What Words and Phrases in Your Emails Might the FBI’s New Software Be Searching For?

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With the prevalence of financial fraud in recent years, new software co-developed with the FBI might allow companies to sift through employees’ emails to identify a problem before it’s too late.
According to IT Pro, phrases like “nobody will find out,” “cover up” and “off the books” are among the more than 3,000 words and phrases in new software developed by the accounting firm Ernst & Young with the FBI. In addition to these more obvious phrases, IT Pro reported that the software can identify change in tone, can be targeted to specific employees and also picks upon indications of nervousness, like “call my mobile.”
These are the 10 most common phrases used in fraud emails (via BBC) based on the firm’s research:
- Cover up
- Write off
- Illegal
- Failed investment
- Nobody will find out
- Grey area
- They owe it to me
- Do not volunteer information
- Not ethical
- Off the books
βEmail traffic is only seized upon by regulators or fraud investigators when the damage has been done,”Β Dr. Rashmi Joshi, director of Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation & Disputes Services, said according to IT Pro.Β ”Firms are increasingly seeking to proactively search for specific trends and red flags β initially anonymously β but with the potential for investigation where a consistent pattern of potential fraud is flagged.β
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(H/T: Business Insider)
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Comments (142)
jessieH
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:56pm“Cover up Bengazi. Write off the dead Americans. Don’t arrest anyone illegal. Congress is a failed investment. Nobody will find out if we keep our mouths shut. Fast & Furious is a “grey” area. They owe it to me so I’m raising taxes. Do not volunteer any information on our attempt to confiscate their weapons. I don’t care if it’s not ethical. Our pan to destroy America must be kept off the books.” All of these statements have been said, in the White House & Congress.
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aircommando
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:40pmHowaboutwejuststopusingspacesbetweenourwords.Thennothingcanbeunderstood.
CoverupWriteoffIllegalFailed investmentNobodywillfindoutGreyareaTheyoweittomeDonotvolunteer informationNotethicalOffthebooks
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SandboxSoldier
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 2:08pmYou sir, tell too much truth. I’m nominating your reply as a January favorite.
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oneshiner
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 2:37pmShould I be afraid? Hmmm? Although I don’t think I’ve used any of the words & phrases.
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TheFifthColum
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 2:57pmYou got it!
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jcldwl
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:02pm@jess
Nicely put. Funny how they use the exact words they look for.
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Dr Vel
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:04pmSorry aircommando but your idea is easily overcome with dictionary look-up tables and comparison software. Just like the ROT13 that old email app’s used to have. They can space out your text in nanoseconds.
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ConserveChrist
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:05pmOr Bteter yet, we cluod wtire all of our wdros in the moanr taht I am as we saepk. For Erevy wrod taht is fuor ltreets or mroe, smlbcrae ervey tinhg in bteewen the fsirt and the lsat. If You can slitl raed tihs, you are a good rdeaer. The Bairn solhud do the wrok for you.
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Lamarr01
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:10pmThe FBI is a janitor crew that collects evidence and incinerates it. The FBI interviews witnesses and threatens people that deviate from the official story. The FBI filters out conflicting evidence to a Commission or Grand Journey.
Who anyone with any integrity work for Eric Holder?
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sondoggie
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:36pmYou nailed it.
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SavvyCowboy
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:53pm@aircommando – Hahaha!! Good one!!! I love that! Yeslet’smesswithOvomit’sregimebigtime!
Cover upWrite offIllegalFailed investmentNobody will find outGrey areaThey owe it to meDo not volunteer informationNot ethicalOff the books.
theycanonlykillusallifwegiveupourguns/weapons!Nevernevernevernevergiveupyourguns!Fighttothebitterend!GODBlessAmericaLandoftheFreeHomeoftheBraveBoughtandpaidforbywarriorsforover236yearsandcounting. :)
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SUNTZU
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 4:15pmdilligaf
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98Bravo
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 4:56pmTime to overload the system and add that paragraph to every email we send, it will make their system useless.
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thedeceiver
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 5:45pmawesome
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SocialistSlayer
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:04pmIf they are searching for the Phrase “Communist obama” then I guess I am busted !
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michaelmoron
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:26pmSo, I should have not posted these ?
β’Cover up
β’Write off
β’Illegal
β’Failed investment
β’Nobody will find out
β’Grey area
β’They owe it to me
β’Do not volunteer information
β’Not ethical
β’Off the books
F#@K You, FBI. lol
iii
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New.World.Fastfood.Order
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 7:18pmVery good.
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Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:36am“What Words and Phrases in Your Emails Might the FBIβs New Software Be Searching For?”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
*ring* *ring*
Hello? FBI? I’d like to report … the Declaration Of Independence. We hold these …
*click*
Hello? Hello?
