lol! Looks like this reply section has gotten taken over! Well, might as well stake my own claim ;)
If the govt decided to go into overwatch, it Can monitor you. There are cameras on roads (technology for facial-recognition is evolving), LoJack and GPS systems in your cars, bots can be set up on AOL servers to scan for key-words, credit card records are accessible.. Why would they Need a chip? (which Can be built actually, just needs to trigger scanners nearby.) I mean, they could get it in you no problem (add it to credit cards for theft-protection, give you the option of installing a GPS system in your palm-pilot..) But why? Agencies can just triangulate on your cell-phone. -shrug-
And would Our govt do that? Read up on the Red Scare. That was another time when people gave up civil liberties in return for added security. You know you phone can now be tapped 'temporarily' without a judge's aproval, right? Just don't draw atention and you'll be fine though. Don't read inapropriate literature, look at the wrong newsgroup, say the wrong thing before too many people, or complain about what's happening w/ the govt(dang terrorist!) :-P
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timeasmymeasure
Re: AMEN
Date: 2002-01-23 02:10 pm (UTC)If the govt decided to go into overwatch, it Can monitor you. There are cameras on roads (technology for facial-recognition is evolving), LoJack and GPS systems in your cars, bots can be set up on AOL servers to scan for key-words, credit card records are accessible.. Why would they Need a chip? (which Can be built actually, just needs to trigger scanners nearby.) I mean, they could get it in you no problem (add it to credit cards for theft-protection, give you the option of installing a GPS system in your palm-pilot..) But why? Agencies can just triangulate on your cell-phone. -shrug-
And would Our govt do that? Read up on the Red Scare. That was another time when people gave up civil liberties in return for added security. You know you phone can now be tapped 'temporarily' without a judge's aproval, right? Just don't draw atention and you'll be fine though. Don't read inapropriate literature, look at the wrong newsgroup, say the wrong thing before too many people, or complain about what's happening w/ the govt(dang terrorist!) :-P