Ask Me Help Desk

Ask Me Help Desk (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/forum.php)
-   Current Events (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=486)
-   -   Wikki leaked again. (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/showthread.php?t=520078)

  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:06 PM
    excon

    Hello again, smoothy:

    They way it works around here, is since I linked you to MY sources, which you debunk, you get to link me to YOURS, if you have any. Spouting it out of your mouth doesn't cut it...

    excon
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:10 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Really.....contrary to what the left wing brain is capible of comprehending.......NOTHING new happened under that which wasn't already happening for decades.....

    Do you really believe the NSA, CIA and a number of other agencies suddenly winked into existance the date that act was signed...incidently...by a majority of DEMOCRATS.

    Boy the left is really out of touch with reality. Because I have dealt with that stuff since the early 80's. And it wasn't new then by any rational definition.

    I know the national phone and data infrastracture really, really well....its been my livelyhood for 30 years now.

    If you are THAT paranoid....then you would know well enough you don't say anything electronically you wouldn't want someone to hear and more than you would in any crowd.

    And know what....I'm not affraid because I haven't said or done anything to be paranoid about.

    Being a telco man myself for a while I'll wait for you to cite your sources for what you posit.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:20 PM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Do you really believe the NSA, CIA and a number of other agencies suddenly winked into existance the date that act was signed...incidently...by a majority of DEMOCRATS.

    Hello again, smoothy:

    You're missing something here. Consider this a teachable moment... Yes, we had spy agencies before George W. Bush.. They spied on everybody BUT us. It was ILLEGAL for them to spy on us. We have a LAW about that very thing, called FISA. You SAY the government has been violating that law for decades...

    That's a great argument in SUPPORT of Wikileaks. Somebody has to reveal the truth, after all. Oh, that's right... You know of somebody who told you the truth... I'm waiting to hear who it is.

    excon
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:23 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Being a telco man myself for a while I'll wait for you to cite your sources for what you posit.

    If you in fact are or where (I'll have to take your word on it)... then you would already know that those details could not be posted publicly. You legally can't even disclose account info to third parties about any regular ciruit or customer and there are procedures to verify who you are talking with is in fact who they claim to be before you can reveal any info. They won't even be readily accessible at your office... IE they would be locked in a safe rather than be filed with the other data records. And are not handled the same way even as far as how they are labeled and taged and anyone dealing with them would have a clerance.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:27 PM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    If you in fact are or where....then you would already know that those details could not be posted publically.

    Hello again, smoothy:

    I understand.. I really do. You HAVE sources, but if you told who they were, you'd have to kill me..

    excon
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:33 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, smoothy:

    You're missing something here. Consider this a teachable moment... Yes, we had spy agencies before George W. Bush.. They spied on everybody BUT us. It was ILLEGAL for them to spy on us. We have a LAW about that very thing, called FISA. You SAY the government has been violating that law for decades...

    That's a great argument in SUPPORT of Wikileaks. Somebody has to reveal the truth, after all. Oh, that's right... You know of somebody who told you the truth... I'm waiting to hear who it is.

    excon

    Really... then Why isn't Bill Clinton... or Jimmy Carter in jail? They both did it long before W.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:42 PM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Really....then Why isn't Bill Clinton....or Jimmy Carter in jail? They both did it long before W.

    Hello again, smoothy:

    Without sources, this is crapola emanating from your right wing, Glenn Beck addled brain. It certainly isn't to be believed.

    excon
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:43 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, smoothy:

    Without sources, this is crapola emanating from your right wing, Glenn Beck addled brain. It certainly isn't to be believed.

    excon

    YOU haven't presented any sources proving this never EVER happened before 9/11 and the Patriot act, because I know for a fact it did. First hand... (and you won't be able to) but then... the Left never follows the same rules they expect everyone else to follow do they?

    Hell, Filegate was well publicized, NOT classified and THAT happened before 9/11. But then Republicans aren't entitled to privacy are they? Want to pretend that never happened too?

