Aww, shit… this is now the part of the thread where we brag about how surveillable we are.
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We need a shirt for this. “I have been targeted by the NSA” or something.
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Wouldn’t the internet be a lot faster without these interceptions ?
NSA is probably not the only internet pirate, so one can only dream of how great the internet would be without them !
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After years of my parents not caring, it’s nice to see someone taking an interest in what I do.
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If you read Boing Boing, the NSA considers you a target for…
[size=32]DEEEP HURTINNGG![/size]
[size=4]SAAANDSTORM![/size]
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Put these fucks in prison yesterday. I don’t care what prison in the world they serve their time in. I do not ever want to see or hear from anyone at NSA again. May they always be imprisoned and may the never be heard or seen from again.
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I’m a nihilist. 
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Does the NSA ever consider that, by Hoovering up all the data everyone anywhere ever looks at, all they are doing is giving themselves one crappy signal-to-noise ratio? With all that rubbish stuffing up their analysis, they couldn’t find a hand grenade in a barrel of flour. I am undoubtedly on their fecal roster, being a librarian. waves Hi, Mom!
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No irony here. That’s how TOR is used in the US, too!
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Does the NSA ever consider that, by Hoovering up all the data everyone anywhere ever looks at, all they are doing is giving themselves one crappy signal-to-noise ratio? With all that rubbish stuffing up their analysis, they couldn’t find a hand grenade in a barrel of flour.
Well, one guy realized it and they fired him for being competent.
William Binney who worked for the NSA said that too much information from mass surveillance makes filtering to find actual threats much more difficult and he was directly involved with the process at the NSA.
When he was asked why they gather so much data if it’s not making us safer, he said it’s about contracts and money.
More:
Inside the NSA’s Domestic Surveillance Apparatus - William Binney
“On a Slippery Slope to a Totalitarian State” - William Binney
The story most of the corporate mass media would like us to ignore is that Snowden was already vindicated a long time ago shortly after his disclosures:
3 Former NSA Employees Praise Edward Snowden, Corroborate Key Claims
Key points:
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His disclosures did not cause grave damage to national security.
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What Snowden discovered is “material evidence of an institutional crime.”
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As a system administrator, Snowden “could go on the network or go into any file or any system and change it or add to it or whatever, just to make sure – because he would be responsible to get it back up and running if, in fact, it failed. So that meant he had access to go in and put anything. That’s why he said, I think, ‘I can even target the president or a judge.’ If he knew their phone numbers or attributes, he could insert them into the target list which would be distributed worldwide. And then it would be collected, yeah, that’s right. As a super-user, he could do that.”
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The idea that we have robust checks and balances on this is a myth.
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Congressional overseers “have no real way of seeing into what these agencies are doing. They are totally dependent on the agencies briefing them on programs, telling them what they are doing.”
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Lawmakers “don’t really don’t understand what the NSA does and how it operates. Even when they get briefings, they still don’t understand.”
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Asked what Edward Snowden should expect to happen to him, one of the men, William Binney, answered, “first tortured, then maybe even rendered and tortured and then incarcerated and then tried and incarcerated or even executed.” Interesting that this is what a whistleblower thinks the U.S. government will do to a citizen. The abuse of Bradley Manning worked.
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There is no path for intelligence-community whistle-blowers who know wrong is being done. There is none. It’s a toss of the coin, and the odds are you are going to be hammered.
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There must be a lot of upside to this.
I mean, my email is much less spammy than before - I reckon it must be passing through an NSA filter to ensure they have less junk to analyse. And I feel like I have a personal guardian online!
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Yeah, me too, kind of like a big brother. Who knows you better than family?
Wait, that was supposed to be a rhetorical question.
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Man, this sucks. I was doing an innocent search for Tails rule 34, and ended up on a terrorist watchlist AND a furry watchlist.
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Oh man, you get a badge!
I read about this article on Twitter, using my Android tablet configured to run Twitter through an Orbot Tor Proxy. So either they’ll be watching me because of Tor, or because I’m reading BoingBoing, or because my Android tablet is connected to that dangerously suspicious espionage company Google. Guess I should go check out Linux Journal.
(And of course, none of that inflammatory junk I wrote on the Cypherpunks list over a couple of decades would put me on a watch list.)
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OK, sure, but how many “hops” to get to the rest of us?
6 degrees.
