Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 11:11 AM EDT |
The news that US telcos have deep details of who, what, when and for how long on
cross border calls will help the Canadians solve the riddle of who is behind the
robo call scancle - all CSIS has to do is ask their American cousins for the
info.
I'm sure that will happen post-haste.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 12:25 PM EDT |
"A habitual offender may have committed his final felony,
after a jury
sentenced him to 50 years for stealing a rack of
ribs from a shop .. He will
have to serve at least a quarter
of his sentence before being eligible for
parole. He
allegedly rejected a 20-year prison sentence in a plea
bargain
before the trial". link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 05:19 PM EDT |
Link
Last week, the Guardian reported
that the Obama administration is collecting records of every call made to, from
or within the US, as well as records of many digital communications. President
Obama has tried to deflect criticism by claiming "every member of Congress has
been briefed on this program." While some members of Congress were briefed –
particularly those on the intelligence committees – most, including myself, were
not.
The administration claims authority to sift through details of our
private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can. I disagree. I authored
the Patriot Act, and this is an abuse of that law.
...
Technically, the
administration's actions were lawful insofar as they were done pursuant to an
order from the Fisa court. But based on the scope of the released order, both
the administration and the Fisa court are relying on an unbounded
interpretation of the act that Congress never
intended.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 07:05 PM EDT |
Edward Snowden: the
whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance
revelations
The Guardian [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 08:51 PM EDT |
Web Inventor Speaks Out On PRISM
“I call on all Web users to demand better
legal
protection and due process safeguards for the privacy of
their online
communications, including their right to be
informed when someone requests or
stores their data. Over
the last two decades, the Web has become an integral
part of
our lives. A trace of our use of it can reveal very intimate
personal
things. A store of this information about each
person is a huge liability: Whom
would you trust to decide
when to access it, or even to keep it
secure?”
Who can recommend a service provider that doesn't have a
special relationship with the NSA
“Facebook: 'We
do not provide any
government organization with direct access to Facebook
servers`
“Google: 'Google cares deeply about
the
security of our users' data`
“Apple: 'We
have never heard of
PRISM`
“Microsoft: 'We
provide customer data
only when we receive a legally binding order or
subpoena`
“Yahoo!: 'Yahoo! takes users'
privacy
very seriously`
“Dropbox: 'We are not
part of any such
program`
Of course this is very disengenious, the
slurping is done at
the telecom switching centres, before it gets to the
'servers' ...
The secret of Room 641A ..[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 09:32 PM EDT |
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone
call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T,
Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA
TODAY.
The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation
by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom
aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening
to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze
calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in
separate interviews.
Leslie Cauley, USA Today 5/11/2006[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 04:55 AM EDT |
Seeing as I only got joke responses last time, I'll try to explain what I mean
better this time:
(Computational models are equivilent to languages, and languages are sometimes
easier to reason about, so I will be using both here, and explaining some basics
so people understand what sort of complexity I'm talking about)
Heirarchy of computational complexity (I have probably missed some intermediate
layers):
Dictionarys (stateless flowchart with no loops)
Regular Expressions (stateless, finite flowcharts)
Turing Machines (flowcharts with an infinite memory space)
Each of these can solve some problems that the previous one cannot, and each of
these has problems it cannot solve.
Has anyone done any work on classifying the human brain into one of these
catagories? And is anyone looking for the next layer in the heirarchy?
Everything I can remember that we've tried to add to a Turing Machine has been
shown to be equivilent to a Turing Machine.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 11:20 AM EDT |
The bug report about sending all local searches to online servers has been
revived due to PRISM:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054776[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT |
Link
In my estimation, there has not
been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of
NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.
Snowden's whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of
what has amounted to an "executive coup" against the US
constitution.
...
Snowden did what he did because he recognised the NSA's
surveillance programs for what they are: dangerous, unconstitutional activity.
This wholesale invasion of Americans' and foreign citizens' privacy does not
contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we're trying to
protect.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT |
“The Guardian is reporting that Britain's GCHQ first
started getting
produtive with PRISM early 2012. It was about
the same time that their buddies
down under, ASIO revised
their earlier assessment of a refugee, Ranjini, and
scooped
her up in Australia's domestic rendition program”. link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
7:07 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wXVWjVfSY
Daniel Ellsberg -
Wikipedia (Ellsberg released the 'Pentagon Papers' in 1971) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 01:14 PM EDT |
BBC The H Nice to see that there is continuing progress.
The camera is available too, in case anyone missed
it. Meanwhile, one of the kids I gave one to for Christmas has developed a
full colour brochure on his, using LibreOffice. It never occured to him to use
any Monopoly product on his mother's laptop. But he did email the pdf to the
laptop for printing. He had to get his mother to set up a Gmail account, because
they seem to set an age limit, and he was too young to have his own
account. Next time I visit, I will be showing them how to use Samba, I think. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: designerfx on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 02:53 PM EDT |
11:46AM PDT - Bing search results
Well, not only is this another
"apple must spite google", but
isn't this equally bad for the fact that bing is
terrible at
search results?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 02:53 PM EDT |
“We announced some excellent news last night: the U.S.
has agreed to settle
a lawsuit brought by David House over
the government's 2010 search and seizure
of his laptop and
other electronics at the airport .. House's electronics
stored the identities of members and supporters of the
Bradley Manning Support
Network. Given the controversial
nature of that cause, House and others were
deeply concerned
that the government seizure of this material would frighten
others from lending their time and money to the
organization”
“The ACLU and the ACLU of Massachusetts brought
the
lawsuit on House's behalf, charging that the government
targeted House
solely on the basis of his lawful association
with the group, and doing so
violated his First Amendment
right to freedom of association as well as his
Fourth
Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and
seizure” link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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