No they can't and they won't. If they suspected you are a terrorist they could subpoena your accounts details. If they have absolutely no reason to look into you they will not.

If you aren't doing any Federal crimes or anything across state lines (if you are on Facebook, chances are you are crossing state lines) they have no jurisdiction and won't bother with you.

The main point you should ask yourself is, am I really that big of a deal? Because the FBI won't even waste their time if they are not going to bust up a "ring" of criminals. I have worked with them in one of my jobs and more often then not they turned down what was offered them by my employers because it was too small pickens for them to lift a finger.

They don't like to waste tax payers dollars. Or more to the point, appear to be...

Most sites are pretty easy to hack, and almost all of the big ones are susceptible
to a simple brute force attack, so any reasonably competent cracker can get into
your Facebook. Aside from cracking Facebook itself, "social engineering" attacks
such as sending you a personalized phish will normally work. I personally used another
technique on myspace the other day as part of an investigation. I sent the target a
myspace message containing certain HTML and IE security holes did the rest. So
a competent cracker has at least three different categories of methods they can use,
each of which will work at least half the time.

Note I said that any reasonably competent cracker can do it. Do not assume that any
government employee is reasonably competent. Occasionally a government employee
will at least be competent enough to bring in a private person who knows their shit.
Law enforcement has called us twice. Remember, though, this is the intelligence level
of the most important government official in the world :
That's our #1 guy, the top of the heap. I don't figure his underlings are any brighter.

Warrant Scmorrant.... just say the magic word: "Terrorist"

they can make the atlantic ocean turn into chocolate ?

me thinking they can't is naive ?

:winkwink::winkwink:

Lets say they can do "almost" anything that is possible.

omg shut up..I had a friend that wouldn't join for years because he didn't want the cia to have his information. I asked why he thought the CIA didn't already know his birthday and haven't already seen the photos of him in silly hats.

Brad - I agree with you on this. The government is watching U.S. citizens all across the Internet from IMs to tracking which websites are viewed and by who - as well as who we send emails to (at least on services like hotmail, gmail, etc.).

Keep in mind -- a lot of companies are working closely with the government so they remain compliant with federal laws and are not shut down for any reason. Look @ Google - tell me they do not have a tight relationship and you will be laughed at.

I'm not concerned about anything on my computer.

I suppose it goes without saying they are able to get into my dedicated server if they really wanted to, and go through every file on there?

I think what happened is a banned member created 3 or 4 accounts, went into our live chat, made up a bunch of shiz, took screen shots, and sent them over as supposed "proof" of something.

Ok, time to put the tin hat away.

probably, but if you are sharing those types of messages over FB then you deserve to get caught :1orglaugh

It's funny, there's about 3 people in this thread who actually understand what I'm asking, and have given intelligent replies. Thanks to those.

Since you asked, i prettysure they gonna check your account.

You're welcome.

Fiddy people minus 4 who are unable to read or hold a sensible conversation.

We should totally beat the hell out of those other 46 fuckers.

that was the NSA and AT&T

Watergate was so low tech compared to what could potentially be achieved nowadays or in the future

they know