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NSA Metadata Collection Gets 90-Day Extension
schwit1 sends word that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the NSA's ability to collect bulk metadata about U.S. citizens' phone calls. In April, the House of Representatives passed a bill to limit the NSA's collection of metadata, but the Senate has been working on their version of the bill since then without yet voting on it. Because of this, and the alleged importance of continuing intelligence operations, the government sought a 90-day reauthorization of the current program. The court agreed. Senator Patrick Leahy said this clearly demonstrates the need to get this legislation passed. "We cannot wait any longer, and we cannot defer action on this important issue until the next Congress. This announcement underscores, once again, that it is time for Congress to enact meaningful reforms to protect individual privacy.
What the fuck? Just how much are these scumbags being paid off? I have difficulty believing someone could be that corrupt just for the hell of it, so I'm certain there's a big bribe--I mean, "campaign contribution," in it for them.
16 bits versus 16 + 8 bits.
I mean, seriously, wtf is the problem here. This is against the constitution. You know, the laws you the government is supposed to be holding. In fact, you are being called on it, Congress said Fuck you on this shit, the Senate is being slower on it, so that means it's okay to continue violating our rights for 90 more days?
Fuck you and fuck no!
I guess for the next 90 days, American citizens should ignore Federal Laws. I mean, if they want to play this way, we should play back.
Be seeing you...
Which metadata do the NSA collect?
If you know that then you can "carpet bomb" them with useless metadata rendering the logging useless.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Speeches must be made, and dinners must be eaten. And of course, checks must be signed, or however they do it with all this new electronic banking stuff.
And I know we can count on 98% you to reelect 95% of these people back into office, and they'll fix everything right up. Yep, that's just what they'll do.. Iron clad guarantee.. Like Desktop Linux, reform is just around the corner. And day now...
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Why even bother getting an extention? We all know the program will continue anyway.
All they have to do is not come to a finalized consensus, huh?
You know, a huge part of our medical issues up here in canada are caused the exact same way. Part of the budget is used to pay the committee in charge of determining how the budget must be administered.
There's not much left by the time it gets allocated that's for sure.
Which metadata do the NSA collect?
If you know that then you can "carpet bomb" them with useless metadata rendering the logging useless.
Congratulations on your logic here.
Now if you could just convince the other billion people they are monitoring...you know, so it doesn't make your "useless" shit stand out so much.
Not that you were looking to bring attention to yourself or anything...
Fuck you and fuck no!
That's the spirit. Things have got to change, But first, you gotta get mad!
All of this furor is over call and subscriber data being sent to the NSA directly on a regular basis. If I wanted to build a computer platform capable of storing and doing queries on this information for the whole United States I could probably assemble one off the shelf for a couple grand.
I would not need a water-cooled data center in Utah, centrally located so you can lease dark fiber to carry multiple terabit streams into it. Among other data centers in other parts of the country which are in planning, already constructed, or just manage to stay under the radar because they were built from the black ops budget. I would not need secret agreements (negotiated voluntarily or by threat) with service providers to tap and split optic cables.
This issue of NSA bulk metadata collection is a straw man, a distraction to divert attention from NSA's full content backbone tapping capability. It is a little duck set loose for Congress to shoot down, so they can hold up the dead duck as they pose for a group photo, leaning on their rifles.
The horrifying truth is -- if and when, possibly now -- NSA has enough backbone taps in place, they would already have access to this data that is being sent to them. In the modern world there are but a few major telecoms and their call data converges at central billing and collection points. The telecoms would gladly keep these links unencrypted or leave the keys in the mailbox for a nudge nudge wink wink absolving them of public ire.
Even the judges are stalking this duck and believe me, they are relieved when the topic of conversation fixes on call data rather than bulk content interception. That is because there is legal precedent for law enforcement collection of so-called 'pen trace data' without warrants, and they have a leg to stand on.
