Is up to the country if decide to monitor their own citizens or not. The big problem are the governments that monitor the citizens of all the other countries (besides their own ones)
That from 100 jumped to 1000 are not significative enough numbers. Considering how much is being uncovered and how rotten is most of the upper layer of the government im amazed that it didn't reach exodus levels. I would like to think that it is because people realizes that the only way to solve the problem is to stay and vote them out, but the real explanation probably goes around not having a clue and thinking that all is ok.
It is if America decide to spy on you because you are not American. If America decide to spy only on americans, is up to them, no reason for foreigners to step in. That would be a nice change, for starters. What you will buy with your thirty pieces of silver?
The transparent glass that they will be showing you will be just a photoshopped image. They lied before, they lied today, they will keep lying tomorrow. This is just to calm down dumb people, not to stop anything they are doing.
Also had as mission to protect whisteblowers in 2009. But Obama and Bush were more or less puppets of the people in real charge of the things, not sure how much back this goes. Anyway, people elected and reelected Bush, and elected and reelected Obama, even being evident what were their real platforms (at least, for the reelection in both cases). No matter which of the 2 main parties you picked, you are still choosing which hammer want to hit you (and everyone else) in the head
Remember that what you say today could stay forever in the net, and that happens too with private and apparently anonymous communications in the NSA world. They could use what they intercept today as evidence for the new defined crimes of tomorrow (and as they are weaponizing internet, all you did there could be end being a crime, including posting something as anonymous that could be seen as offensive in 10 years)
Also is against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed most countries, including US. Is not the only thing that US blatlanty ignored, like i.e. torture (doing it in Guantanamo don't take out that was done following US official orders), and everything that is doing with drones in the Pakistan and other countries.
the FBI raided MotherJones offices because they were talking about some dangerous new kind of bomb, confiscating a pressure cooker from there as evidence.
What are the odds of all those events? Anyway, I wonder why in a country where so many people bet a lot of money in games where odds against them are astronomical are so easily convinced that the high odds of this aren't worth worrying about. But i suppose that should be a normal human bias to only fear the spectacular with very improbable odds over the boring that are almost certain to happen (and that you could do something to avoid them in a lot of cases)
Odds? People worry about shark attacks and not about car accidents, even if car accidents are 200.000 times more probable. And could be some way of control damage, to protect against some of their effects (i.e. not moving to coastal cities, that should be under sea in some yars), or at least stop paying, cheering and defending the culprits of screwing us all.
An organization that have no respect for other people having no respect for their workers too? Working for them is no magic shield, only gives them more tools to hit you harder when comes your turn.
The government wanted them to be open, but with a backdoor, not closed. And the enforcing of that backdoor was, for the case of Lavabit, giving them the chance to go to jail for helping Snowden or put their backdoor.
Both Lavabit and Silent Circle closed by their own will. What government agents did, or will do, is to force all secure mail providers to give them a backdoor for them to access all that "secure" mail (or else put them in prison). So, for that reason, will not be any secure/private mail in US, if someone claims that do, or is lying already or soon will face the choice to lie to its customers or close.
You get NSA inspection in US, China, Switzerland, Peru, New Zeland and the rest of the world. In some countries, if they don't like what you are looking for, they send to your entire neighbourhood a drone (and then claim "we hit terrorist suspects", with nothing left alive to discuss that), thing that could expand to other countries, and maybe US too. Chinese firewall only targets chinese citizens and is more about preventing than punishing. Yes, both are bad, but the NSA is several orders worse.
What you read, how you live, with who, etc, is your privacy. What you write, in the other hand, is intellectual property, is that is what is being examined for you and the rest of the world before even is finished/patented/protected. And won't be surprised if this is used to capture that, you could be discussing the next billon dollars next idea with someone, that communication be intercepted and end that idea patented before you can by some corporation "close" to the government.
If is encrypted is collected anyway. So, or you have it in a way easy to collect (and no guarantee that is not collected anyway, still a lot to be disclosed), or you have it in a hard way to collect (and there they will try to get it). Your best bet is still hard to break encryption, and if by law you can't have it inside US, you must have it outside. And if is important (i.e. concerned about the intellectual property of what you discuss), move yourself outside too, at least your communication with the server have less chances to be intercepted.
