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NSA Considers Linux Journal Readers, Tor (And Linux?) Users "Extremists"
New submitter marxmarv writes If you search the web for communications security information, or read online tech publications like Linux Journal or BoingBoing, you might be a terrorist. The German publication Das Erste disclosed a crumb of alleged XKeyScore configuration, with the vague suggestion of more source code to come, showing that Tor directory servers and their users, and as usual the interested and their neighbor's dogs due to overcapture, were flagged for closer monitoring. Linux Journal, whose domain is part of a listed selector, has a few choice words on their coveted award. Would it be irresponsible not to speculate further?
I do feel kind of extreme. Extremely awesome for being a Linux user!
What, then you're daemonic
I guess that makes me usr bin Laden?
ftfy
Finally someone pays attention to us Linux folk!
-sh: /usr/bin/laden: not found
Muahahaha! >:-D
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I cant imagine how you can find spare time amidst all of your jihadding to post on slashdot...
http://i.cubeupload.com/T6cyLu.png
Really? Check out the beards on Islamic fundamentalists and l33t *nix sysadmins. Are you ready to assume that's a coincidence?
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I'm a Linux sysadmin, run Tor at home and vote Green Party. (In UK were considered domestic extremists - http://www.theguardian.com/pol....
I do wonder how that Ice cream van outside stays in business, its not even hot outside!
Obligatory Hackles strip.
You can tell the difference by the Cheeto stains.
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
The NSA also considers Slashdot to be a terrorist organization.
And they'd be right too, judging from some of the comments I've posted here... oops.
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Shit man, don't attract more attention on me! I, uh, use Windows! Windows...ummm...8? Is that the least terreristy one? I don't know! Don't rendition me, I'm harmless I swear!
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
Thank you for your comment. I really appreciate the way ACs are not only so free with their opinions, but I have noticed that almost without fail they always offer tons of well researched supporting facts to back up their opinions.
That coupled with their awesome grasp of humor and their perfect recognition of sarcasm makes me value opinions of ACs like you so very much.
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
That's just the punctuation police triangulating your unlicensed apostrophe emissions.
I was once on a US military ship, having breakfast in the wardroom (officers lounge) when the Operations Officer (OPS) walks in. This guy was the definition of NOT a morning person; he's still half asleep, bleary eyed... basically a zombie with a bagel. He sits down across from me to eat his bagel and is just barely conscious. My back is to the outboard side of the ship, and the morning sun is blazing in one of the portholes putting a big bright-ass circle of light right on his barely conscious face. He's squinting and chewing and basically just remembering how to be alive for today. It's painful to watch.
But then zombie-OPS stops chewing, slowly picks up the phone, and dials the bridge. In his well-known I'm-still-totally-asleep voice, he says "heeeey. It's OPS. Could you... shift our barpat... yeah, one six five. Thanks." And puts the phone down. And then he just sits there. Squinting. Waiting.
And then, ever so slowly, I realize that that big blazing spot of sun has begun to slide off the zombie's face and onto the wall behind him. After a moment it clears his face and he blinks slowly a few times and the brilliant beauty of what I've just witnessed begins to overwhelm me. By ordering the bridge to adjust the ship's back-and-forth patrol by about 15 degrees, he's changed our course just enough to reposition the sun off of his face. He's literally just redirected thousands of tons of steel and hundreds of people so that he could get the sun out of his eyes while he eats his bagel. I am in awe.
Cue downmods and comments of "Slashdot has literally become reddit."
Sounds cool until they show up and kill -9 your ass.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
They don't flag the FreeBSDers for closer monitoring. They just send them straight to Guantanamo Bay.