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by pvnick 13y ago
From the parent comment: >The judges have concluded that the mere collection of enormous volumes of “metadata” ... does not violate the Fourth Amendment. Like I said, they're collecting much more than metadata. Therefore, fits wit
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by pvnick 13y ago
Greenwald's english synopsis: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/nsa-braz... It's interesting to see him strategically releasing these stories to maximize impact of the informa
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm curious to see how this fits with the coming leak that the NSA is collecting and storing all cell phone call contents (not just metadata) [1]. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/glenn-gree
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Snowden confirmed safe and that previous statement written exclusively by him(twitter.com)
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by pvnick 13y ago
I recommend deleting your ill-conceived comment. You may be at risk of being ninjabanned.
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Latest Greenwald leak describes NSA mass surveillance of Latin America(translate.google.com.br)
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by pvnick 13y ago
Like you, I'd like to consider myself decently well-versed on the issues and able to sympathize with both sides. However, I'm also coming from the position of hearing Greenwald describe an imminent set of leaks that describe the w
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by pvnick 13y ago
Yeah if that's the case then they should really just find a different country to live in that doesn't explicitly provide constitutional protection against this kind of stuff instead of supporting the illegal violation of ours. Too
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by pvnick 13y ago
>The majority of US citizens are more concerned about {the Soviets,Terrorism} than they are about NSA "accidentally" reading their emails. As somebody that's been on the ground passing out fliers for my town's restore
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by pvnick 13y ago
That's incredible. It's always fascinating to see power centralization in government as it always tends to be abused in favor of expanding government power.
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by pvnick 13y ago
>I do hope Edward is real, he gets asylum and that he'll further release some more gory details. According to Glenn Greenwald [1], Snowden is now fully out of the picture and that the leaks will continue regardless of what happens t
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by pvnick 13y ago
Paul, so happy to see you make a supportive comment on this. I agree with what you've said completely. With all of the awareness and momentum building in the privacy sphere I hope there's room opening up for startups that are expl
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by pvnick 13y ago
Awesome! So happy to see some common sense being sporadically applied these days. Crossing my fingers that Mastercard stands up to the inevitable "cordial" phonecall from old Biden.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Mostly symbolic reasons (independence day, 4th of july, 4th amendment, etc), and it'll be nice because everybody will have off from work. There were some long, drawn out discussions early on in the planning phase from which it was agre
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by pvnick 13y ago
Note: This happens tomorrow . For HNers that live in the US, please find the closest protest to where you live and get out there ! Please stay polite, dress nicely, and freshen up on your first and fourth amendments. Edit: Also, call 1-ST
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by pvnick 13y ago
>If there were a clock that ticked every time high US government officials lied over matters of state, you could use it as a fan. I just want to say how brilliant I thought this expression was. I can't believe people don't use
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by pvnick 13y ago
Oh God that be wonderful
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by pvnick 13y ago
Truly amazing and inspiring. I was worried that Snowden's father was going to continue, through his attorney, to try and dissuade his terrified son from persisting in his convictions; thus, I was preparing to be disappointed in his fat
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by pvnick 13y ago
Currently at the top of the front page! So fantastic to have their official support.
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by pvnick 13y ago
That's a pretty bold claim. I hope you have some evidence to back that up because currently all evidence points in the opposite direction.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Remember Ellsberg got off because of evidence that the government was illegally wiretapping him. I don't believe that's a possibility in Snowden's case...
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by pvnick 13y ago
That's why Greenwald has been releasing the revelations slowly. Don't worry, this has all been thoroughly planned. Another leak coming soon [1] describes an NSA program that records the contents of every single cell phone call b
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by pvnick 13y ago
Wow, now I really want to know what Biden said to Correa.
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by pvnick 13y ago
First of all, for an organization whose sole existence is to provide journalistic integrity, I would be very surprised if Wikileaks isn't being honest about this. Secondly, he was actually accompanied by Wikileaks associations on his f
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by pvnick 13y ago
For those who don't know Sina (OP), he is an incredibly talented, driven person who has been fighting to uphold our digital rights for a long time, especially regarding the recent NSA leaks. I've had the privilege of helping as mu
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by pvnick 13y ago
Why is this simple piece of logic so difficult for anti-GMO extremists to understand? These technologies literally have the potential, without even being hyperbolic, to save Billions of lives. And these clowns are worried about the provid
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by pvnick 13y ago
Fine, then don't buy them. But don't be a hypocrite and restrict their access from others who may be too poor to buy organic.
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by pvnick 13y ago
So? That's not a good reason to restrict life-saving technologies.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I don't normally downvote comments I read here, but c'mon man. First of all, your comment was off-topic. Second of all, at least with the GM food, yours is a knee-jerk reaction unsupported by science. GM food has the potential to
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm not advocating or encouraging the hacking (I'd like to think I'm smarter than that). I'm saying for the case of the national discussion happening at the moment regarding government contractors carrying out national s

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