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by xnull2guest 10y ago
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6293 It's pretty incredible how casually members of the US government and party officials invoke the concept of galvanizing revolutionary movements. There's a
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The incredible thing is that this type of coordination is not at all unusual. It's how the US media and propaganda system works. It's how stories from US narrative pervade all corners of US media simultaneously. Plenty of people i
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
> you could call him a Citibank executive, or you could call him the Chief of Staff in Bill Clinton's Treasury Department You could point to a revolving door of administration between the private and public sector, along with public
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
This is perfectly spot on. However, I'd argue that it took the DNC leaks for people en masse to understand this. People broadly thought that they had a legitimate say in the candidate promoted by the party affiliation. Today, people st
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
The American media hasn't avoided the deadly mistake of propagandizing the American public on the behalf of the US government into the Iraq war, for instance, and it has fed Americans a steady died of thinly veiled nationalism and impe
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I remember the WikiLeaks of Turkish emails that built and led up to the near successful coup of the Erdogan regime. In any case, I definitely welcome leaks from other countries. But I don't want those exclusively. As an American it&#x2
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Right, the US National Security apparatus will be the author of the writeup, and Americans won't have any access to a story outside the bubble.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
I would characterize US media as the most prevalent source of misinformation for Americans. From the outright lies, blatant propaganda and media manipulation that dragged America into the Iraq War, to the despicably hallow coverage of the S
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Sure. I don't think anyone, myself or the OP, has suggested reading Wikileaks as a sole source. A good example is understanding the role that Benghazi State Department officials (Ambassador Stevens) played in illegally internationally
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Agreed. If the backchannel is news or surprising to you, you're probably just following and regurgitating someone else's propaganda. Agreed with the OP: read original sources like Wikileaks.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Reddit's content curation has come at a time when social media writ large (Facebook, Twitter) has become linked into State Department and DoD programs. Counter-intelligence objectives are fought on the 'private property' of s
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
It's well known that governments are trusted CAs themselves in addition to their having 'shadow certificates' (issued by CA's to impersonate other identities) as well as compromised CA certificates. There's no assum
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Here Facebook isn't even a man-in-the-middle. They are a 'man-on-the-box'. They get to generate the nonces, keys, etc. It's pointless to add encryption if Facebook is your root of trust.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
HTTPS is no longer end-to-end encryption as everybody from corporate networks to load balancers to governments transparently MiTM. The three big things that need to be solved are: - How to do fault tolerate distributed end-to-end encryption
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Yeah no thanks. I don't trust Facebook with anything. I consider any software touched by Facebook backdoored. They deserve that reputation.
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by xnull2guest 10y ago
Many of the problems faced by Facebook, Youtube and others is that they own the digital commons and manage and curate it for the people trying to communicate with one another. These issues come up for companies whose business models are dec
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Somehow people are just catching on to this. I was amazed and deeply disappointed by the appointment of Cass Sunstein. He wrote a freaking book entitled "The Problem of Free Speech" and actively justifies state infiltration and &#
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
While I'm thankful that wealthy men try to do things in the world they think will benefit themselves or other people, it bothers me that democracy is not able to compete with the influence of big money - even for things as simple as bi
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Thank you. Even Microsoft started to fund "Scroogle" ads - while themselves being a similar offender. The point is that Apple is compelled to hand over your data and backdoor their services just like every other company. The Third
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Erg, you still don't cover whether the mall situation would be considered entrapment (it would). I need to point out one final time that you have not engaged with any of the actual arguments that have been made herein, though you are q
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Right, it was just an explanation on an issue that wasn't a charitable representation of the DPR case. Which is what we were trying to resolve. Thus both our frustrations. It's cool, man. Let's both give up. :)
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
They should make a web comic university. I wonder if someone could pass the Bar Exam... None of these cover the scenario. They do not have to do with whether using coercion (let's say the leverage in the third example) counts as entrap
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
> Further, offering you hitman services is NOT entrapment. Nope, but creating a false circumstance of blackmail is. That's what we're talking about. But we've gone in circles. I think we both need to talk to other (knowled
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Please refer to what guide? The webcomic? Can you be specific about which webcomic had law enforcement blackmailing someone? I didn't see one that covers our case there. > 'because an innocent person would say "no".&#
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
He didn't come up with it. Law enforcement did. "It's his own fault he couldn't go to the police for help with the blackmail, so the court cannot reasonably excuse him for not doing so." That's not how blackmai
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
Doesn't "there is no chutzpah defense" imply that he is guilty of a range of other things - then not yet determined in court? And does it really work that way? You can be entrapped so long as your defense has no chutzpah? Isn
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city There is some uncertainty about what the concept means to some people still, but basically it's an Orwellian Neoliberals dream. AFAICT the idea is that Smart Cities wire up
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
It was my understanding that Smart Cities were a new and exciting concept. But yeah, systems science is going to play an important role.
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This reminds me that both India and China are building a huge number of cities all wired up to collect data on everything, so that they can be micromanaged and studied. Modi promised to build 100 "Smart Cities" - a lot of it with
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by xnull2guest 11y ago
This very thing is in the FREEDOM Act text. They move collections to private holders (this is what they originally claimed was the case anyway). The surveillance hasn't stopped. There's simply a different legal process for getting

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