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comment thread at the Schneier blog post @ #44
comment thread at the Schneier blog post @ #44
you saying that sarcastically or you think the comments are convincing? It seems pretty legit and intelligent but normally stuff like that gets dismissed as conspiracy theory. I'll try to read through all of it later.
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Convincing?
Quien sabe?
Was plausible to me. I'm not familiar in any granular way with continuity of government issues arising from emergencies, so I have no idea who to look to as an authority. comment section of a blog post might not be the first place I'd look, though.
(no disrespect to the fine blog and the fine comment, of course)
so one may infer. there are always opportunities for shady self dealers; the store never closes.
or conflicted ones, like Nostromo
Fraud in Army Recruiting Bonus Program May Cost Nearly $100 Million
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/us...w&rref=us&_r=1
like I said, the store never closes.
not for cut and paste jobs like you, either. Army fraud has zero topical relevance. how is that relevant to what we were discussing?
you seem to have lost track.
that you were ever on track to start with may only be a gratuitous inference on my part, your next post will tell.
fwiw, the blogger was recently called by Congress to talk about the NSA.
Bruce Schneier knows his stuff... a few years back when we created an encryption product for iOS, we used the Fortuna random number generator which was invented by him (and has been thoroughly crypt-analyzed). We contacted him after the product went on sale to let him know, and offered a complimentary copy of the software, which he accepted.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...ogram-renewal/In a Congressional committee hearing, the author of the Patriot Act threatened to orchestrate a movement to not reauthorize the controversial post-9/11 law.
In a session of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr (R-WI) said that given the government’s muted response to the Snowden leaks—particularly regarding the bulk metadata collection authorized under Section 215—the White House needs to make further changes.
Speaking to Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who appeared before the committee, Sensenbrenner gave a stern warning.
“Section 215 expires in June of next year,” Sensenbrenner said, according to The Hill. “Unless Section 215 is fixed, you, Mr. Cole, and the intelligence community will end up getting nothing because I am absolutely confident that there are not the votes in this Congress to reauthorize 215.”
Fake egalitarianism. One might be worse.
the shepherd is weak; the wolf s wool
you have misused "egalitarianism"
the shadow banking system and NSA are share major characteristics in that there is no govt regulation, no accountability, and they operate behind secrecy and opaque complexity to the detriment of Human-Americans.
SXSW related:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57...an-tells-sxsw/A member of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Pompeo, published an open letter to South by Southwest Interactive conference organizers on Friday demanding that they rescind their invitation to Edward Snowden.
Pompeo, R-Kan., said he was "deeply troubled" by the scheduled video appearance of Snowden, whom he described as lacking the credentials to authoritatively speak on issues pertaining to "privacy, surveillance, and online monitoring."
Snowden is scheduled to speak by video conferencing on Monday at 11 a.m. CT with Christopher Soghoian, a privacy advocate and principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, who will be onstage at SXSW in Austin, Texas. Moderated by Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Snowden is expected to answer audience questions.
The panel, "A Virtual Conversation with Edward Snowden," will focus on the impact of the NSA spying revelations and how technology can be used to protect privacy.
Snowden's "only apparent qualification," Pompeo wrote, "is his willingness to steal from his own government and then flee to that beacon of First Amendment freedoms, the Russia of Vladimir Putin."
He's both.
I'v known Christophe and his father for decades. He's the guy a few years ago who printed his own boarding pass and used it (but didn't get on the flight). He's a white hat whistleblower. The FBI knows Christophe very well.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/02....html?referrerConsidering the enormous value of the information he has revealed, and the abuses he has exposed, Mr. Snowden deserves better than a life of permanent exile, fear and flight. He may have committed a crime to do so, but he has done his country a great service. It is time for the United States to offer Mr. Snowden a plea bargain or some form of clemency that would allow him to return home, face at least substantially reduced punishment in light of his role as a whistle-blower, and have the hope of a life advocating for greater privacy and far stronger oversight of the runaway intelligence community.
