Oh damn so I probably shouldn't say I have invented an anti-gravity device (cough)Hoverboard(cough)

I operate under the assumption that the alphabet-soup guys almost certainly know who I am, and probably know who all of us are, or can find out easily enough.

I think 99% of the time they have much more important issues to worry about and bigger fish to fry than us, though. The Russians, the Chinese, the Japanese, relentlessly repressing second-and-third world countries, etc etc.

Remember too that the intelligence community aren't all bad guys. I think a lot of them have been coming around to the Patriot side in recent years. All us activists wouldn't be able to do a lot of the stuff we do if they hadn't

One of the bigger threats you will have to worry about in the future is not the "letter agencies" starting to watch you.. but your fellow posters as well.

After all... neighbors are being told "it's patriotic" to inform on questionable activities now.

All it would take is a well written email by a disgruntled member to activate a watch order in this day and time.

I can't believe theres yet another thread about the CIA being on ATS.

If they are here, i bet they are getting as bored of it as the members are.

Why on earth would the CIA give a rats ass why i chose an avatar or a username?

It's threads like this that give us the paranoia label that so many like to use.

CX.

Originally posted by badmediaWhat? It doesn't require a Drivers License to get an ISP and I have never had to provide any such things ever. If what you said were true, then I wouldn't be able to post this message, because I haven't had a Drivers License in about 10 years, and it's not because I can't get one, I just don't need it.

Thanks to the Patriot Act, a Valid form of Photo Identification is required to receive Internet, Phone or Cellular Service. Either a current, non-expired Passport, Driver's License, State Identification, or Military ID is required. The bigger boys (the Telcos & Cablecos) actually take that one step further and require your SSN as well when signing up for service.

Smaller Mom & Pop ISPs may ignore this requirement at their own peril, but the Telcos & Cablecos certainly do not shirk it for any reason. No ID, no Service.

So, unless you got your Broadband Internet Connection prior to 9/11 or you had your cousin Eddie hook you up to your neighbor's unencrypted Wi-Fi Router, then you had to cough up Identification as per the Patriot Act that connects your not-so-dynamically assigned IP Address and the MAC Address of your Router that is authorized to generate traffic on it is linked to DMV/StateDept/DoD/Social Security Databases with whomever signed up and payed for Internet Services (be it your mother or father, your wife, or whoever was present when the Installer came out).

Of course, many Public Libraries have gotten around this as a show of protest by using your Library Card as your requisite Identification to logon to a public Internet Terminal...and then putting next to no requirements on what it takes to get a Library Card in whatever name you choose (my Library knows me fondly as "Tom Jones" with a wink and nod in my direction every time they say my name...totally meant to be confused with the singer whom I look nothing like and can't stand in the least).

CIA doesn't need to profile here at all.

All they need to do is go to Facebook look at every quiz, IQ test, fun games, posts, surveys, etc.. that each person does over a year period and bingo.


Just my humble opinion.

You're pathetic, you think the government cares about any of us on here?