Echelon test
 

You've heard of Echelon, right? The system that the government 'supposedly' has in place which searches our emails, telephones etc for certain 'trigger' words such as 'bomb', 'assasination' and so forth, all in the name of national security.

I've just read in FHM you can try a little test to see it in action. Sign out of msn, then send to your hotmail address from another mail account an email with 'Blair/Bush assasination attempt' in the subject line. Wait a few minutes then send yourself another email but leave the subject and message blank. Wait another few minutes and sign back in to hotmail.

The 'Blair/Bush' email will get there after the second one you sent. I wonder where it went first.....

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yeah , i think i will give this one a miss if you dont mind :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:

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talk about trying to grab the attention of governments :Yikes: :shocked: :pp

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I am sure if I was hatching an evil plot I would put the object of my wicked scheme in the subject line in case any of my co-plotters inadvertantly dismissed my message as spam..........

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I'm sure if I was plannig an assasination of bush/blair I wouldnt use hotmail to communicate it.

Mind you with hotmail at least it would actually work.

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*sees goverment bots crawling the forum after being alerted by this thread. :pp

they are watching :Yikes: :shocked: :eeek:

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You won't have to wonder to long Russ, you'll be joining it :D just think ofthe endless hours of fun " talking " to a suit with a drawl ...lol

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I hope that the Echelon software allows for spelling mistakes, otherwise the 'assasination' bit will sail merrily through, undetected. :)

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Call me :dunce: but is that not the way it's spelt ??? :confused: or do you mean something else :shrug: :)

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assassination

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Not enough S's ;) assassination is the spelling that IESpell came up with :pp

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Hmmm, Coggy seems to know much on this subject.....guess I'm not the only one now due for a visit :D

In any case they'll have to hang on if they're planning to bust me - I'm off down to MacDonalds now to assassinate a double cheeseburger :)

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Pah! I've not so much as a parking ticket to my name.I've been more sinned against than sinning so bring it on guys. :ninja:

Incog.

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Ah but it's the quiet ones, the sleepers, that don't raise suspicion, that need to be watched the most. :pp

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nice knowing you russ , i will bake you a special cake ;) :D :D :D :D :D

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Who says I'm quiet?Anybody here think I'm quiet?Eh?Eh?Eh?

Incog. ;)

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If Russ just disappears from the forum for the next few days, we all know what has happened... :Yikes:

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I know two guys who regularly used to sign off e-mails and chat messages with "Prince Charles, Semtex, IRA, Bomb"...!

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Now youve blown it.
;)

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Probably here:

http://www.fylingdales.ukf.net/map.htm

or here:

http://www.daelnet.co.uk/features/menwithhill/

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I thought it was the GCHQ?

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you could also try sending it as a text message to someone.

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Making a one minute call to a mobile without saying anything seems to be noticed as well.

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The Government also have a rather large satellite station down near Bude in Cornwall, which is apparently part of GCHQ. A group of friends and I were sitting outside in a car (actually trying to find where we were on a map.

I have to admit seeing that many satellite dishes (all sizes from 30 cms to 20 or 30 metres) was an impressive sight. Unfortunately, my friend was stupid enough to take a photo. We thought we had been seen, as I noticed a CCTV camera pointing at us. Then one of the 30 meter dishes started moving and pointed toward us. Those things can move extremely quickly considering their size.

We drove away from there like a bat out of hell. It was probably just moving to track a satellite, but it did scare the **** out of all of us.

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No they don't.

Don't you know that Menwith Hill, Fylingdales et al *don't exist*!!

They're just a figment of your imagination...

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I can see it now...

TECH1: Hey look, there's some tourists outside!
TECH2: Heh ... looks like they're lost, they're wondering why they can't see us on that map.
TECH1: Oh, hang on, one of them's taking a photo of us.
TECH2: Naughty naughty ... here, swing Antenna 5 in their direction, that should scare the sh*t out of 'em.
TECH1: OK, here goes .... yup, they's a runnin'
(geeky sniggers)

:D