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Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops
01-08-13, 18:41
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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...earches/67864/
Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops Michele Catalano was looking for information online about pressure cookers. Her husband, in the same time frame, was Googling backpacks. Wednesday morning, six men from a joint terrorism task force showed up at their house to see if they were terrorists. Which prompts the question: How'd the government know what they were Googling? Catalano (who is a professional writer) describes the tension of that visit. Quote:
Update, 3:40 p.m.: It is still not clear which agency knocked on Catalano's door. The Guardian reported this morning that an FBI spokesperson said that "she was visited by Nassau County police department … working in conjunction with Suffolk County police department." (Catalano apparently lives on Long Island, most likely in Nassau County.) Detective Garcia of the Nassau County Police, however, told The Atlantic Wire by phone that his department was "not involved in any way." Similarly, FBI spokesperson Peter Donald confirmed with The Atlantic Wire that his agency wasn't involved in the visit. He also stated that he could not answer whether or not the agency provided information that led to the visit, as he didn't know. Local and state authorities work jointly with federal officials on terror investigations similar to the one Catalano describes. Both Suffolk and Nassau County's police departments are members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), Donald confirmed. Suffolk County is also home to a "fusion center," a regionally located locus for terror investigations associated with the Department of Homeland Security. It wasn't the JTTF that led to the visit at Catalano's house, Donald told us. The task force deputizes local authorities as federal marshals, including some in Suffolk and Nassau, who can then act on its behalf. But, Donald said, "officers, agents, or other representatives of the JTTF did not visit that location." Calls asking for a response from the Suffolk Police Department and the Department of Homeland Security have not been returned. Ever since details of the NSA's surveillance infrastructure were leaked by Edward Snowden, the agency has been insistent on the boundaries of the information it collects. It is not, by law, allowed to spy on Americans — although there are exceptions of which it takes advantage. Its PRISM program, under which it collects internet content, does not include information from Americans unless those Americans are connected to terror suspects by no more than two other people. It collects metadata on phone calls made by Americans, but reportedly stopped collecting metadata on Americans' internet use in 2011. So how, then, would the government know what Catalano and her husband were searching for? It's possible that one of the two of them is tangentially linked to a foreign terror suspect, allowing the government to review their internet activity. After all, that "no more than two other people" ends up covering millions of people. Or perhaps the NSA, as part of its routine collection of as much internet traffic as it can, automatically flags things like Google searches for "pressure cooker" and "backpack" and passes on anything it finds to the FBI. Or maybe it was something else. On Wednesday, The Guardian reported on XKeyscore, a program eerily similar to Facebook search that could clearly allow an analyst to run a search that picked out people who'd done searches for those items from the same location. How those searches got into the government's database is a question worth asking; how the information got back out seems apparent. It is also possible that there were other factors that prompted the government's interest in Catalano and her husband. He travels to Asia, she notes in her article. Who knows. Which is largely Catalano's point. Quote:
But the NSA doesn't collect data on Americans, so this certainly won't happen to you. You might also want to read our look at how to hide from the NSA, or a comparison of the NSA's recently revealed search tool with Facebook's. Correction: After confirmation from the FBI that its agents weren't involved in the visit, the headline of this piece was changed to "Visit From the Cops" instead of "the Feds." Photo: Massachusetts police search a home after the Boston bombings. Want to add to this story? Let us know in comments or send an email to the author at [email protected]. You can share ideas for stories on the Open Wire. |
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Trooper
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01-08-13, 18:50
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mais pics da guria de azul/lilas
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Mandalorian
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01-08-13, 18:51
#3
inb4 engraçadinho postando string of keyword seguido de "pegaeu Obama"
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Trooper
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01-08-13, 18:56
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caralho iuaehiuaehiuahiuahe
para o mundo que eu quero descer |
manboipig
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01-08-13, 19:07
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Caralho... Ainda bem que não estavam tentando fotografar nada enquanto o esquadrão chegava, senão seriam metralhados por canhões 30mm
[SPOILER] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namir_Noor-Eldeen |
PHD em Dota 2
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01-08-13, 19:15
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'MURICA FUCK YEAH! |
tony
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01-08-13, 19:18
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PEGA EU OBAMA
BOMB NUCLEAR TERRORIST NEW YORK JYHAD DEATH ALAH AK BAR AMERICANS ATTACK MILITIA CRASH INCIDENT HAZMAT EPIDEMIC BURN GAS TOXIC H5N1 ANTRAX BORDER ALL QAEDA IRAQ HEZBOLLAH PLOT ISLAMIST FBI CIA EMERGENCY SWAT DEATH HOSTAGES CRIME GRID POWER TARGET SUICIDE BIOLOGICAL WEAPON INFIDELS SILENCE I'LL KILL YOU |
Trooper
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01-08-13, 19:30
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Entope uma casa de bombas, arruma uma linha telefônica, faz um monte de pesquisas suspeitas em sites de arabes, quando a policia chegar explode tudo. Atentado sem matar inocentes! Win Perfect!
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Trooper
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01-08-13, 19:41
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>explodir a hora que a policia chegar
>'sem matar inocentes' >... |
Trooper
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01-08-13, 20:05
#10
>ds is logic
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Trooper
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01-08-13, 22:19
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Ah ta! Existe policial inocente. kkk
Quem concorda com um governo que pode espionar tem mais é que se foder. Inocente é a pessoa que não se expõe e mesmo assim morre. |
Trooper
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02-08-13, 04:06
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você tem noção de que os caras que autorizam, criam e implantam essa merda não são os policiais né?
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Trooper
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02-08-13, 08:46
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LUIZINHA
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Trooper
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02-08-13, 08:47
#14
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Trooper
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02-08-13, 08:47
#15
So sei que nao é o road pq a redacao ta boa, mas OAZIDEIA!
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Trooper
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02-08-13, 09:03
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BOMB NUCLEAR TERRORIST NEW YORK JYHAD DEATH ALAH AK BAR AMERICANS ATTACK MILITIA CRASH INCIDENT HAZMAT EPIDEMIC BURN GAS TOXIC H5N1 ANTRAX BORDER ALL QAEDA IRAQ HEZBOLLAH PLOT ISLAMIST FBI CIA EMERGENCY SWAT DEATH HOSTAGES CRIME GRID POWER TARGET SUICIDE BIOLOGICAL WEAPON INFIDELS SILENCE I'LL KILL YOU
MANHATTAN NEW YORK WASHINGTON ISRAEL |
Trooper
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02-08-13, 09:10
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Hj nos aprendemos q policial ganha pra morrer e nao é inocente, afinal só quem é inocente fica em casa o dia todo, nao se expoe!
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