The reach of those private companies is limited by design. They can see what you intentionally share with them, is not like they hack your PC if you are using an encrypted network, lower internet encryption standards so they can sneak in the communications that are not for them, plant backdoors in foreing, private networks, and force vendors of all major closed software companies to put backdoors in their code for them (and to bad apples in their organization, and whoever else that figures how to use them) to access to remote computers and servers.
Is not the same being hit by a feather than by a bullet.
They already been doing a sort of it for years with soldiers private conversations (sharing between them the hottest ones) and it had no consequences for them. And you think they will respect you or your 14 yo daughter if they didn't respect US soldiers in Iraq?
This. If NSA chief have no problem lying to US congress, and had no consequences after that was found out, what stop them to keep lying to Europe all they want?
And what was released till now is just the tip of the iceberg (or just a snowflake over it) so far it has been released 500 out of 200000 of the documents that Snowden got.
There is no reasonable trust anymore, but they can be gullible all they want, or just play this as a theater to keep their population at bay.
Is more than just containers. You have containers, but oriented to run a single process (i.e. OpenVZ, another virtualization for Linux, usually runs a whole set of processes), uses cgroups to limit cpu/network/io, have its own users so the containers root is not the system one, and a very nice command to make things far easier than it was with LXC. Really have very little overhead (if any) compared with running native programs, but isolated from the filesystem/process/network
But for me one of the strongest point on what they did with the union filesystem is letting the containers "inherit" filesystems without much overhead. you start with a base system, on it you install apache and get another container, on it install i.e. php (or you can do the same progression with i.e. java and jboss), and get another, and so on with your applications in other containersm, and you could create more children at all levels (i.e. a different set of apache modules, or a php compiled with different options, or a particular set of python libraries). And this approach adds eficiency as in the disk the children only have the differences with their parent, and as the base programs/libraries will be in one place on the disk will be cached just once, making things faster and using far less space. Not sure how that will play out with the device mapper, but with aufs it was nice.
If the NSA head directly lied to the congress with no consequences, why you think they will tell the truth to Snownden? Or anyone else in the world? "Yes, we will fix this", with no more real whisteblowers won't be a way to know, they could release from time to time fake whisteblowers to give the illusion of progress in that topic, while keep doing the same.
Probably could be read as "If you think all that was disclosed so far was bad, it was nothing compared withl the rest". To put it into the doomsday umbrella seem to give the hint that what remains is orders worse, something that could imply people finally doing something against the government in US, breaking of commercial treaties, penalties in international courts, attacks/closing embassies or even war. And if anything of this happens won't be Snowden fault, but US one.
And what you do with open source projects, that must be that way to be sure that the encryption is trustable? And what if that people don't want your pay, or want pay for each user? And what if have some requirement being able to use it (like including a binary blob or whatever) ?
Hanlon's Razor should take priority. But letting patent trolls win on basic encryption technology could be something intended by the government, a first step outlawing strong encryption outside their control everywhere.
In a complex system like the world, rising temperature just a few degrees won't be an isolated event. Extreme weather is becoming more prevalent, you seen the storms that happened over asia, europe and america in the last year.. Also, more moisture in air, so more rain, and more floods. Extreme weather and floods will make it difficult to succeed some "long term" investments like crops,
You are right in one thing, change is good, life adapts with time, or die. And you could end being in the second group, or at least not liking at all what adaptation will mean.
We won't change our direction going toward that cliff until we are actually falling. Won't be too late, we will have already enough money to buy me a parachute.
Lets take away "that" basic human right, it don't matter. In a few years, other rights would be excepted too (i.e. torture, how can be bad something as fun as waterboarding?), and if the progression continues they will be back to import cheap workforce from Africa in no time. We seen this kind of progressions becoming very popular lately.
Having so much NSA associated countries could be a hint of a new world order appearing, no more first/second/third world but the ones with the USA in this and the rest attacked ( puttng backdoors in their networks for future action, causing unrest in population using social networks, and of course, stripping all their populations from a basic human right) by them sometimes without noticing that. So far the confirmed list of the NSA associated countries include UK, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, South Korea and Singapore, but that list could include other close to US countries like Chile, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Spain and France, maybe with different grades in that organization.
The rest of the countries could try to join to protect themselves from this (in South America and Europe several seem to be going in that direction) or try to resist by themselves in a way or another. Considering all that was disclosed since June, and all that is going from there this decade probably will bring a lot of changes to the world.
Money is still a powerful reason. No money for country, but yes money for individual people in key places. If you can just say "let there be money" and trillons appear out from thin air, money is no problem for you, and is a great motivator for those people.
Also, being into the snooping business for years ensures that whoever is ethical enough to refuse money can probably be blackmailed with ease, and if is not that person could be someone over them (going up enough you always find people with less ethics, more greed, and more things to hide from the general public, specially in countries where culture or religion could make really harming that some things become public).
