On Android, if I click on a link in an e-mail to a response to a comment of mine it takes me to the Slashdot mobile site with the parent of my comment.
Scrolling down I get to my comment, then the reply, then my comment again, then the reply again, ad infinitum (or ad crash really).
Chief among these is the agency's infant Automated Bluesheet Analysis Project, she said. Blue sheets, no longer on blue sheets of paper, provide the SEC with detailed information about trades performed by a firm and its clients. The information, now sent in electronically, includes the security's name, the date traded, price, transaction size and a list of the parties involved.
They're digital. There doesn't need to be a "separate" copy. That was my point.
The majority of Google's Gmail users just hit "archive" and the mail "goes away". Google did that on purpose. Out of sight, out of mind. Then THEY have vast quantities to mine for data. Giving it to the government is incidental.
You're thinking about Google keeping a separate set of archive systems for something like this. I'm saying *they don't need to* for the vast majority of it. It happens that way naturally.
Yes, you can POP it down but the bulk of their customers just live with the tyranny of the default. The result is the same.
4. Google is compelled by law to lie. 5. The NSA is tapping the routers one step up from Google's data centers and Google's hands are clean, but the NSA has all the data anyway.
#5 would be my guess, but should be stymied by always using an SSL/TLS connection to Google. Of course, I doubt the *SMTP* connections delivering mail to/from Google servers are all encrypted, regardless of the webmail interface.
Actually...Google provides 15 Gb of storage for standard, free Gmail accounts. Unless you're attaching movies or large numbers of music files, that is enough to retain years worth of e-mail.
I know, I have years worth of e-mail in my Gmail box. 8 years, to be exact, and I'm using less than 10% of that 15 Gb.
The money is spent.
And as a side note. I once went thru and started deleting large quantities of older e-mail, that I had no reason to keep. After about 15 minutes the little "advertising" strip on the top of Gmail switched to "We have a sale going on tin-foil hats" and stayed there until I logged out..
Google for OCR-A and OCR-B as TTF. There are freely available versions. I use them for mailing labels, along with PostNet bar codes to make it as easy as possible for the Post Office.
They're persecuting Snowden for removing plausible deniability. By rubbing everyone's nose in this, the powers that be can no longer make silly hand gestures to the general public and claim "paranoid conspiracy nonsense!" and "that's what you get for believing Hollywood fairy tales".
Of course, the only thing most of the general public is going to bitch about is how the NSA is messing with the voting on American Idol.
Rare Earth elements aren't "rare", in that there isn't a lot of them. They just don't lump together in easily mineable concentrations. The United States, Russia and Australia (at least) have mega-craploads of rare-earth elements. It is just cheaper to source them from China.
My suspicion on the BlackBerry claim is that what was intercepted was regular SMS messages, and not the secure BB PIN messaging.
The latter is what is super secure, because it traverses via the data link to the BES and is essentially opaque to telcos.
While BBs have the PIN messaging capabilities that are super-secure, most people I know just use regular SMS because they don't know any better. And you can't use PIN messaging outside your own BES network.
The software I was working with at the time kept text messages as metadata. However, there was a debate between the FBI (give me everything) and the corporate lawyers of the telco about that. I do not know who won or what the legal standing is today.
My suspicion is that SMS messages are kept as metadata.
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No, it isn't. If you explicitly click "log out" it is supposed to log you out and you have to explicitly log back in.
"Remember me" is only supposed to keep you signed in if you don't explicitly log out, such as by just leaving the page or closing the browser.
Otherwise, how do you actually log out of a session?
Quote the article:
In July 2009 a North Korean ship heading to Burma was tracked by the US Navy on suspicion of transporting weapons and subsequently turned around
Their shipping is being watched regularly.
Do you get an infinite comment loop?
On Android, if I click on a link in an e-mail to a response to a comment of mine it takes me to the Slashdot mobile site with the parent of my comment.
Scrolling down I get to my comment, then the reply, then my comment again, then the reply again, ad infinitum (or ad crash really).
Here is a concise summary of the new FISC interpretation.
"Lubricant optional."
Oh man do hangouts suck. With Talk on my phone I could tell if people were online or not. Hangouts doesn't indicate (on Android).
They also take 5-10 seconds to activate. Like the dam thing isn't * phoning * home, it is composing a letter long hand.
Right here: http://www.boozallen.com/careers :-)
... *and* get paid a boatload of money to do it?
