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UCmeNdc

(9,650 posts)
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 11:38 AM Nov 2016

FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers Under Trump

here comes Trump! The dictator!

The FBI, National Security Agency and CIA are likely to gain expanded surveillance powers under President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress, a prospect that has privacy advocates and some lawmakers trying to mobilize opposition.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-29/fbi-and-nsa-poised-to-gain-new-surveillance-powers-under-trump

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FBI and NSA Poised to Gain New Surveillance Powers Under Trump (Original Post) UCmeNdc Nov 2016 OP
Big Brother is watching... Wounded Bear Nov 2016 #1
The man nominated to head the CIA, Mike Pompeo, has strong ties to the Koch Brothers. nt jalan48 Nov 2016 #2
Get a good VPN now; learn how to use TOR. Install open-source encryption software on anything mobile VulgarPoet Nov 2016 #3
Tor has long been compromised and "unauthorized code" NWCorona Nov 2016 #6
good thing we didn't kill the filibuster geek tragedy Nov 2016 #4
I have a feeling about that DFW Nov 2016 #5

VulgarPoet

(2,872 posts)
3. Get a good VPN now; learn how to use TOR. Install open-source encryption software on anything mobile
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 12:17 PM
Nov 2016

Time to get paranoid.

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
6. Tor has long been compromised and "unauthorized code"
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 03:18 PM
Nov 2016

Has found its way into most commercially available VPN software unfortunately.

I agree with the paranoid part. Scary times.

 

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)
4. good thing we didn't kill the filibuster
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 02:52 PM
Nov 2016

I doubt Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee would be good with this kind of expansion.

19 Republicans sitting in the next Senate voted for the USA Freedom Act.

DFW

(56,453 posts)
5. I have a feeling about that
Tue Nov 29, 2016, 03:03 PM
Nov 2016

I think all they would be doing is legitimizing what they have already been doing for years.

My phone has been tapped for years, just because my brother does secret high tech stuff for a branch of the Defense Department. Big deal, let 'em. As long as they don't bill me for translations, I don't much care. It's supposedly to make sure no one can blackmail him into betraying his security clearance through outside pressure on me or my family. So far, it appears I'm still below Putin's radar. Maybe I should be insulted!

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