We'd Better Talk About This Surveillance State

[Zorro]

Wonder who's watching me now, the IRS?!

The US surveillance of its citizens sure has expanded exponentially under this regime, and it’s not just your face or license plate out in public places any more. It seems all of our devices are watching us whether we ask them to or not, and potentially ratting our activities out to the government, which has been using legally questionable “administrative warrants” to secretly monitor who-knows-how-many people.

Last night, after 10 days of no leads whatsoever, FBI Director Kash Patel posted footage from the Google Nest camera of what seems to be the kidnapper of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of reporter Savannah, from her home in Pima County, Arizona, on the night she was abducted. Footage that Patel says he got from “residual data located in backend systems” of Guthrie’s cameras.

New images in the search for Nancy Guthrie: Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors - including the removal of recording devices. The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems. Working with our partners - as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door the morning of her disappearance. Anyone with information, please contact 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit http:// tips.fbi.gov

He’s a residual back end. Too bad Patel and friends purged about 1,500 FBI agents last year, they might have helped.

Of course no one with a soul could object to the FBI doing everything in its power to locate that poor woman. But it is curious how the FBI could obtain that footage, as Guthrie did not have a Nest subscription. Said Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos on February 3: “The cameras we’re working with, they’re not on a cloud, so the data has to go through a server, has to take some time to get to the company that has that and get them warrants and services.”

And it turns out, even without a subscription, Nest still backs up to the Google cloud, and the backups stay on Google’s servers unless/until they’re overwritten.

So reminder, cameras you might not think are watching you may come with leakier back ends than you think! And if you’ve got cheating loins, or are an immigrant, or have been traitorously protesting or voicing any objections to the regime, you might want to change up your OpSec accordingly.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/wed-better-talk-about-this-surveillance

I'm sure this government will use all the evidence information it has and is amassing about each of us for our collective benefit...