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Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by colordrops »

emmelaich wrote: post #112
colordrops wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're joking right? This was national news when this was revealed. You obviously didn't read the link: "The PRISM program collects stored internet communications based on demands made to internet companies such as Google Inc. under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 to turn over any data that match court-approved search terms."

Obeying the law is not "working with"

The previous accusation was that Google was hacked and unaware that PRISM was collecting data, which is what I was referring to. Please read the thread before commenting.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by cokernel »

gkoberger wrote: post #49
nl wrote: post #47

The biggest downside to the NSA revelations is how quickly people accept conspiracy theories. Wikileaks just released a big email dump. People looked at it with Google Chrome, and it detected malware in the archive. That blacklisted the site it was downloaded from. There is no big "Google is protecting the Democrats and hates Wikileaks". Wikileaks was serving malware, and Google detected it.

Really? The takeaway I got from the NSA revelations was that it's now completely reasonable to assume that Google/FB/Twitter/etc are working directly with the government or politicians. Twitter removed #DNCLeaks right while it was the top trending topic today. Reddit paid staff has been suspending people who talk about Correct The Record or the DNC leaks. Facebook admitted to filtering certain topics due to political…

Here's a single mention of the DNC leaks on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/22/politics/dnc-wikileaks-emails/

Here's a single mention of the DNC leaks on Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/debbie-wasserman-schul...

I couldn't in a brief search find a single mention of the DNC leaks on MSNBC specifically, but there's this from NBC: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hacked-documen...

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by jonknee »

yuhong wrote: post #56
adhearn wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't TPP extend legal protection for intellectual property? Much of Googles value stems from its IP. It makes sense they want to protect one of their most valuable assets.

Even there, there is plenty of stuff that is not in Google's business interests.

What specifically?

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by dang »

colordrops wrote: post #95

Now it is clear that you are not merely ignorant but actively obfuscating and misinforming. From your company's website: "Mission: to undertake impactful research, development, education and training that delivers outcomes to national security and other data intensive sectors" While I don't doubt that you work on disease modeling, your company's mission statement makes it clear that national security is its main focu…

This crosses into personal attack and that is not allowed here. Please don't do it again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148835 and marked it off-topic.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by avs733 »

wutbrodo wrote: post #91
avs733 wrote: post #36

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ditto. UTC 02:05 03.07.2016 I wonder if this is related to them publishing emails containing unredacted ssn and ccn information...

I highly doubt it. Unredacted SSN and Cc numbers aren't "dangerous" to the reader by any stretch of the imagination. It's much more likely that it's malware or something, in the email attachments.

probably more accurate

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by MichaelGG »

colordrops wrote: post #131
emmelaich wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obeying the law is not "working with"

The previous accusation was that Google was hacked and unaware that PRISM was collecting data, which is what I was referring to. Please read the thread before commenting.

OK well in that case every person/company in the country "works with" the USG since they comply with some laws/demands.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by colordrops »

MichaelGG wrote: post #136
colordrops wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The previous accusation was that Google was hacked and unaware that PRISM was collecting data, which is what I was referring to. Please read the thread before commenting.

OK well in that case every person/company in the country "works with" the USG since they comply with some laws/demands.

Google initially denied that they complied with the usage of PRISM, until documentation showed they were lying. Apple held out longer than Google, so at some point they all had to decide that they were going to "work" with the USG.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by appleflaxen »

mamon wrote: post #117
kushti wrote: post #113

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Any proofs you can provide links to?

I based my claims mostly on this: https://20committee.com/2015/08/31/wikileaks-is-a-front-for-... https://20committee.com/2013/07/06/wikileaks-snowden-and-the... As a former counteritelligence officer this guy seems to know what he's talking about. Unless of course he has his own agenda, but the facts presented are verifiable and pretty convincing.

Which means, at worst, that the ad homonym attacks are factually correct.

They are still irrelevant.

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by brute »

lucb1e wrote: post #93
rbolla wrote: post #37

its not a dangerous site anymore... as of 7:15 PM PST. https://www.google.com/transparencyreport/safebrowsing/diagn...

> 7:15 PM UTC-8 Fixed that for you. Not everyone know every timezone ever, but we don't need to because with UTC it's very simple arithmetic.

Even worse, sometimes different timezones share the same acronym.

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/

Re: Google tags Wikileaks as a dangerous site

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Post by dang »

cLeEOGPw wrote: post #86

HN is a liberal safe space. Of course any article that reflects badly on liberal ideas will be removed. that political-story "gravity" is the same thing as reddit's "modified algorithm" to hide /r/The_Donald. There is an enormous push of a certain agenda from all major corporations in US, neither HN, nor reddit or google is an exception.

> HN is a liberal safe space.

That is easily shown to be false by the number of people who make the opposite accusation. It's also common rhetoric to cast oneself as the noble freethinker standing up against a Goliath community; people on both sides of any divide do that as well.

In fact ideological enemies resemble each other more than they do anyone else, and are probably the biggest factor making threads on this site tedious for the rest of us.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148604 and marked it off-topic.

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