frank_boyd

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NSA 'monitored 60m Spanish calls in a month'(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Are there any advantages over Déjà Dup?
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
So, this time, at least grammatically speaking, Obama didn't lie when he said they were not spying on her. I think we're making real progress here. On the bright side, it's a good thing she's "on the list" as
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
You get this kind of forums with http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ - it's a part of the "encrypted and distributed communication suite". Quickly growing community.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
When you'll have finished high school, you'll understand. If you already have, you should have a serious word with your headmaster.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Seriously. Why does every website come with 10thousand f#cking scripts loaded in the background? I hate this. Host your own goddamn js, fonts and whatnot.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> The point of this piece is not that living in Barcelona and commuting to London is sensible -- it's that the North London property market has gone totally batshit insane. That's not the only point. The other point is that fli
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> I guess this list is aimed at everybody: it can be implemented without breaking too many habits, and with minimal knowledge. That's kind of the problem here. The whole situation is in such an advanced stage and so pervasive and ba
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> 1. Use end-to-end encryption. > 2. Encrypt as much communications as you can. http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ has got your back.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Remember SOPA, when the NSA partner companies threw their weight in to stop it from happening? Apparently SOPA was more of a cause to them than a movement bound to turn western society into of couple of police states.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Don't want to risk downloading from a honeypot? Download encrypted and anonymously (from friends-of-friends-of-friends-of-friends-of... you get the picture): http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
I'd say that's the Police having lowered the barrier-to-entry to the lowest possible point: high school drop-outs with no education and/or thinking skills whatsoever. Sad and dangerous.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Rule number 1: It's ALWAYS about the money. The agenda is the protection of excessive money/wealth. Which tells you where to look for "who's behind it": Rich people, very rich people. Also: The military-industrial
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Of course. The competition is already free and Apple has still a high security prison as far as the lock-in effect of its technology is concerned, so they're still safe.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
And that's where the increasing economic pressure comes in: Keep the minimum wage inhumanely low, keep talking about the "american dream" and how everybody is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire [0] and watch people ke
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
It increasingly looks like the "ruling 1%" are preparing for social unrest, respectively for the protection of their power and wealth which will be questioned.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Police State v1.0
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US National Security Agency 'spied on French diplomats'(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Correct. 1. Give away profit, to increase market share 2. Repeat 3. Enjoy your new monopoly 4. With competition gone and customers additionally locked in via your technology platform: Set your prices as you wish
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Ever heard of drones? I remember numbers that indicated for a country that there was 1 strike every 3rd day, on average. It was either Pakistan or Afghanistan.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Or, the shorter version: Don't use any products that are offered by or have some kind of link to one of the known NSA partner companies (as seen in Snowden's slides).
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Same hypocrisy in Germany with Merkel preemptively and officially refusing Snowden any potential request for asylum, a few months back. All this makes it so terribly obvious that Europe literally is not entitled to and can not have or grow
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Mexico strongly condemns alleged US electronic spying(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Plus, now that Dexter is gone...
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Why not organize important events such as this one elsewhere, some place more easily accessible for everyone?
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> what the technical innards of the computers have to do with democracy. Frankly, I don't understand the later either :( We're about to connect every tiny little aspect of our lives to technology. Everything becomes data that c
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
I'd reply to that: Various types of freedom and a higher degree of respect for your privacy (I know, it's not a cure-all solution, but the next step that needs to be taken by society).
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
It's a bit sparse maybe. And as "early" adopters, we probably don't care about the social crap etc. But as long as I can yank those packages whenever I want, I'm fine with that. What I'm really excited about th
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Actually yes, probably. Most people don't understand the importance of transparency for a real and working democracy. "Transparency" as in "open source code", for example.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> People need to look at OpenSUSE again! Isn't it really beautiful that we actually can do this, now? We can switch platforms within the same day - without real hassle or pain. I mean tell a Windows or Apple user that they need to

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