facebook and myspace are fuckwits and tools

[Duchess]

I'll bet that a lot of people don't even know that their cameras and smart phones have this capability.

[shitstorm]

I had no idea, Dutchess. Then again I don't have a cell phone and I'm technically challenged.

Here's an article about it:

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/money/consumer/...play-areas

[Maggot]

I have a FB acct, though I rarely use it. I signed up knowing full well that .govs and other entities data mine these sights. I joined because I supported Ron Paul for president and it was a place to share info during the presidential primaries . I NEVER put personal info on there. I have lots of "friends", none but a couple who I actually know. These are people who are basically sharing political alerts and videos. I've posted and shared stuff like dirt on pharmaceutical companies and the fake swine flu pandemic, Alex Jones videos, information about legislation while bills are being debated (like the health care bill), etc. Everything I post is also widely posted on forums, blogs, news sites. In a worst case scenario, like political dissidents getting rounded up and sent to FEMA camps, what I've posted at FB would be used against me. However, we would be talking about millions of others posting the same thing so I'll have lots of company. NOTHING is private on the internet. ALL data is mined. The only way to protect yourself is to be a serious geek who knows how to use advanced encryption programs and layers of proxies. Even then, those mostly apply to more private online communication.

Google tracks and stores ALL SEARCHES AND IPs. They have a relationship with the .gov intelligence agencies. If you want to do your searches anonymously, with a site that doesn't store info, use Scroogle (a site created by some geeks who hate Google). Google makes no secrets of it's data mining. That's why they're in business - to make money selling information. Now, that information could be that you like cashmere sweaters or that you're an anti government "radical". It could be Overstock.com buying your info or the spooks at the CIA.

We live in an Orwellian police state where everyone's private info can be had for a price or by using the unconstitutional PATRIOT Act. Unless one is a hermit, you don't have much privacy. Being a politically active individual, I've resigned myself to that fact. I'll never shut up and I'll never self censor out of fear.

All that said, there is the other aspect of FB and the one I find more concerning. These are the people who use it only to post the constant personal updates of their private lives. I was looking at the FB page of my friend's 20 year old daughter. She puts everything damn thing she does, WITH PICTURES, on FB. Kids do this stuff because they are conditioned and have grown up being online. They know nothing else and don't consider the dangers of what they're doing. My friend's daughter will put stuff like her class schedule, what homework she's working on, what concert she's going to on Friday, photos of her desk in her bedroom, etc. Any asshole who wanted to stalk her would only have to look at her FB page. These kids are so connected that I saw where she and her sister were talking to each other, on FB, and they LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE!!!

I recently saw a video news report, from ABC, showing that some digital cameras and smart phones have GPS tracking devices in them and when you post a pic online other people can right click on the photo and get the coordinates of the location that the picture was taken. Apparently, you can turn off the GPS but I'll bet that a lot of people don't even know that their cameras and smart phones have this capability.

So, I see this privacy thing as having very different considerations. One is that the daily habits of someone being revealed online make them vulnerable to stalking, home invasion and the like. The other is political.

Oh, and, BTW, gmail is rumored to spy on it's users, as well. I don't know a whole a lot about this other than email services can't be trusted, either. Yahoo mail once turned over emails of a dissident journalist in China that the Chinese gov't used to put him in prison.

Can I get the condensed version.......wait I will do it. "I'm a dumb fuck" See was that hard?


Damn it!!!!!!! Your request timed out. Please retry the request.

[Lady Cop]

there is no T in Duchess. Dutchess

jesus, this is not hard.

[BlueTiki]

Thank God it wasn't an "O". Douchess.

[Lady Cop]

when it's right in front of their noses, how do they still spell it wrong? duh. i see this all the time. not naming names.

[Duchess]

Thank God it wasn't an "O". Douchess.

That's been done...many times. Newbies thought they were being cool & original.

[IMaDick]

when it's right in front of their noses, how do they still spell it wrong? duh. i see this all the time. not naming names.

I'm not sure if your ass is too tight or too loose? but either way, you need to add to your user name.

Anal Lady Cop

Calm the fuck down, and leave my favorite newbie alone.

