Tweet o'the Day:To the police surveillance van outside our flat,

[EFerrari]

@badjerry Jerry
by MotherJones
RT @matclayton To the police surveillance van outside our flat, renaming your wifi would make you stealthier bit.ly/oZmNSi
5 minutes ago via Twidroyd for Android

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. LOVE it!

[aquart]

2. Now that's embarrassing.

[avaistheone1]

3. The Keystone cops are on an undercover mission.

:rofl:

[progressoid]

4. Haaaa!!!

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[pacalo]

5. Good one!

[EFerrari]

6. LOL

[pnwest]

7. that's not regular funny, that's fucking funny

[pinboy3niner]

8. Don't count on them always being so inept

A friend in Vietnam Veterans Against the War was involved in organizing major anti-VN War protests on the Mall in D.C. Peace reps held meetings with the police in advance--and it wasn't until years later that my friend learned that more than half the "peace delegates" at those meetings actually were undercover cops from various local, state and federal agencies.

[EFerrari]

10. Protecting America from peaceniks is a high priority at the alphabet agencies.

You never know when they'll break out in song and flood the country with lyrics.

[pinboy3niner]

11. I may be mising the allusion...

...but that would be a great 'tell' for identifying the cops.

Of course, if they're breaking into show tunes they must be gay cops. :)

[EFerrari]

15. Watch this short vid of a cop trying to get these people to leave

who are singing "This Land" and reciting the 1st amendment. I think I was having a telepathic moment with Josh Harkinson who nearly got his reporter butt arrested here. :)

http://www.thenation.com/blog/164009/occupyusa-blog-special-weekend-edition

[Brother Buzz]

18. Oh, but some were exposed at the time by their own ineptness by wearing....

police-issue footwear.

[DCKit]

19. Not enough info for those who don't remember.

Was that Toronto or Vancouver? It's been a few years.

Regardless, if you're in a crowd with guys wearing ski masks, get the fuck out and take LOTS of pics from the edges... and pull their masks off, if you can.

None of us would ever wear a mask while protesting for our civil or human rights, those who do are only there to make us look bad.

[EFerrari]

20. One of the cases I translated for DEA was led by a guy who looked like he passed out

drunk in an episode of Miami Vice and had just woken up two weeks later. lol

[sabrina 1]

9. Lol!

[malaise]

12. Hehehehehe

Sweet :rofl:

[leveymg]

13. These days, most intercepts done at the ISP or telco switching station

However, they still use vans to do other sorts of surveillance. The vans are electronically noisy, and can be detected using common, off the shelf radio scanners that have been tweaked to search at the frequencies characteristicly used.

[fishwax]

14. lol

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[chill_wind]

16. :- )

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. :D

[emcguffie]

21. So, could someone explain this to me?

I guess I really am getting old. Rename your wifi? I know what wifi is. I can figure out how to see what wifi is available.

Do they name the wifi account in this post? How do they know it's a police wifi?

[SomethingFishy]

22. Well making some assumptions one would think that

they named their network "Local Police" or something to that effect.

[tkmorris]

23. This is what the Tweeter in the OP saw in their wifi list

[emcguffie]

24. Thank you!

Sorry I didn't answer sooner. I went to my daughter and asked her what it meant. Since she's not a tweeter either, she wasn't positive about the tweeting part, but she kind of explained.

This, however, takes it to another level of comprehension.