The NSA watches you poop.
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TrollfaceDeux
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He isn't some altruistic hero. He is a child that grew up in the internet age and has taken Anonymous seriously as heroes.
TrollfaceDeux
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chaos
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Worse than that, he is just uninformed. He is a low level contractor who thought he had some shit and is quickly discovering that his "infoz" is not what he thought it was. Google, Facebook, et al are already petitioning the government to release more information about the program, which they say proves that the reports are full of shit. It is probably real lonely in Hong Kong, dude should have quit in protest and continued to fuck his smokin hot ballerina girlfriend.
I have a couple friends who work for Booze Allen Hamilton, I am giving them time before messaging them asking what the deal is but the guy sounds like a punk.
Noodleface
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After the Boston bombings, I was making a lot of jokes in text messages to my brother because I was working on a school project that was a bunch of IC's and wires in a shoebox that I carried around on campus. The same campus that the bomber went to school. I'm actually pretty happy that I wasn't sniped out because I'm on Verizon.
Phazael
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As I have been saying, the real person who needs to fry for this is whoever approved giving this jackass his clearance. Hope he likes being a ballerina, because when they ship him to Gitmo he is going to be the one working the pole for a change.
Anyhow, as a liberal I am disappointed at how privacy has vanished but it was inevitable, so I can either be angry about something that cannot be undone or I can apply my energy to something where it will have an impact. Welcome to the digital age, rest of the world. As others have pointed out, any real veteran of the internet knows that you do not share anything you do not want public, because there is no real privacy.
Anyhow, as a liberal I am disappointed at how privacy has vanished but it was inevitable, so I can either be angry about something that cannot be undone or I can apply my energy to something where it will have an impact. Welcome to the digital age, rest of the world. As others have pointed out, any real veteran of the internet knows that you do not share anything you do not want public, because there is no real privacy.
fanaskin
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no it isn't and yes it does, even when just private companies do it, never mind the state. p.s. you don't live in isolation what happens to the corpus happens to you.
what you are doing is saying because i'm a liver I don't need to worry about the state of the heart, the brain or veins ect.
fanaskin
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The PRISM system is based off the TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS PROGRAM, that program was started and quickly hidden because of the backlash on it's introduction, the person hired to run the program is admiral john poindexter who was CONVICTED for lying to congress to about iran-contra.
THIS is the person who started the program that became prism and we are living under, a person convicted to lying to congress(Poindexter was convicted on April 7, 1990 of five counts of lying to Congress and obstructing the Congressional investigation into the Reagan Administration's covert arms sales to Iran) and so completely worried congress when they first showed the program that congress defunded it (just a portion of it apparently to pretend that it went away).
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/52127392#52127392
this looks trustworthy right?(this is the actual logo they rolled out this new spy system with)
THIS is the person who started the program that became prism and we are living under, a person convicted to lying to congress(Poindexter was convicted on April 7, 1990 of five counts of lying to Congress and obstructing the Congressional investigation into the Reagan Administration's covert arms sales to Iran) and so completely worried congress when they first showed the program that congress defunded it (just a portion of it apparently to pretend that it went away).
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp/52127392#52127392
this looks trustworthy right?(this is the actual logo they rolled out this new spy system with)
Sebudai
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Yes, it is, and no, it doesn't. I know you're a libertarian and are therefore living in a constant state of fear and paranoia over every hypothetical abuse of power your imagination can cook up, but I'm not.
Good for you. Those of us who actually give a shit about our privacy, will continue to be angry about the governments unfettered spying programs.
I'm sure house American Inventors all over the south felt the same about slavery. "It's unstoppable, so I may as well suck this white man's cock to live in the cushy big house!" Fuck you, you un-American piece of shit.
BoldW
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There's already been a court opinion on how the surveillance (or some part of it) was not constitutional.
But hey, Obama says "It's all hype".
But it's secret and nobody gets to find out about it. Thanks to EFF, though, there is progress being made
But hey, Obama says "It's all hype".
Justice Dept. Loses a Round in Battle to Keep Surveillance Wrongdoing Secret
But it's secret and nobody gets to find out about it. Thanks to EFF, though, there is progress being made
ZyyzYzzy
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ZyyzYzzy
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iannis
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This goes a step beyond that. I also see the internet as a public space. I'm willing to make that compromise.
But with this you don't have to share anything actively, the act of being in the public space makes you a public figure. There is a very clear breach of privacy and authoritarian over reach. This is no more inevitable than it is acceptable.
khalid
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Exactly.
We constantly hear people in this thread say its inevitable anyway, might as well bend over. Bullshit, how is it inevitable? Explain yourself. It damn near certainly violates my interpretation of the 4th amendment. Now MAYBE the supreme court will be fine with it, but until the supreme court says that, I don't see how it is inevitable.
This thread is doing a fabulous job of making me want to vote for a republican president. Both Bush and Obama were intent on this type of ubiquitous internet surveillance, but at least when Bush was in power my fellow liberals were outraged by this shit and fought against it. Now that Obama is in charge, these very same people are all "bend over and like it".