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iPhone Lemmings Line Up For NSA Surveillance

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Jun 30, 2007 5:23 PM EDT
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Have you heard about the iPhone? It's a wonderful new invention that lets the NSA illegally record all your phone calls, copy all your contacts, keep records of all your Web and IM activity, watch you through the camera, listen in on your household through the mic, and probably put you in a terrorist no-fly database for listening to Cynthia McKinney singing that stupid Pink song.

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{"commentId":826917,"authorDomain":"LAUHAL63"}
lauhal

Wow. How on Earth does our government have the resources to do this? That's gonna ba a lot of phone calls. Yikes. I guess terrorists use iPhones, huh?

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Reply#1 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:40 PM EDT
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Rapp3720

Interesting article...

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    Reply#2 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 6:52 PM EDT
    {"commentId":827238,"authorDomain":"jimmyhavok"}
    JimmyHavok

    Your regular phone is no better...except that you don't browse the Web on it.

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    Reply#3 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:34 PM EDT
    {"commentId":827250,"authorDomain":"aine"}
    Aine MacDermot

    My regular phone also doesn't have a camera on it.

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    #3.1 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:42 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":827354,"authorDomain":"masternav"}
    MasterNav

    Well considering that Apple offered the first partnership to Verizon, and were told "not interested" this seems pretty goofy. All carriers are required to comply with law enforcement cooperation mandates - including surveillence - AT&T just got caught and outed back in '04.

    Seems more likely that this group (who waited around to make this announcement until the release of the iPhone) is pulling a Greenpeace - leveraging Apple's current high profile to make a statement.

    Shake the tree - all kinds of things fall out. *grin*

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    Reply#4 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:45 PM EDT
    {"commentId":827487,"authorDomain":"comsen"}
    ComSen

    Just more paranoid anti-government rhetoric. No evidence to support any of it.

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    #4.1 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:34 PM EDT
    {"commentId":827490,"authorDomain":"aine"}
    Aine MacDermot

    The whole piece is filled with links to support what's in it. Heh.

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    #4.2 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 11:36 PM EDT
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    {"commentId":827386,"authorDomain":"aine"}
    Aine MacDermot

    It's just the Wonkette blog: a satirical blog that makes fun of just about everything and everyone. They are making fun of all the "gadget fanatics" who are rushing out to get the latest gadget, in this case an iPhone.

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    Reply#5 - Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:56 PM EDT
    {"commentId":827615,"authorDomain":"NewsNerd"}
    NewsNerd

    It's all meant to be taken lightly...it's based on a few crude assumptions.

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    Reply#6 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 12:37 AM EDT
    {"commentId":827833,"authorDomain":"generaldecay"}
    generaldecay

    I did not know this.

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    Reply#7 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 5:30 AM EDT
    {"commentId":827887,"authorDomain":"dturnbull"}
    Donald Turnbull

    AT&T - Your World Delivered, To the NSA

    Remember This: EFF's Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for Collaboration with Illegal Domestic Spying Program

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    Reply#8 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 7:28 AM EDT
    {"commentId":828642,"authorDomain":"aine"}
    Aine MacDermot

    Yeah, I remember that. :)

    I also remember the piece in Wired that revealed the "secret rooms" that are inside several AT&T switching centers.

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    #8.1 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 2:16 PM EDT
    {"commentId":829404,"authorDomain":"jimmyhavok"}
    JimmyHavok

    I used to work for a cell-phone carrier, and every once in a while we would get a subpoena to tap one of our customer's phones. We complied, of course. That was six years ago, so this is nothing new.

    The only thing new about this is that now they can follow your wireless Web browsing and IMing.

    Anybody with an ounce of brains wouldn't discuss anything sensitive over a cell phone. The problem with this is that it is most useful for political repression, rather than law enforcement. The people most likely to be subject to this sort of surveillance are ones who aren't doing anything wrong.

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    #8.2 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 7:24 PM EDT
    {"commentId":829566,"authorDomain":"aine"}
    Aine MacDermot

    The people most likely to be subject to this sort of surveillance are ones who aren't doing anything wrong.

    Domestic surveillance over American citizens for whom there is no evidence or proof that they are involved in any illegal activity is unconstitutional [Fourth Amendment] and in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

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    #8.3 - Sun Jul 1, 2007 8:34 PM EDT
    {"commentId":836826,"authorDomain":"jimmyhavok"}
    JimmyHavok

    The Constitution! How quaint!

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    #8.4 - Wed Jul 4, 2007 8:27 AM EDT
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