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k-man
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SCruz
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May 29, 2014 - 08:26pm PT
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Make no mistake, mass surveillance is there to squash dissent and the freedom of the press.
My sister pointed out a great article in Vanity Fair on Snowden. Great read.
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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Make no mistake, the purpose of the NSA surveillance is to crush dissent and the freedom of the press.
By going after Risen, the Obama administration has done more damage to reporter's privilege than any other case in forty years, including the Valerie Plame leak investigation that ensnared Judy Miller during the Bush administration. The Fourth Circuit is where many national security reporters live and work, and by eviscerating the privilege there, the government has made national security reporting that much harder in an age where there has already been an explosion in use on surveillance to root out sources of journalists.
While the fight for reporter's privilege will certainly continue, and is by no means dead in much of the country, this case is another reminder that reporters can no longer rely on the legal process to protect their sources. Surveillance has become the government's go-to tool for rooting out a record number of sources and chilling all kinds of investigative journalism. Out of the eight source prosecutions under the Obama administration, the Sterling case is the only one where a reporter was called to testify. As an unnamed national security official reportedly once said a year ago, “the Risen subpoena is one of the last you’ll see. We don’t need to ask who you’re talking to. We know.”
Link: Make No Mistake, This Case Is a Direct Attack on the Press
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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“Harmful rumor busters” monitor internet by robot, report the bad site info to clients everyday
Posted by Mochizuki on June 5th, 2014
The press conference above was managed by a marketing company, Dentsu PR (Dentsu Public Relations inc.). This is a group company of Dentsu inc., which is the biggest advertisement company in Japan.
This company, Dentsu PR offers the service called “Internet harmful rumor busters“. The service description is only on their Japanese page, not on English page.
With this service, they provide the client with the internet monitoring report. Their robot scans the internet to detect the websites to include the issued terms. They supply the reports about the site information and quotes to include the issued terms everyday.
This is how they help clients to find the risk of “slander”, “misinformation”, “harmful rumor”, and “leaked information”.
When they find the “risk”, they offer the clients the following services.
1. Demand the website owners to remove the issued contents.
2. Demand to remove the issued contents based on the legal right.
They also offer the service to spread the anti-harmful rumor, which is positive information on a certain organization or product.
They can offer PR events involving bloggers and mass media to rebuild the reputation as well.
http://www.pref.fukushima.lg.jp/uploaded/attachment/67524.pdf
http://www.dentsu-pr.co.jp/servicemenu/busters.html
Iori Mochizuki
You read this now because we’ve been surviving until today.
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Tvash
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Seattle
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In his own words:
"It’s been one year.
Technology has been a liberating force in our lives. It allows us to create and share the experiences that make us human, effortlessly. But in secret, our very own government—one bound by the Constitution and its Bill of Rights—has reverse-engineered something beautiful into a tool of mass surveillance and oppression. The government right now can easily monitor whom you call, whom you associate with, what you read, what you buy, and where you go online and offline, and they do it to all of us, all the time.
Today, our most intimate private records are being indiscriminately seized in secret, without regard for whether we are actually suspected of wrongdoing. When these capabilities fall into the wrong hands, they can destroy the very freedoms that technology should be nurturing, not extinguishing. Surveillance, without regard to the rule of law or our basic human dignity, creates societies that fear free expression and dissent, the very values that make America strong.
In the long, dark shadow cast by the security state, a free society cannot thrive.
That’s why one year ago I brought evidence of these irresponsible activities to the public—to spark the very discussion the U.S. government didn’t want the American people to have. With every revelation, more and more light coursed through a National Security Agency that had grown too comfortable operating in the dark and without public consent. Soon incredible things began occurring that would have been unimaginable years ago. A federal judge in open court called an NSA mass surveillance program likely unconstitutional and “almost Orwellian.” Congress and President Obama have called for an end to the dragnet collection of the intimate details of our lives. Today legislation to begin rolling back the surveillance state is moving in Congress after more than a decade of impasse.
I am humbled by our collective successes so far. When the Guardian and The Washington Post began reporting on the NSA’s project to make privacy a thing of the past, I worried the risks I took to get the public the information it deserved would be met with collective indifference.
One year later, I realize that my fears were unwarranted.
Americans, like you, still believe the Constitution is the highest law of the land, which cannot be violated in secret in the name of a false security. Some say I’m a man without a country, but that’s not true. America has always been an ideal, and though I’m far away, I’ve never felt as connected to it as I do now, watching the necessary debate unfold as I hoped it would. America, after all, is always at our fingertips; that is the power of the Internet.
