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>Second: realizing that "we should have known" and "none of this is new" isn't so much about reading news articles and being "plugged in", but rather having an

by deveac 13y ago

>Second: realizing that "we should have known" and "none of this is new" isn't so much about reading news articles and being "plugged in", but rather having an understanding of how the Internet works. These are exactly the kinds of comments I'm talking about. The preponderance of people affected by this program on the globe (a staggering amount if you will) had no knowledge of this because the media failed, and are not, in fact, technically savvy on any level and don't understand, at all how the internet works in relation to the technologies employed by these programs. >To be surprised at the possibility of storing packets is somewhat naive considering how simple it is to do. For the vast majority of the potential consumers of this knowledge, this just simply is not the case. At all. They aren't being naive. This is highly technical to them and severely under-reported, and where it was reported it was not explained terribly well, nor was there meaningful conversation surrounding the reporting's aftermath. But congratulations, rmrfrmrf, on being one of the select few that are not naive. We need to get you some sort of prize.

graycat 13y ago
> These are exactly the kinds of comments I'm talking about. The preponderance of people affected by this program on the globe (a staggering amount if you will) had no knowledge of this because the media failed, and are not, in fact, technically savvy on any level and don't understand, at all how the internet works in relation to the technologies employed by these programs. Of course at least the mainstream media (MSM) failed. Why? It's a very old story, rock solid in the media: An MSM media company is in business to make money. They have some old techniques for doing so. Their main technique is to get eyeballs for ad revenue; for that their main technique is to grab people by the heart, gut, and below the belt, always below the shoulders, never between the ears; the content is essentially only light entertainment following the framework of the ancient Greeks we now call formula fiction; the content is nearly never the information needed by an "informed citizenry". The best hope for the information citizens need is Web sites on the Internet and search engines that can help people find that information.

by deveac 13y ago

graycat 13y ago

> These are exactly the kinds of comments I'm talking about. The preponderance of people affected by this program on the globe (a staggering amount if you will) had no knowledge of this because the media failed, and are not, in fact, technically savvy on any level and don't understand, at all how the internet works in relation to the technologies employed by these programs. Of course at least the mainstream media (MSM) failed. Why? It's a very old story, rock solid in the media: An MSM media company is in business to make money. They have some old techniques for doing so. Their main technique is to get eyeballs for ad revenue; for that their main technique is to grab people by the heart, gut, and below the belt, always below the shoulders, never between the ears; the content is essentially only light entertainment following the framework of the ancient Greeks we now call formula fiction; the content is nearly never the information needed by an "informed citizenry". The best hope for the information citizens need is Web sites on the Internet and search engines that can help people find that information.