PRISM
In case you haven't heard...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/invest...7_story_1.html ... the US government is (allegedly) doing massive (allegedly) illegal data mining through some of the biggest internet companies (allegedly) including google, facebook and apple. Well, when I signed up for Gmail, I just assumed that Uncle Sam would be snooping through the data one way or another, and always treated it accordingly. |
It's one of those things I always assumed they were doing, but to see it confirmed is pretty shocking.
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Always plan your terror excursions using Cellar private messaging. They haven't asked me for access yet.
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I can't say whether the government is doing all that .... but if it is, PRISM has saved all our lives from multiple terrorist attacks. It's the most important anti-terror tool we have, I mean if it exists, it would be the
most important anti-terror tool we have. And how could something initiated by the Bush administration be bad? |
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I plan all my terror activities by snail mail and in person.
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They couldn't read the Cellar PMs without me knowing. That's why they should just intercept data at key exchange points. I don't know why they would even have to talk to Yahoo to get information on their servers, when they could just read your Yahoo Mail at the router.
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"Horror at Their Capabilities" Drove Leak of NSA Spying Program
He's going to get the Bradley Manning treatment. |
What do Google and Allied Waste have in common ?
We give them our raw materials for free, they claim absolute ownership, sort it, and sell it for profit. Bloomberg Christopher Flavelle Jun 8, 2013 Does Google Have an Ethical Obligation Not to Spy? Quote:
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Now that national elections are meaningless maybe the right approach is stockholder pressure. At least its a front that can be fought.
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Note: That article is an obvious defense of PRISM and there will likely be a lot of political spin on this in the next few weeks but I think it is important to try to look at PRISM for what it really is (in a factual sense). |
You put your whole fucking life online and are worried about someone finding out what you've been up to? :confused::confused:
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The hypothetical example in PH45's link is far too tenuous to carry much weight at all.
It basically tries to argue that the phone companies can not manage the author's imaginary problem, therefore only the government is capable, and therefore must do it. "must" ? Why "must" ? Even the author's final paragraph pre-supposes the "must" Quote:
Instead of urgency, the terrorists use the postal services of each country. So now, would that justify a government database of the addresses and return addresses on every piece of mail handled by the post office ? Who knows, maybe such already exists. :eek: Although some aspects of physics posits an infinite number of parallel universes, we don't build our lives around that possibility. The Boston Marathon bombing shows that a program that has been in operation for at least 7 years failed to do what it is supposed to do. Sometimes, absolute safety is not possible for all the possible hypothetical or imaginary situations. |
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