But now it’s time to keep the momentum for serious reform going so the conversation does not die prematurely.
Only then will we get the legislative reform that truly reins in the NSA and puts the government back in its constitutional place. Only then will we get the secure technologies we need to communicate without fear that silently in the background, our very own government is collecting, collating, and crunching the data that allows unelected bureaucrats to intrude into our most private spaces, analyzing our hopes and fears. Until then, every American who jealously guards their rights must do their best to engage in digital self-defense and proactively protect their electronic devices and communications. Every step we can take to secure ourselves from a government that no longer respects our privacy is a patriotic act.
We’ve come a long way, but there’s more to be done."
Edward J. Snowden, American
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Snowden will go down in history as a good guy. Not as a "traitor."
Who did he betray?
What sucks is that it blew over and nobody cares that everyone from Google to the NSA is copying and analyzing every mouse click that you make. And they store it. It seems like everyone forgot about it.
This must all be incredibly expensive to spy on everyone. I can see the potential for misuse of this information by a future government. I wish we could delete all of NSA's servers.
I like to end my emails with a "hot" word, just to bother the NSA.
Cesium. Dirty bomb.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Them as well as bluejaybrightplanet. Agree so much for freedoms what freedom?
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Apparently, after Obama was briefed on "The Program," he decided to keep it, despite its legality being based on a finding written by Cheney's lawyer, and his campaign promise to stop it.
Yep. Dick Cheney's lawyer wrote the opinion that made wholesale spying on America legal. Frontline just aired two two hour back to back episodes on the whole thing and its history.
There were some who spoke out against it. Notably, a Republican staffer on the Senate Intelligence Committee totally blew a fuse over it.
Now the public has forgotten all about it.
This post is being recorded and kept forever by NSA servers. Doesn't this bug anybody? It ignores the 4th amendment. What value they may find in all of this data puzzles me. They haven't stopped any attacks.
Always end your posts or emails with "hot words" to make them waste their time....
Pottassium Chlorate. Castor beans. Screw you NSA.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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NSA does not create the hardware or software they procure it from vendors or contractors. A one being BrightPlanet, I believe they are #1 for gov. state and local plus 72 other companies that will provide the info for you.
Most are related for gov. and corporations but also for small companies.
Now that the elections are on there way, this is where one [the guy running against and needs as much sh%t about his opponent he can use to say nice things about for TV commercials] first looking at public records: DUI, beat your wife/husband ect.that's easy anyone can for $2.00 want more info $24.00.
Finding very little then they go deep as in the deep web and look at the unknown never heard of but wait here is something somebody said or a picture of him with a ppppppprostitute, Wait 10 times he was seen in the place. Hey! here is picture of him/she in High school smoking a joint. Her/she was protesting against something back in the 60's.
Would they abuse this information they collect. Of course not they would not even think of doing that.
But or course they only use it for your shopping habits so that your next e-mail from Target is 10% coupon.
By the way Cheney and Poindexter both of them go along ways back with creating the software well before 911.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Kremlin
Snowden's Russia visa for temporary asylum, which can be extended indefinitely.
Ex-KGB Major Boris Karpichko told Nigel Nelson of The Mirror that spies from Russia’s SVR intelligence service, posing as diplomats in Hong Kong, convinced Snowden to fly to Moscow last June.
“It was a trick and he fell for it," Karpichko, who reached the rank of Major as a member of the KGB's prestigious Second Directorate while specializing in counter-intelligence, told Nelson. " Now the Russians are extracting all the intelligence he possesses.”
Karpichko fled Moscow in 1998 after spying on his native Latvia for the KGB and the post-Soviet FSB. The 55-year-old says he is still in contact with several of his old spy pals.
Snowden flew from Hawaii to Hong Kong on May 20, 2013 and identified himself to the world on June 9. The 30-year-old American became stranded in Moscow on June 23 after he landed with a void U.S. passport and an unsigned travel Ecuadorian document obtained by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Karpichko said that the Kremlin leaked Snowden’s planned flight to Moscow to provoke the U.S. into revoking Snowden's passport, which Washington did on June 22. Assange also advised S nowden that " he would be physically safest in Russia."
Snowden has been living under the protection of the post-Soviet security services (FSB) since at least receiving asylum on Aug. 1. Karpichko told The Mirror that Snowden lives in an FSB-controlled neighborhood in Moscow's suburbs.
