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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Mr. Zuckerberg retorted that he preferred to think about it as an “on-ramp to the Internet” And the gov't of course welcomes the initiative as it lifts the rest of the world onto the surveillance platform.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Is USD 1.00-2.00 really enough of an incentive for people to do this (instead of keeping the Stellars), considering they (normally) can do this only once (b/c 1 FB account)? (Edit: it seems more likely to me that, if this was done over
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by dan_bk 12y ago
And if he wouldn't be in shackles, he would probably not stay alive for very long, considering what kind of concentrated power he has exposed (and let's not forget the fact that probably have of the population have been brainwashe
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> If the numbers are comparable, then we figure brown kids have less value than Wall Street bankers? We all know we do exactly that, even if we don't like to admit it. Our inaction is the proof. There are thousands of questions like
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by dan_bk 12y ago
I think you just won the challenge.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
How can you trust a product promising privacy when it runs on a closed-source platform (that is further also known to collect data on the user and to be prone to government surveillance)? Real privacy is only possible on platforms that are
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U.S. Senate bill proposes sweeping curbs on NSA surveillance(reuters.com)
63 points by dan_bk 12y ago|9 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
The best known example for this are bankers. As a rule of thumb, bankers don't go to jail.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) has a good round-up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g
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by dan_bk 12y ago
With the Constitution becoming more and more of a joke recently, we should elect a constitutional scholar as the next President to fix this. /s
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White House attacks plans to curb NSA data collection (2013)(bbc.com)
7 points by dan_bk 12y ago|3 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> encrypt your life Absolutely. The problem is: communication is a "network good", you don't do it alone. How do you want the "Facebook people" to understand the gravity of the situation? We all do communicate wi
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The NSA’s New Partner in Spying: Saudi Arabia’s Brutal State Police(firstlook.org)
40 points by dan_bk 12y ago|2 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
How can a modern society still think it is ok to carry out the death penalty? Stupidity like this belongs in the Middle Ages, not our times.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
For added ROI, visit http://mansionmap.com/ before :-)
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by dan_bk 12y ago
It's a cat-and-mouse game, for the time being. Until there's a real solution, use the available tech: https://prism-break.org/en/
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Homelessness now a crime in cities throughout the U.S(pbs.org)
4 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998527
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Article in German (original): http://www.nzz.ch/nzzas/nzz-am-sonntag/schweizer-anwalt-fuer...
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Swiss lawyer for whistleblower Edward Snowden(translate.google.com)
3 points by dan_bk 12y ago|1 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
I've been told it's so that Jack Bauer from CTU Los Angeles can protect us. But you'll have to routinely let him brake all protocols so he can do his job - it's all for own good.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
But how are we going to fill the (corporate) prisons then? These wards have families to feed, too!
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by dan_bk 12y ago
I was thinking more than 1 person must be thinking this sounds strangely like an invitation for a fat torrent.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
...while the rest of society keeps making itself more transparent every day.
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In the name of security, German NSA committee may turn to typewriters(arstechnica.com)
4 points by dan_bk 12y ago|1 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Because MOST people don't mind. You are in the minority, complaining about this. It's quite hopeless, really. I hope you realize how you sound like an automated GCHQ agent. Also, it's interesting to see how these posts d
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by dan_bk 12y ago
It reminds me of the "boiling frog" - if you turn the heat up slowly (i.e. climate change) the frog won't react.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
And it's still bizarre the gov't put so much emphasis on that event, given the fact that they must have known that the destroyed data was never the only existing copy. The only reasonable explanation for this seems to be a strateg
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Giving a speech to the House of Commons today, the UK Home Secretary, Theresa May, made it clear that, in her view, the powers in the new legislation are still inadequate — saying they “will not tackle the wider problem of declining communi
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Real solutions must be entirely de-centralized and open-source. Anything else is bandaid at best.

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