Since last century had been using mobile alerts from nagios and other monitoring systems. How this is something new? And if it requires a running app in your phone, plenty of nagios clients had been available for free for years. If this is a marketing ploy to sell Pushover, is not the brightest one.
Depend on what kind of community it gathers. There are a lot of examples (nokia n900, raspberry pi, etc) where the ability to play with what it runs turned them into something bigger than what was at launch. Is not so much what it is, but what it could be.
Considering that US is ignoring our intellectual property (what we read could be privacy, but what we write is intellectual property, and seems that part of this is to gather intellectual property for some corporations), just ignore/deny/don't enforce US intellectual property (or at least, choose when you want to honor it and when not). Is doing exactly what they are doing, after all.
When the corporations that pays most of their personal income starts to complain, they could review their policies. This is not about security, is, and always was, about money.
With basically no restriction like they have now they can handle to jail/torture/kill innocent people anyway. And that random innocent targets means more people will get angry, and they will have more "real" terrorist to catch. That is how they are increasing the good hits, turning otherwise peaceful people into terrorists and catching them, like when they warned "could be troubles in Yemen", and then they sent drones to kill a lot of people, never predict anything if you can't make it happen.
The "promise" of Ubuntu Touch is that is a tablet or phone... until you connect it a keyboard and maybe a monitor, then it becomes a desktop computer. Thats one possible new approach (but for this tablet in particular won't happen until Qualcomm open up the drivers, so for now avoid it), but probably a lot of approachs would be to have devices that gets enhanced or behaves different by what you connect to them. There are other approachs, like several kind of convertible notebooks or pluggable keyboards, but most of the new ones comes with Android (not a desktop OS) or Windows OS (bad for every device it runs).
Could be life there, but, we will search for it in the right places? Some potential places for life could be hard to reach for a robotic probe that we could send. And will we be able to recognize it as life, if is different enough from what we have here?
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Is up to the country if decide to monitor their own citizens or not. The big problem are the governments that monitor the citizens of all the other countries (besides their own ones)
What you're not seeing is people actually abusing these programs.
And that way ends Obama his speech at the National Federation of the Blind
That from 100 jumped to 1000 are not significative enough numbers. Considering how much is being uncovered and how rotten is most of the upper layer of the government im amazed that it didn't reach exodus levels. I would like to think that it is because people realizes that the only way to solve the problem is to stay and vote them out, but the real explanation probably goes around not having a clue and thinking that all is ok.
When/if possible, use your own servers. Here are some suggestions
It is if America decide to spy on you because you are not American. If America decide to spy only on americans, is up to them, no reason for foreigners to step in. That would be a nice change, for starters. What you will buy with your thirty pieces of silver?
The transparent glass that they will be showing you will be just a photoshopped image. They lied before, they lied today, they will keep lying tomorrow. This is just to calm down dumb people, not to stop anything they are doing.
Also had as mission to protect whisteblowers in 2009. But Obama and Bush were more or less puppets of the people in real charge of the things, not sure how much back this goes. Anyway, people elected and reelected Bush, and elected and reelected Obama, even being evident what were their real platforms (at least, for the reelection in both cases). No matter which of the 2 main parties you picked, you are still choosing which hammer want to hit you (and everyone else) in the head
Ignored by who? till when? There are up to 5 millon people with access to that data, a lot of them belonging to for-profit companies, any of them can use that information for whatever they want. Blackmailing, stealing intellectual property (even before gets published/patented/whatever), using it out of context to put you in jail, or just sharing your hot conversation for fun, or as tools for political prosecutions are just a few of the possible consequences.
Remember that what you say today could stay forever in the net, and that happens too with private and apparently anonymous communications in the NSA world. They could use what they intercept today as evidence for the new defined crimes of tomorrow (and as they are weaponizing internet, all you did there could be end being a crime, including posting something as anonymous that could be seen as offensive in 10 years)
Also is against the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed most countries, including US. Is not the only thing that US blatlanty ignored, like i.e. torture (doing it in Guantanamo don't take out that was done following US official orders), and everything that is doing with drones in the Pakistan and other countries.
the FBI raided MotherJones offices because they were talking about some dangerous new kind of bomb, confiscating a pressure cooker from there as evidence.
