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And who would have any trust left, for them? We've been lied to over and over, should we just forget about that?

LOL. Fuck Google.

Of course we can put our heads in the sand. The problem is: if you do this, you should no longer be allowed to vote. Because democracy can only survive if the feedback cycle is enc…

That may be true if you're the kind of person who never stands up to anybody. If you never voice disagreement or opposition, then you can be that 100% transparent citizen. But it's…

This story is about New Zealand, but I'm sure we agree on which government exerts the pressure that these police state tactics are about to become the new (and apparently accepted)…

> I always get this impression that the first day in office of a new president some guy in a black suit comes into the oval office... If you remember that one of the pre-Snowden wh…

No website has to have Google track their users. If you do it, you choose to do it (you're disrespecting your users). You can get your open-source and locally running web analytics…

> it lets NSA home in on someone already under suspicion Like OWS protesters, for example.

> Sheriff Bud York suggested, according to the Post-Star, the local newspaper, that “in an era of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and mass killings in schools, police agencies need …

> the NSA and its British counterpart defeat encryption technologies by working with chipmakers to insert backdoors, or cryptographic weaknesses, in their products. I had already s…

Reminds me of the story about that Canadian woman who can never access US soil again, because of her medical data.

> My grandfather tells me not to write open source software because I don't get paid for it Yeah, these are the values of the rat race culture we've been nurturing so far. And look…

> It’s a cargo cult: people do it because everyone else is doing it. And that's one of the core problems of our society. The seed is planted by commercial interests we cultivate in…

"NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH" says their tag line. Let that sink in for a minute. It's the mindset of crazies.

That's the point. 95% of the population has absolutely no clue about how technology works and how it will be used against them, sooner or later.

OTOH, when you just turn off the link to cell towers, you gain huge amounts of battery time - quite nice.

I think it's becoming very clear now: Either the NSA/government goes or technology goes. If we want to attain a sane degree of democracy in our Western world, both can not continue…

When I read about the NSA tracking mobile phones worldwide, I decided to put my mobile "phone" in flight mode - permanently. It's a PDA now. All you need to do is tell your people …

Why focus on Snowden again? The fact of the matter is: We have clearly seen that the governments have been lying to us the whole time. And of course they will ultimately make some …

I like the idea and the effort. One thing I hate about it, though: Again, third party javascripts are loaded in the background (Google, as usual, for example). Come on people, you …

> And our reaction is always the same - shock and horror And more importantly, nothing significant ever happens. It all continues and we think "it's gonna be ok", "they will do som…

> The NSA does not target Americans’ location data and > ...location data are obtained by methods “tuned to be looking outside the United States,” Whew, I was getting worried, but …

Reintroduction of fascism: My money's on the brits.