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I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote

• plg 13y ago
  Thank you
• mjallday 13y ago
  Did you do this by hand or use a tool and then touch it up afterwards?
  • poppingtonic 13y ago
    Thanks, I did it by hand. Emacs+Amarok. While I worked on this, I Googled for transcription software, but couldn't find any packages or readily available POSIX pipelines that I could use from Ubuntu, let alone web services that don't require a credit card. Maybe I didn't look very carefully. Took two days to complete, though. This is something that should be easily doable now, so here's my personal RFS: fix transcription software. A user should be able to either upload an audio file directly, use a Dropbox folder, or provide a link to an s/OGG/MP3/whatever, and get a text file in return. They can then listen to the audio while they make whatever edits that they need.
    • hnha 13y ago
      Aaaah! Why should a remote application be involved? It sounds completely unneeded to limit this to a web browser running software controlled by others. Just let the user select a media file and provide keyboard controlled playback controls plus a text editor. I think some software like this is available for subtitle editing.
      • poppingtonic 13y ago
        You must be really sensitive to horrible design choices. Sorry about that one.
        • hnha 13y ago
          in a discussion about the surveillance state it just seems wrong to suggest web apps. :)
          • poppingtonic 13y ago
            Thanks for calling me out on that. With that comment, I basically lowered the quality of a discussion that I started (being the poster), and for that I apologize.
• 3ds 13y ago
  nice work, maybe you would like to contribute it to the subtitle team effort? http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/ http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/ specifically here: http://subtitles.pads.ccc.de/5622 http://subtitles.pads.ccc.de/5622
  • poppingtonic 13y ago
    Seems someone already did it, thank you.
    • officialjunk 13y ago
      I think you are mistaken. The official crowd sourced transcripts for the CCC were more or less complete prior to your efforts. Refer to the timeline for this event's transcript here: https://subtitles.pads.ccc.de/ep/pad/view/5622/latest https://subtitles.pads.ccc.de/ep/pad/view/5622/latest It would be nice if you could contribute back, by making any corrections, as these are the transcripts that are linked to from the CCC's website and probably most people will find.
• jnbiche 13y ago
  Thank you, tipped (he has a Bitcoin address in the README). It's a sad era indeed when we have a whole network of American journalists living outside of U.S. borders for fear of imprisonment and other reprisals from their own government.
  • poppingtonic 13y ago
    Hi, I just synchronized with the blockchain. Thank you for your donation! You just gave me my first Bitcoins ever! You truly represent what's good in the world. Thank you again.
• davedx 13y ago
  Thank you.
• detcader 13y ago
  A good summary of events so far, in a general sense. More important stuff to check out from/on Greenwald, one of the most important journalists in US history, at least by the nature of what he's helped publish (but of course more than that): Conversations with History: Glenn Greenwald - https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-qlFjrgGqVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-qlF... ~2011 Glenn's "Frequently Told Lies" page - http://web.archive.org/web/20131007002618/http://ggsidedocs.blogspot.com/2013/01/frequently-told-lies-ftls.html http://web.archive.org/web/20131007002618/http://ggsidedocs.... (it's currently down, both on archive.org and the original page) The American columnist who can't live in America - http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/10/the-american-columnist-who-cant-live-in-america/ http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/10/the-american-column... (this is before the striking down of the gay marriage law in question, I think) How Glenn Greenwald Became Glenn Greenwald - http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/how-glenn-greenwald-became-glenn-greenwald http://www.buzzfeed.com/jtes/how-glenn-greenwald-became-glen... Believing oppression only happens elsewhere - https://theoldspeakjournal.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/believing-oppression-only-happens-elsewhere/ https://theoldspeakjournal.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/believin... (the original blog is down) Endless War, Radical Presidential Power, and a Rotted Political Culture: A Talk by Glenn Greenwald - http://translationexercises.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/endless-war-radical-presidential-power-and-a-rotted-political-culture-a-talk-by-glenn-greenwald/ http://translationexercises.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/endless... [28 Mar 2013]
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• salient 13y ago
  Greenwald's speech was great, but so far the most interesting one to me has been Jacob Appelbaum's speech where he gives a lot more technical details (including new information) about how the NSA is hacking systems and how far they are willing to go, like wanting to create a "Great Firewall of Earth" or even radiating people with up to 1KW in order to get what's in their computer, which just proves how out of control and power hungry the NSA is and how indefensible their actions are, despite what some of the NSA HN users around here or their supporters might say. Highly recommend it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0w36GAyZIA
  • malandrew 13y ago
    Why isn't there a video of this talk on media.ccc.de? How was part 1 by Claudio Gaurnieri (@botherder) and Morgan Marquis-Boire (@headhntr)?