Also, there are trade agreements, US is not the only country that is partially (totally?) managed by big corporations and fortunes, even without spending a penny, just lowering the barriers for some products, giving trade secrets, getting beneficial court decisions and so on could mean a lot for those companies. And i.e. Samsung is from South Korea (hint, if well is not US based, well could be planting NSA backdoors in their products on the light of this revelation).
Google and Facebook seem to be doing pretty well having that order of users. Facebook even uses simple mysql replication and their pool scanner. And health system is not a social network, there is no so much connection between different users.
Not just your operating system, this site gives you safer alternatives for most of what you use.
And maybe could be interesting to put your perimeter apps in disposable/restorable boxes, either vms with snapshots or containers, so even if they are hacked you have an easy restore point or even detection that it happened.
Tor and Bitcoin seemed to be particulary resistant to their efforts (other encryption protocols, not so much), but your ecosystem is not just your network, sites you visit could be used to plant backdoors in your system (and if your browser is safe enough, what about your flash player?).
This is not just about privacy, is also about having installed in your pc/network government's malware under the control of criminals (that work/had worked for the government or bought it from one of them)
I would add 2 words to that ones: Witch Hunt. What we see normal or harmless today could be proclaimed as crime tomorrow. The "pressure cookers" topic changed meaning after boston bombing.
Your internal network is already compromised probably. They don't just watch, they hack, and plant backdoors (that can watch inside private networks, or potentially do more destructive things). That was their attack to the Tor network, not inspecting its traffic, but exploiting vulnerabilities in browsers/plugins/etc, even spoofing for that sites like Slashdot and Linkedin
No need to get to war. Just reject all government agreements with that hostile country, put your case in the ONU, La Haya or any other international entity related with this and rally the other affected countries to do the same, even put a trade embargo like the ones love to put. At the very least will serve to see which governments are in the bed with US in this, and would give their citizens a reason to kick them in the next election, as we know that the US people won't do that with their own government, no matter how much more corrupt will be disclosed that is in the following weeks/months.
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In fact, no ties, nor chains neither. You can be the the owner of those gifts, not being owned by them.
The reach of those private companies is limited by design. They can see what you intentionally share with them, is not like they hack your PC if you are using an encrypted network, lower internet encryption standards so they can sneak in the communications that are not for them, plant backdoors in foreing, private networks, and force vendors of all major closed software companies to put backdoors in their code for them (and to bad apples in their organization, and whoever else that figures how to use them) to access to remote computers and servers.
Is not the same being hit by a feather than by a bullet.
They already been doing a sort of it for years with soldiers private conversations (sharing between them the hottest ones) and it had no consequences for them. And you think they will respect you or your 14 yo daughter if they didn't respect US soldiers in Iraq?
The don't need porn. They have more than enough watching what real people, of all ages, do.
This. If NSA chief have no problem lying to US congress, and had no consequences after that was found out, what stop them to keep lying to Europe all they want?
And what was released till now is just the tip of the iceberg (or just a snowflake over it) so far it has been released 500 out of 200000 of the documents that Snowden got.
There is no reasonable trust anymore, but they can be gullible all they want, or just play this as a theater to keep their population at bay.
Is more than just containers. You have containers, but oriented to run a single process (i.e. OpenVZ, another virtualization for Linux, usually runs a whole set of processes), uses cgroups to limit cpu/network/io, have its own users so the containers root is not the system one, and a very nice command to make things far easier than it was with LXC. Really have very little overhead (if any) compared with running native programs, but isolated from the filesystem/process/network
But for me one of the strongest point on what they did with the union filesystem is letting the containers "inherit" filesystems without much overhead. you start with a base system, on it you install apache and get another container, on it install i.e. php (or you can do the same progression with i.e. java and jboss), and get another, and so on with your applications in other containersm, and you could create more children at all levels (i.e. a different set of apache modules, or a php compiled with different options, or a particular set of python libraries). And this approach adds eficiency as in the disk the children only have the differences with their parent, and as the base programs/libraries will be in one place on the disk will be cached just once, making things faster and using far less space. Not sure how that will play out with the device mapper, but with aufs it was nice.
If the NSA head directly lied to the congress with no consequences, why you think they will tell the truth to Snownden? Or anyone else in the world? "Yes, we will fix this", with no more real whisteblowers won't be a way to know, they could release from time to time fake whisteblowers to give the illusion of progress in that topic, while keep doing the same.
Probably could be read as "If you think all that was disclosed so far was bad, it was nothing compared withl the rest". To put it into the doomsday umbrella seem to give the hint that what remains is orders worse, something that could imply people finally doing something against the government in US, breaking of commercial treaties, penalties in international courts, attacks/closing embassies or even war. And if anything of this happens won't be Snowden fault, but US one.
