Explanation: Seriously seeking answers here!

Personal Disclosure: IMO, ATS is not a Sacred-Cow that can remain free from scrutiny on this issue!

P.S. But thats no excuse for members to bash ATS! Let's just keep to the facts OK!

They are probably watching the site and are bound to have people posting. Like yesterday a person wrote that he was a soldier, and it was rotten in the american army. The thread was pounced upon, and they soon had the thread filled with rubbish about how good the life is in the army.

We are the dip stick in the world's oil tank.

I could think of a couple, mostly disinformation. For example, plant a rumor about some frightening new weapon, to worry some army we're fighting, or that we might wind up fighting. Like that MOP bomb. Even if the weapon didn't exist, there would be so much chatter about it that it might sound plausible, and send some country's agents into chasing nonsensical rumors.

Or, double whammy, create so many false rumors that when something real comes to light, people ignore it because there have already been so many false reports.

On a more practical note, I have no doubt whatsoever that this site's posts and members are being monitored. Aside from the non-traditional or non-mainstream ideas that appear here, there are also calls for "revolution" and other illegal acts. Not many, not frequently, but surely enough to get the attention of the authorities. This applies to any public forum, not just ATS. Public expressions of violence, crime, revolution, even civil disorder, are going to be noticed. Even public expressions of serious dissatisfaction with the government are going to get some attention.

As vocal members, we make it easier to identify and, if necessary, neutralize us if the SHTF.

In the event of a revolution, encoded messages could be passed as common threads. I would explain in depth of how transmissions could be used but best leave that as non-disclosed just in case

Of course some of the simplest forms of code would be broken but the way it was hidden could be harder to decipher. Of course leaving things in the hands of just ATS and not, say Youtube comments would be silly.

Lots of possibilities for people in the know using want could pass as friendly banter...much like the Mason's "How is your Grandmother?"

They can read everything you put on the web...regardless of it being ATS or not...Only put info on there that you don't mind the whole world knowing!!!
I do no banking or anything on the web. I look up info and print it off or download it to a hard drive. I trust the gov. with NOTHING....they know about me what I want them to know and that is it.....
I use cash for buying things and never put it on a credit card expessially over the web....
they don't call them big brother for nothing.
If they could do what they did in the 50's and with the technology of today(that we know about)think about what they can find out now if you are part of the system!!!