Hi, NSA!! ::waves::
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delphipsmithSo I'm sure everyone is aware of the kerfuffle over the NSA logging phone numbers, call durations, email, chat, etc., yes? Today I went to view a document I needed to review that was posted on Google Docs, and I see this:
Has anyone else ever seen this message? I've been looking at/working with files on Google Docs for the last 18 months or so due to a couple of international committees I'm on, and I don't recall ever seeing this before. Coincidence? I THINK NOT... (cue ominous music)
In other news, our kitchen remodel is done -- new countertops! new cabinets!! freshly polished/finished floors!!! -- so I can start cooking again, and we can have proper popcorn instead of Boom Chicka Pop out of a bag (it's very tasty, but it doesn't beat the hot fresh popped item). So yay for all that. Also we get to go behind-the-scenes with wolves on Thursday at the zoo (v. cool). Ooh, and the first trailer for the next installation of The Hobbit is out, complete with Mirkwood, a red-haired elf, and SMAUG'S HEAD! Yesssss... I'm selfishly pleased that it's coming out in December, as that will distract me from my annual Christmas "Why are there no more Harry Potter movies?" mopage/whinage. We likes it, precious, yes we do :)
Has anyone else ever seen this message? I've been looking at/working with files on Google Docs for the last 18 months or so due to a couple of international committees I'm on, and I don't recall ever seeing this before. Coincidence? I THINK NOT... (cue ominous music)
In other news, our kitchen remodel is done -- new countertops! new cabinets!! freshly polished/finished floors!!! -- so I can start cooking again, and we can have proper popcorn instead of Boom Chicka Pop out of a bag (it's very tasty, but it doesn't beat the hot fresh popped item). So yay for all that. Also we get to go behind-the-scenes with wolves on Thursday at the zoo (v. cool). Ooh, and the first trailer for the next installation of The Hobbit is out, complete with Mirkwood, a red-haired elf, and SMAUG'S HEAD! Yesssss... I'm selfishly pleased that it's coming out in December, as that will distract me from my annual Christmas "Why are there no more Harry Potter movies?" mopage/whinage. We likes it, precious, yes we do :)
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Date: 2013-06-12 11:42 pm (UTC)It's not O or B's fault in this case. It is a long term project complicit with congress and all three branches of govt.
This is really nothing new other than its much more expanded and moving into IP versus TDM technology.
Watch the PBS documentary called Spy Factory. It is on netflix. It is worth a watch. The kerfuffle with the NSA isn't exactly new news, nor is related to the patriot act since call surveillance was pre 9/11. It has been going on a very long time. Monitoring got escalated in the 1990s with fiber optics and O/E conversion. Yeah, I work in telecommunications...this hasn't been a secret for years...
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Date: 2013-06-13 04:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-13 05:07 am (UTC)yes, I do know. I have BSEE in communications electronics. I know how the network works.
Oh damn..I'm on another list....well shit.