rand334

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by rand334 11y ago
They've kinda already done that. They were spying on the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee...
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by rand334 11y ago
Right, but if I die, I don't want people accessing my phone after death. They can still get call and text metadata from the phone companies for 90+ days. In fact, I think even the text contents of SMS messages are available for 90 days
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by rand334 11y ago
Wrong. It's a big part of it, but many enjoy the power. Many want an opportunity to just steal from you personally. Many want to get their numbers up and be the officer with the most stops/arrests/citations. We need to put so
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by rand334 11y ago
Police don't get reprimanded in America. They just get paid vacation at worst. Shoot a handcuffed guy in the back of your squad car? "Oh, he must have had a gun we just didn't find when we searched him." Right. Right.
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by rand334 11y ago
No, I think it's related to Facebook being a PRISM company and having a deplorable privacy policy, and generally giving no shits about privacy or security. Also, Mark's internet.org wasn't going to support HTTPS.
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by rand334 11y ago
Yes; the entirety of our internet infrastructure is...almost...hopelessly insecure. The OpenSSL team refuses to even use SSL/TLS on their website because "they don't want anyone to get the slightest illusion that it's se
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by rand334 11y ago
They use thermal cameras and stingrays. This is not technology that the public has access to. If traffic and CCTV cameras had thermal and cell-interception capabilities, people might be a bit more concerned. If I'm in my house, no one
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by rand334 11y ago
"require"--cute. Even if "required" in all states including federally, who oversees this to ensure that said requirements are being followed? What keeps them from using it anyway? Also, the very nature of these devices e
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by rand334 11y ago
It's not about oversight. They don't need to be spying on citizens whom are neither suspected of a crime nor have a warrant against them. I don't give a fuck it it solves crimes; I'd rather the criminals get away with it
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by rand334 11y ago
No, no. The FBI planes have "Stringray" devices on board and pick up people's private calls and their IMSI IDs. They also have FLIR/high-res cameras. This shit is not "public" when they pretend to be a cell-tow
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by rand334 11y ago
The FBI planes circle cities for hours and hours, equipped with Stingrays and FLIR cameras. This has no place in a free society, period. The "orwelianness" is pretty dead-on-balls fucking accurate.
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by rand334 11y ago
Another average white guy here. I've had over 100 interactions with the police. More than 60% of the time, I was doing nothing wrong at all. Just gotta live in the wrong neighborhood.
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by rand334 11y ago
Microsoft is still a PRISM company, so I'm sure the NSA will still be able to access search data.
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by rand334 11y ago
They've been actively censoring stories about Pao for months. This is nothing new.
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by rand334 11y ago
What exactly do you think is good, okay, or normal about In-Q-Tel, the CIA's VC firm, having connections to the world's most popular social network... blows my mind.
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by rand334 11y ago
You forgot Rand Paul, R-KY.
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by rand334 11y ago
See my comment above. It's not "symbolically a good thing"--the intelligence community wanted this. It just expands their powers. It's only symbolic effect is that now, the average American not paying attention, actually
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by rand334 11y ago
No, the surveillance didn't stop; it's just fucking doublespeak. One of the circuit courts declared that PATRIOT section 215 doesn't actually authorize the bulk collection. So, the NSA stopped giving a shit about PATRIOT. The
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by rand334 11y ago
And then you remember where Facebook's initial funding sources came from....
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by rand334 11y ago
Yeah, is this data right? Why do they have Software and UX people making over $250k?
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by rand334 11y ago
Because equal access doesn't mean every group will be evenly-racially- and gender-distributed. Just read the title again to yourselves; doesn't this sound ridiculous? Maybe we should pass a law that all software projects need to
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by rand334 11y ago
> I love it when it's sunny Sonny girl you could be my Cher That's beautiful. Wow. Was that copied from something or did the algorithm come up with it on its own?
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by rand334 11y ago
Yeah, everything would be "okay for everyone", but worse than the best we can get right now. I don't want "NHS" in America--I don't want the government having a say in my medical care and treatment options. Hav
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by rand334 11y ago
Same shit, pedantism sucks.
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by rand334 11y ago
I've read almost all of the comments here and I'm so confused... So I'm not going to be able to text my non-TextSecure friends with it anymore? And, if my data connection drops right before I message a TextSecure user, will i
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by rand334 11y ago
Yeah, remember how they bought Skype and reengineered its network to make it more monitorable? I think you have their intentions confused.
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by rand334 11y ago
And improve NSA compatibility.
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by rand334 12y ago
Yeah, Snowden and Greenwald have insurance policies. Carr likely didn't. If they kill Snowden or Greenwald, more secrets leak. Why do you think Snowden's been so slow to release everything?