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by timbro 13y ago
Of course we can put our heads in the sand. The problem is: if you do this, you should no longer be allowed to vote. Because democracy can only survive if the feedback cycle is encouraged , not sabotaged : (Good|bad) news => critical t
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by timbro 13y ago
That may be true if you're the kind of person who never stands up to anybody. If you never voice disagreement or opposition, then you can be that 100% transparent citizen. But it's difficult or impossible to reverse this, once you
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by timbro 13y ago
This story is about New Zealand, but I'm sure we agree on which government exerts the pressure that these police state tactics are about to become the new (and apparently accepted) "normal". I really hate to see the US going
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by timbro 13y ago
> I always get this impression that the first day in office of a new president some guy in a black suit comes into the oval office... If you remember that one of the pre-Snowden whistleblowers stated in an interview that Obama was among
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by timbro 13y ago
No website has to have Google track their users. If you do it, you choose to do it (you're disrespecting your users). You can get your open-source and locally running web analytics here: https://prism-break.org/
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by timbro 13y ago
> it lets NSA home in on someone already under suspicion Like OWS protesters, for example.
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by timbro 13y ago
> Sheriff Bud York suggested, according to the Post-Star, the local newspaper, that “in an era of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and mass killings in schools, police agencies need to be ready for whatever comes their way... And in realit
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by timbro 13y ago
> the NSA and its British counterpart defeat encryption technologies by working with chipmakers to insert backdoors, or cryptographic weaknesses, in their products. I had already started to forget about that... From that other report (se
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by timbro 13y ago
Reminds me of the story about that Canadian woman who can never access US soil again, because of her medical data.
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Snowden document shows Canada set up spy posts for NSA(cbc.ca)
4 points by timbro 13y ago|1 comments
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by timbro 13y ago
> My grandfather tells me not to write open source software because I don't get paid for it Yeah, these are the values of the rat race culture we've been nurturing so far. And look where that has taken us. Sanity?
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by timbro 13y ago
> It’s a cargo cult: people do it because everyone else is doing it. And that's one of the core problems of our society. The seed is planted by commercial interests we cultivate in our culture (the rat race for more money than your
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by timbro 13y ago
"NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH" says their tag line. Let that sink in for a minute. It's the mindset of crazies.
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by timbro 13y ago
That's the point. 95% of the population has absolutely no clue about how technology works and how it will be used against them, sooner or later.
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by timbro 13y ago
OTOH, when you just turn off the link to cell towers, you gain huge amounts of battery time - quite nice.
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by timbro 13y ago
I think it's becoming very clear now: Either the NSA/government goes or technology goes. If we want to attain a sane degree of democracy in our Western world, both can not continue to coexist in their current form.
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by timbro 13y ago
When I read about the NSA tracking mobile phones worldwide, I decided to put my mobile "phone" in flight mode - permanently. It's a PDA now. All you need to do is tell your people to call you on your landline. Like we did a f
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by timbro 13y ago
Why focus on Snowden again? The fact of the matter is: We have clearly seen that the governments have been lying to us the whole time. And of course they will ultimately make some promises. But it's too late for promises. Nobody trusts
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Google is now funding numerous Tea Party groups(deathandtaxesmag.com)
18 points by timbro 13y ago|4 comments
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by timbro 13y ago
I like the idea and the effort. One thing I hate about it, though: Again, third party javascripts are loaded in the background (Google, as usual, for example). Come on people, you know this tracks everybody around the entire Web, stop usi
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by timbro 13y ago
> And our reaction is always the same - shock and horror And more importantly, nothing significant ever happens. It all continues and we think "it's gonna be ok", "they will do something, I mean, they have to, rig
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by timbro 13y ago
> The NSA does not target Americans’ location data and > ...location data are obtained by methods “tuned to be looking outside the United States,” Whew, I was getting worried, but now I'm sure we're safe and it's just f
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by timbro 13y ago
Reintroduction of fascism: My money's on the brits.
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by timbro 13y ago
Are we talking about "internet fora" like HN?
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by timbro 13y ago
So it's basically the messaging part of http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/