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Isn't it weird for Americans to know that their own secret service is monitoring their kids?
by herbst 5y ago
Isn't it weird for Americans to know that their own secret service is monitoring their kids?
- bityard 5y agoGenerally, the secret service doesn't monitor kids unless they believe that they are somehow a threat to the president. If you read the story, you'd know that the FBI wasn't "monitoring kids", they were investigating an incident that _could_ have had something to do with international espionage, colored significantly by wartime paranoia. They were obviously embarrassed when all of their leads pointed to a kid. However, even today, the FBI doesn't monitor kids. Tech giants and social networks do that for them.
- bink 5y agoWell, maybe not anymore, but the Secret Service used to be charged with investigating computer crimes. I was the victim of one of their covert raids at the Pentagon City mall way back in the early 90s. They dressed up like mall cops and searched us all. It even ended up on the front page of the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/11/12/hackers-allege-harassment-at-mall/5f5e756f-806e-485e-962b-0a5f71635c81/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/11/12/h...