What are the odds of all those events? Anyway, I wonder why in a country where so many people bet a lot of money in games where odds against them are astronomical are so easily convinced that the high odds of this aren't worth worrying about. But i suppose that should be a normal human bias to only fear the spectacular with very improbable odds over the boring that are almost certain to happen (and that you could do something to avoid them in a lot of cases)
Odds? People worry about shark attacks and not about car accidents, even if car accidents are 200.000 times more probable. And could be some way of control damage, to protect against some of their effects (i.e. not moving to coastal cities, that should be under sea in some yars), or at least stop paying, cheering and defending the culprits of screwing us all.
An organization that have no respect for other people having no respect for their workers too? Working for them is no magic shield, only gives them more tools to hit you harder when comes your turn.
The government wanted them to be open, but with a backdoor, not closed. And the enforcing of that backdoor was, for the case of Lavabit, giving them the chance to go to jail for helping Snowden or put their backdoor.
Both Lavabit and Silent Circle closed by their own will. What government agents did, or will do, is to force all secure mail providers to give them a backdoor for them to access all that "secure" mail (or else put them in prison). So, for that reason, will not be any secure/private mail in US, if someone claims that do, or is lying already or soon will face the choice to lie to its customers or close.
You get NSA inspection in US, China, Switzerland, Peru, New Zeland and the rest of the world. In some countries, if they don't like what you are looking for, they send to your entire neighbourhood a drone (and then claim "we hit terrorist suspects", with nothing left alive to discuss that), thing that could expand to other countries, and maybe US too. Chinese firewall only targets chinese citizens and is more about preventing than punishing. Yes, both are bad, but the NSA is several orders worse.
What you read, how you live, with who, etc, is your privacy. What you write, in the other hand, is intellectual property, is that is what is being examined for you and the rest of the world before even is finished/patented/protected. And won't be surprised if this is used to capture that, you could be discussing the next billon dollars next idea with someone, that communication be intercepted and end that idea patented before you can by some corporation "close" to the government.
If is encrypted is collected anyway. So, or you have it in a way easy to collect (and no guarantee that is not collected anyway, still a lot to be disclosed), or you have it in a hard way to collect (and there they will try to get it). Your best bet is still hard to break encryption, and if by law you can't have it inside US, you must have it outside. And if is important (i.e. concerned about the intellectual property of what you discuss), move yourself outside too, at least your communication with the server have less chances to be intercepted.
Since last century had been using mobile alerts from nagios and other monitoring systems. How this is something new? And if it requires a running app in your phone, plenty of nagios clients had been available for free for years. If this is a marketing ploy to sell Pushover, is not the brightest one.
The government obey the law, at least the one that it been rewriting for years to let them do whatever they want.
Depend on what kind of community it gathers. There are a lot of examples (nokia n900, raspberry pi, etc) where the ability to play with what it runs turned them into something bigger than what was at launch. Is not so much what it is, but what it could be.
Considering that US is ignoring our intellectual property (what we read could be privacy, but what we write is intellectual property, and seems that part of this is to gather intellectual property for some corporations), just ignore/deny/don't enforce US intellectual property (or at least, choose when you want to honor it and when not). Is doing exactly what they are doing, after all.
When the corporations that pays most of their personal income starts to complain, they could review their policies. This is not about security, is, and always was, about money.
With basically no restriction like they have now they can handle to jail/torture/kill innocent people anyway. And that random innocent targets means more people will get angry, and they will have more "real" terrorist to catch. That is how they are increasing the good hits, turning otherwise peaceful people into terrorists and catching them, like when they warned "could be troubles in Yemen", and then they sent drones to kill a lot of people, never predict anything if you can't make it happen.
The "promise" of Ubuntu Touch is that is a tablet or phone... until you connect it a keyboard and maybe a monitor, then it becomes a desktop computer. Thats one possible new approach (but for this tablet in particular won't happen until Qualcomm open up the drivers, so for now avoid it), but probably a lot of approachs would be to have devices that gets enhanced or behaves different by what you connect to them. There are other approachs, like several kind of convertible notebooks or pluggable keyboards, but most of the new ones comes with Android (not a desktop OS) or Windows OS (bad for every device it runs).
Could be life there, but, we will search for it in the right places? Some potential places for life could be hard to reach for a robotic probe that we could send. And will we be able to recognize it as life, if is different enough from what we have here?