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  • what a cool guy he is :D awesome!

  • Biggest douchebag in the world.

  • eh i like kimchi too

  • I want this video on my iPad 2 CDMA unit.

  • This video went viral on Lusaka

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    The word "gay" helps homosexual activists push their agenda.

  • Epic troll.

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  • he sounds like roger from american dad , a bit

  • you need to send email to FBI every time you upload somethingon site :D

  • Awe the oxymoron that is intelligence officers ;-)

  • my hero

  • "...and I'm glad they are patrons of the arts." LOL!!!

  • Genius! Well done man!

  • This man is like the ultimate troll :D awesome!

  • this should have been 5 min long

  • This guy is my professor @ UMD!!! He's really amazing.

  • hasan elahi just proved that the united states government is obsolete

  • Childish...

  • i'm glad smart-asses like this artist are around, stickin' it to the man.

  • What I got out of this is that a happy go lucky guy is being harassed by the FBI and he isn't taking offense to it but rather embracing it. I think the reason he chose to speak on TED is to publicly and indirectly call the FBI out for being douche-bags and that they are tracking and innocent man.

  • I would have rather seen a video about how someone fought the ridiculous powers that be, rather than embracing and passively condoning it. Thumbs up for trolling them a bit- but I feel even that could have been done more effectively.

  • What was the point of this talk?

  • I see his idea of necessity here but he lost me about halfway in. Overall, it just seems ridiculous.

  • When and why did the "free world" become its own enemies? Wasn't there a time when we pointed at other countries and their "papieren, bitte" attitude? And now it's ok for us to adopt similar policies.

  • i laughed at how stupid american protocols are with terrorism when i saw the list of who had visited his website...the pentagon? executive office of the president? CIA? FBI? i mean come on..

  • hes a designated decoy

  • Nice slippers!

  • Hopefully America can teach the world about freedom and the rights of the individual. ;)

  • @kablamo9999 yeah by taking them away

  • why didn't he take a photo of the audience on his phone?

  • Damn that would suck so bad its not even funny. What a major screw up.

  • Lets get us all on every watchlist, It will create a lot of jobs! Name all your facebook images after wanted terrorists + use allah akbar as a sig in every txt!!

  • tweeting/facebooking before it was cool.

  • I've heard a suggestion to avoid being tagged for photos is to just tag yourself as a plant and such. That skews the results to junk on search engines.

    I think he underestimates the computing power that could sift through that data. This is funny though and is a good poke at the Patriot Act and TSA type stuff.

  • I'm not from the US, so I'm always baffled how much authority, surveillance and control are growing over common people. Don't people get a sense of paranoia or unconformity from Big Brother? Or are they getting used to it without awareness?

  • hi tech slave.

  • Ppl here are f%%#5cking idiots! The guy was UNLAWFULLY jailed under suspicion of terrorism without evidence! It makes look Americans as despicable creatures using your taxes!

  • @hedleypanama He wasn't jailed. The FBI questioned him, figured out that he's harmless and left him alone. They did precisely what they should have done, and there's nothing unlawful about the FBI's actions in this case.

  • @shiftyjake yes, he was! the was detainee for questionning (jailed): do you know why? because he is a Muslim name and additionally, have a funny skin color... they had 0 evidence and they questionned him anyway, in the same fashion they do with little preteen girls like this: watch?v=-3sH1GaO_nw

    My teacher was also questionned because he is a PhD in virology attending to a conference!

    That is absolutely nonsense and paranoia!

  • @hedleypanama Do you know what "jailed" means? It's what happens when you're put in an actual jail. As in a locked cell, one phone call, orange jump suit. It didn't happen. Being pulled out of line at the airport and then asked to come to a building to answer more questions is not the same thing. I used to get pulled out of line at airports, too, to have my bags searched b/c I was a frequent flier in the early 2000's, and that isn't jailing, either.

