f_salmon

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by f_salmon 13y ago
How well are these events being reported in the media (US), in your view?
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by f_salmon 13y ago
There is only 1 real solution: Put your cell phone in flight mode and use it exclusively as a PDA/music player/etc. Let people contact you on a landline and email - more than enough.
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Combine this story with this one [0] and guess what that means for the future of the US. [0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/04/nsa-storing-cel...
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“Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.”(motherboard.vice.com)
297 points by f_salmon 13y ago|101 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
What exactly IS "Germany's Privacy Stance"? I'm not sure there's any real consensus on this question. Or have you all already forgotten about this story here: http://www.spiegel.de/international&#x2F
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Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes(blogs.computerworld.com)
14 points by f_salmon 13y ago|6 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
And most of all, I can't believe he didn't just burst into endless laughs during his speech. I mean, did he really just say all that while NOT thinking "y'all some stupid mofos"? Seriously. How can anyone take the U
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A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far.(wnyc.org)
8 points by f_salmon 13y ago|0 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> ... Mr Obama said he would not apologise for the effectiveness of US intelligence operations, and insisted that nothing he had seen indicated they sought to break the law. "...nothing he had seen..." -> The usual word play
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by f_salmon 13y ago
And, until abuse has stopped: Put your cell phone in flight mode to opt out of the worldwide tracking by the NSA.
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> But the actual problem is the baseband processor running completely non-free software True, and once that one will be made open-source too, there's still the NSA tracking mobile phones worldwide and generating all kinds of privacy
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> Richard A. Clarke, an official in the Clinton and Bush administrations who served as one of the five members of the advisory panel, explained the group’s reasoning in an email last week, saying that “it is more important that we defend
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America's Dwindling Economic Freedom(online.wsj.com)
30 points by f_salmon 13y ago|58 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
That's nothing. I once did 5 such projects on a Sunday morning :)
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by f_salmon 13y ago
The fact that Germany still allows the presence and construction of extremely expensive and big NSA surveillance centers (tapping into German infrastructure) such as the "Dagger complex" [0] certainly says a lot with regards to &q
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Let's say "honest in the eyes of the citizen/voter", b/c no politician would seriously consider putting any real trust in any such agreement.
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Germans abandon hope of US 'no-spy' treaty(thelocal.de)
117 points by f_salmon 13y ago|97 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
After all we now know about data being collected about us, against our will, and sooner or later used against our interests, is it smart to have Google also have data about your home?
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by f_salmon 13y ago
You say "billions". But if you know this [0], then you start asking yourself if all that money can really be just "lost". [0] http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/8-5-trillion-taxpayer...
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> But security officials are arguing strongly against curtailing the substance of domestic surveillance activities. Right. How about just having a sane and humane foreign policy instead of blowing up people all over the World? How about
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by f_salmon 13y ago
All this only goes to show that, if we really want to keep a sane degree of democracy, we can never rely on tech to be safe. Instead, it's thousand times more important to get real transparency an accountability in our governmental str
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> I mean if someone is doing more backbreaking work that's physically demanding wouldn't it make sense to pay these people more? There's more, if we were to build and live in a rational/logic/just system: Anybody
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Canada's NSA admits to 'incidentally' spying on own citizens(dailydot.com)
3 points by f_salmon 13y ago|1 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Money has a natural tendency to get more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. We need to start keeping an eye on this.
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25% of UK and Canadian businesses are moving data outside the US(pando.com)
1 points by f_salmon 13y ago|0 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> Members of Congress have the same privacy protections as all US persons. In other words: almost none to zero.
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US spy court: NSA to keep collecting phone records(news.yahoo.com)
4 points by f_salmon 13y ago|1 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
My question would be: How should we be able to trust them ever again? I mean, it's been shown that people like Obama an Clapper openly lie. Nobody seems to care about that. I'm still not sure that it's a good idea to accept t
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Elite Hacker Barnaby Jack 'overdosed on drugs'(bbc.co.uk)
52 points by f_salmon 13y ago|52 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Did he not have a car?

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