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Obama_In_PeePee_Is_Becks_Art
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 12:37am“What Words and Phrases in Your Emails Might the FBIβs New Software Be Searching For?”
*ring* *ring*
Hello? FBI? I’d like to report illegal wire tapping and warrant-less spy on my …
*click*
Hello? Hello?
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Witness1974
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 3:07amThis is the bomb!
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Heismakingmeolder
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:40pmI think we need to apply the “Tip of the Iceberg Doctrine” here. As we know, the cleverest lie is injected, marinated, rubbed, basted and smoked – in truth. And they are clever.
“…new software co-developed with the FBI might allow companies to sift through employeesβ emails to identify a problem before itβs too late.”
Unless the owner of the company which co-developed the software played golf a lot. In rarefied but vile company. And won. And the Bureau’s assistance was given in kind for taxpayer incurred gambling debt – and I’m sure there are briefs for such things in this admin…. Then the FBI has plans to use this too.
This is where the Tip O’ Da Berg Doctrine comes in!
Yes the software was co-developed by some people working for you (ha ha!) and some other people working for themselves. And some of them may use it to sift through their employees mail before it is too late. Because after all… Something, rather than nothing, before it is too late, is of course an exceedingly good idea, upon which we can all agree! But by employing our highly advanced doctrine we can discern that there is only about only a taste of truth in the article. The rest we mus speculate about.
What does the FBI do?
Are they accountable to the law?
Do they work for the White House?
Are they accountable to the law?
What is the law?
Woe to them who call evil good.
Wonder what kind of problems the FBI might want to identify with this? Wait
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ComeTakeIt
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 2:09pmin reality, the FBI will use it to search for words like
“Constitution”
“Tea Party Meeting”
“State Sovereignty”
“Individual Rights”
“Gun”
“Ammo”
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 4:21pmAnd “Jesus”
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spfoam1
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:34pmImagine how many times they have been alerted to Algore’s email.
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MrKnowItAll
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:16pmRough The Pica!
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sillyfreshness
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:35pmGotta love Big Brother snooping through everyone’s emails. It’s just like living in China or North Korea right here in the good old USA.
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raderby
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:01pmFibbees should expect some resistance, generally. So should wrifle grabbion king Zero, the dearest leader we have ever had.
To be clear: eat me – and go Speaker of the House to H. Reid yourselves.
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jessieH
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:05amFlood the software with these words & overwhelm it.
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muffythetuffy
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:27amno one will find out.
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John.Galt
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:37amThat sounds like a cover up.
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chrisdev01
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:35pmThat’s not ethical.
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clinker
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:42pmBut it soon be illegal.
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phillipwgirard
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 6:47pmJust keep it off the books, gentlemen,,,
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KMM
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:57amHey everyone! I know we’re all concerned about the FBI looking at our emails. But, I want us to consider another important topic at this time of year…
I want you to remember this winter season to cover up. Don’t write off the need for good protection against the cold. It should be illegal to treat this matter as a grey area. It is almost not ethical to say that nobody will find out. If you are someone without adequate winter clothes, do not volunteer information to us about it, just go purchase some! Even if you must do so “off the books” in your personal budget, it is most certainly not a failed investment. And please don’t wait for the Red Cross to send some your way thinking, “They owe it to me.” We’re all responsible for our own winter protection!
- A Concerned Citizen
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Anadara
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:14am@ KMM … You missed your exit on the freeway to the lost city of Irrelevant.
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CarolinaGirl
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:17amAbsolutely brilliant!!!
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blanco5
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:22amAnd we have a winner!!!
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American Capitalist
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:35amHey KMM… I think they’re on to you… contact me on my mobile!
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pahrumper
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:03amI will in all future emails and so on see to it that I use words like C4, Claymore, RDX, RPG, M16, and any and all I can to flood the buffers with B/S just to take pressure off of the others. Since I had at a minium a Secret Security clearance all of my working life I am a problem to them and so I will not make it easy for them. I know that they monitor all cell phones with power on or off, computers with cameras and house phones too. If you really have a need for comunications take a small pad and take off one sheet, write on a hard surface any messages you need to send and assume that everything in your home and car are monitored. If you hide your guns do not wear your cell phone when you do it, it can and will be tracked. A 6″ well pipe about 3′ long, two end caps with glue and a post hole digger and off of your property shouild do it.
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hi
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:18amLol. Now everyone send that in an email!!
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sealoquesea
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:41am@Blanco5 The Facility in Utah is not done yet, I can see it from the freeway everyday, and believe me they are not kidding about the size of this thing. Funny, Adobe just finished a huge new building that can overlook the new NSA buiolding.
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objectivetruth
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:01amI say this half jokingly half seriously.Maybe adobe is watching the watchers.Hey stranger things have been known to happen.