And what you do with open source projects, that must be that way to be sure that the encryption is trustable? And what if that people don't want your pay, or want pay for each user? And what if have some requirement being able to use it (like including a binary blob or whatever) ?
Hanlon's Razor should take priority. But letting patent trolls win on basic encryption technology could be something intended by the government, a first step outlawing strong encryption outside their control everywhere.
Cereal boxes have more accurate information than slashdot too.
Obama said in the initial campaing that will protect whisteblowers. See how that ended.
Also people that think that global climate is exactly the same as weather. This list don't seem to go in the direction of "nothing happened".
In a complex system like the world, rising temperature just a few degrees won't be an isolated event. Extreme weather is becoming more prevalent, you seen the storms that happened over asia, europe and america in the last year.. Also, more moisture in air, so more rain, and more floods. Extreme weather and floods will make it difficult to succeed some "long term" investments like crops,
You are right in one thing, change is good, life adapts with time, or die. And you could end being in the second group, or at least not liking at all what adaptation will mean.
We won't change our direction going toward that cliff until we are actually falling. Won't be too late, we will have already enough money to buy me a parachute.
Lets take away "that" basic human right, it don't matter. In a few years, other rights would be excepted too (i.e. torture, how can be bad something as fun as waterboarding?), and if the progression continues they will be back to import cheap workforce from Africa in no time. We seen this kind of progressions becoming very popular lately.
Having so much NSA associated countries could be a hint of a new world order appearing, no more first/second/third world but the ones with the USA in this and the rest attacked ( puttng backdoors in their networks for future action, causing unrest in population using social networks, and of course, stripping all their populations from a basic human right) by them sometimes without noticing that. So far the confirmed list of the NSA associated countries include UK, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, South Korea and Singapore, but that list could include other close to US countries like Chile, Colombia, Panama, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Spain and France, maybe with different grades in that organization.
The rest of the countries could try to join to protect themselves from this (in South America and Europe several seem to be going in that direction) or try to resist by themselves in a way or another. Considering all that was disclosed since June, and all that is going from there this decade probably will bring a lot of changes to the world.
Money is still a powerful reason. No money for country, but yes money for individual people in key places. If you can just say "let there be money" and trillons appear out from thin air, money is no problem for you, and is a great motivator for those people.
Also, being into the snooping business for years ensures that whoever is ethical enough to refuse money can probably be blackmailed with ease, and if is not that person could be someone over them (going up enough you always find people with less ethics, more greed, and more things to hide from the general public, specially in countries where culture or religion could make really harming that some things become public).
Also, there are trade agreements, US is not the only country that is partially (totally?) managed by big corporations and fortunes, even without spending a penny, just lowering the barriers for some products, giving trade secrets, getting beneficial court decisions and so on could mean a lot for those companies. And i.e. Samsung is from South Korea (hint, if well is not US based, well could be planting NSA backdoors in their products on the light of this revelation).
This. We already have our quota filled of countries that are perpetrating attacks against the world right now to worry about.
Google and Facebook seem to be doing pretty well having that order of users. Facebook even uses simple mysql replication and their pool scanner. And health system is not a social network, there is no so much connection between different users.
Not just your operating system, this site gives you safer alternatives for most of what you use.
And maybe could be interesting to put your perimeter apps in disposable/restorable boxes, either vms with snapshots or containers, so even if they are hacked you have an easy restore point or even detection that it happened.
Tor and Bitcoin seemed to be particulary resistant to their efforts (other encryption protocols, not so much), but your ecosystem is not just your network, sites you visit could be used to plant backdoors in your system (and if your browser is safe enough, what about your flash player?).
This is not just about privacy, is also about having installed in your pc/network government's malware under the control of criminals (that work/had worked for the government or bought it from one of them)
I would add 2 words to that ones: Witch Hunt. What we see normal or harmless today could be proclaimed as crime tomorrow. The "pressure cookers" topic changed meaning after boston bombing.
Your internal network is already compromised probably. They don't just watch, they hack, and plant backdoors (that can watch inside private networks, or potentially do more destructive things). That was their attack to the Tor network, not inspecting its traffic, but exploiting vulnerabilities in browsers/plugins/etc, even spoofing for that sites like Slashdot and Linkedin
No need to get to war. Just reject all government agreements with that hostile country, put your case in the ONU, La Haya or any other international entity related with this and rally the other affected countries to do the same, even put a trade embargo like the ones love to put. At the very least will serve to see which governments are in the bed with US in this, and would give their citizens a reason to kick them in the next election, as we know that the US people won't do that with their own government, no matter how much more corrupt will be disclosed that is in the following weeks/months.