    • revelation 13y ago
      There will be, but the conference only concluded today, so it may take some time to be post-processed.
• znowi 13y ago
  The video for the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJIR0-KJu0#t=275 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJIR0-KJu0#t=275
• coldcode 13y ago
  Reading this (and others) makes me conclude that we the people (or any country, but especially here in the US) are truly and royally fucked. For every brave person who stands up there are a hundred thousand who refuse to the see the sun rises in the east and continues to believe what they are being told, that it rises in the west.
  • davidw 13y ago
    We are only if people give up. Progress is a long road, at times. Not to directly compare the two, but look at the history of the civil rights movement in the US, from slavery, to Lincoln, to the 60ies and to the present day. That has been a fight carried out over generations, but things have gotten better.
    • dontusually2 13y ago
      It's interesting that privacy enabled many previous, successful movements like civil rights.
      • hnha 13y ago
        this is a great point when arguing with the "nothing to hide" people
  • AlexanderDhoore 13y ago
    Technology will be the solution, not politics. Cryptography is the only way out of this hell.
    • pstuart 13y ago
      Crypto to what degree? Are your medical records safe? Correspondence with other secure on the other side? Credit card history? If you drive, your license plate being scanned to track location? Do you have a cell phone? Do you send postal mail (envelopes are now scanned). Et cetera. Crypto is great, but if the population as a whole doesn't care then it's more an exercise in keeping your journal entries secret (possibly). We need to foment public anger over this, and have a clear course of action to channel that anger.
• dewey 13y ago
  Here's the official recording: http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5622_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201312271930_-_30c3_keynote_-_glenn_greenwald_-_frank.html http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5622_-_en_-_...
• aryastark 13y ago
  How the hell is James Clapper still in office?? Isn't what he did so obviously perjury? The America of 2013 is absolute bullshit. I can't even fathom how corrupt this country is.
  • exarch 13y ago
    >How the hell is James Clapper still in office?? Isn't what he did so obviously perjury? Yes, what he did clearly meets the statutory definition of perjury. He's still employed by the government because our officials, elected and appointed, are almost completely unaccountable to the public due to the political process being broken down by a corporate-controlled media and corporatocratic (see: Mussolini) system of government. The law is no longer equally applied - wealthy, important, and powerful people are "too big to fail", while even the most urgent concerns of average proles is generally beneath notice of those in charge. The only exception to this is when the proles' concerns become so widespread that a movement forms and majority demand for democratic change might result. In these cases a number of pacification strategies are adopted, like co-opting the proletariat movement with well-spoken placebo change agents who offer strong messages of hope, and have absolutely no intention of following through with them, or discrediting the movement by airing the dirty laundry of those movement leaders who cannot be corrupted or co-opted.
    • ajslater 13y ago
      If Clapper were removed from office, his successor would have to take the damage on. Clapper will be scapegoated for as long as this fracas lasts.
• beernutz 13y ago
  I wanted to thank the poster for their work in transcribing this! I personally really appreciate it. I REALLY dig doing this via github as well. I submitted a pull request with some spelling changes.
• lispm 13y ago
  'Applause' at the end is an understatement. He got a long standing ovation for his contributions to expose the NSA's war on people.
