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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnyMac on March 19, 2012, 10:26:01 AM

Title: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: JohnyMac on March 19, 2012, 10:26:01 AM
I just ran across this on survivalblog.com this morning (3/19/2012):

Important Message From JWR: The FBI's Cookie Caper and the VPN Imperative

"It has come to my attention [James Rawles] that from August of 2011 to November of 2011, the FBI secretly redirected the web traffic of more than 10% of SurvivalBlog's US visitors through CJIS, their sprawling data center situated on 900 acres, 10 miles from Clarksburg, West Virginia. There, the Feebees surreptitiously collected the IP addresses of my site visitors. In all, 4,906 of 35,494 selected connections ended up going to or through the FBI servers. (Note that this happened several months before we moved our primary server to Sweden.) Furthermore, we discovered that the FBI attached a long-lived cookie that allowed them to track the sites that readers subsequently visited. I suspect that the FBI has done the same to hundreds of other web sites. I find this situation totally abhorrent, and contrary to the letter of 4th Amendment as well as the intent of our Founding Fathers...."

If you would like to read the whole artical go to: http://survivalblog.com/ (http://survivalblog.com/)
 

Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: sledge on March 19, 2012, 11:41:49 AM
Yeah, well, everyone needs a job.  Glad I can help someone at the FBI stay employed , get a paycheck, and feed their kids. 
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: WhiteWolf on March 19, 2012, 12:20:39 PM
If they're truly monitoring us I have no doubt that there are many good patriotic men among them. Many whom have probably read our topics, debates, and discussions and have felt a conviction from high heaven to begin prepping themselves. Of course it could be just some brainless computer program taking IP's and putting us on a watch list.  :-\ Oh well.
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: NOLA556 on March 19, 2012, 12:27:07 PM
If they're truly monitoring us I have no doubt that there are many good patriotic men among them. Many whom have probably read our topics, debates, and discussions and have felt a conviction from high heaven to begin prepping themselves. Of course it could be just some brainless computer program taking IP's and putting us on a watch list.  :-\ Oh well.

I'd be willing to bet it's just some algorithm that searches for flag words and hones in on them.

Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: WhiteWolf on March 19, 2012, 12:42:07 PM
If they're truly monitoring us I have no doubt that there are many good patriotic men among them. Many whom have probably read our topics, debates, and discussions and have felt a conviction from high heaven to begin prepping themselves. Of course it could be just some brainless computer program taking IP's and putting us on a watch list.  :-\ Oh well.

I'd be willing to bet it's just some algorithm that searches for flag words and hones in on them.

Yeah....kind'a figure that's what's happening.  :(
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: CrystalHunter1989 on March 19, 2012, 08:35:15 PM
Wikipedia says that the FBI currently has less than 50,000 employees in it's entire force, and less than 1/3 of them have law enforcement powers. Must be a computer.
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: JohnyMac on March 19, 2012, 08:41:26 PM
Crystal,
is the writing on the wall for America?
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: CrystalHunter1989 on March 20, 2012, 05:39:23 PM
Crystal,
is the writing on the wall for America?

Could you be more specific?
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: Kentactic on March 20, 2012, 06:46:23 PM
Maybe its all part of my plan....

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Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: mountainredneck2051 on March 20, 2012, 07:25:45 PM
how did they know i baked cookies last night?  :o
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: JohnyMac on March 20, 2012, 08:49:28 PM
Crystal, sorry but I just read your signature. Hense the question  :))
Title: Re: Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?
Post by: NOLA556 on March 21, 2012, 03:19:49 PM
figured I'd throw this out there:

file name is foresee-alive.js and if you search your hard drive for it, you must adjust your Windows settings to display hidden files, (because foresee-alive.js will be a hidden file.)

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/ (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/)