  • @hedleypanama That the FBI singled him out only because he wasn't white is clearly factually untrue because not all non-white people are singled out this way. The description says he got on a list by mistake. Maybe someone misspelled a name or he has the same name as someone else. The FBI screwed up. If you're implying that they believe that all terrorist threats come from Muslims, that is also false as the FBI's investigation in Mar, 2010 of a Christian terrorist group in MIchigan proves.

  • @hedleypanama In conclusion, the FBI is supposed to ask questions. It's what we pay them to do. You should start getting worried if they arrest and prosecute people for attending conferences, not just because they asked annoying or stressful questions. Remember, the FBI isn't the CIA. They only operate within the US and they don't water board or assassinate people. They're just federal cops.

    Also, your link doesn't work.

  • Can't believe Ted uploaded this epitome of narcsissm

  • Hilarious lol!! "Let me do the surveillance for you." hehehe

  • LOL, Coming Australia and working for the government. It became very clear the Australia government is the total oppsoite. They don't know jack about anybody and only keep tabs on you after you've been sentenced. I find that more scary.

  • @Neojhun - well' I'm sure if your fearful enough, the government will be happy to monitor your every move, your every action, your purchases, your video rentals and where you drive. Maybe when your government is constantly looking over your shoulder, you'll feel much safer. Do you need a government camera in your bathroom to be sure you're wiping your butt and flossing properly?

  • @47f0 well if your giving them that information than you have nothing to hide therefor any information they get is value less because everyone have access to it. if someone is watching me thats kind of creepy, who cares if there watching you as long as if everyone else see you innocent they can't touch you. The FBI only has value when it has access to information that other people don't have, if everyone has access to that then they aren't worth it.

  • @Tethloach1 The only reason we hate being watched is if photos or videos of embarrassment get out.

  • @Tethloach1 - Cool. So you don't mind if I follow you around, 24/7 just watching you? And, BTW, you get to pay your tax dollars for the privilege of me stalking you. There are fundamental, and, as far as I can tell, intractable problems with a government empowered to constantly violate a reasonable expectation of privacy. The reason we limit the power of government is so government can't remove our power to control the government.

  • @47f0 If your following me 24/7 then you better have some good evidence to do so or else your just wasting your time. Government - guns pointed at those who disagree, police protect the law of the people put in power not the citizens. When did i agree to the government taking my tax dollars its as if they own me because i didn't have a say they just take my money without my consent thats called rape when regular people do it or theft, its a crime just like slavery was a crime, ask people 1st.

  • Im very sorry but is NOT the WAY to fight the FBI.

  • Good job FBI! continue! get those terrorists!

  • @Forkroute LOL. Fool.

  • His argument is that there's so much information they can't process it all. Well, that's a funny thing about technology, isn't it? When you provide a massive amount of personal information and it's in the interest of those with lots of money to process it all, SOMEONE somewhere is going to discover a way to process ALL of it. What a ridiculous argument.

  • @bearswilleatme - At some point, you'll be right. However, currently you have to drag humans into the analysis, which ties up expensive resources. But, yeah, if you subscribe to the googletechtalks YT channel, there's some amazing software coming that's going to automate the analysis portion of intelligence gathering. In the meantime - why not make it costly for them to weaken and violate the Fourth Amendment?

  • It's historically ignorant hipster epiphany nonsense. If we don't get this stuff under control to the point that neither government nor business can monitor our daily lives without damn good reason, our freedoms are more than lost. They will be dead and buried. He seems to be selling the philosophy of Zuckerberg, who would love nothing more than to make a few more billion off of the human species by getting them to reveal every last detail of their lives to marketers. Kiss my fucking ass. NO.

  • I simply don't agree with his logic. I should have the right NOT to tell Big Brother when I took a shit on April 14th 2004. This guy is accepting the fact that everything is just going to be monitored because that's just the way it is. No. We the people decide such things, provided we lose our ignorance and apathy. Nobody asked us if we wanted cameras on every street corner or if we wanted to have our crotch felt up. It just happened, and it's up to us to say we're not going to put up with it.

