Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
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Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#2Nope, no chance anyone will abuse that.
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#3“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.”
How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congress and then dare to "apologize" for lying in Congress, how much more do these "politicians" really need to start thinking for themselves?
Have they already been lobotomized? Are they lizards? Or what else exactly is going on?
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#4This is how I think the Congressional committee hearing will go down Wednesday. Or perhaps some variation of this.
1. Greenwald testifies and talks about all the awful things the NSA has been up to.
2. NSA offials will deny any and all claims made by Greenwald.
3. Greenwald will release documents that directly refute the NSA's testimonial.
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#5I have a feeling that everyone having this tool is a better situation than only few-at-the-top having it. Older people who sit at the top tend to elicit a different and often machine-like behaviour [1] on emotional or privacy matters. Their decisions are likely to be blind to what people in their privacy want - that is emotional freedom. And their micro-decisions could be worse.
Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM search tool be made available to every individual on the planet. Perhaps in competition to Google (If we don't get rid of snooping in its entirety that is.). At least we can weed out Weiners which are on one end of porn-spectrum to Camerons who say they are on the other end of porn-spectrum.
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#6I have a feeling that everyone having this tool is a better situation than only few-at-the-top having it. Older people who sit at the top tend to elicit a different and often machine-like behaviour [1] on emotional or privacy matters. Their decisions are likely to be blind to what people in their privacy want - that is emotional freedom. And their micro-decisions could be worse. Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM sear…
> Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM search tool be made available to every citizen on the planet.
Of course you are joking. But if you think about it:
If humanity is forced to give up privacy, the only way we could achieve this would be by giving it up symmetrically:
If everybody is naked, it's normal and not a problem anymore, provided we can then evolve our culture to completely drop the "judging".
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#7“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.” How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congre…
Errr, given how easy it appears to be to get a "court order" (note, that's not as high a bar as a "search warrant"), I don't have as much difficultly believing that's the case.
The case today, that is; tomorrow....
(Technical note: right now I gather the NSA et. al. are making a distinction between Hoovering up "everything", like all of Verizon Business's call records in that blanket warrant we've seen, and actually looking at them. Infamously, "collection" only referrers to the latter act. Just like how inside a decrease from an automatically increased baseline, even an increase after inflation, is called a "cut".)
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#8I have a feeling that everyone having this tool is a better situation than only few-at-the-top having it. Older people who sit at the top tend to elicit a different and often machine-like behaviour [1] on emotional or privacy matters. Their decisions are likely to be blind to what people in their privacy want - that is emotional freedom. And their micro-decisions could be worse. Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM sear…
> Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM search tool be made available to every citizen on the planet. Of course you are joking. But if you think about it: If humanity is forced to give up privacy, the only way we could achieve this would be by giving it up symmetrically : If everybody is naked, it's normal and not a problem anymore, provided we can then evolve our culture to completely drop the "judging".
Governments should have to give up "privacy" first, since they're supposed to be public, and everything they do should be public. Then maybe we can talk about giving up some of the privacy for citizens, too - as long as it's compatible with the Constitution (and I think this program is not even close to being compatible).
Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#9I have a feeling that everyone having this tool is a better situation than only few-at-the-top having it. Older people who sit at the top tend to elicit a different and often machine-like behaviour [1] on emotional or privacy matters. Their decisions are likely to be blind to what people in their privacy want - that is emotional freedom. And their micro-decisions could be worse. Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM sear…
> Rather I'd suggest that the PRISM search tool be made available to every citizen on the planet. Of course you are joking. But if you think about it: If humanity is forced to give up privacy, the only way we could achieve this would be by giving it up symmetrically : If everybody is naked, it's normal and not a problem anymore, provided we can then evolve our culture to completely drop the "judging".
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Re: Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
#10“I was back out at NSA just last week, spent a couple hours out there with high and low level NSA officials,” Chambliss said. “And what I have been assured of is that there is no capability at NSA for anyone without a court order to listen to any telephone conversation or to monitor any e-mail.” How _dumb_ must one be to continue to trust these agencies for just about anything, now? After they blatantly lie in Congre…
Another possibility is that Chambliss is either lying, or acting as a PR functionary for the NSA.