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by ferdo 13y ago
I'm not able to access your site. I'm getting "Unable to connect" in Firefox. The rest of the net is fine.
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Vermont Completely Nullifies Federal Hemp Ban(benswann.com)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
If a nation or a group was acting towards American citizens the way the NSA (and other TLAs) does, we'd probably assume they were at war with us.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> They see Miranda in exactly the same way in which they see a drug mule. They didn't arrest him, so no. This is harassment of political dissent by the policing arm of the government. What makes this even worse is that it's the
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What's the Matter with Fusion Centers?(privacysos.org)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
Or what better way to consign someone to obscurity by engineering a "how pathetic... he was so obsessed with Scaife that he killed himself in one of his properties in the men's room" moment. Occam's Razor cuts both ways
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by ferdo 13y ago
Your questions, which I have no footing to answer, reminded me of this relevant Neal Stephenson work from 1996ish. Apologies if it's a repeat for you: "Mother Earth Motherboard" http://www.wired.com/wired&#x2F
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Glimmerglass Intercepts Undersea Cable Traffic for Spy Agencies?(corpwatch.org)
69 points by ferdo 13y ago|15 comments
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Fukushima nuclear pollution more concentrated as it approaches U.S. West Coast(enenews.com)
13 points by ferdo 13y ago|2 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
Not just a response. More like an effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
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by ferdo 13y ago
Miranda was offered a government lawyer at first, not one of his own choosing. He was smart to refuse their stupid offer.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> It's not like there's a whole ideology and movement and organization that supports their actions. The same can be said of the culture of illegal invasions, illegal detentions, secret trials, secret jails, spying, drone attack
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by ferdo 13y ago
I trust Greenwald more than I trust the NSA and the government. Glenn doesn't spy on me, for one.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> they need to be beyond reproach I don't understand this thinking. Greenwald and the Guardian have very little power in comparison to the intel agencies and governments they report on. Why is their conduct more important than the p
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by ferdo 13y ago
I consider Kangas the first internet-age reporter to die under suspicious circumstances. I won't busy up the thread with links but I urge anyone with an interest in this topic to research Kangas and his writings. He imparted much infor
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by ferdo 13y ago
Lots of geeks with jobs funded by the public sector have no idea of the history of some of the agencies they work for. The history of misdeeds by American intel agencies is a topic that is relevant to hackers, imo.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Steve Kangas was ex military intel that became a journalist. In 1999, he was found dead of a gunshot wound in a billionaire's building in Pittsburgh. He was an education for me some 20 years ago when I began learning about the depredat
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by ferdo 13y ago
I know enough to have already exited the bubble market that's not too far from busting.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> "legally and procedurally sound" These claims were also made by the Church and the State during the Inquisition, except with the "in defense of the Faith" bit added for flair.
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by ferdo 13y ago
"...I additionally believed that one of our best defenses against the national security state was the perennial proclivity of clandestine organizations to piss off their own employees." -J. Orlin Grabbe, 1995 http://pec
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by ferdo 13y ago
Buckley was old CIA material. His superior in the CIA was E. Howard Hunt, later of Watergate burglary fame. NR has rarely strayed from its intel roots. If The National Review is annoyed at the NSA, it might indicate a small tip in the scale
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by ferdo 13y ago
> that makes them keep doing what they're doing. For many of them, the paycheck is probably motivation enough. IT subcontracting from governments and security agencies can be quite lucrative.
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by ferdo 13y ago
All monetary systems are speculative bubbles. Some just have the backing of a government to give support to the bubble. The last guy out of assignats probably felt a little foolish.
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by ferdo 13y ago
If you don't create it, you can't control it. You can make laws about it, but you still don't actually control it.
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by ferdo 13y ago
I see the opposite. Regulations will create an even larger undermarket for Bitcoin than exists now. In the next decade, use of Bitcoin (or something similar) will have grown enough outside of regulation that the next generation of Bitcoin u
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by ferdo 13y ago
Unlike the creations of the central banks, there's an end to Bitcoin's creations. The value in this model is seen in Bitcoin's steadily rising and holding price.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> No one controls bitcoins. That really annoys regulatory mindsets.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Bitcoin's ones and zeroes don't originate in a central bank.
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by ferdo 13y ago
The argument could be made that this move by Germany is actually a ploy to make Bitcoin look like a paperwork/legal nightmare and time-moneysuck so that merchants will stay away from it. Bitcoin is too useful to be squashed by mere gov
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by ferdo 13y ago
Regulation is about control, which is what Germany is now trying to do with Bitcoin. I suspect the regulators will fail with regard to control of Bitcoin in the long run.

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