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by f_salmon 13y ago
Also, for those who have missed it: Obama was being surveilled as well, before being elected: http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2013/06/19/podcast-show-112-... Which means Obama may effectively be a puppet (if
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> Better to design new social mechanisms to protect against misuse of the data, than try and prevent its collection. The only way to achieve this, is to eliminate EVERY kind of asymmetry in society (which we should have achieved a long t
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Shouldn't the US list be much, much longer taking into account the size of the various countries?
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There's really nothing sane about iOS/the iPhone when the government has full control over it. The only sane thing to do is have it recycled.
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Yup, “Vacations are for the weak” is most certainly a very effective way of disguising the reality: “Vacations are for the affluent/rich”
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And taking the whole World with it.
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The thing is, we can never know how much many is put into what, as long as we accept that the government is allowed to take and hide money from the taxpayer like this: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/8-5-tri
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Or: How to reduce the value of the Internet as much as possible for everybody. Nice, really nice.
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Tracking urban migration trends? The temptation that none of the big data hoover companies (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) will be able to resist is something else: When you have so much data on everybody, you have created
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Of course you have the right to say these extremely depressive things. But if this is really what you think, then you should not put any children on this planet - they don't deserve the mess you/we're about to accept/cre
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MoD tightens security at American spy bases linked to drone strikes(independent.co.uk)
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I know very well why this hurts Apple fans so much: It has been Apple's strategy all along to get you to buy literally everything from them. Their USP was to have it all integrated. Problem is: Once you understand that at least 1 pea
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I have an iPhone. And when I read that the US government tracks mobile phone movements all over the world (generating a ton of other information about people), I turned it off permanently (flight mode) and use it only as a PDA. Turns out, l
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by f_salmon 13y ago
There was a very similar vote in Switzerland, recently: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/switzerland-vot... But the Swiss rejected it, probably because the government told them to vote agains
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> Snowden’s biggest revelation: We don’t know what power is, nor do we care ...until we feel the resulting pain, which means it will be too late b/c the people in power will have built enough protections to ensure their position (=
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The drone program is probably the most efficient way to recruit new terrorists. Which is probably in the interest of the NSA. How else can they justify their dirty work if their is no more perceived "treat".
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If WikiLeaks had gotten a copy from Snowden, you would have had this catalog now.
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This is it. Literally everything is infected. Again, either the NSA goes (and you know that won't happen) or information technology goes or democracy as we know it goes. Everyone, take your pick now.
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Also: "Cisco does not work with any government to modify our equipment, nor to implement any so-called security 'back doors' in our products," the company said in a statement. Contacted by SPIEGEL reporters, officials a
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This is it. Literally everything is infected. Again, either the NSA goes (and you know that won't happen) or information technology goes or democracy as we know it goes. Everyone, take your pick now.
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RetroShare has VoIP and is: - 100% distributed / peer-to-peer - public key encrypted - open source http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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> That's why EU and everyone else is waiting for US to pass strong laws that prohibit US gov doing that Thing is, neither the Constitution nor the law was respected, as we've learned. So why should anybody have trust in some po
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> Little did they know... I'd argue that a company that explicitly agrees to work with the NSA, for example by handing them over Windows security holes to be exploited by the NSA (and potentially other hackers), knows exactly the ki