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by skwirl 13y ago
He wants to clear any doubt that this information is being used for political purposes by using it for political purposes.
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by skwirl 13y ago
This is exactly about the content of the leaks. If the supposed leak is baloney then it is not misdirection to call it out. The debate over "direct access" is not a small detail. It is the difference between a major story and s
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by skwirl 13y ago
An interesting article was just published with the headline "Greenwald gives away the game on his PRISM claim." He is continuing to walk back his original claims of direct access. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/a
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by skwirl 13y ago
Are they? The Guardian has selectively released three or four slides out of 41. You can split hairs and try to come up with some contrived reading of the article that could be argued as accurate, but I think in reality everyone understood
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by skwirl 13y ago
Google has directly contradicted what you are saying about rubber stamping requests. See http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html and http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/askin
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by skwirl 13y ago
Yeah, I think the main point is that this is simply a way of responding to FISA requests, which are completely independent of PRISM. In other words, there is no new news here. The debate over FISA itself is certainly quite valid. Google h
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by skwirl 13y ago
It seems that what PRISM is to some people has slipped away from what was originally reported to a world of conjecture. What you are saying is possible (although I think $20 million is way too cheap) but it does not fit in with what we hav
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by skwirl 13y ago
While certainly a possibility, that really wouldn't fit in with everything else we've heard about PRISM, including what the tech companies have said. It also wouldn't allow the NSA to view data transferred over SSL (which I
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by skwirl 13y ago
Here's an interesting take on Mr. Greenwald's handling of this story: http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/greenwald-sticks-with-his-...
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by skwirl 13y ago
The point is that the companies decide what production data to deposit on these servers after their legal teams have reviewed FISA requests. According to the tech companies, these requests are individually reviewed and target individuals a
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The Guardian walks back claims of direct NSA access to servers of tech companies(mediaite.com)
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by skwirl 13y ago
To me, living in the woods as a survivalist is a fate worse than prison, and when you are eventually caught you have to serve the entire prison sentence on top of the time you spent eating squirrels and freezing in the woods. But there are
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by skwirl 13y ago
Public opinion is a double edged sword. Be careful when you grasp onto it. One terrorist attack and it swings back the other way in a hurry. If you truly believe that these programs violate the fourth amendment, then it doesn't matt
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by skwirl 13y ago
We're all going to need to be specific with what we're talking about or we really are talking past each other. I think that right now the vast majority of the outrage here is over PRISM, although, if PRISM turns out to be a non-is
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by skwirl 13y ago
In your first paragraph, you seem to assert that this program is as The Guardian reported (that is - essentially unfettered access to private data stored with tech companies). In your second paragraph, you seem to admit that we don't
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by skwirl 13y ago
In the context of China, this is a red herring. China is not a poor little country being bullied around by the United States. China is a major power and has a long history of engaging in cyber attacks against the US government and US comp
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by skwirl 13y ago
While the facts of the statement would not be surprising to anyone, making these kind of statements are not going to help Snowden as he is viewed in the United States. I don't view this at all as a noble leak. This particular leak se
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by skwirl 13y ago
I'm just curious: If this program in reality did not give the government unfettered access to Google user data as has been claimed by The Guardian and Snowden, would there be any amount of evidence that could now be presented to you th
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by skwirl 13y ago
I am glad a post like this reached the front page. There have been many aspects of this story that are odd to me and should be odd to anyone here once they move past the visceral outrage of being told the NSA has direct access to your e-ma
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by skwirl 13y ago
I haven't read all the responses, but Google's seems pretty meaningful and clear. How do you know it is a "downright lie?"
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by skwirl 13y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. "In 2012, Klayman filed on behalf of a Florida resident an unsuccessful challenge to Barack Obama's placement on the primary ballot and claimed that the latter is not a natural-born citizen." Wha
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by skwirl 13y ago
From what I saw, WWDC had been over for quite a while before HN went down.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Could the media please make an effort not to write articles primarily responding to tweets? This is barely one step above writing articles responding to Youtube comments (please don't get any ideas). You'll find whatever crap yo
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by skwirl 13y ago
There's nothing interesting or unexpected about this statement at all.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Yes, and according to James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence) and Keith Alexander (NSA Director) the NSA was not collecting data on U.S. citizens, either.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Don't get me wrong, I love This American Life, but a week before the more recent episode aired the State of Vermont passed a law to clamp down on patent trolls and its attorney general started suing patent trolls. See: http://abovethelaw.
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by skwirl 13y ago
I doubt it. It seems to me that this American Life was responding to the fact that patent trolling was already very much on the radar, not putting it there themselves.
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by skwirl 13y ago
This article doesn't seem to have any point. "If I’m browsing your website, any sharing feature or analytics script might seem useful to you, but it won’t make me visit you more often, or even less either." Cool story, bro.
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by skwirl 14y ago
As someone who has been working as a software developer for five years since graduating, the claims made by this article are completely contrary to my personal experience. Finding good developers is hard. We spend months trying to hire fo
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by skwirl 14y ago
Could you rephrase this to make it a bit easier to understand?

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