Anti Federalist
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Sweetheart, are we having a bad day?
Sarcasm?
Sweetheart, are we having a bad day?
Sarcasm?
Moi sarcastic?
In all seriousness, it seems like you are having a bad day.
*Kisses*
I think you two need to get a room.
How do these extraction devices work? Do they need to physically posses your phone or will the extraction device work from a few feet away? Is this simply a hack to get into your phone or does it download the contents of your phone onto their remote device?
Schifference, the devices in question are handheld gadgets that the "authorities" can plug into pretty much any cell phone or laptop. The way it can work, as I've heard it, is something like this:
Say you pull up to a toll booth to pay cash because you hate those stupid intrusive transponders. (makes you a "terrorist" suspect right there, doesn't it? What are you hiding???) A cop pops out of the booth and demands, "Give me your cell phone!"
"What do you need it for?" you inquire innocently.
"Are you resisting? Do you want to be arrested?!?" demands the cop, "I'm not telling you again - HAND OVER YOUR CELL PHONE, NOW!"
At this point, you can do one of two things: You can refuse to hand over the phone, at which point you have an excellent chance of getting tasered, pepper sprayed, dragged out on the ground, beaten, then arrested for Contempt of Cop.
Or you can hand over your cell phone.
If/when you hand over your phone, the cop plugs in his handheld device, and ever shred of data, every phone number, ever address, every GPS coordinate, every web page you've visited, every photo, every video on your device is copied over to the cop's handheld device and is now the Property of the State.
To be fair, I've not heard about his happening at toll booths (although I'm guessing that's coming soon) but I actually HAVE heard numerous accounts of this happening at the border. If you want to get back home, you have to go through the electronic equivalent of a body cavity search of the Powers that Be decide they're bored that day and want a little excitement in their lives.
Schifference, the devices in question are handheld gadgets that the "authorities" can plug into pretty much any cell phone or laptop. The way it can work, as I've heard it, is something like this:
Say you pull up to a toll booth to pay cash because you hate those stupid intrusive transponders. (makes you a "terrorist" suspect right there, doesn't it? What are you hiding???) A cop pops out of the booth and demands, "Give me your cell phone!"
"What do you need it for?" you inquire innocently.
"Are you resisting? Do you want to be arrested?!?" demands the cop, "I'm not telling you again - HAND OVER YOUR CELL PHONE, NOW!"
At this point, you can do one of two things: You can refuse to hand over the phone, at which point you have an excellent chance of getting tasered, pepper sprayed, dragged out on the ground, beaten, then arrested for Contempt of Cop.
Or you can hand over your cell phone.
If/when you hand over your phone, the cop plugs in his handheld device, and ever shred of data, every phone number, ever address, every GPS coordinate, every web page you've visited, every photo, every video on your device is copied over to the cop's handheld device and is now the Property of the State.
To be fair, I've not heard about his happening at toll booths (although I'm guessing that's coming soon) but I actually HAVE heard numerous accounts of this happening at the border. If you want to get back home, you have to go through the electronic equivalent of a body cavity search of the Powers that Be decide they're bored that day and want a little excitement in their lives.
For his BFs too?LOL! There's plenty of rooms when he gets home.![]()
LOL! There's plenty of rooms when he gets home.![]()
For his BFs too?
danke has cooties?You might want to take a shower now.![]()
Yah, in the doghouse.
I recall reading about exactly this happening at a couple of "random safety roadblocks" in Colorado if memory serves correctly.
umm, Don't really appreciate the imagery.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I know for a fact that it has happened to truckers coming back into the country from Canada. It hasn't happened to me - yet - but I figure it's just a matter of time. I tell ya, it's a hell of a thing when coming back into one's own country is like checking yourself into prison. I've never been incarcerated, but I can't imagine the process would be much different: gruff guards asking you lots of personal questions, all under threat of severe penalties for lying. Being treated like you're guilty *unless* you can prove yourself innocent - and God help you if you can't. Having your personal property searched, then X-rayed...
The whole process is gut wrenching. But the real kick in the nuts is listening to some dumbass simpering about how our government is keeping us safe from all them "terrurists".... In the old Soviet Union, the people may have been scared to fight back, but at least they KNEW they were living under an oppressive authoritarian tyranny. The majority of the U.S. population seems to be very, very happy to be living like animals in a cage.
Saying "makes me want to puke" doesn't even come close to cutting it....
None are so hopelessly enslaved...
+rep to the first person to finish that quote.
No, they are offering you a opportunity to contract with them. Set the terms.
danke has cooties?![]()
None are as hopelessly enslaved as those who think that they are free..
I don't know even what to do anymore. The designers of this crap have had so much experience that they know the slow creation of the police state over time is the best, with constant reminders of fake terrorist boogie men who are actually the FBI..I feel like a man screaming that a building is burning down while the last embers of the last bit of scaffolding are nearly out and everyone claims there is no fire at all or that they like fire because it makes them warm.
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Vessol again.