Main Area and Open Discussion > Living Room
Worth Reading: Trevor Pott's editorial on NSA PRISM and its real ramifications
barney:
They weren't one hit wonders... they were prophets and doomsayers!
...Too soon?
-wraith808 (June 08, 2013, 09:23 PM)
--- End quote ---
Isn't that pretty much the fate of all prescients? Then we damn them because they didn't warn us enough :(, instead of placing blame and accusation where it belongs, and then taking action to correct what was predicted <sigh />.
wraith808:
Ok... that apparently wasn't enough for basement. How about this?
Easily Add an NSA Backdoor to your Rails app
It really should be an API for Prism instead of a web page. Naturally you would call it PriAPIsm for its ability to facilitate continual invasion of our privacy and rights, and for the effect it will have on "national security" officials.
--- End quote ---
wraith808:
And in the you can't make this up department:
Horrible timing: National Security Agency lists 'Digital Network Exploitation Analyst' internship opening
IainB:
@40hz: Thanks for the OP and link. Very interesting, albeit the whole situation is confuzzling to me (looking in from the outside).
There's an interesting post at Slashdot:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
NSA Surveillance Heat Map: NSA Lied To Congress
Posted by timothy on Sunday June 09, 2013 @08:26AM
from the hey-dad-what's-up-with-that? dept.
anagama writes "NSA officials have repeatedly denied under oath to Congress that even producing an estimate of the number of Americans caught up in its surveillance is impossible. Leaked screenshots of an NSA application that does exactly that, prove that the NSA flat out lied (surprise). Glenn Greenwald continues his relentless attacks with another bombshell this time exposing Boundless Informant. Interestingly, the NSA spies more on America than China according to the heat map. Representative Wyden had sought amendments to FISA reauthorization bill that would have required the NSA to provide information like this (hence the NSA's lies), but Obama and Feinstein demanded a pure reauthorization of FISA, which they got at the end of 2012." And if you don't mind that you might have your name on yet another special list, you might enjoy this Twitter-based take on the ongoing news.
--- End quote ---
They link to "Twitter-based take on the ongoing news", and one of those tweets is a rather droll image/caption:
(He who would trade liberty for security deserves great customer service.)
Made me smile anyway. ;)
TaoPhoenix:
@40hz: Thanks for the OP and link. Very interesting, albeit the whole situation is confuzzling to me (looking in from the outside).
There's an interesting post at Slashdot:
(Copied below sans embedded hyperlinks/images.)
... "NSA officials have repeatedly denied under oath to Congress...
--- End quote ---
-IainB (June 09, 2013, 09:09 AM)
--- End quote ---
Ever notice that "interrogation techniques" are in fact "only Rated R"!? (VERY high R!)
Your choice of Ominous Dark Knight to say the following:
"Pshaw ... yeah, pain, suffocation, blah blah. But you know what? Rated R. They still don't *truly* scare the victim. So let's do this. Let's turn the alphabet dial ... up to X."
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version