    Here this is public info... its public domain now... related if not specific to what I was saying.

    http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/echelon.htm And this predates 9/11 by a LONG time.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:49 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    If you in fact are or where (I'll have to take your word on it)....then you would already know that those details could not be posted publically. You legally can't even disclose account info to third parties about any regular ciruit or customer and there are procedures to verify who you are talking with is in fact who they claim to be before you can reveal any info. They won't even be readily accessible at your office... IE they would be locked in a safe rather than be filed with the other data records. And are not handled the same way even as far as how they are labled and taged and anyone dealing with them would have a clerance.

    If that were the case then why a law passed specifically and publicly allowing it? Why publicize what you say has been done in secret for decades?
    I realize you enjoy making yourself sound important and full of "secret" information but really anyone with a net connection can do that.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:58 PM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    YOU haven't presented any sources proving this never happened before 9/11

    Hello again, smoothy:

    In my world, you can't prove something didn't happen.

    But, it still misses the point... I don't care WHO started illegally spying on me. What I care about, is the GOVERNMENT is ILLEGALLY SPYING on me.

    Besides, IF those bastard Democrats were illegally spying on YOU, and you have PROOF, why wouldn't you say something?? You certainly wouldn't conspire with Democrats, would you? Your secret clearance doesn't require you to cover up a crime, does it - especially one committed by Democrats?? No, having one of those myself, I KNOW that it does not.

    excon
  • Dec 23, 2010, 12:58 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    If that were the case then why a law passed specifically and publicly allowing it? Why publicize what you say has been done in secret for decades?
    I realize you enjoy making yourself sound important and full of "secret" information but really anyone with a net connection can do that.

    Really... what specifics did I mention? Can't get more general than I did, and doesn't violate any privacy policies and yes I HAVE had training on what can and can't be told and to whom under the curent law.

    And check the link I mentioned above in response to excon... nothing very secret about the existence of those programs for 10+ years now, 12 in some cases. NPR even has even aired several programs about them. Not either denying or confirming anything ELSE that wasn't mention in that thread... all of which has links to very public information and investigations.

    Anyone can pretend to understand the Telephone infrastructiure... but it takes years... really decades to actually do it. You can't by sitting in any classroom.

    Al Gore lied when he claimed to invent the Internet... (he would have had to been 11 at the time). Quite honestly... I can't care less if you believe me or not... you are only deluding yourself if you are that paranoid. I'll sleep just as well tonight if you don't believe a word I said as I would if you believed every one.

    I have more important stuff to do with my time than log on here or anyplace else to type stuff I dreamed up. In fact... I really don't have the time to spend as much time here as I do.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 01:23 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, smoothy:

    In my world, you can't prove something didn't happen.

    But, it still misses the point... I don't care WHO started illegally spying on me. What I care about, is the GOVERNMENT is ILLEGALLY SPYING on me.

    Besides, IF those bastard Democrats were illegally spying on YOU, and you have PROOF, why wouldn't you say something??? You certainly wouldn't conspire with Democrats, would you? Your secret clearance doesn't require you to cover up a crime, does it - especially one committed by Democrats??? No, having one of those myself, I KNOW that it does not.

    excon

    You do know they could care less about your coversations with your girlfried.. or girlfriends. And you do know (and this has already been on TV shows) they look for keywords.

    Now they would be interested in your coversations with Mexican Drug Kingpins... or details of your arms shipments to sudan assumning you had any. But in general... nobody is going to pay notice about what you are saying otherwise. Unless maybe Osama Bin Laden is a distant relative. And No... excon doesn't have an agent assigned to listen to all of his electronic communications.

    I don't see crimes being committed. Forigners outside the USA aren't covered by the constitution or the Bill or Rights.

    And I do live in a state that allows me to record phone calls with me without telling the other person I'm doing it. And I'm comfortable with that.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 01:39 PM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    You do know they could care less about your coversations with your girlfried..or girlfriends. And you do know (and this has already been on TV shows) they look for keywords.

    Hello again, smoothy:

    So, as long as you say the RIGHT things, and talk to the RIGHT people, you're cool... THAT, to YOU is freedom... DUDE!

    excon
  • Dec 23, 2010, 02:16 PM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Anyone can pretend to understand the Telephone infrastructiure....but it takes years...really decades to actually do it. You can't by sitting in any classroom.

