In fact, natural events like volcanic eruptions gave us a rest, we should been far worse by now.
Regarding being expensive, put it this way, the rich responsible of this (and that influence government) will keep living comfortably, even if thing go wrong badly, so, why slow down the income? "After me, the deluge", is the motto for them, and probably will be accurate for most of the populated world if sea rises enough. And if they still live and things are becoming not comfortable here, they always can invest in Elysium instead of fixing what they broke.
Add to diet sleep, stress, electric lightning, gut bacterial unbalance, air conditioning, popular alcoholic beberages (because in any meeting you must have a beer, or better yet, drink a lot, else you are an outsider), lack of exercise, and several etcs. Most of that is under your control, but who controls you? Tried to go to a supermarket?
More important than that. Delaying it will only mean even more damage done by the authorities, risk not being able to disclose it at all, or by the time it gets disclosed, nothing could be done. That they are so desperate trying to hide it (in both sides of the atlantic) means both that still they can stopped, and that whatever could be disclosed, is far worse than what they are doing now that is already known. If they were killers, delaying what could put them in jail only will give them more chances to kill even more people (and not sure about what is inside there, could be actual killing being done, even if disclosing put in danger lives could save a lot more).
The open internet, is, by definition, a public place, any place that you can access without a login and password are the digital equivalent of a public place, anyone can visit it. If you put "fences", require user/password to access certain pages, that would be the private places, and there you can say "ok, you can't enter", but for places where everyone, even in an anonymous way can enter, is at the very least harder if not impossible (if you can't use proxy for your fixed IP office connection, can go to the next starbucks to access it). Putting limits on that (and worse, bringing the law to that place) is like giving an homicidal maniac a weapon in a stadium, it will be used, and a lot of innocent people will be hurt.
The alternative is to "keep fighting" and people that reports you something somewhat ends in jail, or becoming permanently monitored, In some point you are doing more damage than helping. And the message of getting out of the grid is more honest if you do it too.
America is not a democracy, if looks, smells and tastes like a plutocracy, then no matter the handwritten label you stamp over it, is not. That you (and hopely, most) are becoming aware of it is an improvement, in any case.
There is no trespassing if is a public place, you can block a person, but not the direction from which is coming. Is like not forbidding you specifically, but putting a barrier in a street of the city that is between your home and that public place, and put you in jail if you take another route to get there, there is always another way to get in, and you have the right to go anywhere in the city.
But more important, real world analogies specifically in a point where internet diverges from the real world (ubiquity) are dangerous.
Will be. They will still be collecting everyone's information, but as with less staff could be less secure, and an external intrusion there will mean that even more people with bad intentions will be able to access your information, or get 0day vulnerabilities right from the source, or use the backdoored (by them) systems in all the world to do a test drive of the attack the NSA is preparing.
Hey, they were the ones that claimed that noone need to have anything to hide, unless they are terrorists. In the other hand, maybe the ones that order drone strikes qualify as that.
They probably they already have Linux in most, as they know the backdoors it have Windows builtin, and who wants to intentionally install a backdoored system for their critical information? At least for linux they can have their own internal distribution for servers.
But what say the article is that even with Linux they can't reduce a lot the number of sysadmins, and that said by people of 2 of the most used linux automation platforms, Puppet and Chef.
Like what is conscience, or how to bring new, definite, and structured items to it? As far i know, most of the interaction has been read only, or with things with side effects and not long enough studies. Speaking on not knowing how much this will totally screw a brain, where they will be the testings? In Guantanamo?
This is becoming more like a suspect that kills in the open all witnesses because what could be discovered is far worse that the evident killing a bunch of people. And UK/US are playing that role, happy to breaking all international treaties, demanding other governments extraditions while they are refusing to extradite to those same governments people that did worse crimes, spying on 1st world countries governments to "protect from terrorism", and more evident lies to cover what they fear that could be released.
US is not a democracy, nor is interested in peace. And have several (most?) European countries in their pocket on this.
