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New DOJ Budget Hints at the Future of Cyber-Snooping

Posted 05/11/09 at 05:52:44 PM by Andy Salisbury

The release of the FBI’s surveillance programs budget for 2010 has revealed some pretty interesting new programs, one of which fall under the “awesome code name” category.

The budget shows that the FBI is in the process of developing a new “Advanced Electronic Surveillance” program, which is funded at $233.9 million in 2010. It will have 133 employees, 15 of whom are agents.

Along with this, another program named “Going Dark,” will provide support to the electronic surveillance program by collecting intelligence and evidence. “The term 'Going Dark' does not refer to a specific capability, but is a program name for the part of the FBI, Operational Technology Division's (OTD) lawful interception program which is shared with other law enforcement agencies,” stated an FBI spokesman.

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Windows 7 Codename is "awesome"
Submitted by periodhyphenund... on Wed, 05/13/2009 - 12:05am

New "Feature" in Windows 7 allows you to open your "Non-NSA approved" encrypted disk one time before Windows gives you a blue sceen!

But don't worry, the new feature saves your RAM to Hard Disk "including your decryption key" and nicely offers to find a solution to the "problem" by going online to find out why your not using the built in Bitlocker encryption scheme (NSA codename: Total Access)

Here's a Clue Kids>

They want outbound traffic through the firewall for a reason!

Or just Click OK where it says GET RAPED? in the License agreement for Windows 7

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233million and only 133
Submitted by Denis63 on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 5:48am

233million and only 133 jobs?!!? we're in a freaking recession, how many people could be set for life on that money?

8962 people working full time at 13 bucks an hour for a year

575 people working full time at 20 bucks an hour for a year <-average US wage

230 people working full time at 50 bucks an hour for a year

-Denis

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do you really wanna trust
Submitted by nekollx on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 9:34am

do you really wanna trust national security to the guy making 13 bucks a hour?

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You can't save the economy
Submitted by routine on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 6:16am

You can't save the economy simply by creating jobs. If that were the case, the government could employ everyone to dig a hole -- fill it up -- and dig it again, all day, everyday, 365 days a year.

You need to create productive jobs. Those kinds of jobs can only be created by the private sector.

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I love me some Orwellian
Submitted by dag1992 on Mon, 05/11/2009 - 3:56pm

I love me some Orwellian society. Thank you Big Broth... umm... Mr. Obama.

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