    Not at all. Kids in their teens were hacking it. It really isn't that hard to understand at all if one is technically minded.

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Al Gore lied when he claimed to invent the Internet...(he would have had to been 11 at the time).

    Is this an example of some of the stuff that you believe? Seriously? You really think that Gore claimed he invented the internet? :rolleyes:
  • Dec 23, 2010, 02:31 PM
    speechlesstx
    No he didn't invent it, he "created" it.

    Quote:

    But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
    I have an uncle on the other hand, who did help create the arpanet.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 03:28 PM
    NeedKarma
    Yep, Gore sent funds its way.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 03:58 PM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Yep, Gore sent funds its way.

    I'm just reporting the facts, a direct quote.
  • Dec 23, 2010, 04:17 PM
    NeedKarma
    I was agreeing with you. :)
    On a related note, I did my bit to help the web get a foothold in Canada, I used to *sell* HTML standards to universities and Canadian Forces bases. Of course at the time I didn't really understood what it was all about even though my brother had recently taken me on a little tour of the internet with Archie and Gopher.
  • Dec 24, 2010, 03:51 AM
    tomder55
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, smoothy:

    To be accurate, it was George W. Bush who began the illegal spying... But, Obama DIDN'T stop it. I guess losing our Fourth Amendment rights isn't a partisan issue...

    excon

    Now MLK is rolling over in his grave. He was illegally spied on with the approval of one of the worse AGs ever... Bobby Kennedy .
  • Dec 24, 2010, 05:17 AM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    Now MLK is rolling over in his grave. He was illegally spied on with the approval of one of the worse AGs ever ......Bobby Kennedy .

    Hello again, tom:

    You are unable to distinguish between an attorney general spying on his enemy, and a nation spying on its citizens... THAT'S why your party is screwed up.

    excon
  • Dec 24, 2010, 12:57 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, smoothy:

    So, as long as you say the RIGHT things, and talk to the RIGHT people, you're cool... THAT, to YOU is freedom..... DUDE!

    excon

    I know that you understand there are laws against consiracy to commit (fill in the blank) laws...

    Where in the constitution or Bill of Rights are rights granted to commit or even plan crimes?
  • Dec 24, 2010, 12:59 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, tom:

    You are unable to distinguish between an attorney general spying on his enemy, and a nation spying on its citizens.... THAT'S why your party is screwed up.

    excon

    So... the left has granted citizenship to everyone outside our borders? I know Obama and Pelosi thinks we have.
  • Dec 24, 2010, 01:01 PM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Not at all. Kids in their teens were hacking it. It really isn't that hard to understand at all if one is technically minded.

    Is this an example of some of the stuff that you believe? Seriously? You really think that Gore claimed he invented the internet? :rolleyes:

    Hacking a coinbox in a pay phone isn't hacking the Infrastructure... if you knew anything about how this stuff is set up Teddy Rottencrotch isn't going to be able to log into much of anything from his bedroom even if he did have the login info and passwords... or even understood the cryptic command languages needed, and there are many.

    You just proved how little you know about the inner workings of the infrastructure. You watched too many movies if you think you can acess everything from just anyplace.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:39 AM
    excon

    Hello, again:

    Do you remember the story about the town of Bell, California? That's where the mayor, the city counsel, and MOST of the city officials, were RIPPING off the town to the tune of $$ MILLIONS??

    How did that corruption get exposed? Should it have been exposed, or should the press have kept the towns secrets?

    Turns out, Bell officials were pikers compared to the leaders in Tunisia.

    Wikkileaks did the exposing this time. Should that corruption have been exposed, or should the press have kept the country's secrets?

    excon
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:42 AM
    smoothy

    Assange is going after China now...

    Anyone taking bets on how long before something bad happens to him?

    We all know Obama doesn't have the stones to do anything... that doesn't allow him to read off a teleprompter anyway.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:44 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello, again:

    Do you remember the story about the town of Bell, California? That's where the mayor, the city counsel, and MOST of the city officials, were RIPPING off the town to the tune of $$ MILLIONS????

