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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Google has a legal team whose full-time job is pushing back on these requests. At some point, they have to either obey the law, or go to prison themselves. Get off your high horse. Google has a business model whose entire premise is to pu
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
If Russia bent it's rules. Having been at many international airports, I can't see how a car entered that holding /transfer area. His passport has been cancelled but is there an international db to check valid vs non-valid on
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
I hope he has plan B, or starts planning it. Ecuador is a tiny country and can easily be influenced by USA once this government falls. In smaller countries when USA needs a favor, it "forgets" a few things their leader does when i
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Not a movie, but I am betting that hundred of spies were elbowing each other over him in Hong Kong. What he had with him is a gold mine. If they get an order to stop him from doing X, they have many tools at their arsenal
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
If he'd stood up for US citizens rather than US enemies he could have remained in the US and fought his corner in the courts and the press. He would be convicted, he clearly violated the law. An unjust law perhaps, but a law nonethel
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Armchair analysis. How about looking at his real alternatives? One was virtually 24 hour /day locked up in a sunless, concrete room the other going to Venezuela or Cuba to have a somewhat normal life. Hasn't he suffered enough, g
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Surprised the cab to the airport didn't "break down" (or blow up) or he didn't get mugged on his way to the airport. My guess is that Chinese agents were keeping the CIA and Western ones at bay, since that ultimately is
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
You miss the point: DDG offers just search and doesn't log much. Google for example has another 10 (?) or more data points to connect you with that search, logs as much as they can and they hold it for ages. On Google NSA has to just a
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Someone, you know who, will call in a bomb and force the plane to land in UK, or Germany or another US satellite state. Or maybe USAF F-16s will greet the plane along the way
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
No can do. The LatAM will change leadership and he'd be screwed sooner or later. Sadly, USA probably pushed him to commit treason and spill the guts on what USA does to China. He's very valuable to the Chinese; USA should have gra
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
It doesn't become unconstitutional when a court says so. From its inception either it is, or it isn't. The issue simply isn't decided until the court says so. From a practical point of view there's no difference, we ca
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
On the other hand: Considering it takes just a minute to sign one, it's not that much of a downside. Unless NSA is adding the signatories to a special database :-) At worst, it shows that a lot of people are listening and agreeing with
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
You have it wrong. Congress passes law to say, intercept all phone calls and store them. Until a court strikes it down is assumed constitutional and legal. You challenge it and then it becomes illegal and unconstitutional. (The court also c
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Accidents do happen, even after sending email warning about big stories and Fed investigations. But then it all depends on his "big story." It need not be the Government doing it, maybe some big fish to avoid jail, embarrassment o
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
So now is the time to identify the federal prosecutors who filed this and petition the government to have them fired. That's the wrong target, Snowden clearly broke the law, and that's what the prosecutors are alleging. You coul
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Expect that Google wants to read what you wrote on the email and to whom. Of course to help you see more ads, er better ads. Cause you're just dying for another dozen ads. Imagine a Google Glass wearer and a NSA order to record everyth
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Google shouldn't be trusted with everything you have. Between Analytics, Android, Google Search, Documents and E-mail they know what you are thinking and virtually everything you do, online and offline. Even if the current management a
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
You're supposed to log in the BTC /USD exchange rate at the end of that day (?) and pay Uncle Sam in crisp USD
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Sometimes all I think we can do by writing to our "tough on terrorists" lawmakers is save some money. Avoid the FISA court entirely, just give the the rubber stamp to the f#^&%($ NSA, it's not like any request is denied
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
>> It's not realistic to think they will do that. I know, that's why I am moving away from Google. At least I'll make a little harder for NSA /FBI to figure out every damn thing I do online and offline (Android)
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
I'd love to see Google say that they not have the data requested, because they simply do not collect it from users. If Google has it, NSA will get it. One way or another. Denials and "lawsuits" against the NSA written like p
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Nice, unsupported low blow to a competitor. Keep looking maybe you'll "find" some with your credit card info and home address.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Nah if things get tough, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft etc store it, and NSA can access the data on demand.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Google knows what you searched for and what sites you visited on 06/20/2012. DDG, I doubt it. Guess which one is NSA #1 love?
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Against some kind of pervasive secret program involving many people: The odds of a single Googler on any team being a "whistleblower" are far higher than the odds at NSA, and we've had a lot of espionage leaks over the years
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Drumond: "Note that I say “originally” because you’ll see that many of those original sources corrected their articles after it became clear that the PRISM slides were not accurate." Someone, possibly a Google /Fb /Mic
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
>> I don't think datacenter monkeys cost that much... are you including the costs of the drives themselves? Fine, so you should have bought them 600 new hardrives, maybe they would have done the labor for free. It's not li
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Why? Indiscriminate leaking, without caring about anything is what will make Snowden radioactive to most people.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Sucks to be Kim but why should another third, seemly innocent party, have to suffer too? 600 servers that be leased at, say, $100 a month is $60,000 a month or $720K a year. Kim, FedGov...Jesus or whoever should pay if they want to keep the
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
It's all anon, fun and games until the SWAT team shows up :-) In all seriousness, any package as complex as Windows and Office is bound to have bugs, many, many bugs.

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