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Citizen requests info from NSA. NSA replies.(imgur.com)
8 points by ferdo 13y ago|3 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
Wrong question. Why did anyone trust Microsoft in the first place?
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Obama Administration Declares War On Whistleblowers, Leaks As 'Aiding The Enemy'(techdirt.com)
3 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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The CIA and a long history of assassinations(theweek.co.uk)
2 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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A Study of Assassination – CIA (1953)(gwu.edu)
99 points by ferdo 13y ago|46 comments
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Amazon is staffing up for its $600 million cloud for spooks(qz.com)
76 points by ferdo 13y ago|20 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
The point was made in my first post: "the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths, but by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore par
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by ferdo 13y ago
> how do you possibly make the leap that it's 'more likely than not'? Because I'm not a coincidence theorist when it comes to how power operates. The Obama administration has publicly claimed the power to kill America
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by ferdo 13y ago
Just like the guy that discovered Bush Jr's coke bust "committed suicide": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hatfield This wasn't just a hit, it was personal. Someone really disliked Hastings.
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by ferdo 13y ago
I'm well aware of the history of espionage, thanks. Lincoln and the Romans had no wires to tap, hence the "modern" national security state.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Hastings ticked off some very powerful people in his short life. Ticking powerful people off is a good way to die in a plane wreck, a car wreck, a "fall" or any number of other accidents. I'm not saying this is what happened,
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by ferdo 13y ago
"Cars just dont explode" http://automotivethinker.com/general/cars-just-dont-explode/
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by ferdo 13y ago
One woman in the area described it sounding “like a bomb went off in the middle of the night” & a man said “I couldn’t have written a scene like this in a move” with the engine flying 50-60 yards from the car. http://www.yout
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by ferdo 13y ago
The National Security Act of 1947 is the beginning of the modern American national security state. Compare to human gluttony, it's a relative newcomer.
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by ferdo 13y ago
We already have policies and rules that are considered "good" by the people that implement and execute policy. That's the problem.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Gluttony has always been a human failing. The National Security State is a relatively new one.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> But what were your intentions? I fail to see why my intentions matter one whit in a discussion about increased surveillance by the government.
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by ferdo 13y ago
The thread topic is "FBI Surveilling U.S. With Drones".
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by ferdo 13y ago
The FBI won't be looking for Alzheimer's patients.
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by ferdo 13y ago
The quote has to do with the fact that most people engaging in evil don't even think about it. When a State says, "These are the bad guys. Go get them.", there's a sizable percentage of the population that can rationaliz
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by ferdo 13y ago
I agree with you, there's great potential good for this tech. The evil that is coming from it and will continue to come from it is perpetrated by those that, as said earlier, accept the premise of the State/government that they wo
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by ferdo 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banality_of_evil "Banality of evil is a phrase used by Hannah Arendt in the title of her 1963 work Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Her thesis is that the great
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by ferdo 13y ago
Because population control always works out so well for the population. /s
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by ferdo 13y ago
> requiring all employers to confirm the identity and legal status of any new workers by tapping into a Homeland Security Department system called E-Verify, which is now used voluntarily by about 7 percent of employers in the United Stat
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TERROR_BOT searches your comment history for the Terrorist Keywords used by DHS(reddit.com)
3 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
> the US government has a demonstrable history of engaging in illegal and unethical behavior. To be fair, all governments engage in illegal and unethical behavior. As a fellow old person and a history buff, I'm glad you're post
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by ferdo 13y ago
That just means that Mark Karpeles needs to hire better programmers.
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Satoshi Nakamoto owns MtGox?(bitcointalk.org)
7 points by ferdo 13y ago|3 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
Tatsuaki Okamoto has quite the crypto and coding chops: https://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&q="Tatsuaki+Okamoto"+... http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/1002804/tatsua...
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by ferdo 13y ago
The NSA throwing suspicion on EFF, perhaps. Or flashing colors of an NSA honeypot. Or he's just fucking with all of us. Maybe he just likes the shirt.

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