  • @bearswilleatme - Here's the logic. Since the government is clearly determined to scratch off the Fourth Amendment, we should all make it as expensive as possible to do so. If we clog the intelligence-gathering plumbing with a mountain of bogus and trivial data, they'll have to rethink their wet dreams of universal surveillance .

  • i dont believe him, put the terrorist in jail!

  • the american goverment is fucking up the world gg to all the dumb fucks who let them

  • It shows how much wastage the FBI and other agencies have. They cannot seem to go after the right bad-guys and they are just tracking a person "in-case-he-turns-bad"?. This is appalling waste of tax-payer money. It is lunacy at its best, no wonder they did not catch a single terrorist after 911.

  • @fteoOpty64 Um... no. Yeah, interrogating this guy was a fuck up, but he was never actually arrested, was he? I'd rather have an innocent guy temporarily inconvenienced than a guilty guy go blow something up. And, yes, the FBI has arrested would-be terrorists (like Rezwan Ferdaus in Sept, 2011) before they went through with their plans, which is exactly what you want them to do. Seeing has how there have been no attacks in the US since 9/11, I call it money well spent.

  • @fteoOpty64 they work for the 'right bad-guys'

    They themselves are bad guys(their floor cleaners are better people) you ought to pay more attention to agent service scum & their institutionalized morally corrupt.. Not actors on TV and film who go through scripted narratives that make it easier for them to rationalize their degeneracy into concepts for the brainwashed masses to feel protected by, while they protect the rackets and corrupt methods they need to abuse to keep society.

  • @fteoOpty64 wow....what's worse than luncacy? lol

  • @Jeffersonwazright Doing it on purpose

  • Pointless.

  • Yeah, at 10mins I was TOTALLY done. That was after pausing twice...

  • Wow this was pointless.

  • ok... too long.... science, give me moar!!! Artsy stuff 5 min of this was ok.... 15... ZzZzZzz i watched 11 and i'm commenting cuz i'm already loosing interest

  • Viva la Panopticon!

  • amazing that the "accident" of the FBI did not result in a lawsuit for invasion of privacy, which ultimately caused Hasan to alter his life in such drastic measures (obviously, in part for self-protection and defense). his "record" / "artwork" is the full compilation / evidence of privacy invasion (he was not invading his OWN privacy - there was a cause and he himself was Not the cause).

  • Art, I don't know... a record, a history of the banality of everyday life anyone can understand. Ultimately, I do not find it very interesting, but I have never been singled out by the full might and weight of a paranoid government, which may help one relish these trivialities.

  • Ahem ! Satire overdone? I enjoyed first 9 minutes.. then well, I'm commenting.

  • What a Cacky Prick! He does have the right in this case.

  • Well, at least he's eating pretty good!

  • @julsHz well*

  • @KreatorRage who knew someone on YT would notice... :)

  • I really love the idea of de-valuating the data.

  • this is really old stuff from the bush era. that's why all the year dates are removed. basically he's a reverse-voyeur with OCD. so what? lol this isn't art. twitter does the same thing. is he still giving this talk because people stopped paying attention to him? lol

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  • Did I get this right? : Guy was mistakenly considered a terrorist threat. FBI follows what he is doing. Guy felt offended and overreacted by recording useless information. Guy calls this art.

  • That is incredible! Cheers to Hasan! 

  • Where are the pictures of his terrorist buddies that he was meeting in all those cities? Why did he hide that?

  • If the FBI, CIA, NSA, and DHS had any credibility left to save, they blew it targeting this guy. Why did it take more than 6 months to get them (mostly) off his back? His name and enjoyment of foreign travel? Clearly something has gone horribly wrong and we're tumbling deep into fascism here, marrying our too-big-to-fail corps to our government with a propaganda machine to tell us it's for our own good and these totalitarian police state measures to enforce the will of the wealthy elites.

