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Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2013.06.07 03:02:00 -
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It's hitting, yes, but much of the US media has their tongues so far up Barack's butt they taste his food before he does. |
Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2013.06.07 11:34:00 -
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James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, just released a letter copping to and essentially declassifying the program.
No worries though -- he says there's a secret court that protects us and we can trust the government not to abuse the power.
And he said the whistleblower is a real douchebag for telling us.
Phew!
I feel better now.
SCANDAL. OVER. |
Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2013.06.10 01:08:00 -
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People need to watch the full interview with Edward Snowden here.
This guy is not a crazy. Or a partisan. He's not some bitter traitor like Bradley Manning. He warns about exactly the concern I had earlier in the thread.
This is not just a surveillance system. This is the greatest tool of blackmail ever engineered.
If you're high enough profile and **** off the wrong person at the NSA and they can go through your digital history and devastate your life. You don't have to be under suspicion today. Since everything on everyone is being stored, all you have to do is get on somebody's bad side tomorrow.
Fortunately, there are ways to bring this system to a screeching halt that are *entirely* out of the NSA's control. Three things need to happen:
1. Browser and chat program plugins need to be created that will do occasional searches in the background or automated chatter involving known NSA watch words and bizarre behaviors and sexual fetishes. The purpose of this plugin is to overwhelm the system with false positives and to immunize users against the potential for blackmail - after all, you can just say the plugin searched for that kinky stuff.
2. Webmasters need to purposely litter their webpages with watch words to generate as many false positives as possible. Make the system worthless.
3. We must propagate the idea that anonymous or government sources making claims about someone's digital paper trail are inherently untrustworthy and likely manufactured for political gain or lies resulting from axe grinding. |
Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2013.06.11 02:11:00 -
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Victoria Sin wrote:
If I were him, I would have retained my honour, not betrayed my country, left my job to satisfy my sense of morality and lobbied for changes to law without giving the entire game away.
I know full well the reason he left the country and didn't bother speaking to Congress.
What's going to happen to the Congressman he contacts? They're going to get a phone call from the NSA letting them know they have the receipt of the Thai ladyboy locked away in the Congressman's basement.
Next thing you know, Snowden is sold out, scooped up, and disappeared. |
Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2013.06.12 03:02:00 -
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Rain6637 wrote:but really, chances are he's delusional. as in, he thinks of himself as an irl Ben Affleck in Hunt for Red October.
Strange how a delusional man has attracted the full attention of the American surveillance state. |
Jada Maroo
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Posted - 2013.06.12 06:42:00 -
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Rain6637 wrote:Blah blah blah I want the government to read all my emails, listen to all my phone calls, and monitor all my web activity, so I'm just going to make this about trashing the whistleblower blah blah...
I went ahead and translated your message from tool to english. |
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Posted - 2013.06.12 08:20:00 -
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Hrothgar Nilsson wrote:We got ourselves a real armchair profiler here. As well as an armchair psychologist. And an armchair psychic who knows every thought that guy ever thought. Hell, I'll bet you know what Snowden was thinking before he even thunk it.
One fact that proves everything Snowden is saying is true is an oft overlooked element from the David Petraeus affair.
If the head of the CIA feels the need to use an Al Qaeda email drop box technique to avoid the monitoring of an email to his girlfriend, then by default we know what he knows: that all digital communication transfers are being monitored.
Snowden's only crime is exposing that truth to a much wider audience. |
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