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Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
Renegade:
So the NSA and GCHQ have everyone's mobile phone SIM keys.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/
THE GREAT SIM HEIST
HOW SPIES STOLE THE KEYS TO THE ENCRYPTION CASTLE
AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe, according to top-secret documents provided to The Intercept by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The breach, detailed in a secret 2010 GCHQ document, gave the surveillance agencies the potential to secretly monitor a large portion of the world’s cellular communications, including both voice and data.
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More at the link.
And still no criminal charges... Gee. What a shocker. :-\
Renegade:
An AMA with Ed, Laura and Glenn:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/?sort=top
A couple Q&As:
Q: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/coup7ld
[–]masondog13 3287 points 6 hours ago
What's the best way to make NSA spying an issue in the 2016 Presidential Election? It seems like while it was a big deal in 2013, ISIS and other events have put it on the back burner for now in the media and general public. What are your ideas for how to bring it back to the forefront?
[–]SuddenlySnowden EDWARD SNOWDEN 4375 points 5 hours ago*x15
This is a good question, and there are some good traditional answers here. Organizing is important. Activism is important.
At the same time, we should remember that governments don't often reform themselves. One of the arguments in a book I read recently (Bruce Schneier, "Data and Goliath"), is that perfect enforcement of the law sounds like a good thing, but that may not always be the case. The end of crime sounds pretty compelling, right, so how can that be?
Well, when we look back on history, the progress of Western civilization and human rights is actually founded on the violation of law. America was of course born out of a violent revolution that was an outrageous treason against the crown and established order of the day. History shows that the righting of historical wrongs is often born from acts of unrepentant criminality. Slavery. The protection of persecuted Jews.
But even on less extremist topics, we can find similar examples. How about the prohibition of alcohol? Gay marriage? Marijuana?
Where would we be today if the government, enjoying powers of perfect surveillance and enforcement, had -- entirely within the law -- rounded up, imprisoned, and shamed all of these lawbreakers?
Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determing thour futures.
How does this relate to politics? Well, I suspect that governments today are more concerned with the loss of their ability to control and regulate the behavior of their citizens than they are with their citizens' discontent.
How do we make that work for us? We can devise means, through the application and sophistication of science, to remind governments that if they will not be responsible stewards of our rights, we the people will implement systems that provide for a means of not just enforcing our rights, but removing from governments the ability to interfere with those rights.
You can see the beginnings of this dynamic today in the statements of government officials complaining about the adoption of encryption by major technology providers. The idea here isn't to fling ourselves into anarchy and do away with government, but to remind the government that there must always be a balance of power between the governing and the governed, and that as the progress of science increasingly empowers communities and individuals, there will be more and more areas of our lives where -- if government insists on behaving poorly and with a callous disregard for the citizen -- we can find ways to reduce or remove their powers on a new -- and permanent -- basis.
Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it's entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.
We haven't had to think about that much in the last few decades because quality of life has been increasing across almost all measures in a significant way, and that has led to a comfortable complacency. But here and there throughout history, we'll occasionally come across these periods where governments think more about what they "can" do rather than what they "should" do, and what is lawful will become increasingly distinct from what is moral.
In such times, we'd do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn't defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and the responsibility to rebalance it toward just ends.
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Down in that thread:
[–]the_ak [+1] 2014 points 5 hours ago*
Edward Snowden just called for civil disobedience against the US government whilst also arguing for the legalization of marijuana during an AMA. This is quite possibly the most reddit thing ever.
[–]SuddenlySnowden EDWARD SNOWDEN 3081 points 4 hours agox3
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:Thmbsup:
1 more:
Q: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/coup4cr
[–]TheJackal8 2690 points 6 hours ago
Mr. Snowden, if you had a chance to do things over again, would you do anything differently? If so, what?
[–]SuddenlySnowden EDWARD SNOWDEN 4108 points 5 hours ago*x4
I would have come forward sooner. I talked to Daniel Ellsberg about this at length, who has explained why more eloquently
than I can.
Had I come forward a little sooner, these programs would have been a little less entrenched, and those abusing them would have felt a little less familiar with and accustomed to the exercise of those powers. This is something we see in almost every sector of government, not just in the national security space, but it's very important:
Once you grant the government some new power or authority, it becomes exponentially more difficult to roll it back. Regardless of how little value a program or power has been shown to have (such as the Section 215 dragnet interception of call records in the United States, which the government's own investigation found never stopped a single imminent terrorist attack despite a decade of operation), once it's a sunk cost, once dollars and reputations have been invested in it, it's hard to peel that back.
Don't let it happen in your country.
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Ah, heck. 1 more:
Q: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/coup9hn
[–]moizsyed 1214 points 6 hours ago
How did you guys feel about about Neil Patrick Harris' "for some treason" joke last night?
[–]_EdwardSnowden [+1]EDWARD SNOWDEN[ S ] 2376 points 5 hours ago
Wow the questions really blew up on this one. Let me start digging in...
To be honest, I laughed at NPH. I don't think it was meant as a political statement, but even if it was, that's not so bad. My perspective is if you're not willing to be called a few names to help out your country, you don't care enough.
"If this be treason, then let us make the most of it."
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HE QUOTES PATRICK HENRY!!! :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
Y'know... this guy:
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!-Patrick Henry
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There are many more there.
CITIZENFOUR
The new documentary is available at http://cryptome.org.
They're using mirrors and other sites as well. I'm guessing bandwidth has become a problem! 8)
wraith808:
My favorite one...
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/coupfs7
To Glenn, whatever happened to the "list of U.S. citizens that the N.S.A spied on?" You announced plans to release it, then nothing - can you tell us where that list went and why it was never published?
Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/may/26/glenn-greenwald-publish-list-us-citizens-nsa-spied/
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--- Code: C# ---function hasNSAWiretap(citizen) { return true;}
And the less SFW NSA version:
--- Code: C# ---function hasNSAWiretap(citizen) { logIPaddress(citizen); infiltrateMachine(citizen); monitorBrowsingHistory(citizen); fuck(citizen); return false;}
Renegade:
My favorite one...
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2wwdep/we_are_edward_snowden_laura_poitras_and_glenn/coupfs7
-wraith808 (February 23, 2015, 07:53 PM)
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Hehehe! That's an excellent thread! It gets better though down below. :Thmbsup:
I rather got a kick out of this:
Renegade:
Aaaaaaaaannnnnndddd...
Let's start an entire new round of leaks!
http://www.aljazeera.com/investigations/spycables.html
Introducing The Spy Cables
Secret documents, leaked from numerous intelligence agencies, offer rare insights into the interactions between spies.
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LET THE BLOODBATH BEGIN!
In other news, the new exciting sandwich from McDonalds and then, the Katy Perry and Pink feud and the cricket results! :-\
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