What was the alternative? Not even knowing that the NSA is spying us? Not even knowing that the NSA is spying in fact everyone? Knowing gives you a chance to do something, at the very least not trust the US network for storing critical information, but for US citizens should give the chance to elect something not tied in this game, or expressely manifest that they don't want anyone tied in this game (even if it means voting "none of the above"), in big numbers could send a message.
A bit more over that. The government is criminalizing whisteblowers big time, so what Snowden released is not all that must be hidden at all cost, either he have more, or he didnt access to it. And again, the rest of the world can't do nothing about it (if threatened "consequences" to China for letting Snowden escape, even with the evidence of massive spying they are doing on them, means that there are no sanctions back yet, not from europe, russia or china, the biggest sanction so far is letting Snowden out of their hands), what the government keeps being mortally afraid is what US population would do knowing about it. We still are seeing the tip of the iceberg, even after Snowden and Wikileaks, and the main affected people are the citizens of the US.
The story is specifically about avoiding fragmentation, adding compatibility layers, so even if you don't develop for Mir it will run there. Maybe you meant goodbye fragmentation?
How telling others (specially, US citizens) that they are being spied put your own people in danger? Who is behaving wrong there? Or spying all the world is a god given priviledge? Is not that they won't abuse that privilege,
I don't want anybody hurt, but give government free card to do anything and they will be the terrorists. If you think that that terror campaign only goes to a few countries, think again, they want to go against hackers too (so better you don't live in the same area that someone downloading an mp3). And if that don't worry you because you, after all, live in US, you probably will be next.
This is about awareness, the rest of the world so they can protect themselves, and you, that should be the one that can do anything about it. But you can keep giving them free pass, in the end, if/when something happens to you or to someone you cares about in the hand of that government you are defending, you will know that was your fault.
I know, your job is improve the reputation of the NSA and alikes, even with this kind of spills. But what you don't know can hurt you, or the ones you care about, and that they have in a silver platter anything that can be used against you (even by misinterpretation) don't improve your chances. Speaking of misuses, how will affect you personally what russia or cuba or whatever enemy in your mind nation do with this information? And how is that compared with that NSA/CIA/(dis)intelligence agencies can do to you with what they are gathering? And what about the average citizen of US, or the world? Focus in the biggest foe.
Don't look at the top of the iceberg. He wasn't so special in his organization, and his organization wasn't so special neither. That he knew/had access means that a lot of people had (and keep having) the same access. Before worrying about what he did, think what the others could be doing right now.
Making this public is the one thing they are not allowed to do. They did, and you only realized it because, well, the going public part. What makes you think that corporate espionate wasn't ever done, or keeps being done, specially giving this information to patent trolls, without going public about it? The main thing is, you don't know, you can't prove, and knowing how broken is US patent system, and how aggresively is being pushed to other parts of the world, it IS having an advantage everywhere.
If its not illegal, then the laws are rigged. Im ok that a country that elected their government (US don't qualify on that, but less suppose) could suffer whatever abuse against their rights their government does. But what about the people from rest of the world? The communication don't even need to pass thru US to get intercepted.
The biggest damage is not against people. Is against internet, if you don't trust it or the government behind it, it will damage its adoption, or create not so open alternatives.
So he is evil because is teaching other countries to do to just their own population what US do to the entire world? What was the alternative? making everyone unaware and keep the US doing what is doing? That those other countries aren't perfect don't mean that cares about human rights, i'd say that the #1 terrorist organization in the world right now is United States.
Just giving those countries and everyone else the chances to protect themselves do a big service for mankind, not just US citizens.
And a little hint: if Snowden, a worker from a private company, with that access to information, as you said "did wrong" and went public, what about the rest that didn't went public? As far i could say, there is no meaning in international intellectual property by now, anything discussed by foreigners thru internet that could had some value is already traded, patented, and being used to sue the original creators of the idea when comes the chance, to put a just a sample of potential abuse.
Alerted all, or at least make everyone aware, that everything that goes thru or ends in US goes thru government eyes. They have little concern about US population privacy, but none at all regarding the one of people from other countries.
As long as you consider that everything you put in the cloud is essentially public, or at least, that have access to it specifically the people that could damage you more having access to it (even by misunderstanding it), is up to you. At the very least until Google relocates itself on their own data heaven outside any national jurisdiction.
Running Firefox in a linux container, like Docker that saves no history could stop some of the tracking stored in your computer. Some extra addons (tor, https everywhere, etc) could improve a bit things.
It is already too late. Your exploits/backdoors/identity thieving/vulnerability scans/url guessing and whatever got extremely punished (i.e. 100 years in jail, i think that almost no nazis in nuremberg got that high penalty), while US intelligence agencies do all of that, and far more, in the open and probably getting rewards for it, even with help from software manufacturers.
Face it, what you are calling democracy is just oligarchy with a wrong label over it. Don't let the word fool you.
5 - realize that you really are not important at all. you posting photos of your cat is not of interest at all to the CIA.
If all information is stored, and by some way you get misidentified as someone else, or do something that they may find objectionable (using tor, bitcoins, ever playing with pgp, visiting sites that in a future they may post a critical article, etc) you could become interesting for the CIA. And they are very prone to the Texas sharpshooter fallacy
The government, Microsoft and Google have all specifically denied that claim.
How far is being obliged to not disclose that it happens from obliged to say that it don't happened at all? Once you can't trust in someone's word, all goes downhill.
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Your information on the net is not your information anymore. There, i translated it to nerdspeak. Thats why it matters.
They are taking into account this count? A lot of innocent died during those terrorist attacks.
Rule Two: The NSA always lies
Rule Three: In the very improbable case that the NSA said something true, you should apply rules one and two.
They only must look good for the Lesters, and a lot of them are outside the reach of the law anyway.