I'll serious money that if YOU were to ask any member of Congress a very specific and impeccably worded question about bulk content collection and backbone taps, you would get a clumsy response about call metadata. And move on to the next question. It is that insidious.
NSA has crossed the line. It needs to be completely disbanded, its secret assets colocated at Tier 1 and Tier 2 exchanges completely disconnected, dismantled and sold at auction. Its employees sent home. Or we're all fucked.
LYNCHPIN of warrantless spying: Hepting v. AT&T
Clap on! Clap off! Clapper's PRISM DISINFO Gambit
RAISE CONGRESS, while you still can!
A fable: NSA and the Desolation of Smaug
<blink>down the rabbit hole</blink>
He'll spring into action as soon as he gets back from playing the 9th Hole.
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
the terrorist will win and Osama Bin Laden will return from the grave and institute Sharia law and take away our bacon cheese burgers and beer and NFL/NBA/MLB and get rid of all the booze like prohibition and make everyone bow to Mecca five times a day and keep girls from walking around in shorts because you know THEY HATE OUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why is Snark Required?
has been more effective than any I've seen before. It shutdown our network several times since Friday. We use VoIP so it also shutdown our phone lines. It just show how fragile our infrastructure is when one band that hasn't been relevant in thirty years can destroy the Internet in this way. We don't need someone as powerful as the NSA to shutdown the Internet. U2 did it just fine with their attack.
...as a limited time approval of the FISA courts.
You never know...
that legislation, even if passed into law, will curtail the actions of the three letters? especially the super secret types?
Its easy with a simple email and attachment...
browser extentions were created for that very purpose http://qz.com/125642/new-brows...
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
Undoubtedly the NSA will make the most of this time to obtain more of everything they possibly can.
It's important that we ignore our constitution, for the sake of the children!
BTW, this is a fine example of how our country's system of checks and balances works. The executive branch overstepped, the legislative branch corrected them, just as it was set up to do. And the judicial branch corrected the executive branch when they tried to do an end run. What's that, neither branch corrected it? Oh. Well, who needs checks and balances when whomever the one person purportedly running the show is always right? (I'm not singling out this president, it's been several.)
just cause the type a data going down that line via the electricity is differant or changed in format doe snot mean it has no electrons in this mix....
last time i checked it takes electricity to make all phones and pcs work....and YES even oold style phones need electricity to work...no power in the phone line its NOT WORKING
this is just legalese bullshit buy aswipes scopping and scaming on our data
The point he is making is that the "queries" do not take a lot of disk space, or require much transmission time. Even if it costs $200,000 to keep a database, the point is valid.
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2. The IMF is an Agency of the U.N. Black's Law Dictionary 6th Ed. Pg 816
3. The United States has NOT had a Treasury since 1921. 41 Stat. Ch. 214 page 654
4. The U.S. Treasury is now the IMF. Presi dential Documents Volume 29 No. 4 page 113 22 U.S.C. 285-288
5. The U.S. does not have any employees because there is no longer a United States. No more reorganizations. After 200 years of bankruptcy it is finally over. Executive Order 12803
6. The FCC, CIA, FBI, NSA and all of the other Alphabet Gangs were never part of the U.S. Government, even though the 'U.S. Government held stock in said 'Agencies. &n bsp; U.S. v. Strang, 254 U.S. 491 Lewis v. U.S., 680 F.2d, 1239
7. Social Security Numbers are issued by the UN through the IMF. The application for an SSN is the SS5 form. The Department of the Treasury (IMF) issues the SS5, not the 'Social Security Administration. The new SS5 forms do not state who publishes them while the old form states they are Department of Treasury. 20 CFR Chap. 111 Subpart B 422.103 (b)
8. There are NO Judicial Courts in America and have not been since 1789. 'Judges do NOT enforce Statutes and Codes. Executive Administrators enforce Statutes and Codes. FRC v. GE, 281 U.S. 464 Keller v. Potomac Elec. Co., 261 U.S. 428 1 Stat. 138-178
9. There have NOT been any 'Ju dges in America since 1789. There have only been Administrators. FRC v. GE, 281 U.S. 464 Keller v. Potomac Elec. Co., 261 U.S. 428 1 Stat. 138-178
10. According to GATT you MUST have a Social Security Number. House Report 103-826
11. New York City is defined in the Federal Regulations as the United Nations. Ru dolph Guiliani stated on C-Span that 'New York City is the Capital of the World. For once, he told the truth. 20 CFR Chap. 111 subpart B 422.103 (b) (2) (2)
12. Social Security is NOT insurance or a contract. Nor is there a 'Trust Fund. Helvering v. Davis, 301 U.S. 619 Steward Co. v. Davis, 301 U.S. 548
13. Your Social Security check comes directly from the IMF which is an Agency of the United Nations. Examine one: top-left should be written 'United States Treasury see 2-4 above.
