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by jdp23 13y ago
Nick Merrill did a Reddit AMA a couple of years ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/fjfby/iama_director_of...
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by jdp23 13y ago
Marcy Wheeler suggests that the inaccuracy "has to do with the US person contact info collected along with targets. Even a comparison of the minimization order and the NSA’s claims make it clear US person communication can be swept up
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by jdp23 13y ago
By Stewart Baker, formerly general counsel of the NSA, with perspectives from Bart Gelman of the Washington Post.
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What the Prism Stories Tell Us About the Press(skatingonstilts.com)
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Great blast from the past: Several of the transatlantic telecommunication companies -- Global Crossing, Tyco, Worldcom -- are in financial difficulty due to alleged deceptive accounting practices Hey, I remember them!
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by jdp23 13y ago
The March on Washington didn't happen overnight. Any movement starts with lots of smaller protests.
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If you're interested in getting involved, there's discussion Restore on the 4th's subreddit at http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/ and daily IRC meetings at 5 p.m.
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The key point: TSA’s nude body scanning policies probably cause more deaths than they prevent. For this reason, we recommend in our comment that the TSA suspend the current policies, commence a new rulemaking, and implement a rational poli
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by jdp23 13y ago
Also, remember that the deadline is Monday for comments on regulations.gov for the TSA scanners -- http://tsacomments.net has more
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Cato Comments on TSA Body Scanners(cato.org)
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Obama has been clear about supporting the need for intelligence, but also repeatedly talked about the need to keep it constitutional and protect civil liberties -- highlighting the contrast with Bush. And the law is so obscure (and they&#x2
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by jdp23 13y ago
From the article: The complaint was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, a jurisdiction where Snowden’s former employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, is headquartered and a district with a long track record of prosecuting cases with national
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by jdp23 13y ago
Your credibility doesn't have anything to do with whether any major media outlet has run a story on this. It's a good question. However your credibility will inevitably influence how people respond to the question and the answer.
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by jdp23 13y ago
trevalyan did address your question about credibility. In trevalyan's view, your claims here over the last couple weeks have been "have been demonstrated wrong again and again", and that you've shown a pattern of "
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by jdp23 13y ago
Perhaps people shouldn't be surprised, but the discussion of the data sharing with the NSA certainly appears to call into question some of the US government's claims: "This includes recordings of phone calls, the content of e
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by jdp23 13y ago
According to the Guardian's original article, they can Retain and make use of "inadvertently acquired" domestic communications if they contain usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people o
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Privacy Rights Groups Struggle to Attract Attention in Congress(swampland.time.com)
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Remind HN: TSA comments deadline Monday(tsacomments.net)
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by jdp23 13y ago
It's a positive thing from an anti-phishing and anti-spam perspective. It's a negative thing from a surveillance perspective. Any government with at least some jurisdiction over Microsoft can request this information under their
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by jdp23 13y ago
Yeah, I was talking with some other activists about applying lessons from the SOPA/CISPA victory to the Patriot Act/FISA, and three people at the same time three time "it's all part of the same fight ..."
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by jdp23 13y ago
Written by Matt Blaze, whose 1994 paper identifying vulnerabilities in the NSA's proposed key escrow system was a key in defeating the Clipper Chip. http://www.crypto.com/blog/mcconnell_clipper/
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Phew, NSA Is Just Collecting Metadata. (You Should Still Worry)(wired.com)
1 points by jdp23 13y ago|2 comments
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tptacek, are there significant changes in the vulnerability landscape since 2010 that could have led to Microsoft's change in position?
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The USA Today/Pew poll had similar results: "Sixty percent of 18- to 29-year-olds polled support the leaks, compared with 36% of those 65 and older." http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/20
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by jdp23 13y ago
I totally agree that success rates are far from the only consideration here. That said this discussion is very important because many people see things in terms of an overall tradeoff -- between security and privacy; or the amount to invest
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Feds Must Produce NSA Dragnet Records for Criminal Defense(courthousenews.com)
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Terrorist Hobgoblins Bite the Intelligence Community in Its Efficacy Ass(emptywheel.net)
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At today's hearing, Rep. Himes was focused on the risks of collecting the data even assuming good processes and oversight for legitimate access. In response the NSA said that there hadn't been any examples of people ignoring pr
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Just a reminder, the deadline for comments on the TSA's body scanners is Monday. http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=TSA-2013-0004 has the info.
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This is why the makeup of the committee is so important. The Chair controls the witness list and the order of questioning - and gets to ask a lot of questions. So, since Mike Rogers supports the NSA, there aren't any civil liberties

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