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by waterphone 13y ago
> “The server is controlled by the FBI,” an official with one of the companies said. “We do not offer a download feature from our server.” Now we know why they phrased their statements so specifically.
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by waterphone 13y ago
I don't have new ideas (but it's a great subject), so I'll start off by listing the basics everyone should start doing. Install GPG if you haven't already. Include your public key fingerprint in your email signature, and
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by waterphone 13y ago
No, allegedly is a good word to used in criminal cases and reporting about them. Among other things, it helps to remind people that innocent until proven guilty remains the case (most of the time) in the United States, and that's a goo
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Maureen Dowd: Peeping Barry(nytimes.com)
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by waterphone 13y ago
The fact is that if you have someone's phone number, you generally have access to all that other information because linking it to a name and thus everything else is fairly trivial, even for ordinary people not affiliated with the NSA.
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by waterphone 13y ago
Thanks. I noticed, and it's been happening off and on, but prior to today, comments I was making were eventually being unhidden after a few hours. Not so today, it seems.
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by waterphone 13y ago
I applaud the attempt, but after reading the text of the bill, will this do anything? They obtained a court order authorizing this. Wouldn't it be better to make it illegal to issue broad warrants for large numbers of people and instea
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by waterphone 13y ago
Boundless Informant appears to not be an actual spying tool, but rather a GAO tool for monitoring how much spying is going on. The colors correspond with the amount of intelligence collected. Green is the least, red is the most. If you expa
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by waterphone 13y ago
I'm likely going to use a mix of several of the above options. A combination of client-side encryption and my own services, and maybe non-US companies as well, but I don't trust the governments of other countries much either.
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by waterphone 13y ago
FYI, regarding the headline: James Clapper is the Director of National Intelligence, not the Director of the NSA. The DNI is the boss of the U.S. intelligence community in general, including but not limited to the NSA.
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by waterphone 13y ago
97 billion pieces of intelligence gathered worldwide in a one month period! 3 billion of which are from the U.S. If that's not an example of a massive dragnet surveillance program, I don't know what is.
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by waterphone 13y ago
Looking into the IRS scandal, it seems like a non-issue in reality, despite being hyped up politically. They were targeting tax exempt organizations abusing their status by remaining politically active. And they did nothing beyond investiga
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by waterphone 13y ago
Not really, no. It's not clear what's happening yet. The Washington Post has backed down somewhat, but additional information from other sources, as well as the initial document which was only partially leaked previously, is still
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by waterphone 13y ago
No, I wouldn't. And I would publicize the fact that I was asked to. It's easy to pretend that you should just go along with something because someone else will take over anyway, but nothing will ever happen if no one stands up and
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by waterphone 13y ago
Calling is believed to have a greater impact than emailing. It's a lot easier to ignore an email, which involves passive interaction, rather than a phone call which is much more direct. It may not be that beneficial to contact someone
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by waterphone 13y ago
It sounds like an exciting new system, and I hope it gains greater popularity, however there are a few reasons some may be hesitant right now: - "Bitmessage should run on any OS though it is only lightly tested on OSX." - "Bi
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by waterphone 13y ago
This article itself says otherwise, that PRISM is a front-end to the data itself, providing a unified interface for searching through all the data types from the many sources they're coming in from.
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by waterphone 13y ago
This article is two days old, but seems to contain details that contradict later reports from other sources. > A FISA order is required to continue monitoring and analyzing these datasets, although the monitoring can start before an appl
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by waterphone 13y ago
So CNET has a source who says it isn't true and the NYT has sources who say it is true. Who's telling the truth?
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by waterphone 13y ago
I'm likely going to use their services in a reduced capacity whether they were complicit or not, simply because this incident has highlighted the risk of companies who store massive amounts of personal information consolidated together
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by waterphone 13y ago
To be clear, this is the chief architect of Google+, not Google as a whole. Would he necessarily know?
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by waterphone 13y ago
I've been wondering the same thing. It's easy to make this story go away fast for most people by doing what they've already done—placating statements suggesting the programs are good and necessary and not infringing upon anyo
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by waterphone 13y ago
Did he confirm PRISM exists, or the court order to Verizon? These are separate things. The Verizon story came first, followed by PRISM separately, less than a day later. Many people seem to be conflating the two.
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by waterphone 13y ago
A lot of people get excited and set it up, then realize there's no one else they know who is willing to use it, rendering it pointless.
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by waterphone 13y ago
Obama specifically said "nobody is listening to your telephone calls", which is probably technically true. There isn't a person sitting there listening to them. If it's happening, it's an automated process and they&
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by waterphone 13y ago
FYI, it's more effective to call your senators and representatives than it is to email them.
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by waterphone 13y ago
You can't have 100% security period, so why are we giving up our privacy to reach an impossible goal?
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by waterphone 13y ago
There are numerous reasons dragnet surveillance is bad, and these are only a few: There are so many federal laws, no one even knows how many there are. Law professors and other experts have said everyone over the age of 18 has committed a f