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Not Quite
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:34amNo way Adobe is on our side. I work for them and they are like every other large communist company in the United States, trying to push their UnAmerican views on everyone that works there. If anyone is looking for a good Software Engineer in the Utah area…let me know.
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objectivetruth
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:51am@ not quite
Thanks for enlighting me.May I suggest you consider the east coast for work.Can you move?
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SingerGuy
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 12:11pm@Not Quite: Check out Raytheon (formerly Applied Signal Technology) in WVC. There are some great opportunities there the last time I looked. Avoid RBS. It’s no different than the great and spacious building you work in.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:18amβ’Cover up
β’Write off
β’Illegal
β’Failed investment
β’Nobody will find out
β’Grey area
β’They owe it to me
β’Do not volunteer information
β’Not ethical
β’Off the books
β’FU
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lynnissmart
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:50amAh, ha, ha, ha!
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Anadara
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:09amI’m sure that there are a lot more key-words than these.
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old blacksmith
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 11:49amhayup – those are just the financial fraud keywords.
computers don’t kill e-mails, programmers do – well actually the programmers’ ceo.
ten years ago who woulda thought we’d be talking these topics?
pedal to the metal.
couple of keywords in their system for sure:
MOLON LABE
ΞΌΞΏΞ»α½ΌΞ½ λαβΞ
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IndyGuy
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 1:12pmYou forgot…Obama…
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:13amI couldn’t care less. There is plenty of dis-info in the content they need to parse. Good luck with that.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:50amThis is awful, who gives them the right to search without a warrant? Oh, that’s right, Bush did, and now Obama is expanding it. Aren’t “two party” systems great?
In my mind, this is a cover up that we can’t simply write off. It is illegal to do these things, and we’ve made a failed investment in our government that they’re hoping that nobody will find out. Be clear, there is no grey area here, and frankly they owe it to me, to all of us, to not force us to volunteer information. This is not ethical, whether it’s on the books or off the books!
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pecosval
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:03amVery clever!!
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ltdsn133
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:09amPrecisely what I intended to do in my post but you beat me to it. guess I’ll have to include the words in my emails to friends about my coverup that nobody will find out about even though I’m already on the domestic terrorists watch list being a retired LEO. Guess I’ll head to the GUN ROOM for now.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:17amTwo party systems are too easily manipulated by those really in power. It would be beyond their mental capacity to manage or manipulate more than two. Using their math 2=1 and they cannot fathom anything > or = to 3.
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jeffgman
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:01amWhere does it say they’re searching without a warrant or not at the express request of the business owner? Is misleading titles like this that give a false impression about what they’re doing. Just because they develop software that can look for these things doesn’t mean they’re doing it in violation of our rights.
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objectivetruth
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:02amBeautifully written and so true
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thewhiteright
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:48amIn America:
Today 3,562 women are scheduled to practice their government sanctioned reproductive rights. Today 3,562 unborn (would be American citizens) will have their heads imploded, each limb torn from their body and discarded as trash. Today government sanctioned Gay ceremonies will commence, they will be married in the National Church. Today we have placed before God a leader of this nation who knows not the truth starting from the place of his own birth. This man seeks to undermine the God inspired principles set before this nation. Today what is right is wrong and what is wrong is right. Because of this fact God has turn this land over to a reprobate spirit. My fellow Christian The end times are here. Prepare you hearts and soul, the persecution is upon us, take not the mark
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Speak without Fear
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:46amThere is COVER-UP alright…..just ask Hillary and Obama about Benghazi.
They WROTE OFF…..4 Americans and left them behind in Benghazi.
They are HOPING NOBODY WOULD FIND OUT.
They are not ETHICAL
They DO NOT VOLUNTEER to get to the bottom of the scandal…….the obstruct getting to the bottom of the investigation.
There is NO GREY are for me when it comes to the ILLEGAL activities of this administration. They work OFF THE BOOKS in every area.
Barack Hussein Obama is a FAILED INVESTMENT for America.
Pathetic and uneducated sheeple…..who have the mentality of YOU OWE IT TO ME……are to blame for the current CORRUPT Administration that we have.
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not1b4me
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:24amThey owe it to me but, Don’t forget Obama and Holder Illegal cover up of Fast and Furious was a Failed investment and they’ll keep it off the books and use it as a write off and keep it in a Grey area so Nobody will find out…that’s just not Not ethical…
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objectivetruth
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:07amNo one will ever be held accountable.Thats what happens when the enemy of the state runs the state
You and everyone else who thinks they will be held accountable are sadly mistaken.
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justangry
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:45amHmmm…. “Here’s my ass; kiss it commies” didn’t make the list. Whew…. I’m safe.
