Where i am, with who i talk, what i do in my personal life, that is privacy. But what i write, the photos or videos i take, what i say, that is my intellectual property, and thats the one that the government of US choose to explicitly ignore when is doing all of this . Put the battle in the intellectual property front, where their bosses could be a bit disturbed if people and countries just stop caring about US companies intellectual property, and they could take some action.
In a lot of countries kids (up to age 18) can't go to jail, even if they kill someone, while in other countries seems to be ok to even jail them with adults and be waterboarded.
In some countries parents could go to prison for putting in their babies earrings, while in others that and similar practices are even promoted by the religions.
Compare receiving that lashes and ending the trouble there to pass up to 30 years of your life in jail for showing that something that is public is in fact public. Both are pretty bad, but is not something to point to the other side and say "look those savages".
Just like banks? You know, in the front door of the DOJ there is a typo, someone put the word "Justice" there. You could be sentenced by centuries for things that don't harm anyone, but they will keep go free, no matter if they stole trillons, caused the death of thousands, or just broke hundreds of laws, even if its found out.
NSA only store metadata. They hire and pay pretty well private companies to store the full data, so NSA can access later, and the private companies could access every time they want, to take the maximum profit from it. Don't be surprised if you find patented a joke you told a friend last summer.
If tomorrow you become a suspect, they will need to examine all your past data. So all the your data must be there, just in case. QED
Addendum: unless you are out of trial by definition, like being a politician, some middle-to-high management level related to this and other government protegees, in that case your data probably is not there, and never will. Nobody watches the watchers.
As much as deserve prison everyone that works for NSA and every associated company. Ok, but they are working for the US government. So, would you complain if any of them get a century in prison in any other country of Earth? What if Russia extradite Snowden in exchange of US extraditing anyone spying on russia citizens? That should make things fair, but i don't know how much time would take to send to Russia so much people.
And remember what Manning disclosed, basically your country, at your name, doing nice things slaughtering innocents just for fun. If you feel heat in your high ground is because how close is to the earths core.
Which country invaded others just to give more resources to their own (i.e. oil) corporations? What competitive advantage could be getting US corporations over other countries ones thanks to unrestricted NSA snooping of literally everyone's information and intellectual property?
What is the problem with foul words? Meanings. In different cultures with the same language what is an foul word is something not offensive and used in normal speak in others. Is the full meaning in the head of the ones that say and hear it, not the word, what makes it foul, something totally subjective and that don't need to be shared between both participants. And you can transmit pretty offensive meanings with just the language used by 4 year old children (most of the key elements are present, body parts, parents, basic actions, common animals and plants, etc)
And that meanings evolve with time, something could be a foul word or expression now that wasn't 20 years ago (when internet started to become popular). Would you ban content because something innocent said there is considered offensive now? Or today, but for saying something that won't be offensive in a few years?
Neal Stephenson's books are bigger than 200 pages, but is just hard to stop reading some them. The Diamond Age is a great start, essentially is how a poor homeless 6 year old girl becomes a superpower by herself and changes the world because got access to Wikipedia++
And the manufacturers won't have to worry about fixing that vulnerability for long time (or do a fake, incomplete, not certifiable, or open to even more vulnerabilities fix)
With filter or without it, all will still that you read or write will be monitored by them. Is like asking if the hamburger comes with fries or salad, no matter which of those you choose, you agreed on the hamburger.
Saying "you can opt out from the filtering in this categories" don't mean that won't be filters in others that you can't opt out, or that opting out won't put you in the close monitored list.
The full, detailed, list of blocked content or rules probably wont get published or, even if so, updated when change, Any critic to the government could be silenced, and with most having the default filter turned on, you are controlling the population even more efficiently than controlling all radio/tv/cable stations.
And for Americans, other countries of the EU, and maybe most of the other countries of the world, this is just a betatest. If people just accept it it will go to other countries.
Not sure in which part of the Art of War he said that the best defense is to create new enemies, or promote new weapon races (even in fields where you can participate with widely available and cheap technology, like the internet based ones), but it should be somewhere because US is following that to the letter and the rest of their (for now) allies are following the example.
Forgot to add made with by a company with deepties with the NSA. At least for most Android phones you can install alternatives like CyanogenMod, not get stuck with just one (and bad) option.
Nokia had some control on their future with Symbian, Maemo/Meego. They should focus in making their platform as free as possible, maybe still bundling Windows Phone on them, but making available drivers, specifications and so on so a version of CyanogenMod, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish or others could be developed as alternative OS. Their target should be sell hardware and services, not operating systems.
Too late, they already gave it up to US. Giving it up to someone else could balance the things, a bully could defend you against another bully if both are interested in what you have, but having only one ensures that you will get abused.
Yeah, would be dumb to hire an american company. They will let most of the porn pass (at least, the ones that pay them) while keeping copies of your interesting "private" photos/posts/messages for later usage.
This year they will need your support more than ever. There are several new developments (like Docker) that could change everything they are used to. And they got the nightmare of having a very probable and hardly detectable NSA (and company) intrusion or backdoor in their systems.
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Knowing their average IQ, i bet that most blame Snowden for having no privacity now. Shooting the messenger should be the next american sport.
Where i am, with who i talk, what i do in my personal life, that is privacy. But what i write, the photos or videos i take, what i say, that is my intellectual property, and thats the one that the government of US choose to explicitly ignore when is doing all of this . Put the battle in the intellectual property front, where their bosses could be a bit disturbed if people and countries just stop caring about US companies intellectual property, and they could take some action.
