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Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:29 PM Jun 2013

Operation Troll the NSA is starting up.

It took longer than I thought, but here we go. The idea is that everyone emails someone with a message riddled with terrorism keywords. The website located here has an example message.

Remember, they supposedly aren't reading your emails, which explains why they needed that $2 Billion dollar facility in Utah to intercept and decrypt those handful of messages they do get.

Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. A project of immense secrecy, it is the final piece in a complex puzzle assembled over the past decade. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks.

So how many red flags are going to go up Wednesday evening when many people send the email?

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Operation Troll the NSA is starting up. (Original Post) Savannahmann Jun 2013 OP
-1. This is the single worst idea I have ever heard of. MY OPINION and won't open these links.nt graham4anything Jun 2013 #1
Wait until the next undetected act of terror. That let's see where we all stand or fall. nt kelliekat44 Jun 2013 #2
I as wondering if people the world over increased their daily emails Vinnie From Indy Jun 2013 #3
No thanks. HappyMe Jun 2013 #4
This is about as smart as that jackass leading his... bunnies Jun 2013 #5
I agree. Andy823 Jun 2013 #6
I can see his run already... bunnies Jun 2013 #7
Yep Andy823 Jun 2013 #9
Heard a few minutes of hannity on my way to the store earlier. bunnies Jun 2013 #11
Sean Hannity’s Top 10 Items For Victory in November OilemFirchen Jun 2013 #15
oops. bunnies Jun 2013 #18
Yup. This whole thing HappyMe Jun 2013 #12
This entire collection of "scandals" is like a Ron Paul wet dream. bunnies Jun 2013 #13
Yup. HappyMe Jun 2013 #14
I especially love how their "leaking" this new one bit by tiny bit. bunnies Jun 2013 #17
lol! HappyMe Jun 2013 #21
sure is. bunnies Jun 2013 #22
I can think of one pretty good reason - Ms. Toad Jun 2013 #24
Greenwald says he has a list. bunnies Jun 2013 #25
Suit yourself. n/t Ms. Toad Jun 2013 #31
brilliant and we will organize it on line olddots Jun 2013 #8
There is certainly no shortage of Skidmore Jun 2013 #10
Let's cut right to the chase and smoke those servers Brother Buzz Jun 2013 #16
They'll filter that straight to their SPAM folder JoePhilly Jun 2013 #27
Then the terrorists can adopt them and communicate with impunity Brother Buzz Jun 2013 #28
They will just flag the people doing it and it will have no effect Rex Jun 2013 #19
This makes about as much pipi_k Jun 2013 #20
So the premise is that the NSA is shawn703 Jun 2013 #23
that's why I don't encrypt... nebenaube Jun 2013 #26
The actual message is hilarious! idwiyo Jun 2013 #29
I know, it's hilarious. Savannahmann Jun 2013 #30
I'll get Outlook do it for me automatically. I have several junk e-mail addresses I can use to keep idwiyo Jun 2013 #33
Juvenile and stupid. CakeGrrl Jun 2013 #32

Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
3. I as wondering if people the world over increased their daily emails
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:37 PM
Jun 2013

by 10 to 20 a day if that increased volume would outpace the NSA's ability to archive it all.

 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
5. This is about as smart as that jackass leading his...
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:38 PM
Jun 2013

armed minion march through DC. Why anyone would do this is beyond me.

 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
7. I can see his run already...
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:45 PM
Jun 2013

The R's and the D's are spying on you. I would NEVER do that! Vote for me! Vote for me! Both he and daddy dearest are all over the news lately. Just what we need.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
9. Yep
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:52 PM
Jun 2013

I bet the tea baggers are going crazy with this stuff, and Rand is counting on them to "donate" to his cause!

 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
11. Heard a few minutes of hannity on my way to the store earlier.
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:58 PM
Jun 2013

He was whippin em up over freedom! and liberty! The government is un-American! And theres still a couple of years to pound it into their heads. Looks like theyre going full-on libertarian this election season. And all these "scandals" are just perfect for Rand. What a coincidence.

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
15. Sean Hannity’s Top 10 Items For Victory in November
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:16 PM
Jun 2013
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=1511|

b) Fully support NSA, Patriot act, tough interrogations, keeping Gitmo open
 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
13. This entire collection of "scandals" is like a Ron Paul wet dream.
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:07 PM
Jun 2013

Benghazi = We wouldnt even BE there!
IRS = ha. Abolish it!
Domestic spying = never on my watch!
Obamacare = Screw you. Get sick? You die.