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noblevegas
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:29amSo, sending an e-mail to tell a friend “I will cover up the illegal write-off from a failed investment because they owe it to me to create a grey area for off the books transactions that are not ethical and no one will find out about since I do not volunteer the information to anyone.” Isn’t a good idea? – Noted.
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DTR
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:47amHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo…
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newcleardays
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:17amI see what you’ve done here.
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GuruMeditation
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 9:20amHehehe ;->
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Red Max
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:26amHow about these words FBI: Obama, Pelosi, Reid, and Holder, you can all drop dead.
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hatchetjob
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 3:31pmAgreed, and Maxine Waters “can go straight to hell”! Just like she told the Tea Partiers to do.
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Pat Alexander
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:24amBig Sis is watching you!
Safe search engine: DuckDuckGo.Com
Read up on it & use it.
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objectivetruth
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:05amI haven’t tried that one.I however have tried others.They are great if you kinow the web address you want to reach.They aren’t to hot for normal searching though.The results you see will shock you in their lack of returns
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Black Horse
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 8:01amCheck out startpage.com also. It has a proxy search option and uses Google through their severs. They store no cookies or search info and will have safe email soon. Try it out, works great.
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Black Horse
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 8:14amSorry – “servers”.
I really wish somebody would do something about this annoying “Oops! 404 Page Not Found” crap I keep seeing EACH AND EVERY TIME I POST A REPLY. I swear, between posts getting lost in the ether, posts taking hours to show up and this crap causing double posts until you figure out how to ignore it, it’s a wonder anything gets posted here. Who’s maintaining this site anyway?
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Ron Staiger
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:23amWhat about “under the table” and I’m not referring to Monica Lewinsky.
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Hoipoloi2012
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:16amTwo words dear friends – encrypted email.
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TheePolitinator
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:20am2 words, don’t matter.
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Hoipoloi2012
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:22amhttp://www.pcworld.com/article/254338/how_to_encrypt_your_email.html
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Hoipoloi2012
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:24amTwo words: wanna bet?
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Hoipoloi2012
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:34amCypher algorithms like RSA are breakable, however the most effective publicly known method of breaking them is by using brute force and trying every possible key. If the key is long enough you will exceed the time left in the known universe before finding the key, effectively making the cypher unbreakable.
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objectivetruth
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:49amActually its a start.You won’t be able to keep the most determined gov snoops out.Then again its not usually those who single you out.Its the jack wagons who report you for idiotic reaons.This actually may keep unwanted attention out of the hands of those who shouldn’t have your information in the first place though.
Oh and one other thing.Certain forms of encryption aren’t open for breaking unless you already have a key.No I’m not talking computer harshes either.These are hand codes only known to the individuals.
I used to use a system like it to keep peoples extremely sensitive information under wraps.I did commercial clean outs[after evictions].Many of these people had medical issues.Something I might need to know if something should have arose.[It never did I'm happy to say]
I don’t suggest you use hand codes unless you have a very legitimate reason however.It seems that is far worse than computer encryption.
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Think_4_yourself
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:16amHere ya go FBI;
β’Cover up
β’Write off
β’Illegal
β’Failed investment
β’Nobody will find out
β’Grey area
β’They owe it to me
β’Do not volunteer information
β’Not ethical
β’Off the books
Come search me.
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blanco5
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:24amTHINK—is that a knock at your door?
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Eastinfection
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:14amSupercalifragilistic-expialidoscious?
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marvlus
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:29amantidisestablishmentarianism
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Zipit
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:35amFunny East! I just dropped my “spoonful of sugar”!!!!!!!!
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circleDwagons
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:13amFor the children, we must pass to know, if we can only save one….. i am the President….
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:13am.
Why am I not surprised?
I guess I’ll hear a knock on the door if they start Software Searching the Blaze…..
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TheePolitinator
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:24amYou all really just don’t get it do you. If they “start” searching the blaze? This site and every other, Breitbart.com, Info wars are not only scanned but employees of our new gestopo watch it on a regular basis. All posts and information is stored every day as well as every single other bit of internet traffic.
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blanco5
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:30amAll of our infor being stored in Utah at that HUGE complex.
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Chromo200
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 10:06amAre you a registered Republican or Independent, your on the list. Are now or ever been a registered gun owner, you are on the list. Have you written anything to a senator/congressman/white house you are on the list.
Me I have a reached a point I don’t care what list I am on.. I haven’t done anything wrong but exercise my rights.
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kickagrandma
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:02amWhat about TRAITOR?
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jackact
Posted on January 10, 2013 at 8:01amMmmm..
Any words not considered as included in our constitutionally guaranteed 1st amendment rights?
In other words, any opposition to centrally controlled socialist government.
Shocking, right?
Elections do have consequences.
Welcome to the new normal.
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