Interesting article on the tech being deployed nationally:
With the device shown above, in many areas DHS has taken it upon themselves to install RFID chips in every license plate, and then they have scanners virtually EVERYWHERE tracking those chips.
The scanners are on bridges, on roads, in tunnels… you name it, and most have a highly intrusive CAMERA capability, so when they spot your Car/Chip coming, they begin snapping pictures of you and the family.
I have no idea if that is real or not, but I did read somewhere they were testing how to scan credit cards at a distance and at high speed for just that purpose, since everyone carries them around.
I do know the big box cameras the article talks about are jokes which real operators would snigger about. I find it interesting a genuine federal agency seems denied access to the real shit – almost to the point their agents are cobbling their tech together at RadioShack, probably using their own pocket change to fund it. It leaves you wondering just who it is who is doing the real coverage, and why ATF is shut out of it. Oddly enough I have also read other articles indicating some DEA and FBI are also using similar outdated tech, and seemingly cobbling their technical operations together on a shoestring.
I saw this same article posted on Free Republic, and there somebody commented:
I live in a small town and a newly hired cop told me about cameras installed from one end of our town to the other, this new hire didn’t know she was not supposed to past that info on. She also told about the phone intercepts and how many people scanned the cameras. This is a town with less than 50k in population. If they will do it to us they will do it anywhere.
I keep bringing this up here because we are heading into very bad times. Good people in the right place at the right time may be tempted to do good things, like drop a savage raping a girl, or let a few shots off to stop a cop from being killed. Given the chaos, you may think you can just scoot out of there and nobody will be the wiser. Don’t believe it, don’t think it, and don’t assume you aren’t already being watched every minute. You easily could be, especially if you are among the alt-right.
My own belief is the powers that be know what is coming. What we imagine here, may the nice rosy version which will be made into a Disney children’s movie during the apocalypse to give children hope that things can be better.
The Apocalypse to come could entail 90% mortality. Literally a government agency postulated that in one year 90% of America would be dead if the grid went down due to an EMP. Think about that. Disrupt food deliveries, and in a year 9/10ths of the country is dead, and the percentages are much higher around cities and populous areas.
Think about how many of that 10% of survivors would be Bloods, Crips, Hell’s Angels, Mafiosos, drug cartels, and other savages. Would they live peacefully by our side if we had food or other resources which they wanted? The eggheads who run things from the shadows of intel aren’t idiots. They can extrapolate, better than we can. And to them, we may be worse than the Bloods – and get more coverage.
I suspect that as you read this, an infrastructure is being built to facilitate a level of control and information awareness nobody would believe. It will allow awareness of everything.
So when the shit goes down, keep your head down, keep your nose clean, and try to do everything by the book, as if a police officer were looking over your shoulder.
Your freedom, and your ability to continue to operate may depend upon it.
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.22 LR rounds are cheap. Covert advanced cameras are expensive. Do the math.
And if you live in places where even .22 LR is banne… I mean, “restricted for your safety by the ‘common sense’ of your rulers,” then high powered air rifles are relatively cheap, and pellets are even cheaper than .22 LR. Even better, the air rifles are silent!
I don’t want to go into too much detail, but where this shit is deployed, that is the ***worst*** possible course of action. Literally, it will lead the-powers-that-be right to your door, even with an air round, from a night-vision-scoped airgun, launched by a citizen who travels on foot to the target, at 3 AM, and who sees no surveillance tracking them.
This is what I mean. Decent freedom-loving Americans will need to put their gears in neutral, and coast for a bit after the collapse, as the extent of what is out there is exposed and sets in. When I say we are living in a dystopian novel, I am not beginning to touch on it.
The machinations of evil men are never stopped by sitting on one’s hands.
I am legally restricted, by fell oaths freely sworn in good faith, from explaining my background and expertise. That and a little common sense. However, I say you can trust me when I say, these things aren’t anywhere near advanced as you see in the movies.
Am I saying people should go do these things? Not necessarily. I only highlight one possible response in keeping with the views of our founders; that government should fear its people, not the other way around. If such things are being deployed, the probability of liberty and justice in these areas continuing without… shall we say specific events occurring is extremely low. Forcing the program into the limelight by exposing the culprits to public scrutiny and expulsion through the money trail and/or curtailing the program due to budget and functional shortfalls are one of the few ways to avoid said specific events; at least in these cases.