"His flat is heavily alarmed to stop anything happening to him," Karpichko said. "He meets the FSB twice a week over plenty of food and drink.”
Former KGB General Olig Kalugin recently told VentureBeat that “the Russians are very pleased with the gifts Edward Snowden has given them. He’s busy doing something. He is not just idling his way through life."
Back to the CIA
Karpichko also claims that Moscow spotted Snowden as a candidate for defection in 2007 and opened a file on him while he worked as a CIA technician in Geneva.
The CIA hired Snowden as a systems administrator and technician in 2006 and sent him to Geneva in early 2007 under diplomatic cover at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Then 24, Snowden's "was in the system. He was reading the traffic" at the Geneva CIA station, one former CIA official told Vanity Fair.
Snowden had a web presence for years, posting on Ars Technica under the name "The TrueHOOHA" from 2001 until May 2012.
Snowden has said that he first considered leaking documents around 2008. He resigned from the CIA in early 2009 after becoming "disillusioned" about how the U.S. government functions. He excelled at several jobs for the NSA and as an NSA contractor before fleeing to Hong Kong.
The U.S. government believes Snowden began downloading in the summer of 2013 and eventually stole around 1.7 million documents — about 200,000 of which he gave to journalists.
It is unclear when or if the former NSA systems administrator gave up access to the cache of up to 1.5 million documents, which is suspected to contain military intel. Snowden recently told NBC that he "destroyed" them but had previously told the New York Times that he gave them all to journalists he met in Hong Kong .
As an experienced systems administrator, Snowden is especially appealing to spy services hostile to America. Both the U.S. and U.K. claim that the Snowden leaks have done staggering damage to their spy operations. In any case, Snowden's brain is a very valuable asset to his hosts in Moscow.
“He will stay in Russia until they have got everything they want from him," Karpichko said. " They need the time to extract all the classified intelligence he possesses about the operational methods and tactics of Western security agencies."
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Jun 13, 2014 - 05:05pm PT
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Kind of weird. It turns out that we really do NEED to get some tinfoil hats.
I can see no GOOD purpose for the government to collect all of this data. They store all of your emails for goodness sake.
ammonium perchlorate. Lead azide.
Chew on that ya wankers....
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jun 13, 2014 - 05:59pm PT
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Turn it back on em'!
June 13, 2014
Admiral Michael S. Rogers
Director, National Security Agency
Fort Meade, MD 20755
Admiral Rogers:
First, thank you for your 33 years of, and continued service to, our country.
Second, as you probably read, the Internal Revenue Service informed the House Ways and Means Committee today they claim to “lost” all emails from former Exempt Organizations division director Lois Lerner for the period between January 2009 and April 2011.
According to chairman Camp, “The IRS claims it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices” due to a “computer glitch.”
I am writing to request the Agency produce all metadata it has collected on all of Ms. Lerner’s email accounts for the period between January 2009 and April 2011.
The data may be transmitted to our Communications Director at Donny@mail.house.gov.
Your prompt cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated and will help establish how IRS and other personnel violated rights protected by the First Amendment.
Warmest wishes,
STEVE STOCKMAN
Member of Congress
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couchmaster
climber
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Jun 13, 2014 - 08:04pm PT
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Dear Steve. Despite what the constitution may indicate or what the founders desired, congress has no authority over us. We work for the President. Pound sand up your a*# and get screwed. If we decide to break the law there's not a damned thing you and your ilk can do about it.
Signed: the admiral
Ps. Phone recordings we've made indicates your hot wife is banging the gardener.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jun 21, 2014 - 01:29am PT
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The US Government is actively seeking those who criticize government, specifically Barack Obama, and arresting them without charging them. They are remanded to mental health institutions where they are given "training" on how to view the world.
Remind you of a little book that George Orwell wrote?
It gets worse.
Most of the victims of the government's kidnapping scheme are veterans.
http://www.politicalears.com/blog/government-arresting-people-for-antiobama-facebook-posts/
From The Rutherford Institute:
In the four years since the start of Operation Vigilant Eagle, the government has steadily ramped up its campaign to “silence” dissidents, especially those with military backgrounds. Coupled with the DHS’ dual reports on Rightwing and Leftwing “Extremism,” which broadly define extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” these tactics have boded ill for anyone seen as opposing the government.
