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• mindcrime 11y ago
  Subject washd - Mention of emergency order ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎ is forbidden unless expressly permitted by an exemption granted under clause P97/X2 of Commandment ◼︎◼︎◼︎◼︎. Your deviation has been noted and you are hereby commanded to appear at Re-education Camp #47 for a 2 hour Happiness and Gratitude Ritual.
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  • dogma1138 11y ago
    mindcrime you know the rules all electronic communication with the populi has to be presented in FOIA compliant encoding... █████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ███ █████████ ███████ ██████████████████ ███ █████████ ██████ ███████ ███████████ ██ ███████████ ████████ ██████ ████████ ███████████ ██ █████████████ ██████████████████. ███████ ██████████ ████ █████ ███████ ████ ████ ████ ███████ ████████ ██████████████ [CODE WORD REDACTED] ███ ██ ██ █████████ ████ ████████ ████████.
    • themartorana 11y ago
      Have we reached the point where comedy is the only way of dealing with this reality?
      • mindcrime 11y ago
        I don't know, but I'm glad we can still find amusement even in very dark things. Imagine a world that not only has Nineteen Eighty-Four'ish surveillance, but also lacks any humor. Not to say I don't take this very seriously. And as much as humor is all but verboten on HN, I'm glad to see the occasional little kernel of comic exchange on here. It's a sign that we still possess our fundamental human nature.
        • signaler 11y ago
          If we had a world even remotely like 1984, there would be blood on the streets. The privacy zealots overplay this as if the NSA is capable of magic, and that they are omnipresent on every network. It's like saying that every user on the Internet is fumbling around in the dark and doesn't know what they're doing. As we all know, there are very smart people on the network who could possibly outsmart the NSA, but media theater likes to champion the NSA as our new overlords. This is not magic. The NSA collaborating like this is what happens when you give 6 billion people an Internet connection. Of course you get zero day stockpiles. Of course you get back alley deals
          • rocky1138 11y ago
            I think that when the majority of people on the Internet are non-technical Android and iPhone users, browsing Facebook and Instagramming lunch, from that perspective, the NSA really is on every network.
          • mindcrime 11y ago
            and that they are omnipresent on every network. From the disclosures we got from Snowden, as well as previous revelations about the NSA, the evidence points to a situation pretty damn close to that. They are grabbing data from all sorts of social networks, we know they scarf up email, we know at least they grab most - if not all - phone metadata, and we know they're tapping underseas fiber-optic cables that represent backbone Internet links between countries. We know carriers like AT&T graciously make data off their networks available to the NSA, and we know they do these smokey back-room deals with the other Five Eyes countries, and now Germany as well. I see no reason to think they aren't doing similar deals with most other "friendly" countries. And let's not get into the backdooring routers and commercial software, and attempts to weaken encryption standards. To say that we aren't already "in a world remotely like 1984" strikes me either disingenuous (Hello, NSA employee?) or uninformed. Would you care to say what else the NSA would have to do (or what we'd have to find out they're doing) before you say we are "remotely close to 1984"?
            • signaler 11y ago