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Originally posted by MDDoxs
Originally posted by burntheships
Well yes, its quite disconcerting.
If fact its very disconcerting, since its seems this is really blurring the lines
between national security and political party lines.
Indeed it does. In my opinion one things transcends political differences and is common to all parties, the desire and need to monitor/analyze and trend the population.
Originally posted by xedocodex
So where do I sign up?
.....I honestly don't have any moral issues with it, most of the topics in threads are people repeating or posting articles/stories/rhetoric from paid talk show hosts...so why shouldn't I be making some money on this too.
Originally posted by burntheships
Very true, and while the illusion is in place now that we are free to align with any polictical party
we wish, what might happen in the future if The U.S. were to end up with such a watered down
Constitution that might allow for more of a dictatorship in reality rather than just a propped up
Repuclic?
You know, one is which The State is the only authority?
Originally posted by MDDoxs
Just to play devil's advocate here, monitoring in some instances is necessary to provide the services we value.
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by xedocodex
Here, here, and here.
I honestly thought maybe you could fill us in?
Though, its only minimum wage, according to The Times.
Originally posted by xedocodex
I don't think you understand what the article is talking about...it's a civilian force organizing to fight ignorance on the internet.
Originally posted by JohnPhoenix
Make yourself invisible on the Net. Use all the tools, TOR Browser, VPN's, HTTPS, anonymous email Etc. Use Them All and use them All The Time.
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Originally posted by burntheships
Originally posted by xedocodex
I don't think you understand what the article is talking about...it's a civilian force organizing to fight ignorance on the internet.
Is it ignorance? People are surely allowed to have differences of opinion, no?
Ok, so which is it then, entertainment or a political cause?
Or, are we an experiment to your cause?
Originally posted by Hefficide
reply to post by xedocodex
I'm afraid that it is you who misunderstand. The Obama Cyber Warriors aspect has nothing to do with the database discussed in the OP. That is the provenance of the NSA and the US Military, through Cybercommand. In fact Cybercommand is the core of the human and social engineering programs.
What is provable is that if you wish to get paid to forum troll - the links I provided are the inroad.
With Davidsen's help, the Analytics team built a tool they called The Optimizer, which allowed the campaign to buy eyeballs on television more cheaply. They took set-top box (that is to say, your cable or satellite box or DVR) data from Davidsen's old startup, Navik Networks, and correlated it with the campaign's own data. This occurred through a third party called Epsilon: the campaign sent its voter file and the television provider sent their billing file and boom, a list came back of people who had done certain things like, for example, watched the first presidential debate. Having that data allowed the campaign to buy ads that they knew would get in front of the most of their people at the least cost. They didn't have to buy the traditional stuff like the local news, either. Instead, they could run ads targeted to specific types of voters during reruns or off-peak hours.www.theatlantic.com...