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There are no women involved in this story, though. People are complaining about the words and actions of men.

I wonder what Orwell would make of terms from his own works being used in these ways.

I'd much rather they just publish them, Cryptome-style, than keep people addicted to a steady drip of sexy scandal. It's a lot harder to understand what's actually going on when yo…

"Der Spiegel reportedly approached authorities with a US document that contained Mrs Merkel's mobile phone number" It's unclear whether that means she was specifically targeted, or…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing

This reminds me of a friend's response to the idea that the TouchID in the new iphone could be a way for the NSA to get your fingerprints: "Just imagine the shitstorm if they put a…

(needs citation) You won't find one, given that it's not true. Are you saying that's any better? Are you actually asking if accidentally killing innocent people is better than rout…

The US government's assertion that it has the right to do this. What are you referring to, exactly? I thought the scandal was the dubious distinctions being made to specifically av…

"[Update - 9/23/2013] – Today we filed a legal brief asking the court to confirm that we have the right to report the number of national security requests we receive, if any."

I'm getting tired of the knee-jerk tendency for a small group of people to flag these extremely critical revelations. The "knee-jerk" comes from the tendency of people to submit lo…

Well sure it is when you deliberately spread disinformation, as opposed to being mistaken. There is no difference. Sunil Trapathi was mis-identified because somebody said they hear…

Truth be told, the last thing someone needs is an army of highly emotional armchair sleuths who are ready to take the law into the their own hands. Not a popular position on HN.

Repeating misinformation is acting on it, and harms attempts to get at the truth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_proof http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_cascade You may…

I think the point is that not everything people say is supported by the available documents, not that the documents aren't real. Moreover, not everything reported by the press is b…

He's talking about this submission, not this site. There are dozens and dozens of other submissions where NSA discussion is more on-topic, and anybody here is free to submit their …