In a lot of countries kids (up to age 18) can't go to jail, even if they kill someone, while in other countries seems to be ok to even jail them with adults and be waterboarded.
In some countries parents could go to prison for putting in their babies earrings, while in others that and similar practices are even promoted by the religions.
Compare receiving that lashes and ending the trouble there to pass up to 30 years of your life in jail for showing that something that is public is in fact public. Both are pretty bad, but is not something to point to the other side and say "look those savages".
Didn't you read the headline? Anything that begins with RT ends bad.
Just like banks? You know, in the front door of the DOJ there is a typo, someone put the word "Justice" there. You could be sentenced by centuries for things that don't harm anyone, but they will keep go free, no matter if they stole trillons, caused the death of thousands, or just broke hundreds of laws, even if its found out.
NSA only store metadata. They hire and pay pretty well private companies to store the full data, so NSA can access later, and the private companies could access every time they want, to take the maximum profit from it. Don't be surprised if you find patented a joke you told a friend last summer.
Thirty pieces of silver
If tomorrow you become a suspect, they will need to examine all your past data. So all the your data must be there, just in case. QED
Addendum: unless you are out of trial by definition, like being a politician, some middle-to-high management level related to this and other government protegees, in that case your data probably is not there, and never will. Nobody watches the watchers.
As much as deserve prison everyone that works for NSA and every associated company. Ok, but they are working for the US government. So, would you complain if any of them get a century in prison in any other country of Earth? What if Russia extradite Snowden in exchange of US extraditing anyone spying on russia citizens? That should make things fair, but i don't know how much time would take to send to Russia so much people.
And remember what Manning disclosed, basically your country, at your name, doing nice things slaughtering innocents just for fun. If you feel heat in your high ground is because how close is to the earths core.
Which country invaded others just to give more resources to their own (i.e. oil) corporations? What competitive advantage could be getting US corporations over other countries ones thanks to unrestricted NSA snooping of literally everyone's information and intellectual property?
What is the problem with foul words? Meanings. In different cultures with the same language what is an foul word is something not offensive and used in normal speak in others. Is the full meaning in the head of the ones that say and hear it, not the word, what makes it foul, something totally subjective and that don't need to be shared between both participants. And you can transmit pretty offensive meanings with just the language used by 4 year old children (most of the key elements are present, body parts, parents, basic actions, common animals and plants, etc) And that meanings evolve with time, something could be a foul word or expression now that wasn't 20 years ago (when internet started to become popular). Would you ban content because something innocent said there is considered offensive now? Or today, but for saying something that won't be offensive in a few years?
Real programmers use emacs, at least when are in a hurry. Wonder if "felineherd install butterfly" works or is just builtin.
Neal Stephenson's books are bigger than 200 pages, but is just hard to stop reading some them. The Diamond Age is a great start, essentially is how a poor homeless 6 year old girl becomes a superpower by herself and changes the world because got access to Wikipedia++
And the manufacturers won't have to worry about fixing that vulnerability for long time (or do a fake, incomplete, not certifiable, or open to even more vulnerabilities fix)
With filter or without it, all will still that you read or write will be monitored by them. Is like asking if the hamburger comes with fries or salad, no matter which of those you choose, you agreed on the hamburger.
Saying "you can opt out from the filtering in this categories" don't mean that won't be filters in others that you can't opt out, or that opting out won't put you in the close monitored list.
The full, detailed, list of blocked content or rules probably wont get published or, even if so, updated when change, Any critic to the government could be silenced, and with most having the default filter turned on, you are controlling the population even more efficiently than controlling all radio/tv/cable stations.
And for Americans, other countries of the EU, and maybe most of the other countries of the world, this is just a betatest. If people just accept it it will go to other countries.
Not sure in which part of the Art of War he said that the best defense is to create new enemies, or promote new weapon races (even in fields where you can participate with widely available and cheap technology, like the internet based ones), but it should be somewhere because US is following that to the letter and the rest of their (for now) allies are following the example.
Little details always mess numbers
This, you can't defeat a service that ensures 9.999999999999% of uptime.
If they got in that position then the ones that elected them shouldn't be very bright neither.
Forgot to add made with by a company with deep ties with the NSA. At least for most Android phones you can install alternatives like CyanogenMod, not get stuck with just one (and bad) option.
Nokia had some control on their future with Symbian, Maemo/Meego. They should focus in making their platform as free as possible, maybe still bundling Windows Phone on them, but making available drivers, specifications and so on so a version of CyanogenMod, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish or others could be developed as alternative OS. Their target should be sell hardware and services, not operating systems.
Like banks, oil companies are too big to jail. Minions just don't jail their masters.
Too late, they already gave it up to US. Giving it up to someone else could balance the things, a bully could defend you against another bully if both are interested in what you have, but having only one ensures that you will get abused.
Not metadata. Data. A proxy works both ways, it examines not just what you receive, but what you send too.
Yeah, would be dumb to hire an american company. They will let most of the porn pass (at least, the ones that pay them) while keeping copies of your interesting "private" photos/posts/messages for later usage.
This year they will need your support more than ever. There are several new developments (like Docker) that could change everything they are used to. And they got the nightmare of having a very probable and hardly detectable NSA (and company) intrusion or backdoor in their systems.