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by dan_bk 12y ago
> but for rich entities with lobbyists it is much easier I still don't understand why lobbying - a socially accepted form of corruption - still exists, without being questioned. Even more so as, today, everybody knows that 1% contro
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by dan_bk 12y ago
This may very well be the usual "we currently have no plans to enter the market of...", stated a few months or a year before some product/service is launched, in precisely that market.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
If you depend on your anonymity, do not use Tor.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Or it's just another political statement to gain/retain voter support, while everything (US-german collaboration regarding mass surveillance) will go on as before. Seriously, if Germany wants to make a statement, it can start by b
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Like we shouldn't get our privacy. Whereas he bought himself a specially isolated penthouse in order to live his open marriage in perfect privacy.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> or has made a huge misjudgement by signalling that they have something to hide That is obviously a psychological effect that the NSA & Co. welcome very much, maybe even try to use against the rest of us. The question is: Do we want
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Next, they'll just filter out those attempts to make noise. It's a cat-and-mouse game and also needs a solid (i.e. political) solution.
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Internet billionaire Nick Hanauer warns of coming revolution(bbc.com)
4 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
www? Ain't nobody got time fo dat!
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by dan_bk 12y ago
RetroShare [0] does this, too, and covers many other communication needs (mailing, chatting, forum, etc.) while being p2p/decentralized/public-key-encrypted/open source. [0] http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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Australia: Government to seek boost to ASIO powers(computerworld.com.au)
1 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Modern communication technology also introduces more pressure on governments to behave correctly, which takes power away from them.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> But signals transmitted out into the world does not fit neatly into any of those four categories. Therein lies IMO one of the big issues with US justice: the law is interpreted literally. But the aim of the original law (what it attemp
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Why would the same not apply to the Internet cables the NSA directly taps all over the World?
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by dan_bk 12y ago
With the government, every tech company and their mother tracking us 24 hours a day 7 days a week, why should we continue to add our personal data to the pool?
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Why not LightTable? -> http://www.lighttable.com/
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Why isn't this data used to do something for good Maybe because that would expose this program to the public, thereby raising opposition (as might happen now).
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> “I’m no terrorist,” he said. “I’m an activist.” Same treatment the "Occupy" people got (i.e. raids before they had even done anything). This is a pattern now.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
You're gonna have to state at least what your thing is supposed to do...
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Spying Together: Germany's Deep Cooperation with the NSA(spiegel.de)
2 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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How Secret Partners Expand NSA’s Surveillance Dragnet(firstlook.org)
1 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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Android and Windows to get 'kill switch'(bbc.com)
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by dan_bk 12y ago
If I understand correctly, the deal here is "get a higher level 'Stripe', pay an additional 1% transaction fee" (above $10K+ total transactions).
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Facebook is launching an aggressive technique to track people across the Web(propublica.org)
3 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Does anybody have an idea when the first Ubuntu phone will finally drop? I've been waiting for ages...
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by dan_bk 12y ago
When I read such things ("...because the analyst reading or listening to an individual’s communication will inevitably forget about it anyway."), it fills me with deep hate against those people. How dare they take us for such idio
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Wrong. Considering that education is the single most powerful element to advance society (and create more justice), government should definitely ensure that everyone gets as much education as they can stomach and are willing to digest. And
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> it would basically collapse our government's finances My guess is, the comparatively extremely high military budget [0] is the actual culprit. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_..
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by dan_bk 12y ago
So Starbucks is basically doing the government's job.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Maybe companies / corporations with enough power to actually challenge the governments of the world isn't such a bad thing after all. We should never expect corporations to take on the role of challenging the government. In &

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