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by lorendsr 13y ago
I just mean that I wasn't told what to write by a USG PR person. The only thing I heard from the NSA about it was that I didn't have to redact anything.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
That sounds illegal. In same article: >Wiretap tips forwarded by the SOD usually come from foreign governments, U.S. intelligence agencies or court-authorized domestic phone recordings. Because warrantless eavesdropping on Americans is i
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by lorendsr 13y ago
MINARET was used in the 60's and 70's. It led to the passing of FISA, which made it illegal to look at or pass on US citizen data unless a judge suspected them of being a foreign agent.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
I think it was important for the citizens to know what powers they have given the NSA. They did not have an accurate sense of that before Snowden. But he released a lot more than that, much of which will hurt the NSA's capabilities.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
I believe so.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
Thanks for letting me know about parallel construction - I hadn't heard of it. You're right, abuses probably have happened more often than those caught.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
No offense taken. I was not asked to write this, nor guided in its contents by the government.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
I meant that the NSA is only looking at your information if a judge suspects that you are a foreign agent. It will not look at your information to determine whether you have done something else illegal, which is what it would do if it were
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by lorendsr 13y ago
Potential future abuse, whether due to laws becoming more permissive or a radical in-agency culture change that led to more people ignoring the law, is certainly concerning. As are current abuses. I just believe that the capabilities provid
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The NSA: An Inside View(lorensr.me)
367 points by lorendsr 13y ago|313 comments
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The NSA: An Inside View(lorensr.me)
15 points by lorendsr 13y ago|3 comments
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by lorendsr 13y ago
Vimium is mainly for in-page keyboard interactions (like opening a link or scrolling down). Ferro is for interacting with Chrome itself, for instance pinning a tab, saving/opening sessions, extension management, deleting bookmarks, etc
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by lorendsr 13y ago
Interestingly, Vimium's "Access your data on all websites" permissions can be less alarming than a similar notice only mentioning certain domains you care about, like stripe and coinbase.
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by lorendsr 13y ago
Ferro creator here. The answer is of course no, Ferro was not looking at your coinbase or stripe data. It was only loading the API scripts from those domains asynchronously in order to reduce the load time of the options page, and to do so
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How to individually message all Facebook friends at once(lorensr.me)
1 points by lorendsr 13y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Ferro, a graphical command line for Chrome commands(getferro.com)
2 points by lorendsr 13y ago|0 comments
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Launch on HN: Ferro, a graphical predictive command line for Chrome commands(getferro.com)
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by lorendsr 16y ago
Broken again? Or maybe the interview was taken down.