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"One of the agents produced a printout of a blog post that Afifi’s friend Khaled allegedly wrote a couple of months ago." Is it really that easy to tie up so m
by bl4k 16y ago
"One of the agents produced a printout of a blog post that Afifi’s friend Khaled allegedly wrote a couple of months ago."
Is it really that easy to tie up so many federal resources? They knew everything about this guy and dedicated a team to him just because he was the blog posters friend (edit: a Reddit commentors friend). Amazing and inefficient.
The real terrorists can drown themselves in noise by flooding the intel agencies with fake posts from real people and real names. I wouldn't be surprised if they are not already doing this.
Dedicating entire teams to follow all the friends of every semi-threatening blog post doesn't scale.
- chopsueyar 16y agoPerhaps that was the anonymous tip the FBI referred to?
- jrockway 16y agoIs it really that easy to tie up so many federal resources? Yes. The Secret Service came to my house, with guns, because of a one-sentence Slashdot comment I wrote.
- auxbuss 16y agoAfter that you've got to provide a link so we can see what you said. Or have you got something to hide :)
- ugh 16y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1602664 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1602664
- DevX101 16y agoDid they request your IP from slashdot or did they find some other way of independently tracking you down?
- jrockway 16y agoYes, they got the IP from /. (The Slashdot FAQ used to say, "we don't store IPs", but this silently disappeared.)
- jacquesm 16y agoYou'd expect the secret service to be more discriminating when it comes to spending their time, there are quite a few presidents that you could have picked from. I'd be a lot more worried about people that are not posting unspecific threats openly in nerdy forums. And if they would then 'watch' would be a much more appropriate response than 'alert to being noticed'. "Secret service" apparently means do things without much secrecy. For the record, I'm going to kill the president too. But to make it a bit harder I'm also not going to claim of which country.
- wmeredith 16y ago>You'd expect the secret service to be more discriminating when it comes to spending their time... Haha! It's not their time(money) so they don't give a shit. It's our money.
- jrockway 16y agoI also never claimed which country, and I didn't even capitalize the P. If people were better at grammar, the taxpayers would have slightly more money :)
- jacquesm 16y agoHah, score one for the ambiguity of the English language, I meant 'also' as in 'just like jrockway'.
- jason_slack 16y agoObviously they didn't do much to you. How did it an out? Take you in, made you wait for days, a few questions here and there.......
- bl4k 16y agoNow I know what to do if I ever need to test my super-anonymity shield. I am going to kill ..