You sound like you actually read the report. Of the $2.74 million spent, close to $1.5 million was on contractors.
Chief among these is the agency's infant Automated Bluesheet Analysis Project, she said. Blue sheets, no longer on blue sheets of paper, provide the SEC with detailed information about trades performed by a firm and its clients. The information, now sent in electronically, includes the security's name, the date traded, price, transaction size and a list of the parties involved.
http://www.tradersmagazine.com/news/sec-automates-identification-suspicious-trading-110401-1.html?pg=1
They're digital. There doesn't need to be a "separate" copy. That was my point.
The majority of Google's Gmail users just hit "archive" and the mail "goes away". Google did that on purpose. Out of sight, out of mind. Then THEY have vast quantities to mine for data. Giving it to the government is incidental.
You're thinking about Google keeping a separate set of archive systems for something like this. I'm saying *they don't need to* for the vast majority of it. It happens that way naturally.
Yes, you can POP it down but the bulk of their customers just live with the tyranny of the default. The result is the same.
4. Google is compelled by law to lie.
5. The NSA is tapping the routers one step up from Google's data centers and Google's hands are clean, but the NSA has all the data anyway.
#5 would be my guess, but should be stymied by always using an SSL/TLS connection to Google. Of course, I doubt the *SMTP* connections delivering mail to/from Google servers are all encrypted, regardless of the webmail interface.
Actually...Google provides 15 Gb of storage for standard, free Gmail accounts. Unless you're attaching movies or large numbers of music files, that is enough to retain years worth of e-mail.
I know, I have years worth of e-mail in my Gmail box. 8 years, to be exact, and I'm using less than 10% of that 15 Gb.
The money is spent.
And as a side note. I once went thru and started deleting large quantities of older e-mail, that I had no reason to keep. After about 15 minutes the little "advertising" strip on the top of Gmail switched to "We have a sale going on tin-foil hats" and stayed there until I logged out..
Have you looked at M-disc? They're supposedly nigh indestructible and claim to last 1,000+ years w/o errors.
Google for OCR-A and OCR-B as TTF. There are freely available versions. I use them for mailing labels, along with PostNet bar codes to make it as easy as possible for the Post Office.
They're persecuting Snowden for removing plausible deniability. By rubbing everyone's nose in this, the powers that be can no longer make silly hand gestures to the general public and claim "paranoid conspiracy nonsense!" and "that's what you get for believing Hollywood fairy tales".
Of course, the only thing most of the general public is going to bitch about is how the NSA is messing with the voting on American Idol.
Ummm...nope.
Requested date: 04-August-2012
Released date: 29-May-2013
Posted date: 24-June-2013
Requested date: 02-August-2012
Released date: 11-June-2013
Posted date: 24-June-2013
Poland agreed to the advanced missile defense systems, including advanced radar stations. They get a pass.
Kenya is safe as long as our coffee prices remain low. Starbucks just announced a price increase, so they better watch their asses.
Uh,no. Not even close.
Rare Earth elements aren't "rare", in that there isn't a lot of them. They just don't lump together in easily mineable concentrations. The United States, Russia and Australia (at least) have mega-craploads of rare-earth elements. It is just cheaper to source them from China.
Educate thyself and read paragraph two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_earth_element
Then the whole CO2/global warming issue should be solved.
Neither Google nor Facebook have the ability to confiscate everything I own and throw me in jail, possibly using lethal force if I resist.
The government does.
Oh yeah? Tell Flanders that.
The entire province? Or just a few people in particular?
My suspicion on the BlackBerry claim is that what was intercepted was regular SMS messages, and not the secure BB PIN messaging.
The latter is what is super secure, because it traverses via the data link to the BES and is essentially opaque to telcos.
While BBs have the PIN messaging capabilities that are super-secure, most people I know just use regular SMS because they don't know any better. And you can't use PIN messaging outside your own BES network.
Correct. I was implying that the tech was shared on the condition the data it gathered be shared back. Sorry for being so obtuse.
The tech was probably shared with them by the NSA.
The software I was working with at the time kept text messages as metadata. However, there was a debate between the FBI (give me everything) and the corporate lawyers of the telco about that. I do not know who won or what the legal standing is today.
My suspicion is that SMS messages are kept as metadata.
Sorry. I forgot this link.
http://www.qualcomm.com/chipsets/gobi#specs
Damn near every chipset now couples the radio with GPS as a single baseband processor.