Cops don't want to be held accountable

"Los Angeles police officers tampered with voice recording equipment in dozens of patrol cars in an effort to avoid being monitored while on duty, according to records and interviews.

An inspection by investigators found about half of the estimated 80 cars in one South L.A. patrol division were missing antennas, which help capture what officers say in the field. The antennas in at least 10 more cars in nearby divisions had also been removed."


Remember this is the same department that shot two women in a different make/model/color truck during the hunt for Dorner.  Of COURSE they don't want the higher ups to know what they are doing and saying.  If they did the officers might actually be held accountable for their illegal and unethical actions.

The police can listen to all of your cell communications

Another reason to use a throwaway

My takeaway from the article is this, if the cops target the dope dealer or gang member 3 doors down, their device can't differentiate his/her cell phone from yours.

So your cell comms are being captured as well as theirs and also your neighbors, your neighbor's neighbors. And what are they doing with those intercepted comms?

Are they going through and checking your text messages and phone calls to see if maybe you are doing something that might be a chargeable offense?   Are they deleting information that doesn't relate directly to the target of their operation?

No One Knows.

And the Cops aren't talking, neither is the manufacturer.

So I have a VERY big problem with this.

If you aren't the target of the investigation, they are still gathering your cell comms.  And not only are they not letting you know they are/were doing it, you don't know if they went through all of your calls, texts, and web browsing though your cell.

So we need some answers.  And and I said.

The cops AIN'T talking.

Privacy and the Surveillance State

It won't allow me to embed it here. but please click on the link below and watch the short video.  It's about 5 and half minutes long and it raise some interesting questions.

http://nyti.ms/1evngMR

Let's play the Kevin Bacon Game

 Or at least the NSA is trying to.

"This isn't a minor thing: A study by the University of Milan found that everyone on the internet is connected to everyone else by an average of 4.74 steps. It's not that Kevin Bacon can be linked to everyone else by 6 degrees of separation; it's that most everyone can be so linked."

 Tell me, how one suspected terrorists translates to 64,000 other suspects to be monitored and surveilled?

2 over at Aaron's Allergic to bull you really shoud read

Lawrence O’Donnell Claims to Know More About the Law Than the Supreme Court

The (Illegal) Surveillance State Has Arrived

Signs your being watched

by the Feds.

#1: You are constantly having to re-enter your password in your mail account.

#2: Your home phone constantly has static issues which the phone company cannot find a cause for.

#3: Your text messages sometimes take 3 hours or more to go through the network to the intended recipient.

#4 You constantly have to do a hard reset of your cell phone, by removing the battery with the phone on.

#5: You constantly have to restart your web browser because it slows down so the point you can't browse anything.

#6: Your DSL speed constantly slows down, requiring you to reboot your DSL modem and your router.

#7: Your 24 hour account information from your bank isn't available 24 hours a day.

#8 The Sheriffs Deputy you shoot with, is constantly asking you if you are doing something illegal? And won't explain why he is asking you that.

#9: The increase in encrypted radio transmissions in your neighborhood you hear while listening to your scanner.

#10: One of the teachers from your kid's school asks why the "Government" is asking about you and your kids at the school.

#11: Several ex-coworkers get ahold of you to ask why the cops are asking questions about you, 3 states away.

#12: You find strange software on your computer that you didn't install and all of your anti-virus and anti-malware scans say are clean.

#13: Your security cameras are showing strange vehicles going up and down your street, some of them actually coming on your property really late at night/early in the morning. The vehicles have tinted windows and a plethora of antennas and other weird devices on them.

#14: Old friends suddenly want to continue friendship with you, even though you haven't spoken to them in several years sometimes dozens of years.

#15: You go to purchase a firearm and the NICS check takes more than 15 minutes, and the person on the other end asks for the serial number of the firearm.

#16: Your credit card isn't authorized without an actual phone call to the credit card company.

#17: there are a lot more utility service and delivery trucks in your area.

#18: The same 3 cars are following you, everywhere.

#19: Your credit card only has problems making purchases in the gun store and sporting goods store.

#20: You see alot more guys with short hair and sunglasses wearing suit and tie in 100 degree plus heat when you are in the grocery store.

And remember, even paranoids have enemies.