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by northwest 13y ago
> Transparency first involves coming clean. Not a little bit at a time, not only when you have to, but complete disclosure about everything. I have this uneasy feeling that they will fight this as long as they can. I'm not sure true
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by northwest 13y ago
Again, war is a huge business. (And this of course includes the so-called "war" on terrorism.) I believe that's the main reason (if not the only reason) why it is being kept alive (today by using the cheap manipulation techni
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by northwest 13y ago
Absolutely spot on. And: People are repeating "Never forget." - and at the same time, people seem to have forgotten that there was a time when we had no terrorism (true story!). The question nobody's asking anymore: What is
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by northwest 13y ago
Are you threatening me? ;-) Kidding aside, I almost never downvote (power = responsibility)
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by northwest 13y ago
> We live in a world doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. But now, we have storage and much faster circulation of information. Which means we can track these "mistakes", dig them up easily whenever they're about to b
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by northwest 13y ago
It's a very clever recruiting strategy. ;-)
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by northwest 13y ago
I'd say that will happen for some time after you introduce hardware switches. But it will certainly wear off. I don't see that as a valid reason.
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by northwest 13y ago
True. I'd say that it's the responsibility of those familiar with technology to reveal what possibilities it opens up. And of course it's the responsibility of the Press to give these points the visibility they deserve. And o
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by northwest 13y ago
I don't think it's wise to trust any such "privacy setting". What devices really need is a hardware switch allowing us to physically disconnect cameras and microphones. I've never understood why this was not introdu
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by northwest 13y ago
Society has accepted to be tracked all the time/everywhere with the introduction of mobile phones. If we don't like this, we should start to talk more proactively to people about the dangers our technology brings.
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Confused Xerox copiers rewrite documents, expert finds(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by northwest 13y ago|1 comments
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by northwest 13y ago
The 1st question for me is still this one: Why on earth should I not eat natural and unprocessed foods? It seems to me that this is what our bodies are trained to process. Why change that?
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The Big Def Con Question: Would You Work for the NSA?(motherboard.vice.com)
5 points by northwest 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA Surveillance and Mission Creep(schneier.com)
21 points by northwest 13y ago|0 comments
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by northwest 13y ago
I've never understood how prisons could be allowed to become private businesses. It's "evil" by definition.
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SOPA died in 2012, but Obama administration wants to revive part of it(washingtonpost.com)
182 points by northwest 13y ago|54 comments
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by northwest 13y ago
From what I hear, the mainstream media in Europe generally doesn't really push Greenwald's stories. There is really no valid justification for these circumstances. It leads me to assume/believe that European media is also con
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by northwest 13y ago
> Freenet is a distributed data storage network designed to prevent censorship, provide anonymity and be hard to block. A very similar solution offering this is http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ You get decentralized&#x
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by northwest 13y ago
> I can't see him doing much worse as the head of a major news medium than Rupert Murdoch Worst compliment ever.
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by northwest 13y ago
As long as Germany allows the construction of huge NSA surveillance centers within its borders, I will consider this country NSAland .
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by northwest 13y ago
Although I currently can't see any evidence of involvement of any government branch, the ultimate result may be the same nevertheless. Google Glass certainly has the same issue, but to an even higher degree, since we know about the c
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by northwest 13y ago
Portugal is on it: http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/23/portugals-drug-experie...
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by northwest 13y ago
The next question: How come with all this, the cartels continue to exist?
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by northwest 13y ago
He gave planet Earth an important wake-up call: Democracy is about to be shot in the head. (And personally, I don't think we should expect more whistle blowers in the coming years, because the NSA sure as hell will make sure it will ne
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by northwest 13y ago
I believe he's made a couple of obvious (maybe naive) mistakes, but he has the right mindset, has shown that he is willing to sacrifice a lot. He definitely deserves our support. IMO, he should just not be left alone at the top of Wiki
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by northwest 13y ago
It seems more like Distracting yourself to me.
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by northwest 13y ago
Is this a serious question?
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by northwest 13y ago
No! Tell Obama to forward his.
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by northwest 13y ago
Good idea, provided you're not saying it's an either-or.
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by northwest 13y ago
Again, it's not about either-or - unless one activity prevents you from participating in another activity. We need to take all bullets we can get and fire them in parallel (online and in meatspace). > They make the participants and

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