OT: The FBI Hacked My Computer

Shadowstar · #1 August 2nd, 2002, 07:22 AM

I've always believed the best way to throw people off the truth is to make B-grade movies about the subject.

Yes, that's right, hot dogs are PEOPLE!

Saxon · #2 August 2nd, 2002, 02:02 PM

Here is another non-American talking about American agencies, but the FBI certainly works outside of the US. They are routinely used as liaisons between local police forces and the US government. They also have an active program of recruiting good cops from foreign countries, running them through the FBI academy and then sending them back to the country they came from. These cops then turning into “contacts” for the Embassy, as well as getting assigned to any cases where the Embassy has an interest. They also end up nosing around the sites of terrorist attacks and so forth. The US Embassy bombing in Nairobi was certainly not interstate crime, but somehow a lot of FBI ended up here. I am not complaining, I lost friends in that attack, but I just wanted to point out that they are quite active internationally.

Further, I would add that most of us have more to fear from our network administrator trolling through our computers than the FBI doing so. The network admin has fewer legal restrictions on them and almost no logistical problems to overcome. The FBI has bigger legal and computer challenges to get over.

tesco samoa · #3 August 2nd, 2002, 09:49 PM

If the Ramones were making music today... The FBi Hacked my computer today....

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Puke · #4 August 3rd, 2002, 01:31 AM

this looks neat:

http://www.introVersion.co.uk/

Baron Grazic · #5 August 5th, 2002, 08:07 AM

Saxon, I wouldn't worry about your Network Admin spying on you, he is probibly checking out this forum to much to notice.

dogscoff · #6 August 5th, 2002, 10:18 AM

In further 1984 news, check out the firrst item in this week's http://www.ntk.net

UK ISPs are now required by law to keep logs of all websites visited by each of their customers. These logs can then be accessed by the police, the UK secret services, foreign secret services, and we're not sure who else. Oh, and apparently it's illegal to talk about it too much as well...

At least they managed to quosh the measures they were considering Last month, where agencies like the post office and the food hygiene standard ppl would have been able to access your records...

Growltigga · #7 August 5th, 2002, 11:11 AM

Yeah, the measures being spoken about a couple of months back in Parliament were hysterical - imagine allowing the Post Office to have access to a record of all the websites visited, I can see it now 'Hmmm" says postman, "this parcel marked 'do not bend - naughty videos from Holland' must be for Mr Dogscoff as we know he was surfing certain, ahem, sites Last month"..

or what about allowing the Health & Safety people access to your internet records, "hmmm, we should go and check out Mr Wong's takeaway as we are aware he has been visiting the Asian Cockroach breeders web site"

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