  • 115 people didn't watch the entire video

  • Well . . . I have lost a good deal of faith in the FBI's ability to target people. . .

  • Waste

  • See "GavCam" from the webcomic Nukees . July 30, 1999

  • this is the biggest "fuck you" to the FBI ever done

  • The idea that you can devalue the information by giving them all of it is nonsense. The FBI will just find better ways of combing through all the junk and it makes people who would rather not share everything look more suspicious.

  • @syntheticsteve 1 of 2 None of any of this matters.... anyone can be framed at any time for any crime. Anyone who keeps to themselves and closes the blinds at their apartment is a terrorist. Hasan behaves almost like a Buddhist in that he refuses to generate negative emotion despite the FBI's unwarranted harassment. He decided to entertain the idea (voluntarily surrendering his rights) and unwittingly demonstrated that "anti-terrorism" is a joke. His message is good.

  • @syntheticsteve 2 of 2

    And people who don't share everything will be labeled as non-complient. This is why a revolution is brewing my friend. Because they think we're stupid. They hire goons and thugs and give them badges and weapons. Our country is run by puppets who are professional conmen, while the true masters are deciding our future. Who cares about looking suspicious?! Educate yourself and defend yourself. Passiveness and willful ignorance are the viruses killing this country.

  • @cmadodge "And people who don't share everything will be labeled as non-compliant" - you're absolutely correct and it's a crime that people are FORCED to compromise their rights to privacy.

    and it was obama who is quoted as saying something to the effect, "if you aren't telling the truth, you must have something to hide" and i consider that to me among the most UN-intelligent ideas to "profess", let alone believe or subscribe to.

  • @syntheticsteve non-compliant* 

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  • Wow that FBI Is extremely Paranoid at this guy!

  • you can't take a picture of the FBI building???

  • If you have friends that call you paranoid... even after you've been swept away by agents multiple times.... then you need smarter friends.

  • This is the biggest, most creative middle finger I've ever seen...

  • 1984 all over

  • @FurkanKhan100

    out spam Uncle Sam.

  • Why would you deliberately give away information to the FBI?

  • @Hackiesacker007

    Watch the video for your answer.

  • @Hackiesacker007 Because the FBI can have it their way or yours, anyway it is, they'll have it! So it might be yours while being the biggest troll on the internet there is! =D

  • Taco de Cochinita, Bisteck y Pastor... hehehee!!

  • the mundane nature of all these photos is a feature of the talk, not a bug. He cleverly points out that the FBI's commodity is its access to information that nobody else can get. so sharing mundane life information is a way of devaluing the FBI's currency, while taking control over your own information...even if on the individual level it is only symbolic, now that hundreds of millions of people are doing it perhaps it will force the FBI to change the way it does business.

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  • Hmm wasted 14 min of time

  • @cuervotaylor

    document those 14 mins, and send to the FBI.

  • that all seems completely pointless

  • If he shows everything he does, that does in no way make the FBI less valuable or anything. He's just making it easier for them, only now other people can 'spy' on him too.

  • @SandmonkeyRabbit - Hardly. He's tying up resources used to 'spy' on citizens. It depends on whether you want to live in an Orwellian nation where your every move is documented and tracked, where your every purchase is analyzed, where you're using a little too much water for your pool, so you must be growing pot, where you hit a website that makes you an automatic suspect, where your toll pass shows "unusual" movement... But hey, whatever. It's just your rights at stake.

  • @47f0 Don't get me wrong, i don't like this lack of interest for privacy from people, but as he is posting everything on his website, it'll cost the FBI hardly any more resources, maybe even fewer. That's my whole point.

  • @SandmonkeyRabbit - Well, the point is, it's trivial for the government to gather this information - putting a human analyst on it is the real cost, whether the "intelligence" is gathered covertly, or volunteered. For years now, all my emails have contained a sig with randomly-generated "hot-button" words. "Nuclear kiddie porn anthrax Allah terror cocaine weapons uranium..." you get the idea. The concept is to make it prohibitively expensive for the government to violate the Fourth Amendment.