Probably they run a lot deeper, but a world map with all those vulnerable systems everywhere probably is in the hand of NSA, any major government intelligence services, and all major hacking groups already. This kind of tool could work as temperature map for the public to know what kind of things avoid that are vulnerable in big numbers (something like OWASP top ten), or how vulnerable is a region.
And between the things people must worry about are cameras, that are accessible from internet, with present or future vulnerabilities.
Most people don't understand computers, and they are much easier to understand. And we are asking miracles if the people that we are asking computers to understand happen to be female.
If is cheap/simple enough to build and not patent encumbered could happen. People already uses natural gas for home heathing, if uses instead this for electricity (and if is efficient enough) could be a very possitive thing.
In the other hand, could be cheap/simple enough to build and have a metric ton of patents all around, forbidding anyone else to even try to make a solution. Then it could be something very damaging.
Obama killed the cloud star. Google must comply with legislation, they could deny (at least till NSA summons another secret law that essentially says all your data are belong to us), but at least for citizens of other countries, or americans that contacts them they must give the data anyway. Once they put in the tables laws that force you to do something and not speak about it you can't trust in anything they say, you just can't decide if its true or is a lie that is forced to say (even assuming their best good will in this topic).
Remember the phrase too big to jail? Even known what they are doing they will be getting immunity ("or else bad things could happen").And things won't change, money talks, and makes enough noise to mute every citizen voice.
Just walk in the street... most of them will be surprised that you tell that, and then they go back to their normal lives, forgetting about this. Even if worried, the next time Obama shows up and tell them to relax that everything is fine and give fake promises they will accept that without discussion, not doing anything against it, and surely keep voting for the same party as before, that whichever it was won't do anything against this, and a lot towards getting more power/funds to this.
Wonder what would be the economical impact of most of the countries of the world rejecting all agreements of protecting intellectual property with US. After all, if US don't respect the IP of their citizens/companies/government, they are violating those agreements.
The world is doomed anyway. Even if you win at the game of make Snowden escape the NSA, almost nothing changed, things kept going downhill. The dark side of the force won.
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In fact, natural events like volcanic eruptions gave us a rest, we should been far worse by now.
Regarding being expensive, put it this way, the rich responsible of this (and that influence government) will keep living comfortably, even if thing go wrong badly, so, why slow down the income? "After me, the deluge", is the motto for them, and probably will be accurate for most of the populated world if sea rises enough. And if they still live and things are becoming not comfortable here, they always can invest in Elysium instead of fixing what they broke.
US have a lot of names for their surveillance programs, which one will be the one from New Zealand? The Eye of Sauron?
Add to diet sleep, stress, electric lightning, gut bacterial unbalance, air conditioning, popular alcoholic beberages (because in any meeting you must have a beer, or better yet, drink a lot, else you are an outsider), lack of exercise, and several etcs. Most of that is under your control, but who controls you? Tried to go to a supermarket?
That food corporations are more interested in selling addictive food than of your health don't help a lot.
Now America is the lard of the free
More important than that. Delaying it will only mean even more damage done by the authorities, risk not being able to disclose it at all, or by the time it gets disclosed, nothing could be done. That they are so desperate trying to hide it (in both sides of the atlantic) means both that still they can stopped, and that whatever could be disclosed, is far worse than what they are doing now that is already known. If they were killers, delaying what could put them in jail only will give them more chances to kill even more people (and not sure about what is inside there, could be actual killing being done, even if disclosing put in danger lives could save a lot more).
The open internet, is, by definition, a public place, any place that you can access without a login and password are the digital equivalent of a public place, anyone can visit it. If you put "fences", require user/password to access certain pages, that would be the private places, and there you can say "ok, you can't enter", but for places where everyone, even in an anonymous way can enter, is at the very least harder if not impossible (if you can't use proxy for your fixed IP office connection, can go to the next starbucks to access it). Putting limits on that (and worse, bringing the law to that place) is like giving an homicidal maniac a weapon in a stadium, it will be used, and a lot of innocent people will be hurt.
The alternative is to "keep fighting" and people that reports you something somewhat ends in jail, or becoming permanently monitored, In some point you are doing more damage than helping. And the message of getting out of the grid is more honest if you do it too.