[Lady Cop]

when it's right in front of their noses, how do they still spell it wrong? duh. i see this all the time. not naming names.

I'm not sure if your ass is too tight or too loose? but either way, you need to add to your user name.

Anal Lady Cop

Calm the fuck down, and leave my favorite newbie alone.

you'd just love to see my adorable ass

you're lucky i'm off sick today, take advantage while you can. hahahaha

[IMaDick]

when it's right in front of their noses, how do they still spell it wrong? duh. i see this all the time. not naming names.

I'm not sure if your ass is too tight or too loose? but either way, you need to add to your user name.

Anal Lady Cop

Calm the fuck down, and leave my favorite newbie alone.

you'd just love to see my adorable ass

you're lucky i'm off sick today, take advantage while you can. hahahaha

Ya, well I'm not off today, But thanks for the invitation.

[Lady Cop]

i've said it for years...they are soooooo stoopid!
you see it in every case.
i take it back...they ARE useful... to investigators.

helloooooo Toledo! BWAAAAAAAA


Washington Post
For weeks, police came up empty in their search for a gang member charged with distributing the drug ecstasy — until they turned to Facebook.

It took a few keystrokes for Prince George’s County officers to find their man’s user profile, where they had expected to see his usual rantings about police and coded tidbits about his chosen trade. But what they discovered was even more helpful: That very morning, the fugitive had posted a photograph of himself wearing what one officer described as a “very distinctive” purple and teal shirt.

A few hours later, a photo of the suspect in hand, officers spotted the alleged dealer on the street. “We picked him out right away,” said Sgt. John O’Donnell of the Prince George’s gang unit. “You couldn’t have missed him. He knew we were looking for him. But he couldn’t help himself from updating Facebook.”

The arrest of the alleged dealer highlights the increasing use of Facebook and other social networking sites by street and drug gangs to broadcast mes-sages, boast of successes and recruit new members, according to local and federal authorities. The sites offer a never-ending panoply of gang members’ comments about drug dealing, weapons and violence, as well as photographs of gang tattoos and of members flashing gang signs and standing under gang-related graffiti — an intelligence boon for law enforcement.

Police and federal agents say they often turn first to Facebook and Myspace, two popular social media outlets, to gather information about gangs, their members and their “friends.”

In Prince George’s, for example, undercover police have “friended” many gang members to help keep tabs on them and to better understand associations within the groups. Social media pages are not always available for public viewing, but users who do not properly set their security settings can leave their pages open for all to see, including the police.

Officers in the District comb sites to produce a weekly “Social Media” report for detectives on the latest information and trends related to D.C. street gangs, an ever-evolving universe of idiosyncratic neighborhood crews with assorted alliances and beefs.

“It’s like a spider web of connections,” said D.C. Police Lt. Michael Pavlik, head of the department’s intelligence unit. “You find one and track that down, and find a friend and then follow that. It’s a wealth of information, and it helps you keep up with them in a way we never imagined just a few years ago.”

Federal authorities have also tapped into Facebook and My-space for help in major gang investigations.

In one case, members of an alleged drug gang in Southeast Washington openly discussed the narcotics trade on a member’s Facebook profile page, according to court papers filed by the FBI in March.

“SNITCHES WANT ME LOCKED UP,” one alleged dealer wrote, the papers say. About 20 minutes later, he added that he had been frisked by police. “The streets don’t love me,” he wrote, according to agents. “Jumpers came out like I had a bomb strapped to me yesterday.”

Another alleged dealer complained in a lengthy comment string that someone was “watering down the pack” of PCP, a hallucinogen — a comment an FBI agent helpfully translated in court papers as the process of creating “more, though less potent, narcotics.”

The gang members were apparently so addicted to social media that jail didn’t stand in the way. Though the gang members in Southeast had been detained, their Facebook pages were still being updated “via Mobile Web” applications, agents wrote. “Life sucks right now,” one alleged dealer wrote. (Mobile phones and other such devices are barred at the D.C. jail and other such facilities.)

