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Bolivian Leader's Plane Rerouted on Snowden Fear(bigstory.ap.org)
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by UVB-76 13y ago
Just a heads-up on the latest development for anyone interested: https://twitter.com/AP/status/352190291882676226
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It's a matter of intent. Looking at a few other articles, it seems it's a stock copyright notice added to the end of every article with 'Associated Press' given as the author.
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by UVB-76 13y ago
It's an open letter, intended to be read by a wide audience, to publicly express Lon Snowden's support for his son.
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I sincerely hope EU officials hold the US to account for this
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Granted. I suspect most NSA employees put up with it because their salaries are considerably higher than they could hope to achieve in the private sector, and they would rather be the spies than the ones being spied upon. Snowden, a fairly
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by UVB-76 13y ago
> I don't have any evidence to support this, but I bet most NSA employees would rather see Snowden brought up on charges vs. using him as a lightning rod for revolt. The majority agree with what they are doing on a day to day basis,
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The context is embarrassing. A contractor who worked with the NSA became so disenchanted with the work they were conducting that he gave up everything he had to bring it to the attention of the public. Now a US Army General has been forced
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> Well, the beauty of a democratic society is that if a majority agree with you, then you can change the system. Personally, I disagree with you, but it's a free country. The majority are disengaged, disinterested and apathetic. Fur
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The official response to these leaks has been almost as embarrassing as the leaks themselves, and this statement is a continuation of that trend.
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Out of interest, what do you do when you want to watch a film? The way I see it, you either go to the cinema, whereupon you pay some outrageous sum to see a limited range of new releases (most of which are appalling in comparison to the bod
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by UVB-76 13y ago
Earlier today US national security adviser Susan Rice claimed the diplomatic consequences of the Snowden revelations were not that significant [1] She was wrong. This is a diplomatic disaster for the US. [1] http://www.guardian.c
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> I've abandoned my intentions of living in the US, or even just visiting there solely because of this scandal. Not because of some deeply hurt morale or feeling, but because i simply wouldn't feel safe in the US anymore. This
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by UVB-76 13y ago
I was going to write a comment to this effect on one of the many threads related to this subject, but figured it would fall on deaf ears. Americans should not underestimate the damage this scandal has done to the American 'brand'.
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> What if we had some sort of SubWeb (have I just invented that word? I really like the sound of it!!!) which you have to use the command line to access? :) There are still a load of great communities below the 'surface' of the
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I know it's not strictly related to the matter at hand, but the notion of the EU churning out absurd and illogical directives is largely a construct of the tabloid press. As someone who has had exposure to certain parts of EU human rig
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> I wonder if anyone is doing something similar for the UK? Armed raids are comparatively rare in the UK, and when they do take place, they are far less spectacular than in the US.
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The encryption (if implemented correctly) is good, but if an intelligence agency has access to a Certificate Authority, or the target of your communications, man-in-the-middle attacks are feasible. In short, nothing is safe anymore.
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This is disgraceful.
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The video introducing video on Instagram is on Vimeo. That speaks volumes about this service.
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I emailed Twitter four years ago with such a request, and got this response: > Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all
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There's something particularly vile about the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby being exploited to advance this legislation.
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> And why was his precise salary released? He claimed to be earning $200,000 in his statements to The Guardian — his intention, presumably, to emphasise the extent of the sacrifice he has made in releasing these documents. A side-effect
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Alas, the NSA can afford a million dollar cluster to crack your password...
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This doesn't appear to have much, if anything, to do with the so-called 'PRISM' everyone is talking about at the moment. Also, the presentation has been freely available online for some time: http://www.dtic.mil&#x
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The web browser analogy is a poor one. There are countless standards in place for the reproduction of content on the web, and these days most popular browsers are quite good at supporting those standards. When it comes to a commercial produ
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> When that's gone, the Valley will decline. When the Valley declines, the local real estate bubble will pop. I wouldn't be so sure of that. The appeal of a particular location as a place to live will usually long outlast the activities
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A lot of the activities that take place on Wall Street are fairly harmless. Some might even be considered socially productive.
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My understanding, at least in the case of Texas, is that the lack of a state income tax is largely offset by significantly higher property taxes.
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> I choose to spend my time working on solutions to big problems, rather than working on what shirt to wear tomorrow. It worries me that so many hackers use the delusion of "solving big problems" to justify their often self-destructive

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