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Ya' think we're being watched?

Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
With all the snooping the NSA and FBI and everybody else does trying to expose terrorist threats, you ever wonder if ours and other cigar forums have come to their attention because of our use of certain words? I'm guessing that with all the talk of explosives on the forums they've had to check us out a couple of times at least. I bet they think we're are a bunch of A-holes for using the B word so much.

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  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Well....I used to be at the very very very bottom of that life. And collecting on Americans would have gotten me sent to jail.
  • PAtoNHPAtoNH Posts: 429
    Stay away from these and you'l be fine: http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PAtoNH:
    Stay away from these and you'l be fine: http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm
    Now I'm certain they've been snooping on us. LOL
  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    "Anonymous" and "sex" are on that list.
    ...only one letter apart (W.)

    "sniper" is also on that list. i wonder how many times our very own sniper has been checked out based on forum name alone.

    "halibut" is on that list. not sure why but that is one tasty fish.

    if "torchwood" and "the doctor" was on there i feel i could justify the word "nerd" being on there.
  • No_one21No_one21 Posts: 2,182 ✭✭✭
    lol I was saying this within my first month after learning about, receiving, and sending bombs. Just kept thinking, "Well if I wasn't on a list yet, I am now."
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    PAtoNH:
    Stay away from these and you'l be fine: http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm


    Snippet from the list...

    MSCJ, MIT, 69, RIT, Time, MSEE, Cable & Wireless, CSE, SUW, J2, Embassy, ETA, Fax, finks, Fax encryption, white noise, Fernspah, MYK, GAFE, forcast, import, rain, tiger, buzzer, N9, pink noise, CRA, M.P.R.I., top secret, Mossberg, 50BMG, Macintosh Security, Macintosh Internet Security, OC3, Macintosh Firewalls, Unix Security, VIP Protection, SIG,
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • bearbbearb Posts: 1,128 ✭✭✭
    The 'list' is so disturbing on so many levels. I would believe, that it is the combinations of a certain number of those words that is what really draws attention of the automatic search systems, that then kicks that 'troublesome' post out to a list for human viewing.

    What i believe is most scary is not that they have the power to do such things, but that people are actually offended and surprised it. Please do not interpret this as condoning such intrusive behaviours as acceptable, but the premise is based upon the ideology of protecting the masses from the few crazies.

    Anyway, an interesting read here on how it was done in the good old days, make note of the dates of this stuff: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/12/top-secret-your-briefing-on-the-cias-cold-war-spy-satellite-big-bird/250629/
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    Puff_Dougie:
    PAtoNH:
    Stay away from these and you'l be fine: http://www.rense.com/general66/scgh.htm


    Snippet from the list...

    MSCJ, MIT, 69, RIT, Time, MSEE, Cable & Wireless, CSE, SUW, J2, Embassy, ETA, Fax, finks, Fax encryption, white noise, Fernspah, MYK, GAFE, forcast, import, rain, tiger, buzzer, N9, pink noise, CRA, M.P.R.I., top secret, Mossberg, 50BMG, Macintosh Security, Macintosh Internet Security, OC3, Macintosh Firewalls, Unix Security, VIP Protection, SIG,
    We're good, they know me ;)
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,710 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No_one21:
    lol I was saying this within my first month after learning about, receiving, and sending bombs. Just kept thinking, "Well if I wasn't on a list yet, I am now."
    LOL And whatever you do, don't speak our special slang at the post office.
  • Puff_DougiePuff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Bob Luken:
    No_one21:
    lol I was saying this within my first month after learning about, receiving, and sending bombs. Just kept thinking, "Well if I wasn't on a list yet, I am now."
    LOL And whatever you do, don't speak our special slang at the post office.
    You mean, "Hi! Can I have a flat rate box please? ... Anything perishable? Nah. I'm just sending a bomb."

    ROFL!!!
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Puff_Dougie:
    Bob Luken:
    No_one21:
    lol I was saying this within my first month after learning about, receiving, and sending bombs. Just kept thinking, "Well if I wasn't on a list yet, I am now."
    LOL And whatever you do, don't speak our special slang at the post office.
    You mean, "Hi! Can I have a flat rate box please? ... Anything perishable? Nah. I'm just sending a bomb."

    ROFL!!!
    Anything perishable? No. It's only cigar accessories.
    In Fumo Pax
    Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.

    Wylaff said:
    Atmospheric pressure and crap.
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