Is the FBI Following Your Cookies?

[JohnyMac]

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/
 

[sledge]

Yeah, well, everyone needs a job.  Glad I can help someone at the FBI stay employed , get a paycheck, and feed their kids. 

[WhiteWolf]

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.

[NOLA556]

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.

[WhiteWolf]

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. 

[CrystalHunter1989]

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.

[JohnyMac]

Crystal,
is the writing on the wall for America?

[CrystalHunter1989]

Crystal,
is the writing on the wall for America?

Could you be more specific?

[Kentactic]

Maybe its all part of my plan....

[mountainredneck2051]

how did they know i baked cookies last night? 

[JohnyMac]

Crystal, sorry but I just read your signature. Hense the question 

[NOLA556]

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/