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by spangled 13y ago
This reminds me of a friend's response to the idea that the TouchID in the new iphone could be a way for the NSA to get your fingerprints: "Just imagine the shitstorm if they put a camera in there. Or a microphone."
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by spangled 13y ago
(needs citation) You won't find one, given that it's not true. Are you saying that's any better? Are you actually asking if accidentally killing innocent people is better than routinely and intentionally killing innocent
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by spangled 13y ago
The US government's assertion that it has the right to do this. What are you referring to, exactly? I thought the scandal was the dubious distinctions being made to specifically avoid "monitoring an entire population", and
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by spangled 13y ago
"[Update - 9/23/2013] – Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any."
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by spangled 13y ago
I'm getting tired of the knee-jerk tendency for a small group of people to flag these extremely critical revelations. The "knee-jerk" comes from the tendency of people to submit lots and lots of less important stories on th
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by spangled 13y ago
Well sure it is when you deliberately spread disinformation, as opposed to being mistaken. There is no difference. Sunil Trapathi was mis-identified because somebody said they heard his name on the police scanner, and then Reddit (and Twi
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by spangled 13y ago
Truth be told, the last thing someone needs is an army of highly emotional armchair sleuths who are ready to take the law into the their own hands. Not a popular position on HN.
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by spangled 13y ago
Repeating misinformation is acting on it, and harms attempts to get at the truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade You may also want to
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by spangled 13y ago
I think the point is that not everything people say is supported by the available documents, not that the documents aren't real. Moreover, not everything reported by the press is backed up by a document that we can go and read. Even yo
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by spangled 13y ago
He's talking about this submission, not this site. There are dozens and dozens of other submissions where NSA discussion is more on-topic, and anybody here is free to submit their own article on the topic for discussion. That way, peop