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It's not about pedophiles or catching terrorists. It's about the state having power.

This is best plain English explanation I've seen yet (been looking for an hour). Thanks.

> people have more respect for those who present themselves well If presenting yourself well means driving a luxury car, or having an expensive home, then no, I don't respect these…

Yep. And reading the pdf for phase 1 of the audit, worth about $40k, the findings didn't seem very impressive. Specifically the readability portion where they give a critique of na…

Wouldn't an offline desktop version of this be better?

The New Yorker's Mayer is paraphrasing an anonymous source, which she then counter-points in the very next sentence of the article with a quote from NSA historian Matthew Aid, who …

> his own "ThinThread" system was designed to do exactly that, but with better technical controls over who could view the data. That's plainly false. His system was specifically de…

> I couldn't imagine the comments that I've seen about blacklisting former government workers and publicly shaming service men and women coming from anyone who has carried this kin…

> Yes, I do have things to back it up. Such as? Bill Binney, having actually been one of the top mathematicians at NSA for 30 years, carries more weight than you do, unless you wan…

> NSA, which has been ~10 years ahead of private industry for the last couple decades, before which time they were even further ahead. Do you have anything to back this up other th…

You shouldn't get your news from corporate media. Corporate media don't like unions because they fight for living wages which cut profits from the few who benefit from them.

Oh ya, Mitt, the epitome of a hard worker.

> b) a 30 year old person stuck in a Russian airport who has appointed himself the ultimate arbiter of what is leakworthy and what is not, what programs are legal and good and whic…

> I managed to figure out what it meant with a little background in computer and networks knowledge and no background with IC work. We still don't know what exactly is going on, or…

> The companies themselves are still the ones who end up providing the data to NSA though Well that's certainly what the companies are saying. Whether they are telling truth (perso…

Your quote is accurate, "direct access" is not verbatim. Though "collection directly" and "direct access" seem semantically the same to me in the context of the slide. [1] The rele…

How is Snowden possibly lying? He's reading verbatim from the NSA documents which use the words "direct access". Also he isn't "maintaining" this, this is part of his original inte…

How can we take full responsibility for the Evo Morales incident? Do Europeans bear no responsibility for allowing their governments to be US lapdogs? As a US citizen I have to bea…

Especially not surprising because working for CIA he expected to be monitored, and it's just self preservation to publicly espouse the "correct" ideologies.

It already has ended with a tragedy. Our privacy rights and 4th amendment protections have been thrown out the window. The making of Snowden into a Kardashian spectacle is to distr…

I interpret it to mean that if NSA's filter catches words related to communications security then it is flagged and possibly read by an analyst. It does say the Director of the NSA…

Binney didn't design the system that's currently being used, and that's his whole point. He designed a cheap way to do what the current program does but that would protect people's…

The issue to me is if the so-called "upstream" actually stores all the raw SSL data, and how fast it's decrypted. This is apart from any corporate cooperation, except for the Mark …

What are the odds that Google, Yahoo, et al. handed over their private keys, I wonder.

I can't remember which interview it was, if on Democracy Now, or his MIT lecture video, but Bill Binney stated that the NSA in fact does decrypt HTTPS.