As many people keep chanting, we're the ones who "elected" them. *cough*elected*cough*
Yes. We had the choice of freedom destroying warmonger or nice guy who turns out to be a freedom destroying warmonger. Our two party system only works were the two parties are not the same.
It's not that I find the word niggers offensive, it's just that it's a very bad description for the NSA. That word doesn't express the wrong they have done and continue to do, all it does is express your emotions towards them.
Paranoia doesn't not exclude the possibility that they really are after you.
Next we find out that the X-files was based on deliberately leaked government files just to discredit the truth if it ever came out, and that FEMA really is planning a government takeover real soon now.
There is no reason why alternatives should not exist but there is no reason why they should either. BitCoins are divisable to tiny amounts so a copy that has a lower dollar value doesn't add anything.
I don't agree. He is a threat to society. He stole a large amount of money and should face a fair trail and a prison sentence if he is found guilty. Fraudsters should be locked up both to prevent them commiting crime again for a few years and as a clear warning to anyone else who would commit fraud. The stupidity of his victims is no excuse for his actions.
You misquoted me. I explictly said give him a fair trail and if found guilty lock him up. Note the 'if' there, I do not discount the possibility that the SEC got the wrong man or that what he did was technially legal.
If you really think upholding the law where that law is strongly aligned with morality and the social good is 'stupid and spiteful' then you are a sociopath.
If I were in charge, and the agency responsible for technological espionage and information security told me they couldn't search through their own emails, I would fire them. Every single one of them. Bam. Agency dissolved, someone go think of a new TLA for the new agency.
Not an option. The NSA has a portfolio of affairs, abuses of power, criminal behavior, tax fraud, drug abuse, etc. on every member of the government. Nobody will oppose those who could end their career in a few keystrokes....Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
Snowden didn't seem to have a problem finding information. Maybe they just need a contractor to come in and do it for them...
It is highly unlikely that Snowden knows everything the NSA is involved in. The stuff he released might be inflamatory but there will be plenty more he never knew about.
As an Exchange administrator, I can say that searching across an entire mail database is absolutely possible, and also very simple to do from the Management Shell. They're either lying, or just don't want to do it.
Of course it's possible with Exchange or with anything else for that matter. There is an exception to FOI requests where getting the information is expensive. What they mean is they can't do it within whatever small budget they allocate to serving FIO requests.
Iodine in salt, like fluoride in water, is simply a convenient, low cost method of disposing of an industrial waste product! We are being deliberately poisoned!
Maybe you should try lithium in your food instead.
According to the post the actual value of bitcoins has climbed at about 1% per day, so surely it's more remarkable that the scheme failed to meet those expectations?
Right. But the scheme was denominated in BitCoins. You invest 1, next day you have 1.01 and so on. That's on top of the USD value of the BitCoins going up. Of course there was no way that this guy was getting 1% of his held BitCoins from thin air. This guy even started rumours about involvement in laundering drug money as a source of the 1%.
What kind of an idiot believes the unbelievable? I struggle with that too. The answer seems to be that there are a lot of people that will literally believe anything.
This really has nothing to do with bitcoin itself, and is just someone trying to use them to scam people. Nothing new here.
The reason it's a big deal is that he wasn't just trying to scam people, he was actually very successful at scamming people. If he just tried and failed no-one would care.
I saw give him a fair trail and if found guilty lock him up with a bunch of violent offenders for very many years.
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The whole SSL CA setup was broken from the start. The trusted people at the top never were even remotely trustworthy.
Self signed certs are a pain, what we need is something peer2peer based.
But they can't practically break GPG on millions of emails a day, not even if they owned every computer in the world.
GPG is your friend. More people should use it.
Well they're right about that.
As many people keep chanting, we're the ones who "elected" them. *cough*elected*cough*
Yes. We had the choice of freedom destroying warmonger or nice guy who turns out to be a freedom destroying warmonger. Our two party system only works were the two parties are not the same.
That film was a third rate twilight zone ripoff. A bit like the NSA in that regard I guess.
It's not that I find the word niggers offensive, it's just that it's a very bad description for the NSA. That word doesn't express the wrong they have done and continue to do, all it does is express your emotions towards them.
Paranoia doesn't not exclude the possibility that they really are after you.
