Couple get armed police visit for googling "pressure cookers"
- Thread starter Weaver
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Did you bother to even read the story? Dude wasn't being spied on, he googled "Pressure Cooker Bomb" At work. Dudes boss saw the search. He also googled "Backpacks" in the same day.AC10 said:This is actually some orwellian terror style shit here.
For your reading pleasure:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/
It's making me actually to be online. I'm not American, but who knows? My government is probably doing it too.
Granted, the boss was pulling a huge dick move, but don't try to make it more than it was. We all know about the NSA and everything we do is monitored. It sucks, but there's nothing really we can do about it. Douche-bags in power frequently abuse it
Exactly right.Lionsfan said:
The irony is that when this sort of information comes out in the wake of some gruesome atrocity, the same people now screaming "police state" would be howling for heads to roll at the anti-terrorism agencies:
"The guy's boss tells you he's Googling 'pressure cooker bombs' right after losing his job, and you didn't even talk to the guy? What, was there a 2-for-1 sale at Dunkin' Donuts or something?"
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Well, even though it turned out it needed a prompt from a concerned workplace boss to spur this into happening, y'know what? Wouldn't need too many stories like this before it'd stop happening. It's only because searches like "pressure cooker bomb" and "backpack" within short succession are uncommon that they are suspicious. Make them more common and innocent, and they're not suspicious anymore. Look at me, I'm inciting all kinds of trouble in countries I don't even live in; tee hee ^^generals3 said:
[small]What's that, NSA are working with MI5 now? Oh shit...[/small]
Nope, there's no way that's the whole story.
Whelp.
Come ON, guys. I know being cynical is cool, but police actually do have brains. They try not to waste their time on truly insignificant stuff, they're too busy. They have people whose main job is police-call prioritization. Source: Family in the police force.
Thing is... Im kinda curious about "pressure cooker bombs". Is that an actual explosive device? or what happens if one miss-uses a pressure cooker?
Seeing the whole "update" to the story, I feel this isn't much in the vein of "government conspiracy" and more in the vein of "shit not to do at work"/"companies/businesses are evil". Unless it was his break, I doubt he should have been googling anything.
My best guess is that, due to the way pressure cookers work, the person would put in the cooker some normally harmless chemicals, turn the cooker on, then wait for the extreme heat and pressure in the cooker to change the normally harmless chemicals into something explosive. Either that, or just plugging all seals/saftey releases and making the thing explode that way, but that wouldn't be very damaging.WanderingFool said:
Edit: Something like this, but on a smaller scale.
https://www.torproject.org/Kyr Knightbane said:
https://joindiaspora.com/
There's a lot we can do about it, actually.
I dare you, no I double dare you.Caiphus said:I believe the actual bombs used at the Boston Marathon were pressure cooker nail bombs.WanderingFool said:
No idea how they actually work though. Maybe I should google it
*goes away then comes back 5 mins later, checks latest news story and reads one on a gamer being arrested for googling about how pressure cooker nail bombs work, FBI suspects he's the next Bin laden*
.... shit.
Kyr Knightbane said:Did you bother to even read the story? Dude wasn't being spied on, he googled "Pressure Cooker Bomb" At work. Dudes boss saw the search. He also googled "Backpacks" in the same day.AC10 said:This is actually some orwellian terror style shit here.
For your reading pleasure:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-knocking-doors-because-google-searches/67864/
It's making me actually to be online. I'm not American, but who knows? My government is probably doing it too.
Granted, the boss was pulling a huge dick move, but don't try to make it more than it was. We all know about the NSA and everything we do is monitored. It sucks, but there's nothing really we can do about it. Douche-bags in power frequently abuse it
He actually was just looking up pressure cookers. The police automatically assumed that he was making a bomb because he looked up backpacks in the same day. Got of to love the iq of our government. But then again if they could grow up a little maybe we would be in a better country.
Well, something to keep in mind is that there is so much data floating around it really would require a lot of manpower to sift through everyones internet histories. So a future where we have no privacy is coming, but since there are so many people a lot of the data wouldn't even be pulled unless there was some need to pull it. At least that's what seems logical.
The title is a little sensationalist. The Government wasn't spying on them, granted the Government is spying on us all the time, just in this case it wasn't entirely their fault.
The guy's boss reported that he searched the term "Pressure Cooker Bomb". It's a little hard to tell what the facts are exactly from the article because it keeps changing. But as of 11:18pm the Article says that the man searched "Pressure Cooker Bomb" at work. Which lead to the investigation.
The guy's boss reported that he searched the term "Pressure Cooker Bomb". It's a little hard to tell what the facts are exactly from the article because it keeps changing. But as of 11:18pm the Article says that the man searched "Pressure Cooker Bomb" at work. Which lead to the investigation.