    How did that corruption get exposed? Should it have been exposed, or should the press have kept the towns secrets?

    Turns out, Bell officials were pikers compared to the leaders in Tunisia.

    Wikkileaks did the exposing this time. Should that corruption have been exposed, or should the press have kept the country's secrets?

    excon

    How about all the Californians that were looking the other way on that allowing it to happen so long? That didn't occur in a vacuum after all.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:46 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    Anyone taking bets on how long before something bad happens to him?

    Matters not. Mirrors are set up all over the place and ready to roll.
    It's not the man, it's the idea and you can't kill that.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:49 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Matters not. Mirrors are set up all over the place and ready to roll.
    It's not the man, it's the idea and you can't kill that.

    Doesn't matter... a dead assange... is a rotting dead assange. Wormfood is still wormfood.

    And China has a long History of knocking the pedistals out from under people that climb up on them and beat their chest at their expense. This guy is a twirp compared to many of their dissenters.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:50 AM
    tomder55

    He shot his wad against the US.. nothing substantial in his revelations . The State Dept as a group are the imbiciles I always thought . Some moron thinks the Mahdi-hatter is the good guy in Tehran.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...l-wrong/69434/
    Now Assange is dangling other bait . The reason he is doing that is a desperate attempt to prevent extradition to Sweden.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:50 AM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    That didn't occur in a vacuum after all.

    Hello again, smoothy:

    Ahh, it's the VICTIMS fault, therefore they DESERVE it.

    excon
  • Jan 14, 2011, 09:58 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello again, smoothy:

    Ahh, it's the VICTIMS fault, therefore they DESERVE it.

    excon

    That's not what I implied. I am saying there were other people out there than knew about this... and how many of the votors KNEW about the obscene paychecks... wasn't that stuff, public record under the law.

    I know in the town where I live... we get an annual report of all that stuff as a homeowner and resident.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 10:05 AM
    NeedKarma
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    I know in the town where I live...we get an annual report of all that stuff as a homeowner and resident.

    Wait a minute, you think that if they were embezzling money they would put it in your annual report? LOL! You may want to read the story of Enron.
  • Jan 14, 2011, 11:11 AM
    smoothy
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by NeedKarma View Post
    Wait a minute, you think that if they were embezzling money they would put it in your annual report? LOL! You may want to read the story of Enron.

    Enron... how about Worldcom? Bernard "Bend over for Bubba" Ebers...


    Oh how I'd like to hear about him getting raped in prison... but I'm not holding my breath waiting for it.

    Yeah... I lost a lot of money...
  • Jan 23, 2011, 08:54 AM
    QLP

    US Government Officials Admit That They Lied About Actual Impact Of Wikileaks To Bolster Legal Effort | Techdirt
  • Jan 23, 2011, 02:00 PM
    paraclete
    I think you will find there is a separate thread for that one:cool:
  • Jan 23, 2011, 03:24 PM
    QLP

    Oops. Thanks.:o
  • Jan 27, 2011, 08:40 AM
    excon

    Hello again,

    So, Wikileaks is reforming the Middle East... That's something, with all the dead people left in our wake, we haven't been able to do...

    See what truth does?

    excon
  • Jan 27, 2011, 09:19 AM
    speechlesstx

    So they're behind the revolts in Tunisia and Egypt? Or is it the Hezbollah takeover of Lebanon he's responsible for?
  • Jan 27, 2011, 09:29 AM
    excon
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by speechlesstx View Post

    Hello again, Steve:

    That one.

    excon
  • Jan 27, 2011, 12:26 PM
    tomder55

    Remember the "Arab spring" of 2005 ? How'd that work out ?

    What good is one person ,one vote ,one time when the result is the tyranny of jihadistan (as Lebanon is demonstrating ),Hamas (in Palestine )or now the Muslim Brotherhood rise in the Maghreb and Egypt ? All the people get are Islamist versions of the jackboots they deposed.

  • All times are GMT -7. The time now is 12:21 AM.