northwest

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by northwest 13y ago
Are you smoking again?
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by northwest 13y ago
Signal jammers would be a problem as well.
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by northwest 13y ago
> I love the idea of having my own surveillance drone. That's the point. Everybody loves to do surveillance but nobody wants to be the potential target. See the issue here? What I'm saying is: Should society decide to want to a
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by northwest 13y ago
Unlimited range is the thing that makes this important (sexy for the average consumer). On the receiving end, it means you will never be able to know who's watching you. Your only defense against unwanted surveillance (by whomever) wou
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by northwest 13y ago
RetroShare seems to be what you're looking for: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ It's the encrypted, decentralized/p2p, open-source communication suite (it also allows you to stay anonymous). You get: - VoI
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by northwest 13y ago
Exactly, see the "Five Eyes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
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by northwest 13y ago
> why me? Was it something I said on Twitter or Facebook? Did I just look at him the wrong way without realising? Yeah, don't think too far - it's probably your skin color that makes you a terrrist.
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by northwest 13y ago
The UK should be kicked out of the EU. Until they learn how to behave.
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by northwest 13y ago
Effing cheap intimidation pricks. One day it will come back to haunt them.
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by northwest 13y ago
> Well 9/11 would have seemed a perfect fantasy on 9/10/2001. Not at all. This scenario was well documented by the responsible government agencies before it happened.
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by northwest 13y ago
So, by government logic, we'd have to start a War on Government Employee-ism ... EDIT: Seriously, just this 1 thought would warrant HUGE articles in papers like the New York Times. Obviously, this will never happen.
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by northwest 13y ago
But one should not. "Terrorism", for the tiny, tiny little bit that happens in our country, was not here before. Let's just switch to a sane foreign policy and be done with "terrorism". At least mid- and long-term
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by northwest 13y ago
Always keep in mind that the government's cheapest manipulation strategy is fear (it always works): http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/constitutional-expert... And for some more numbers that we should tal
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by northwest 13y ago
Or you just book a round trip with a few hours inside the US and you're good to go for the next 12 months in your home country. This way you can opt for the wait-and-see approach regarding the evolution of the surveillance state trend
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by northwest 13y ago
That works, thanks!
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by northwest 13y ago
The lesson IMO is to rebuild the whole political system, on a foundation made of sane rules. (And that should obviously include all government agencies, especially those which have been corrupting democracy for a few decades now.) EDIT: D
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by northwest 13y ago
Also, let's keep in mind that Obama has lied to the public when he said that there was no abuse by the NSA. (Not that we can expect different behavior from any of the future Presidents, nor from the recent ones.)
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by northwest 13y ago
The thing is, the owners of the private prisons want to get richer and invest serious money so their cells are kept as full as possible: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuana-lobby-illegal/ See "2.) Pr
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by northwest 13y ago
EDIT 4: Even having set about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable -> false , I have to close/open the browser twice in order for the cache (and tracking) to disappear.
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by northwest 13y ago
Expect around a 1% chance of winning.
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by northwest 13y ago
Same here. This is definitely not ok. EDIT 1: I also checked "Clear history when Firefox closes" and included "Cache" in the definition of "history". And the tracking is still happening. So either the site uses
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by northwest 13y ago
> “Most certainly our nation’s security will be enhanced.” Because we're all so close to dying from terrorism: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/president-obama-the-o...
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Seeing threats, feds target instructors of polygraph-beating methods(mcclatchydc.com)
9 points by northwest 13y ago|3 comments
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by northwest 13y ago
I'm positive it will stay alive on these (b/c peers can stay anonymous): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29
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by northwest 13y ago
> "Were we to provide positive or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries' compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security.
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by northwest 13y ago
> I fear for Wyden's safety. Even if this was an issue - There is no point in living an oppressed life. Maybe it's time we start making sacrifices now so the future will be better and we don't leave our kids in an even b
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by northwest 13y ago
Anybody with an IQ over 80 who's read the recent news about the mass surveillance in place had to reasonably assume that these privacy breaches are just 'the tip of the iceberg'. The only new thing here is that 2 senators see
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by northwest 13y ago
Not sure if they already allow having your own domain, but the rest is covered: https://mykolab.com/ based in non-EU country Switzerland. Of course it's not free, but keep in mind: if it's free, you are probably t
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by northwest 13y ago
First of all, high school and college education is supposed to be covered by tax money. It is in the country's general interest. But no, your tax money goes to more important issues, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by northwest 13y ago
Having some kind of clearance also means: power over other people. Having power over other people can corrupt any human being and s/he may start to actually like it.

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