This year, agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought information from Myspace because members of MS-13, a notoriously violent street gang, were reportedly using the network to try to silence a federal witness. The witness had “an active order of execution, also known as a green light,” agents wrote in court papers, and a gang member was sending the man messages through Myspace in the apparent hope of luring him back to Washington.

ICE agents also obtained a court order in June to get information about the Facebook page of an alleged MS-13 member even though he had used a different name on his profile page. Agents were able to determine the user’s real identity after carefully studying photographs and other images the gang member had uploaded to the page, they wrote. Among those, agents wrote, was one of a tattoo on the suspect’s right shoulder that depicted a “laughing and crying face,” a common image among gang members that reflects the saying, “Laugh now, cry later.”

And last month, federal agents and Fairfax County police were able to track down a member of MS-13 who had been wanted for more than two years in a gang-related stabbing. They checked his Facebook profile and found he had posted his new home town (New Orleans) and phone number. In his profile picture, the alleged gang member flashed an MS-13 symbol to the camera, according to police.

“Gangs are just following societal trends,” said a federal law enforcement official who spoke about the issue on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss how agents use social media to target gangs. “Facebook and Myspace are now some of their primary methods of communication.”

In the District, a small squad of officers monitors social networking sites for gang-related intelligence to help detectives solve crimes. Particularly helpful are group photographs and lists of “friends,” said Pavlik, whose unit produces the weekly report on gang use of social media.

The officers frequently come upon postings by members that threaten violence or refer to firearms, according to the lieutenant. “I got Dat 3 5 7, so don’t try your luck,” one teen wrote in a posting describing a .357-caliber handgun in his possession, according to Pavlik.

Pavlik said police take such comments seriously and have visited the homes of scores of teenagers in the past year to warn their parents and grandparents that such musings “could start a lot of real trouble.”

Photographs sometimes reveal men and women smoking marijuana, holding weapons or showing off gang-related tattoos. A favorite pose for teens is fanning out cash for the camera. “If you look closely, they are almost always holding $1 bills,” Pavlik said, laughing.

Still, despite having viewed thousands of Facebook and Myspace pages, D.C. police officials said it can be difficult to distinguish real threats from jokes or teenage bravado.

For example, Pavlik said, a suspected gang member recently posted a photograph of himself holding a pistol while sitting at a dinner table with a woman believed to be his grandmother. Police didn’t just rush off to arrest the man, however.

“The subject is now pictured with what seems to be a black gun,” the department’s social media report said. “It is unclear whether the weapon is real. . . . The shininess of the gun could be an indication that it is plastic.”

“You can’t just get a search warrant because some guy is holding what you think is a real gun or is photographed smoking what you think is marijuana,” said Pavlik, adding that the department has strict protocols that govern how officers monitor social media sites. “It may help later. But we have to respect the First Amendment rights of people.”

One photo recently posted to Facebook scared officers: It showed a gang member in Southeast Washington with a rocket launcher on his shoulder.

Upon closer inspection, the lieutenant said, officers realized the weapon had been Photo-shopped into the picture. Said Pavlik, “that was a relief.”

[imsuchawildflower]

holy shit.

[aussiefriend]

I HATE fakebook. I have a fake facebook account for only very very close friends and their kids to show me their pics. Only a handful of people have this bogus account info.

I watched something on the crime channel about facebook and how scary it can be. I am just not prepared to take that risk. My private life is private.

[Eat Shit And Die]

Anyone who has their true details on social site are fucking stupid.

[Duchess]

You ain't kiddin'. I think they are all morons. Hell, I don't even like people that know me to know too much about me & my life. Fuck that. You'd have to put a gun to my head to get me to share much of my private life with strangers.

[Midwest Spy]

Thank God it wasn't an "O". Douchess.

That's been done...many times. Newbies thought they were being cool & original.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's still a classic, though!

[Eat Shit And Die]

You ain't kiddin'. I think they are all morons. Hell, I don't even like people that know me to know too much about me & my life. Fuck that. You'd have to put a gun to my head to get me to share much of my private life with strangers.

I have 3 FB accounts, not one has my REAL PI or FAMILY on them, not why i have them.