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Death of a National License-Plate Tracking Database Greatly Exaggerated(firstlook.org)
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by intslack 13y ago
None yet, have to love the hypocrisy when someone reports statements of hers made on Facebook: http://betabeat.com/2014/03/newsweek-reporter-bashes-fanatic... https://twitter.com/truth_eater/s
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Compare the NSA’s Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents(firstlook.org)
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by intslack 13y ago
Despite their best intentions, cooperation on part of the service provider might not be needed: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/how_the_nsa_e... http://www.theguardian.com/
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by intslack 13y ago
>Do you have more info on Facebook "datamining IM conversations?" Sure, the post I am echoing is in reference to Facebook "scanning" messages and relationships for criminal activity[1], as well as the suit filed at th
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by intslack 13y ago
I'm going to echo another comment I saw here yesterday: if Mark cared he would put his money where his mouth is and back off datamining IM conversations and enable OTR by default. Mark only cares because the IC is, in a way, damaging h
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by intslack 13y ago
https://archive.is/Q1hi7
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by intslack 13y ago
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/03/05/220273/senate-staffers... >Congressional aides involved in preparing the Senate Intelligence Committee’s unreleased study of the CIA’s secret interrogation and de
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The Inverse of Oversight: CIA Spies On Congress(firstlook.org)
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C.I.A. Employees Face New Inquiry Amid Clashes on Detention Program(nytimes.com)
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by intslack 13y ago
It's linked under 'Documents' at the top of the page: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/documents/ https://firstlook.org/theintercept/document/2014/02/24/ar
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Jake Davis: Following Latest GCHQ Revelations, Who are the Real Criminals?(ibtimes.co.uk)
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by intslack 13y ago
A mod changed the link, earlier it was just a several sentence gigaom "article" linking to a Google translation of http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20140131_049 .
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by intslack 13y ago
Here's a much better english summary: http://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20140201_011
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by intslack 13y ago
I use refcontrol ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol/ ) on Firefox to set the referrer for www.ft.com to always be https://encrypted.google.com/search , works great.
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by intslack 13y ago
The article sources "three people with knowledge of Google’s and Yahoo’s systems who spoke on the condition of anonymity," so I wouldn't really call it uneducated. Is the accusation that Level 3 has a 'black room' a
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by intslack 13y ago
When their DNS seemed to go down a few days ago I also noticed this behavior and immediately switched to a local independent ISP's DNS that namebench spit out. Doesn't seem too out of character, if they're returning this for
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by intslack 13y ago
To disable this behavior in Firefox set media.peerconnection.enabled to false.
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by intslack 13y ago
Snowden's motives are political, and they could also be construed as an effort to trouble and shame the people who didn't agree with his interpretations. And whether any of it is in the public interest is also debatable in some ci
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by intslack 13y ago
If by 'helping publish' you mean 'linking to and talking about what was already published,'[1] sure. What's the difference between Brown (the "crazy heroin addict" journalist, your words) and Gellman, who
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by intslack 13y ago
>And my point is that you can't take Snowden's assertions at face value. Good thing we aren't taking them at face value, seeing as the CIA spokesman lightly corroborates his account rather than your assertion that he was f
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by intslack 13y ago
I'm not going to get into a discussion about whether he should've rocked the boat or not. My only point was that your assertions earlier in the thread were shaky, at best, especially considering Snowden's corroboration. Or is
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by intslack 13y ago
Yes, I did read the article. Here is Snowden's account: >Mr. Snowden said that in 2008 and 2009, he was working in Geneva as a telecommunications information systems officer [...] He began pushing for a promotion, but got into what
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by intslack 13y ago
>He was essentially fired from the employ of the CIA No, he was not: "The C.I.A did not file any report on Snowden indicating that it suspected he was trying to break into classified computer files to which he did not have authorize
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by intslack 13y ago
Contrary to John Rawls philosophy of civil disobedience, in which disobedients have to accept the legal consequences of their actions, Snowden evaded authorities. But willingness to accept punishment can be viewed as more of a strategy to b
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They're watching. How can that be a good thing?(alumni.stanford.edu)
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by intslack 13y ago
Exciting number of changes planned, besides the name: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Wayland https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/XorgWithoutRootRights https://fedor
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Hackers use Amazon cloud to scrape mass number of LinkedIn member profiles(arstechnica.com)
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by intslack 13y ago
Not exactly, you have to stretch pen register authority pretty far to extend it to the NSA's bulk programmatic uses. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/11/problems-with-the-fiscs-n...
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by intslack 13y ago
That's assuming that these documents were given to Appelbaum by Snowden or Poitras: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/417325532980580353 Reading between the lines of the 30C3 talk, and the fact that none

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