14. You own NO property. Slaves can't own property. Read carefully the Deed to the property you think is yours. You are listed as a TENANT. Often times the Mortgage Holder or the State is listed as Seised in demesne as of fee. Senate Document 43, 73rd Congress 1st Session Seised in demesne as of fee. This is the strict technical expression used to describe the ownership in 'an estate in fee-simple in possession in a corporeal hereditament. The word 'seised is used to express the 'seisin or owner's possession of a freehold property; the phrase 'in demesne, or 'in his demesne, (in dominico suo) signifies that he's seised as owner of the land itself, and not merely of the seigniory services; and the concluding words, 'as of fee, import that he is seised of an estate of inheritance in fee-simple. Where the subject is incorporeal, or the estate expectant on a precedent freehold, the words 'in his demesne are omitted. (Co. Litt. 17a; Fleta, 1.5, c. 5, 18; Bract. 1.4, tr. 5, c. 2, 2) Brown. "Black's Law Dictionary Fourth Edition, page 1523.
15. The most powerful court in America is NOT the United States Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 42 Pa. C.S.A. 502
16. The King of England financially backed both sides of the Revolutionary War. Treaty of Versailles July 16, 1782 Treaty of Peace 8 Stat. 80
17. You CANNOT use the U.S. Constitution to defend yourself because you are NOT a party to it. Padelford Fay & Co. v. The Mayor & Alderman of the City of Savannah, 14 Georgia 438, 520
18. America is a British Colony. The 'United States is a corporation, not a land mass and it existed before the Revolutionary War an
Bluffdale has to have something to do with all that multi-billion dollar hardware.
The tin foul is very, very strong/thick with this one. In fact this hat is a death cast of the original loony to on, pointy headed dickens.
There are over 100,000 staff hired by the Gov to spread lies and attack anyone who doesn't agree with them, many of them have Slashdot included on their daily routine list.
And the smell of NSA shill is very strong with this one. The smell is so strong the reply was probably copied and pasted from some NSA standard disinformation operation manual.
Next you're going to tell me there are no NSA shills operating on Slashdot.
Joe Biden is a square shooter. Joe Biden for 2016 ...
The recent Cspan coverage of the court case on this disclosed an interesting fact.
A old school pin register records the called and calling party numbers and the call time and duration.
These collections also include the trunk group which tells how the call is routed between phone switches.
Given that they already know the end stations involved,
this information be of little interest unless one had access to the trunks between the switches.
This would give access to the contents of the call.
This leads one to wonder if there may be a bit more to this story than the bulk collection of 'just' meta-data.
Look how successful it was with Christie
Which metadata do the NSA collect?
If you know that then you can "carpet bomb" them with useless metadata rendering the logging useless.
That will only generate more data points for them to use as "evidence" that you're a terrorist.
I blame the lizard people personally. They have the real copy of Barack Obama's birth certificate, and it shows that he is clearly an illegal alien. From another planet.
Why is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court making a decision on DOMESTIC Surveillance? When did US Citizens become "Foreign" subjects?
Seems nobody asks these questions to the courts or government assholes.