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So they want to spy on us...

Start making calls to the Middle East. We'll swamp their spying computer and maybe make a new friend...
Iamgine what would happen if thousands of people started making calls to numbers in the Middle East. The NSA spooks would be overwhelmed with "leads" they would have to follow up on. They'd have to ignore the Quakers and start tracking millions of other domestic calls. Eventually they would have to give up and quit spying on everyday people. Its not running interference for terrorists; we're just trying to say "put your hands up and back away from the wiretap, slowly..."

Here's the number for a bakery in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia.

Al-yrmook Rose Bakery
966-1-478-6773

Of course, dial "011" first to get an international line. Call them and wish them a nice day...

Or just Yahoo "Saudi dentist" or any other occupation (probably not "bartender")
this is a great idea 03.Jan.2006 13:23

@

Excellent. Thanks!

Bring it on 03.Jan.2006 13:36

say what?

...and if all of those fatuous calls were done using voice scramblers!

hmm 03.Jan.2006 16:05

hmm

sounds like a great way to id everyone who is actively against them and justify detailed investigations and wiretapping.

count me out,

Yeah, they want to spy on us... 03.Jan.2006 16:19

zuzu

to cover their own butts.

They are using profiles 03.Jan.2006 16:44

Man on the street

I guess a call to Iran would get you a visit from the FBI, but the problem is they are using profiling via computer programs that scan your computer when you go on line. The mini programs are called BOTS. The use the datamining to build profiles of users of the computer. Advertisimg corporationsw use these kinds of programs to taylor ads to be more effective against you.
Law enforcement uses profiling all the time. The profiling is a lot like stereotyping thinking that because a ppersoon looks like this they think like that. It's prejudice. If you accidentaly visit the wrong website the CIA may decide to disappear you.

Make the calls from pay phones. 03.Jan.2006 17:26

@

That will really drive them crazy.

They already know everything anyway 03.Jan.2006 18:09

Converse Murdoch

You guys ain't seen nothin' yet. Wait till they start deleting selected files from your hard drive. I am not kidding about this. Watch out for e-mails that look like a bunch of computer code.

If you just want to fuck with them there are cheaper ways to do it. You could e-mail quotes from the Koran to the Whitehouse. You could send out e-mails with UTC times and geographical coordinates for govt. buildings. That ought to get their attention.

None of this matters. They have everybody already figured out. They know more about you than you know yourself. All wired transmissions have been monitored for a long time.

This Bush spy scandal is just a ruse to get you to believe that you aren't under surviellance. Your supposed to react by thinking that there are some limits to govt. snooping when in fact there isn't.

I Spy an Idea 04.Jan.2006 13:23

Joe Anybody

speaking of spying.....
here is what a few are doing, outside the US ...
 link to zebra3report.tripod.com