America is not a democracy, if looks, smells and tastes like a plutocracy, then no matter the handwritten label you stamp over it, is not. That you (and hopely, most) are becoming aware of it is an improvement, in any case.
There is no trespassing if is a public place, you can block a person, but not the direction from which is coming. Is like not forbidding you specifically, but putting a barrier in a street of the city that is between your home and that public place, and put you in jail if you take another route to get there, there is always another way to get in, and you have the right to go anywhere in the city.
But more important, real world analogies specifically in a point where internet diverges from the real world (ubiquity) are dangerous.
Will be. They will still be collecting everyone's information, but as with less staff could be less secure, and an external intrusion there will mean that even more people with bad intentions will be able to access your information, or get 0day vulnerabilities right from the source, or use the backdoored (by them) systems in all the world to do a test drive of the attack the NSA is preparing.
Hey, they were the ones that claimed that noone need to have anything to hide, unless they are terrorists. In the other hand, maybe the ones that order drone strikes qualify as that.
They probably they already have Linux in most, as they know the backdoors it have Windows builtin, and who wants to intentionally install a backdoored system for their critical information? At least for linux they can have their own internal distribution for servers.
But what say the article is that even with Linux they can't reduce a lot the number of sysadmins, and that said by people of 2 of the most used linux automation platforms, Puppet and Chef.
Like what is conscience, or how to bring new, definite, and structured items to it? As far i know, most of the interaction has been read only, or with things with side effects and not long enough studies. Speaking on not knowing how much this will totally screw a brain, where they will be the testings? In Guantanamo?
This is becoming more like a suspect that kills in the open all witnesses because what could be discovered is far worse that the evident killing a bunch of people. And UK/US are playing that role, happy to breaking all international treaties, demanding other governments extraditions while they are refusing to extradite to those same governments people that did worse crimes, spying on 1st world countries governments to "protect from terrorism", and more evident lies to cover what they fear that could be released.
US is not a democracy, nor is interested in peace. And have several (most?) European countries in their pocket on this.
And between the things people must worry about are cameras, that are accessible from internet, with present or future vulnerabilities.
Most people don't understand computers, and they are much easier to understand. And we are asking miracles if the people that we are asking computers to understand happen to be female.
If is cheap/simple enough to build and not patent encumbered could happen. People already uses natural gas for home heathing, if uses instead this for electricity (and if is efficient enough) could be a very possitive thing.
In the other hand, could be cheap/simple enough to build and have a metric ton of patents all around, forbidding anyone else to even try to make a solution. Then it could be something very damaging.
Sleeping pills, thats the hidden reason why they didn't break anything.
Obama killed the cloud star. Google must comply with legislation, they could deny (at least till NSA summons another secret law that essentially says all your data are belong to us), but at least for citizens of other countries, or americans that contacts them they must give the data anyway. Once they put in the tables laws that force you to do something and not speak about it you can't trust in anything they say, you just can't decide if its true or is a lie that is forced to say (even assuming their best good will in this topic).
And surely stupid, because is the Hanlon's alternative to attribute what they are doing to malice.
Remember the phrase too big to jail? Even known what they are doing they will be getting immunity ("or else bad things could happen").And things won't change, money talks, and makes enough noise to mute every citizen voice.
Just walk in the street... most of them will be surprised that you tell that, and then they go back to their normal lives, forgetting about this. Even if worried, the next time Obama shows up and tell them to relax that everything is fine and give fake promises they will accept that without discussion, not doing anything against it, and surely keep voting for the same party as before, that whichever it was won't do anything against this, and a lot towards getting more power/funds to this.
Wonder what would be the economical impact of most of the countries of the world rejecting all agreements of protecting intellectual property with US. After all, if US don't respect the IP of their citizens/companies/government, they are violating those agreements.
The world is doomed anyway. Even if you win at the game of make Snowden escape the NSA, almost nothing changed, things kept going downhill. The dark side of the force won.
I prefer anonymous coward encryption. There should be some meaning in their posts, but not even the NSA could decrypt them.