• jokoon 13y ago
  watching the video, at some points there seems to be audio lag... I even wonder if the NSA actually tried to DDOS the skype call conference.
  • danimo 13y ago
    They did not. For unknown reasons, the switch in the Conference hall got manipulated (unplugged). It carried both the Skype call and the stream to the outside world.
• jonnybgood 13y ago
  I'm very skeptical of Glenn Greenwald. I'm surprised by how many will readily accept whatever he says. That's kinda scary. There's a question of credibility when you don't fact check[1]. Makes you wonder what else is Greenwald exaggerating or not fact checking. [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/06/11/did-snowden-really-earn-a-200000-salary/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/06/1...
  • pnathan 13y ago
    Broadly stated: independent sources cross-confirming each other is the best way to ensure reliability (an old scientific, police, historian, and journalist principle). Simply because we agree with a single source's statements and viewpoints doesn't guarantee the single source is right. However, a variety of people over the years (Drake & others) have also remarked on the over-the-top surveillance. It's also true that the NSA has admitted certain of Greenwald's accusations. So at least in principle, Greenwald has been confirmed.
    • jonnybgood 13y ago
      But the NSA has not admitted certain of Greenwald's accusations[1]. Greenwald's journalistic integrity has also been questioned before[2]. So, as I stated, makes you wonder what else he can be exaggerating or (intentionally?) not fact checking. I honestly can not see how someone could not be skeptical Greenwald. [1] http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/nsa-story-falling-apart-under-scrutiny-key-facts-turning-out-to-be-inaccurate/ http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/nsa-story-falling-apart-un... [2] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/08/1192256/-The-Final-Word-on-Glenn-Greenwald# http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/08/1192256/-The-Final-...
      • detcader 13y ago
        From [2]: "...he mixes high-concept political commentary with the lowest forms of tabloid propaganda in service to a religiously anti-Obama narrative" yea, this person has no idea what Greenwald is about.
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• varelse 13y ago
  Playing an unfortunate devil's advocate, all this ludicrous surveillance state gadgetry seems to be less of an attempt to be the United Stasi of America and more of a ridiculous over the top reaction in fear of being accused of going soft on terror. I don't like it, and I don't agree with it, but I acknowledge that if a 2nd 9/11 level event were to occur after the government relented and imposed reasonable limitations on data collection that the party out of power at the time could easily scream bloody murder and take all 3 branches of government in a single election cycle. I'd previously only expected this from the party of Kang, but Obama's stance on drones and NSA surveillance has revealed the party of Kodos is no better. Which is to say I think the surveillance state is a symptom more than the disease. America has lost all sense of perspective. ~30,000 automotive deaths (of which ~10,000 resulted from drunk driving) annually. ~11,000 gun deaths. ~6,000 deaths from falling off ladders. ~3,000 people died on 9/11. Ergo we should ban ladders, guns, alcohol, and cars: it's the only way to be sure, no?
  • ptrf 13y ago
    Please read the transcript in its entirety. Specifically the latter parts about trade agreements and bi/multilateral negotiations. Placement of liability (w.r.t. the US common law) makes reform hard to envision yes, but that is just a minor concern in the bigger picture. The surveillance state was never intended to stop terrorism, it is the true terrorism. This malice cannot be explained by incompetence.
  • lazyjones 13y ago
    > more of a ridiculous over the top reaction in fear of being accused of going soft on terror. As you wrote yourself, terrorism is a minor issue in the US. Most of the fear is fueled (and some of it created) by the government, because it's so convenient for manipulating the population. Therefore the government itself cannot be driven by the fear of being accused of going soft in this matter, because if that was the case, it'd simply stop perpetuing this fear of terrorism. I'm sorry, but there is no cheap way out for this goverment. It's fundamentally evil and corrupt, it uses terrorism to keep a certain elite in power and to channel taxpayers' money to the pockets of the military-industrial complex. That's the only logical explanation I've seen so far.
• asima123 13y ago
  thx