Of course other methods of dorking with the authorities include:
Determining the frequencies of the radios involved and creating a jammer. Oscilloscopes are common and radio transmitters even more so. You don’t need the language, just the frequencies, with the frequencies all you need to do is blast noise with a more powerful transmitter. (Cell phones are radios, pretty powerful ones, many of us have old unused ones which could easily be reprogrammed for jamming.)
Find the RFID antenna and cutting it. A broken RFID doesn’t set off the cameras, so no one would be able to check up on you. Just for safety’s sake; take off the plate and smash it up on a pole so any damage can be blamed on a fender bender.
Outright confiscating the cameras themselves; I’m sure they could be put to better uses.
A paintball on the lenses… temporary as it might be.
Graffiti, would be about the only time I’d praise such an “artist”.
Among scores others.
It’s really not that hard. It only took a few wooden shoes to shut down entire factories back in the day. The wrench doesn’t need to be very big, it just has to be tossed.
Decent freedom-loving Americans should be able to put the good of the nation (or society or community if you like), not the government, ahead of their own personal safety and convenience; either that or start learning how to eat carrots. A citizen should not feel ethically obligated or morally bound to obey an obvious and outright illegal law.
Greenlight this reply if you like, or not. I would understand either way. You won’t be hurting my feelings.
I agree except on two points. One, they can be as advanced as you see in the movies, though I suspect that is not normal FBI/ATF/DEA/ETC. But it is out there, and it seems to be quite heavily deployed in some areas, on an almost permanent basis.
Two, in an apocalypse scenario, I would not fuck with the tech I saw. I would avoid contact or standing out, as I pretended to not notice the tech.
If they have moved in in force, and it is the right group, they are not operating with a limited budget. If that is the case, and I suspect it is more often than not these days where tech is deployed widely enough to be noticed, then the key thing to understand is that this is not their first rodeo. They aren’t going to put up some tech for somebody to just take out or disable, without other tech covering it. A professional outfit will never come upon their wrecked tech, and say to each other, “Damn, we should have had something watching to see who wrecked this! What a missed opportunity!” They already know wrecking is a possibility, and they will take measures to catch who tried to damage their shit.
As one example, I know of one area where all movement, even foot, is tracked and recorded, and for some distance in all directions, with relatively few blindspots. I have no idea how common that is, though tech capable of doing it is very inexpensive and easily installed without attracting attention. While the tracking tech can’t identify specific individuals walking in the middle of the night, the chances of crossing other tech, or observation posts which can is high if surveillance is in town, and that assumes you leave your cellphone at home, and take all precautions. It is very low tech KISS. Either way, if you can be tracked from your origin and to your destination, anonymity is not really possible anyway. So if the apocalypse happens, think twice before you launch a covert op at 3 AM to take out a camera. You may very well attract unwanted attention right to your front door.
As for jamming, that is great, until they track the origin of that signal, which they are capable of. Then you just bought a ticket to them fucking with you.
My main point with all of this is to keep the good guys out of trouble. To that end, my advice is to always try to wait. When your amygdala is in high gear, and you want to act, is exactly the time you need to push pause, and gather more information before acting. Keep your eyes open, and more information will always fall into your lap. At some point I suspect we are all going to be jacked up on shock and awe as real craziness begins to unfold around us. Bad things will be happening, and some of us will have contraband guns for defense, or we will see a situation where what is right/moral and what is legal may not be the same thing. Just be aware that given the massive drop in the cost of tech, it is becoming ubiquitous, so you need to always assume you are being watched and tracked.
I think you are vastly overestimating the abilities and budgets of these agencies. Sure, the budget is huge — but it all goes to the salaries of sycophants and luxuries and fraud. That doesn’t leave much money for the actual operations. Add to that that a secret operation has to remain secret, and therefore doesn’t give any glory to the people working on it, and there’s just not much tech being added to the arsenal. If you can’t buy it at the local Spy Shop at the mall, they probably don’t have it (except for big budget items that line agent’s pockets with kickbacks like Stingrays.)
This is 2016. We are 15 years into the Dilbert Cycle on the massive intel expansion. At this point, it’s all Wallys and PHBs. The people with real skills are in the private sector.
I would say yeah, except for two things. One, it isn’t a traditional Dilbert cycle because it is very Darwinian. They are running a massive amount of surveillance, on anyone of interest to government or the people who really run things. As they do, the Wallys are getting burned and weeded out and demoted to overt/decoy/harassment surveillance operations, while the capable people are getting moved into the cream of the crop.
