The “Break it Down” Blog

Want to see an agenda get sold? Check out the front page of Slashdot on Sunday. More specifically, earlier today:

UK Government Says More Spying Needed

“Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided we’re not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Briton’s phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various sources, upwards of £1 billion has already been spent on the uber-database. Rationale? Terrorism, of course (no prizes for guessing). Needless to say, not everyone is as happy as Larry over this: Michael Parker pointed out how us Brits are being ’stalked.’ I’m just looking forward to when the data gets lost.”

That sounds familiar… I just can’t place it. All I know is that they should spend the money in order to fight terrorism <hand waving and loud yelling> STOP THE TERRORISM-ISTS!

Now scroll up on the page a bit higher:

British MoD Stunned By Massive Data Loss

“Seems like nobody can keep their data under wraps these days. On the heels of the World Bank piece about massive penetrations of their servers, the British Ministry of Defense has lost a hard drive with the personal details of 100,000 serving personnel in the British armed forces, and perhaps another 600,000 applicants. This comes on the heels of the MoD losing 658 of its laptops over the past four years and 26 flash drives holding confidential information. Apparently the MoD outsources this stuff to EDS, which is under fire for not being able to confirm that the data was or was not encrypted.”

Well son-of-a-bitch… it sure sounds to me like the UK could use a boost in their data-monitoring and spying network in order to prevent and trace stuff like this. God… that sounds really familiar… I thought I read something about that… hmm, never mind, probably just dejavu.

Now scroll up even higher to the newest story of the day:

Huge Credit Fraud Ring Sends Europeans’ Data to Pakistan

“European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and other people familiar with the case. Specialists say the theft technology is the most advanced they have seen, and a person close to British law enforcement said it has affected big retailers including a British unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Tesco Ltd.”

WHAT?! Our credit cards are getting stolen from the grocery store and sent to freaking Pakistan and instead of us finding this out ourselves it got the stupid United States involved?!

In my outrage, I demand that our security monitor and eaves-dropping systems be enhanced to make completely unacceptable things like this never happen again!

<scrolls back up to the first story…>

Ohhh… ohhh… right. Forgot about that… well at least now I’m so mad I support it.

See, that agenda got setup up and then marketed through in just 1 day, instead of 8 years and two stolen elections.

That was way easier.