Next we find out that the X-files was based on deliberately leaked government files just to discredit the truth if it ever came out, and that FEMA really is planning a government takeover real soon now.
There is no reason why alternatives should not exist but there is no reason why they should either. BitCoins are divisable to tiny amounts so a copy that has a lower dollar value doesn't add anything.
I don't agree. He is a threat to society. He stole a large amount of money and should face a fair trail and a prison sentence if he is found guilty. Fraudsters should be locked up both to prevent them commiting crime again for a few years and as a clear warning to anyone else who would commit fraud. The stupidity of his victims is no excuse for his actions.
Maybe. But I thought maybe it was due to the amount of money involved.
You misquoted me. I explictly said give him a fair trail and if found guilty lock him up. Note the 'if' there, I do not discount the possibility that the SEC got the wrong man or that what he did was technially legal.
If you really think upholding the law where that law is strongly aligned with morality and the social good is 'stupid and spiteful' then you are a sociopath.
If I were in charge, and the agency responsible for technological espionage and information security told me they couldn't search through their own emails, I would fire them. Every single one of them. Bam. Agency dissolved, someone go think of a new TLA for the new agency.
Not an option. The NSA has a portfolio of affairs, abuses of power, criminal behavior, tax fraud, drug abuse, etc. on every member of the government. Nobody will oppose those who could end their career in a few keystrokes. ...Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
Snowden didn't seem to have a problem finding information. Maybe they just need a contractor to come in and do it for them...
It is highly unlikely that Snowden knows everything the NSA is involved in. The stuff he released might be inflamatory but there will be plenty more he never knew about.
As an Exchange administrator, I can say that searching across an entire mail database is absolutely possible, and also very simple to do from the Management Shell. They're either lying, or just don't want to do it.
Of course it's possible with Exchange or with anything else for that matter. There is an exception to FOI requests where getting the information is expensive. What they mean is they can't do it within whatever small budget they allocate to serving FIO requests.
Post a decent argument and contribute to the world instead of just trolling.
Second time today. I see something that needs to be modded up but I've already posted.
Iodine in salt, like fluoride in water, is simply a convenient, low cost method of disposing of an industrial waste product! We are being deliberately poisoned!
Maybe you should try lithium in your food instead.
..that too much salt is bad for you.
FLEE TO MEXICO
Build private compound
Employ armed guards
Enjoy
With 66 million in digital currency he better have a private army bigger than the zeta's and the police put together.
Actually he doesn't need it now, he will be quite safe in jail. Well moderately safe. Less of a target anyway.
700,000!? That's 66 million USD at current market prices.
That's one hell of a con.
According to the post the actual value of bitcoins has climbed at about 1% per day, so surely it's more remarkable that the scheme failed to meet those expectations?
Right. But the scheme was denominated in BitCoins. You invest 1, next day you have 1.01 and so on. That's on top of the USD value of the BitCoins going up. Of course there was no way that this guy was getting 1% of his held BitCoins from thin air. This guy even started rumours about involvement in laundering drug money as a source of the 1%.
What kind of an idiot believes the unbelievable? I struggle with that too. The answer seems to be that there are a lot of people that will literally believe anything.
so they're selectively acknowledging bitcoin? how else can SEC get involved unless this is considered a legitimate security?
For the amount of money involved I think they would be involved if it was a scam involving sea shells or wooden tally sticks.
They almost try to be though. What with mining paying early adopters more it has a bit of that.
I think the shrinking supply of them and increasing price will lead to uptake for litecoin and its other competitors.
LiteCoin is a troll on BitCoin. It's just a copy and paste job and there really isn't any need for it to exist.
And show up they did, and they were very successful. You know what they say about a fool and his money..
But then scams with cash and money transfer services have been going on for a very long time. BitCoin didn't really change anything there.
This really has nothing to do with bitcoin itself, and is just someone trying to use them to scam people. Nothing new here.
The reason it's a big deal is that he wasn't just trying to scam people, he was actually very successful at scamming people. If he just tried and failed no-one would care.
I saw give him a fair trail and if found guilty lock him up with a bunch of violent offenders for very many years.
Never underestimate the power of greed to suspend normal thinking processes.
That sums the whole situation up perfectly. Sadly I've already posted and can't mod you up.