Two, some of those non-Wallys who’ve risen to leadership see the benefits to tech, and they have Homeland Security grants going out left and right at the same time they are apparently putting their own stuff all over. I believe the Freeper in the small town who said it is all wired up. And if it is happening in that small town, it is in a lot places you would never expect it.
So far I have seen four low level conservative activists on FR who have reported being under aggressive surveillance ops. I just saw another who commented to friends on one of these articles, saying that they thought he had on a tinfoil hat, apparently referencing something he said to them about it being out there. So he knows. I had somebody on here talk about two bloggers he knew who had it going on in DC. I can think of five well known Conservative pundits who all were or are under aggressive coverage, based on stuff I have read about them. Those cases ranged from LA, to Northern NY, to Georgia, to Connecticut, to Washington DC, to Miami, and the surveillance they described is way to big to be just for them. It is like it is some sort of permanently embedded operation which is constantly rotating a small cohort to them.
That said there is a weird feel to it all, like this is something outside of Law Enforcement. When I see current reports of FBI using GPS on cars powered by D batteries, and AFT using modified game cameras in operations, it only seems more divorced from LE. Maybe it is prep of some agency like FEMA for the Apocalypse, or maybe it is training ops for some economic espionage operation designed for overseas use, or maybe someone has established a dedicated political espionage operation run out of an official LE agency. But there is something weird going on, and the economic angle is the most baffling aspect of it all.
I just want to see the good guys grasp the threat, and understand that when the apocalypse comes they need to take a step back and see what happens to those first guys who step out on the hairy edge. There is shit we don’t understand going on.
I understand what you are saying, but to me it is all consistent. Sure, there’s tons of aggressive surveillance. Each person on surveillance is another piglet sucking on the government teat. Sure, there are big ticket camera contracts going out — because some donor is getting the contract to install that.
Some fancy, small bespoke surveillance item? There’s no money to be spread out there. It’s not a bunch of agents that you put under your budget. It’s not something that can get you glory because you can’t talk about it. The owner of the company making them isn’t making a bunch of money off of them because there are only a few (if there are more than a few it will inevitably get captured and publicized.)
It’s all about building fiefdoms now. You don’t expand a fiefdom by investing in automation and technology. You do it by avoiding it.
Not small bespoke MSTs, but rather massive embedded infrastructures.
I think the fiefdom being built is total covert control of some areas. Why, I have no idea, though I’d assume the excuse is terrorism. And I have no idea how common or rare it is.
But TIPS was going to have at least 1 in 24 people around NYC turned into CI’s, and that was the pilot program, which would have been scaled up. It was open that they were going to recruit from those with occupational access to denied areas, to get around warrants. It is tough to have secrets when your landlord is an agent and can enter your apartment at will for “repairs.” That is a lot of assets, all designed to openly avoid legal control covertly, and it was published openly in the federal register. Just the economics and practicalities of having enough sworn officers capable of keeping secrets to handle that level of penetration of the populace around every major city boggles my mind.
I’d blow off something like the Freeper whose town was just covertly wired up from end to end as anomalous, but I see it elsewhere. Tom Baurle hiring a PI who publicly said he was followed constantly by a surveillance operation of a scale he had never seen before. Glenn Beck’s application to build walls and hedges because his isolated road had constant vehicular traffic passing his house, pulling in his driveway, and taking photos. Clinton’s women describing being followed everywhere. Maybe one has a drug dealer or terrorist living down the street, but not all.
I don’t think in any case a team was moved in just to fuck with them either. I think a part of some massive embedded infrastructure was assigned to them on the side, probably as a favor to somebody.
As for the tech, what is being built up is not large game-camera boxes on poles, and it is of a scale sufficient to support the massive embedded infrastructure. Indeed, I think it is vital to maintain control over and minimize the potential exposure of the infrastructure.
I’ll tell you, straight up, no doubt, there is something amazing out there, just under the surface, and it may be in a lot of places.
When the shit hits, don’t fuck around.
Have no doubt, when the balloon goes up, I will be a hard target — but in the Jeet Kune Do sense, not the medieval castle sense. I know their written rules, but I also know their unwritten rules, and I will force them to follow them all.
Following the rules is one thing the current bunch of incompetents is unable to accomplish.
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