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Phone Calls, Emails and now Credit Card Transactions

Posted by gwcalvert 10 years, 11 months ago to Government

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Are any electronic transactions/communications safe from the federal government's snooping?

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Posted by rockymountainpirate 10 years, 11 months ago

Use cash for things you don't want tracked.

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Posted by TheYoung-Capitalist 10 years, 11 months ago

well it's time to invent something that the government can not track.

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  Posted by Signofthedollar 10 years, 11 months ago
  
  BitCoin
  
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    Posted by gwcalvert 10 years, 11 months ago
    
    BitCoin is easily traced through IP addresses, as the NSA is archiving all of your online activity, too. Routing through a proxy will not keep them from tracing back to your IP and may very well throw up a red flag to look through all of your activity with a fine-toothed comb.
    
    The other problem with BitCoin is that it is very easy to manipulate the price as we have seen recently. And before you ask... Yes. I do own bitcoins and check the trends in the marketplace regularly.
    
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      Posted by Signofthedollar 10 years, 11 months ago
      
      yes but the transactions are very difficult to decrypt
      
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      Posted by khalling 10 years, 11 months ago
      
      gw, a bitcoiner. here's my respectful nod. it's new and we'll watch and wait for tech to do its thing and make it safer. the problem with a cash society is that wealth does not build under that philosophy- but if we're doom headed, it's a plan
      
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