Have they gone too far? Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords

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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...eb-firms-to-turn-over-user-account-passwords/

In the mean time,
The House on Wednesday rejected an attempt to curtail the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities after a furious last-minute lobbying campaign by the White House to defeat the measure.
The House voted 205-217 against the amendment from Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), which would have prevented the National Security Agency from using the Patriot Act to collect phone records of individuals who aren’t under investigation.
A majority
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hil...ejects-effort-to-curb-nsa-surveillance-powers

Kudos to Justin Amash, but it wasn’t enough.

Makes one wonder, with all the surveillance going on into the private lives of everyone including high ranking officials in government, how easy would it be to “coerce them, blackmail them” into voting for what ever serves the interests of the watchers.
A certain group has access to private records of key senators voting on a bill. The records can be used to create a scandal or indictment. How will the senator vote under such pressure? Senators, Supreme court justices? All fair game?

Your own life can be destroyed by someone else accessing all your records, making changes, taking few single texting words out of context, creating a new profile, while you have done nothing wrong.
Maybe without knowing, you dated the ex girlfriend of an overzealous “watcher”.

Sure, hackers have been stealing credit card numbers, but it is rare and random. Now you can be located and targeted for what ever reason, (will you ever never know?) everyone is fair game.
 
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Makes one wonder, with all the surveillance going on into the private lives of everyone including high ranking officials in government, how easy would it be to “coerce them, blackmail them” into voting for what ever serves the interests of the watchers.
A certain group has access to private records of key senators voting on a bill. The records can be used to create a scandal or indictment. How will the senator vote under such pressure? Senators, Supreme court justices? All fair game?

Your own life can be destroyed by someone else accessing all your records, making changes, taking few single texting words out of context, creating a new profile, while you have done nothing wrong.
Maybe without knowing, you dated the ex girlfriend of an overzealous “watcher”.

Sure, hackers have been stealing credit card numbers, but it is rare and random. Now you can be located and targeted for what ever reason, (will you ever never know?) everyone is fair game.
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The MIC via the NSA has done this for the past 30-40 years. Only now, has it come in to the light of day. Google Echelon. Everyone is tracked and traced - specifically, high level Government, Military, Judiciaries and the like. Why our own Government? To control policy via blackmail.
 
It wouldn’t be surprising if this is how they got to Justice Kennedy.

Echelon, Carnivore, to name a few, and recently it becomes more blatant. Thought police next knocking on the door?

You don’t have to be in obvious power to be in total control, you only have to control behind the scenes all those who have the power to control the masses. It’s the best way to further your agendas whatever they may be and at the same time stay beyond scrutiny. One question, who is watching the watchers?

Follow the money trail:
At the bottom of the linked page, a list of who voted yes, no, and how much they got.
The entities behind the lobbying surely have much to gain from this, ----you don’t invest money unless you expect a sizable return on your investment.

Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/

Lawmakers who voted to continue the NSA dragnet-surveillance program averaged $41,635 from the pot, whereas House members who voted to repeal authority averaged $18,765.

“How can we trust legislators to vote in the public interest when they are dependent on industry campaign funding to get elected? Our broken money and politics system forces lawmakers into a conflict of interest between lawmakers’ voters and their donors,” said Daniel G. Newman, MapLight’s president and co-founder.

All these years, do we really have the best governments money can buy?
 
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