He'll be the pied piper of baggerville. I can hardly wait.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
14. Yup.
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:11 PM
Jun 2013

They got nothing, so crank up the orchestrated "scandals". Perfectly timed so that there is only 1 out there at a time to drum up maximum hysteria.

 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
17. I especially love how their "leaking" this new one bit by tiny bit.
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:22 PM
Jun 2013

Kinda like that part of the infomercial where they say "but wait! theres more!". Its clearly a concerted effort to drag it out as long as possible for maximum political damage. Wont be long before Johnny & Jane USA are all scandalled out though. 3 more years of this shit.

HappyMe

(20,277 posts)
21. lol!
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:29 PM
Jun 2013
That's good. It is like an infomercial.

I would hope after awhile people will just roll their eyes and get on with it. It's gonna be a looooong 3 years.

Ms. Toad

(34,124 posts)
24. I can think of one pretty good reason -
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 02:18 AM
Jun 2013

The Supreme Court has ruled that unless you can prove you were spied on you don't have standing to challenge the law. If they act on the e-mail, that might get the person with standing issue who is needed in order to challenge the constitutionality of the law.

 

bunnies

(15,859 posts)
25. Greenwald says he has a list.
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 10:01 AM
Jun 2013

Why not just wait for that? Im sure theyll be no shortage of people looking to sue the government.

Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
10. There is certainly no shortage of
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 04:58 PM
Jun 2013

fools and foolish ideas -- even here. Do sometthing constructive like push Congress to change or repeal these laws.

Brother Buzz

(36,494 posts)
16. Let's cut right to the chase and smoke those servers
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:19 PM
Jun 2013

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Rex

(65,616 posts)
19. They will just flag the people doing it and it will have no effect
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:24 PM
Jun 2013

overall. You cannot stop TIA. It is the nightmare system that will become SkyNet one day.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
20. This makes about as much
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:26 PM
Jun 2013

sense as calling 911 and sending emergency personnel to fake accidents, robberies, assaults, etc.

In the end, it takes time and resources away from REAL emergencies.

Yech.

Who thinks this shit up, anyway?

shawn703

(2,702 posts)
23. So the premise is that the NSA is
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 05:37 PM
Jun 2013

looking for emails where the terrorists are detailing their plans without code words in unencrypted emails?

Seriously?

 

nebenaube

(3,496 posts)
26. that's why I don't encrypt...
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 10:15 AM
Jun 2013

I don't have anything to say that needs to be encrypted other than on-line banking. I won't write code for foreign nationals and I won't write code for any MIC related entity either... Sure sucks to be unemployed.

idwiyo

(5,113 posts)
29. The actual message is hilarious!
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 10:56 AM
Jun 2013


Hey! How’s it going? I’m all right.

My job is so shitty I wish I could overthrow my boss. It’s like this oppressive regime where only true believers in his management techniques will stay around. I work marathon-length hours and he’s made all these changes that have made it the worst architecture firm to work at in Manhattan. Like he moved the office to the Financial District and fired my assistant. She was the only one who knew where the blueprints were! I need access to those blueprints to complete my job! F my life, right? And he keeps trying to start all these new initiatives to boost revenue, but seriously we just need to stick to what we do best. There’s only one true profit center. I seriously feel ready to go on strike at any second.

I just read this article about how these free radical particles can cause the downfall of good health and accelerate aging. These could actually cause death to millions of Americans. If these particles are flying around undetected everywhere, does that mean we’re all radicalized?

Have you seen the second season of Breaking Bad? I just finished it. I couldn’t believe that episode where they poison the guy with ricin! That was the bomb! I won’t say any more because I don’t want to reveal the earth-shattering events to come.
...
Okay, I gotta run! I’m late for flight school. I missed the last class where we learn how to land, so I really can’t miss another one. Talk to you later!
 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
30. I know, it's hilarious.
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 11:00 AM
Jun 2013

It's also funny how so many people here who said that the Government isn't watching you are now not speaking at all, or asserting that this is stupid and childish.

As for me, I've got an app on my ipad to mimic the enigma machine. I'm thinking of encrypting that and sending it to my alt email addy.

idwiyo

(5,113 posts)
33. I'll get Outlook do it for me automatically. I have several junk e-mail addresses I can use to keep
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 11:15 AM
Jun 2013

e-mailing back and forth between them. Some are on EU severs and some are in US.

They can collect that all they want

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