One particularly troubling mental health label being applied to veterans and others who challenge the status quo is “oppositional defiance disorder” (ODD). As journalist Anthony Martin explains, an ODD diagnosis
“denotes that the person exhibits ‘symptoms’ such as the questioning of authority, the refusal to follow directions, stubbornness, the unwillingness to go along with the crowd, and the practice of disobeying or ignoring orders. Persons may also receive such a label if they are considered free thinkers, nonconformists, or individuals who are suspicious of large, centralized government… At one time the accepted protocol among mental health professionals was to reserve the diagnosis of oppositional defiance disorder for children or adolescents who exhibited uncontrollable defiance toward their parents and teachers.”
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jun 21, 2014 - 02:18am PT
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Richard Clarke, the nation’s former top counterterrorism official, tells Democracy Now! he believes President George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes for launching the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Clarke served as national coordinator for security and counterterrorism during Bush’s first year in office. He resigned in 2003 following the Iraq invasion and later made headlines by accusing Bush officials of ignoring pre-9/11 warnings about an imminent attack by al-Qaeda. "I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes," Clarke says. "Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have. But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing. And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration. It’s clear that things that the Bush administration did — in my mind, at least — were war crimes."
Transcrip
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/6/2/ex_counterterrorism_czar_richard_clarke_bush
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dave729
Trad climber
Western America
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Some Independence Day beta for the brave new world:
Best Practice strategy for the Government rubber-hose wielders
is to keep on beating keys out of citizens
(lets say, Alice, in this case)
indefinitely till there are no keys left.
However, and importantly, during Rubberhose, *Alice* can never
prove that she has handed over the last key. As Alice hands over more
and more keys, her attackers can make observations like "the keys
Alice has divulged correspond to 85% of the bits". However at no point
can her attackers prove that the remaining 15% don't simply pertain to
unallocated space, and at no point can Alice, even if she wants to,
divulge keys to 100% of the bits, in order to bring the un-divulged
portion down to 0%. An obvious point to make here is that
fraction-of-total-data divulged is essentially meaningless, and both
parties know it - the launch code aspect may only take up .01% of the
total bit-space.
What I find interesting, is how this constraint on Alice's behaviour
actually protects her from revealing her own keys, because each party,
at the outset can make the following observations:
Rubber-hose-squad: We will never be able to show that Alice has
revealed the last of her keys. Further, even if
Alice has co-operated fully and has revealed all of
her keys, she will not be able to prove it.
Therefore, we must assume that at every stage that
Alice has kept secret information from us, and we'll
continue to beat her, even though she may have
revealed the last of her keys. But the whole time
we will feel uneasy about this because Alice may
have co-operated fully. Alice will have realised this
though, and so presumably it's going to be very hard
to get any keys out of her at all.
Alice: (Having realised the above) I can never prove that
I have revealed the last of my keys. In the end I'm
bound for a continued beating, even if I can buy
brief respites by coughing up keys from time to
time. Therefore, it would be foolish to divulge my
most sensitive keys, because (a) I'll be that much
closer to the stage where I have nothing left to
divulge at all (it's interesting to note that this
seemingly illogical, yet entirely valid argument of
Alice's can protect the most sensitive of Alice's
keys the "whole way though", like a form
mathematical induction), and (b) the taste of truly
secret information will only serve to make my
aggressors come to the view that there is even
higher quality information yet to come, re-doubling
their beating efforts to get at it, even if I have
revealed all. Therefore, my best strategy would be
to (a) reveal no keys at all or (b) depending on
the nature of the aggressors, and the psychology of
the situation, very slowly reveal my "duress" and
other low-sensitivity keys.
Alice certainly isn't in for a very nice time of it (although she's
far more likely to protect her data because in the end the amount of
rubber-hosing will be exactly the same).
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couchmaster
climber
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Jul 13, 2014 - 06:18pm PT
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Today story -title quoted: "The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control"
snippits:
"William Binney is one of the highest-level whistleblowers to ever emerge from the NSA. He was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War but resigned soon after September 11, disgusted by Washington’s move towards mass surveillance."
"He praised the revelations and bravery of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and told me that he had indirect contact with a number of other NSA employees who felt disgusted with the agency’s work."
"Binney recently told the German NSA inquiry committee that his former employer had a “totalitarian mentality” that was the "greatest threat" to US society since that country’s US Civil War in the 19th century. Despite this remarkable power, Binney still mocked the NSA’s failures, including missing this year’s Russian intervention in Ukraine and the Islamic State’s take-over of Iraq."
or read the entire article:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control
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