabs and keeps even the small stuff like local police dispatch call logs and pawn shop records...

More than 1,300 agencies participate, including The FBI and other Department of Justice divisions, the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon. Police departments along both coasts and in Texas, New Mexico, Alaska and Hawaii are in LinX.

"More than 1,300 agencies participate..."

...1,300+ agencies, folks (no doubt foreign intelligence partners, too), and the only way they can "participate" is if they feed their own databases into LinX.

Wow...


Navy database tracks civilians' parking tickets, fender-benders, raising fears of domestic spying


http://washingtonexaminer.com/navy-...sing-fears-of-domestic-spying/article/2546038
 
NSA infiltrates servers of Communist China's Huawei

The USSA federal government dictates that if the Communist government of China commits such acts against it and its lemmings, they consider it an act of war and reserve the right to respond militarily...

...yet, they don't seem to have any problem with committing acts of war against Communist China and its lemmings:

(Reuters) - The U.S. National Security Agency has infiltrated servers in the headquarters of Chinese telecommunications and internet giant Huawei Technologies Co, obtaining sensitive information and monitoring the communications of top executives, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

The newspaper said its report on the operation, code-named "Shotgiant," was based on NSA documents provided by Edward Snowden, the former agency contractor who since last year has leaked data revealing sweeping U.S. surveillance activities. The German magazine Der Spiegel also reported on the documents.

One of the goals of the operation was to find any connections between Huawei and the Chinese People's Liberation Army, according to a 2010 document cited by the Times.

But the newspaper said the operation also sought to exploit Huawei's technology. It reported that the NSA aimed to conduct surveillance through computer and telephone networks Huawei sold to other nations. If ordered by the U.S. president, the NSA also planned to unleash offensive cyber operations, it said.

The newspaper said the NSA secured access to the servers in Huawei's sealed headquarters in the city of Shenzhen and got information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches the company says connect a third of the world's people. The NSA also tracked communications of Huawei's top executives, the Times reported.

Der Spiegel reported that the NSA breached Huawei's computer network and copied a list of more than 1,400 clients and internal training documents for engineers. "We have access to so much data that we don't know what to do with it," the magazine cited an NSA document as saying.

The magazine said the NSA also is pursuing a digital offensive against the Chinese political leadership. It named the government targets as former Chinese prime minister Hu Jintao and the Chinese trade and foreign ministries.

Full story here:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014...EA2L0PD20140322?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews


Bats to break knees are needed...

...to make some relearn how to walk like they talk.
 
that's because you're not classy like me.

also, pervy about wedding dresses.

what? you can't judge me.
 
I can and I will.

No bride is thinking about sex while still in their wedding dress. That smile is because they know they will never have to suck a cock.
 
In the 5-year period of 2008-2013, 56,992 people we're stopped and questioned by the Miami Gardens Police Department during that department's version of unconstitutional "stop & frisk"...

...that number of innocent folks stopped is more than half the number of Miami Garden's entire population!

And, yes, all those almost 57K were, indeed, innocent - none among that number were arrested. But every single one of them were labeled as "suspicious, their vitals were entered into the police database...

...and then they were released from unconstitutional police detainment.

Fusion’s analysis of more than 30,000 pages of field contact reports, shows how aggressive and far-reaching the police actions were. Some residents were stopped, questioned and written up multiple times within minutes of each other, by different officers. Children were stopped by police in playgrounds. Senior citizens were stopped and questioned near their retirement home, including a 99-year-old man deemed to be "suspicious.” Officers even wrote a report identifying a five-year-old child as a "suspicious person.”

Fusion’s Investigation also found evidence that some field contact reports may have been falsified. There were many instances were multiple reports were filed just minutes apart – all claiming to stop the same person. Other reports claimed a person was stopped on the streets by police, when in fact, they were actually in jail at the time.

Two officers from the MGPD told Fusion that high-ranking department officials gave them orders to "bring in the numbers” by conducting stops and arrests. One officer said he was ordered to stop all black males between 15 and 30 years of age.

According to the current police chief, simply being in a "high crime area” may be enough reason to stop and question people. Because of the city’s high crime rate, this means virtually any person can be stopped.

"You're essentially saying you have reasonable suspicion to stop everybody in your community. That's crazy, because that means they're exercising no discretion,” says Martinez, the Miami-Dade public defender.

http://fusion.net/justice/story/miami-gardens-stop-frisk-nabs-thousands-kids-finds-667430

Almost unbelievable, eh?

But...

...guess how much richer LinX's database grows when America's police departments unconstitutionally serve as its primary data gatherers.

And, yet, Americans sleep uncaring...

...while Big Brother unabashedly proclaims their intent is to "collect it all".
 
Almost unbelievable, eh?
Not in the least.
Or at least not for anyone who paid a modicum of attention to the efforts of the Bush administration to bring it online, along with other citizen tracking and domestic spying tools (once the direction was pointed to by the Clinton administration).

IIRC there were a number of people in the DOJ fired around 2005, ostensibly for pushing Linx too hard, but it's interesting that it went full steam ahead even with them gone.

Once in place, few, if any, mainstream administrations will have the guts to rein in any such tools.
 
Not in the least.
Or at least not for anyone who paid a modicum of attention...

And, of coursre, "anyone" meaning you, right?

Listen, wannabe...

...there's plenty of bozos on this Board who are more than willing to daily joust with you to prove their d!ck is just as small as yours.

But I...

...am fully unqualified to play that game.

You should simply be happy with what God naturally gave you...

...and try your best to just keep dealing with the laughter you've undoubtedly received your entire life.
 
And, of coursre, "anyone" meaning you, right?

Listen, wannabe...
LOL Right. You post a "revelation" about something that's over 10 years old and common knowledge then call me a "wannabe". Try posting something that's actually news.

People have known about this sort of thing for many years, but most average american's haven't given a shit until Snowden's revelations so it was, for the most part, ignored by the mainstream press. It was pretty commonly reported in the information security and EFF world.

Just like most people didn't give a shit about Robert Mueller's perjury, about government key logging technology, during his confirmation hearings in 2001.
 
Try one of those pumps, dude...

...it's really your only hope.
 
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