What was the alternative? Not even knowing that the NSA is spying us? Not even knowing that the NSA is spying in fact everyone? Knowing gives you a chance to do something, at the very least not trust the US network for storing critical information, but for US citizens should give the chance to elect something not tied in this game, or expressely manifest that they don't want anyone tied in this game (even if it means voting "none of the above"), in big numbers could send a message.
A bit more over that. The government is criminalizing whisteblowers big time, so what Snowden released is not all that must be hidden at all cost, either he have more, or he didnt access to it. And again, the rest of the world can't do nothing about it (if threatened "consequences" to China for letting Snowden escape, even with the evidence of massive spying they are doing on them, means that there are no sanctions back yet, not from europe, russia or china, the biggest sanction so far is letting Snowden out of their hands), what the government keeps being mortally afraid is what US population would do knowing about it. We still are seeing the tip of the iceberg, even after Snowden and Wikileaks, and the main affected people are the citizens of the US.
The story is specifically about avoiding fragmentation, adding compatibility layers, so even if you don't develop for Mir it will run there. Maybe you meant goodbye fragmentation?
How telling others (specially, US citizens) that they are being spied put your own people in danger? Who is behaving wrong there? Or spying all the world is a god given priviledge? Is not that they won't abuse that privilege,
I don't want anybody hurt, but give government free card to do anything and they will be the terrorists. If you think that that terror campaign only goes to a few countries, think again, they want to go against hackers too (so better you don't live in the same area that someone downloading an mp3). And if that don't worry you because you, after all, live in US, you probably will be next.
This is about awareness, the rest of the world so they can protect themselves, and you, that should be the one that can do anything about it. But you can keep giving them free pass, in the end, if/when something happens to you or to someone you cares about in the hand of that government you are defending, you will know that was your fault.
I know, your job is improve the reputation of the NSA and alikes, even with this kind of spills. But what you don't know can hurt you, or the ones you care about, and that they have in a silver platter anything that can be used against you (even by misinterpretation) don't improve your chances. Speaking of misuses, how will affect you personally what russia or cuba or whatever enemy in your mind nation do with this information? And how is that compared with that NSA/CIA/(dis)intelligence agencies can do to you with what they are gathering? And what about the average citizen of US, or the world? Focus in the biggest foe.
Is not that the governments in latin america aren't stable. Is that US makes sure that they aren't, specially pushing dictatorship goverments.
Don't look at the top of the iceberg. He wasn't so special in his organization, and his organization wasn't so special neither. That he knew/had access means that a lot of people had (and keep having) the same access. Before worrying about what he did, think what the others could be doing right now.
US won't extradite bankers even knowing what they did. Is the area where impunity rules, no matter how much damage they do in the entire world.
Could be working for a reputation management company. As Snowden was working for a private company when got that information.
Making this public is the one thing they are not allowed to do. They did, and you only realized it because, well, the going public part. What makes you think that corporate espionate wasn't ever done, or keeps being done, specially giving this information to patent trolls, without going public about it? The main thing is, you don't know, you can't prove, and knowing how broken is US patent system, and how aggresively is being pushed to other parts of the world, it IS having an advantage everywhere.
If its not illegal, then the laws are rigged. Im ok that a country that elected their government (US don't qualify on that, but less suppose) could suffer whatever abuse against their rights their government does. But what about the people from rest of the world? The communication don't even need to pass thru US to get intercepted.
The biggest damage is not against people. Is against internet, if you don't trust it or the government behind it, it will damage its adoption, or create not so open alternatives.
Just giving those countries and everyone else the chances to protect themselves do a big service for mankind, not just US citizens.
And a little hint: if Snowden, a worker from a private company, with that access to information, as you said "did wrong" and went public, what about the rest that didn't went public? As far i could say, there is no meaning in international intellectual property by now, anything discussed by foreigners thru internet that could had some value is already traded, patented, and being used to sue the original creators of the idea when comes the chance, to put a just a sample of potential abuse.
Alerted all, or at least make everyone aware, that everything that goes thru or ends in US goes thru government eyes. They have little concern about US population privacy, but none at all regarding the one of people from other countries.
As long as you consider that everything you put in the cloud is essentially public, or at least, that have access to it specifically the people that could damage you more having access to it (even by misunderstanding it), is up to you. At the very least until Google relocates itself on their own data heaven outside any national jurisdiction.
Well, as a country enjoy a lot bullying. Do as I say, not as I do?
It already started. There is no killing like the one done with impunity.
The easiest way to always have terrorists is to create them.
Running Firefox in a linux container, like Docker that saves no history could stop some of the tracking stored in your computer. Some extra addons (tor, https everywhere, etc) could improve a bit things.
It is already too late. Your exploits/backdoors/identity thieving/vulnerability scans/url guessing and whatever got extremely punished (i.e. 100 years in jail, i think that almost no nazis in nuremberg got that high penalty), while US intelligence agencies do all of that, and far more, in the open and probably getting rewards for it, even with help from software manufacturers.
Face it, what you are calling democracy is just oligarchy with a wrong label over it. Don't let the word fool you.
Is not a stretch to say that FBI runs child porn sites, already did, and probably keep doing it.
5 - realize that you really are not important at all. you posting photos of your cat is not of interest at all to the CIA.
If all information is stored, and by some way you get misidentified as someone else, or do something that they may find objectionable (using tor, bitcoins, ever playing with pgp, visiting sites that in a future they may post a critical article, etc) you could become interesting for the CIA. And they are very prone to the Texas sharpshooter fallacy
The government, Microsoft and Google have all specifically denied that claim.
How far is being obliged to not disclose that it happens from obliged to say that it don't happened at all? Once you can't trust in someone's word, all goes downhill.