  • He should photograph his stooles as well.

  • Enjoy the police state

  • that was boring one.

  • take pitures of everything you and everywhere you go makes it so the FBI can't get any useful information on you? Sounds like Asians are FBI proof then.

  • Epic troll, wears sandals

  • @lvutodeath would've been a more epic troll if he added socks to those sandals :P

  • a person that give all his info would sound very suspicious to me Lol :P !

  • This guy is just a VEERY sneaky terrorist.

  • Nice try, FBI!

  • police state USA. disgusting

  • Good thing i'll never going to meet FBI.

    Maybe CIA, but then they'll be the criminals...

  • With enough $, you could have another person creating all of this info. The info sent can be generated easily enough so you could create blocks of time.  This is George Orwells 1984 dream played out, control down to the nth degree.

  • Hasan KNOWS his "shit"! If you don't understand his "rant", you ARE stupid and you're going to get hacked &/or busted unless you WISE UP!!! BTW, FBI is an acronym for fuck-puppets!!!

  • jajaja, WOW, I think I can understand the FBI agents, because: What the hell was doing this guy in all those places around the world? Or is just that am I feeling a little envy?

  • @racpembertondual Shouldn't the FBI have figured out it was your own shadow government who did it. Or are you still breast feeding on the 911 commission report?

  • hahaahhaha what a troll

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  • I like the part where he explains that we're all already doing this.

  • If everybody started time-stamping their life with photos, it would be incredibly easy for the FBI to investigate people. I don't get this at all.

  • Open toed shoes... Really?

    /ignore

  • TED you have disappointed me. this video is a complete waste of time

  • Bullshit ! TED thought that this idea was worth sharing ? LAME

  • so u think that your website is trawled by human agents? it's checked and indexed by filters dude. no need to reinvent insecurity agencies from ground up. all your hard work probably took 0.01 seconds to process.

  • 06:00

    They won't let me on the plane with that, but they will give it to me on the plane.

  • oh god

    the intro and outro sounds are so fucking loud

  • Okay, so he documents stuff... wow? :S

  • Scary !

    But Funny !

  • Has he not heard of facebook?

  • So that's where all the american tax dollars go to. No wonder your country sucks.

  • He's so going to get backtraced by the cyberpolice!

  • he should have a tv show or something,, thoroughly entertaining guy

  • Tag that dude like a white rhino.

  • He is his phone / camera / car / tech device?

  • You shouldn't have to give up your right to privacy to prove that you're not guilty of a crime. He may have found an interesting way to deal with being on the end of FBI suspicion, but it says a lot about the kind of country we have become that this happens at all. Studies show that increased surveillance doesn't prevent more attacks. They want us to believe it's about keeping us safer, but all we have done post 9/11 is allow our civil liberties to be stripped from us.

  • @StarryEchoes which studies?

  • @StarryEchoes "Studies show." I'm just curious (this isn't a comment to debate with you or anything) -- how can someone do a study on that? Wouldn't it be more like an ex post facto observation? If you have any study links and want to message/reply them to me, I would appreciate it. :)

  • @StarryEchoes

    I believe that is one of the points of this.

  • @StarryEchoes Patriot Act

  • @StarryEchoes Occupy! ;)

  • Ted is slowly turning into a story telling channel

  • @IRGUYProductions Their moto is "Ideas worth spreading" and I'm sure that telling stories about your life expresses the ideas you believe in pretty well.

  • I'm not sure if this would make it easier or harder to steal his identity.

  • FUCK the FBI!

  • That diet is almost a weird as his hair

  • Worst TED ever........................ :(

  • @rytis1 . Word.............

  • If the government can put a GPS tracker on a common citizen without a warrant, then a common citizen s