Snowden at SXSW: The NSA set fire to the future of the Internet
Edward Snowden accused the National Security Agency and the US government today of "setting fire to the future of the Internet."
In a high-profile video appearance at the South by Southwest festival -- his video was beamed over Google Hangout through seven proxies from Russia to Austin -- Snowden touched on myriad topics, ranging from privacy to the ramifications of government spying, as he answered questions from the Internet at large via Twitter.
"The NSA... they're setting fire to the future of the Internet. And the people in this room, you guys are the firefighters. We need you to help us fix this," Snowden said.
Moderator Ben Wizner, the director of the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, said that Snowden's actions have led to a "reinvigorated" interest in government oversight.
"Sometimes it needs serious sweeping, and Ed Snowden's been the broom," Wizner said.
One of the first questions that Wizner asked Snowden was why he was addressing the technorati at South by Southwest instead of the policy wonks in Washington, D.C.
"The tech community are the ones who could help fix this situation, more than people in Washington," Snowden said. "There's a tech response needed. It's the makers, thinkers and the dev community who can help make sure we're safe."
Christopher Soghoian, a privacy advocate and principal technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union, was onstage with Wizner in Austin. He agreed with Snowden that the tech community and technology companies, which often have been lackadaisical about implementing encryption.
"We need to lock things down and make things secure out of the box. Developers will have to think differently," he said.
Snowden said that the value of encryption can't be understated, and claimed that the US government remains unsure of which do ents he leaked.
"They have no idea what do ents were provided to journalists, because encryption works," he said. "We need to think about it not as an arcane dark art, but a protection against the dark arts."
The trio discussed the possibility of the NSA breaking encryption, but Snowden didn't think that was likely. A bigger threat to encryption than government breaking encryption, Snowden said, is simply stealing the encryption keys.
"I think encryption will be sustained unless we make massive leaps in understanding math and physics," he said.
Soghoian said that the cryptographic community felt it had been lied to, in part because of a lack of motivation to toughen encryption.
Soghoian had harsh words for broad swathe of technology firms, including Google for data collection via Android and Chrome, Facebook for data collection and privacy violations, Apple for making its address book insecure, Yahoo for not implementing encryption sooner, and Mozilla for not making Firefox secure enough.
But he also noted their response to the do ents Snowden leaked.
"Unfortunately it took the largest whistle blower in history to get these companies to prioritize their customer's privacy," Soghoian said.
A major difference between corporate data collection and government spying, Soghoian and Snowden agreed, is that you can't challenge government spying in court.
"If data is being clandestinely acquired and the public or courts have no way of reviewing it, that's a problem," Snowden said.
Another problem with the US government spying on its citizens was that it made it difficult to stop actual terrorist threats.
"Tamerlan Tsarnaev was known by the Russians. If we'd focused on traditional intelligence, not mass surveillance, we might've stopped him," Snowden said.
"The goal here isn't to blind the NSA. The goal here is to make it so that they cannot spy on innocent people because they can," Soghoian added.
Wizner let Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web founder, asked Snowden the first audience question. He thanked Snowden and said that what Snowden has done is profoundly in the public interest.
He also asked what should be done to improve the government surveillance practices.
Snowden replied that the problem was not with the system, but its implementation.
"We have an oversight model that could work. The problem is when the overseers in Congress, NSA, who don't want to do oversight."
The main issue, he said, was "accountability."
"We can't have people like [Director of National Intelligence James] Clapper lying to Congress."
Snowden closed by reiterating his intention by going to Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras with the NSA do ents.
"When I came public it wasn't to single-handedly change the government. I wanted to inform the public so they could make their own decision," he said.
"Regardless of what happens to me, this is something we had a right to. I took an oath to support and defend the Cons ution and I saw that the Cons ution was being violated on a massive scale," he said.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-576...tag=CAD1acfa04
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