Next time you feel like posting a 'kill them all; let god sort it out' type comment on the web, take a look at this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/nyregion/11about.html?scp=3&sq=police%20facebook&st=cse

The Sock

Pretty much confirms the line, "Act at all times as if you will be judged, for you will be."

-Blast

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/nyregion/11about.html

Yes, what the officer said is right. You are not anonymous no matter what you think.

These stories always distill down to good LEO/bad LEO. We know both are out there, as in every category of humanity.

So, it boils down to people who like/dislike LEOs and people who think all criminals should be subject to a lower standard of behaviour.

It's this distilling gone to far that evaporates all the water and leaves a glutinous, black mass in our camp kettle making hissing noises and glowing in the dark.

Course I post this and my signature says I'm a serial killer! :-)
The Sock

who us?

The Socks

Digital is the Opposite of Private.

I'd like to remind everyone that I have, can, and do find real people, in real life, based only on their "anonymous" internet activities. I could tell you how to totally vanish online, but I'd be lying so I could still find you.

There's a guy on another forum I'm a member of who can literally find out ANYTHING about anyone. I've seen him do it on that forum, many times. I don't know what his regular job is, but it's scary what he can find out.

People come on there and think they can engage in unscrupulous activities like scamming other members and he just owns them. He posts everything about them from arrest records to cell phone numbers, yearbook photos, home addresses, everything. He says it's all publicly available information, you just have to know where and how to look.

I learned a few years ago, if you want to find someone, and you want to find out anything and everything about them, contact a PI who has connections in Vegas. They have more access to people's records and whereabouts there than the government does. That's their business.

Ancient Chinese proverb (or so I was told): "If you don't want people to know about it, don't do it."

Well spoken Foxy! The people on this forum who keep saying (in public) they have no intention of taking a burglar alive, don't need a gun; they need a psychiatrist.
First for wanting to needlessly taking a life.
Second for then broadcasting it.
The Sock

This doesn't surprise me in the least as the USA has little or virtually no data protection Laws except for commercial Intellectual Property rights.



Unless of course you happen to be stopped by Texas LEOs and are a victim of highway robbery togther with threats of intimidation with the power of the goverment state.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/nation...position=recent

Do you hand over the cash and valuables or end up in a Texas prison and having to deal with the consequences of having an arrest record for everyone to freely view online.

There was a guy on another forum the other day who was talking about how he wouldn't share any personal location details with us (we were discussing unemployment in our areas). He was making a big deal out of it, so I Googled his screen name, found another forum he used with the same screen name, discovered his full real name, plugged it into an online whitepages, and had his home address, phone number, and the name of his employer. This all took about 5 minutes of looking. I didn't tell him about this; didn't wanna burst his bubble.
There is a lot of information out there unless you have taken extreme measures to contain it. If you don't want employers to find out about your indiscretions, keep them off the 'net. Or better yet, don't be indiscreet.

Yep, in Texas you hand over the cash and valuables, then you go home, get the "Assault rifle" out of the closet, and go hunt yourself a few bad LEOS. Lots of desert in West Texas...

"No Country for Old Men" is a new favorite of mine.