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Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
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Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#22I can’t believe the reveal that FBI used section 702 to target January 6 participants wasn’t enough to get at least one faction in the House to vote against reauthorizing the bill last week. (I will play any card I can if it gets warrantless spying stopped.) I guess Big Brother trumps petty partisanship concerns. NYT had an article a few months ago (I submitted it here) attacking Republicans for turning against the F…
No republican will ever go against the spooks except if they are personally targeted by them (Trump). Even then, Trump wants a fanatically loyal group of spooks to act as his secret police. He's only temporarily against them. Your only options to vote for if you dislike mass surveillance are hard left progressives (Bernie Sanders, Ron Wyden) or libertarians (though the ones who run with the republicans are unreliable…
FBI is currently involved in the government effort trying to jail him for hundreds of years.
Trump's lawyers can't even get an answer as to which government agencies are involved in his prosecution, so you know, so that they could subpoena to get evidence in his defence.
It's not looking like these agencies will let Trump be president again, one way or another.
Trump threatened to pull out of Nato, and pissed off a lot of people. This week legislators passed a law banning a president from being able to do that.
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#23Article is from May; section 702 was just renewed 3 days ago: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/16/24004356/section-207-rea...
702 was briefly extended, not renewed. It's not clear yet what renewal will look like, there are several proposals going through the legislative process.
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#24Article is from May; section 702 was just renewed 3 days ago: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/16/24004356/section-207-rea...
Yep. It’s atrocious and deeply worrying behavior by a state that seems to have forgotten that their rights are a blessing from their citizens and not the other way around.
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Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or the citizens have forgotten or don’t care to hold their leaders accountable
The principles of the enlightenment underneath western civilization are… Higher power / natural law v Irrevocable natural rights of individuals v Revocable rights given to the state for the common good … We can revoke the government’s mandate to rule us at any time. I understand people may have forgotten, or don’t know or have the background to understand, or maybe even don’t care. But that doesn’t change anything ab…
A considerable catch is when revocation happens, what takes its place?
Authoritarianism is looming in the US and elsewhere; I worry about the efforts to "burn down the corruption" being replanted with a new authoritarian replacement.
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#26At the same time, there are legit cases where foreign nationals/states were interfering into those events (eg BLM movement was amplified by Russia) in the hopes to destabilize US. Unless there’s enough metadata to identify specific foreign actors, how can FBI fight that? And I am sure there are spies/agents who became naturalized US citizens - how to detect those??…
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#27I can’t believe the reveal that FBI used section 702 to target January 6 participants wasn’t enough to get at least one faction in the House to vote against reauthorizing the bill last week. (I will play any card I can if it gets warrantless spying stopped.) I guess Big Brother trumps petty partisanship concerns. NYT had an article a few months ago (I submitted it here) attacking Republicans for turning against the F…
The final line is always between the ruling class and the working class.
والله comrade
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#28> Perhaps most alarming, one FBI employee had to be immediately retrained after admitting that he seemingly hid many incidents of abuse by always recording queries as not involving US persons, even if "the facts indicated otherwise."
Get your gpg infrastructure in place, comrades. Find those old motherboards and dubious laptops and airgap them.
The final line will come down to whether or not we can do math of our own choice on machines of our disposition.
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#29Article is from May; section 702 was just renewed 3 days ago: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/16/24004356/section-207-rea...
702 was briefly extended, not renewed. It's not clear yet what renewal will look like, there are several proposals going through the legislative process.
This is semantic quibbling. An intervention was made to prevent expiration from occurring.
Re: Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off "alarm bells," tech group says
#30At the same time, there are legit cases where foreign nationals/states were interfering into those events (eg BLM movement was amplified by Russia) in the hopes to destabilize US. Unless there’s enough metadata to identify specific foreign actors, how can FBI fight that? And I am sure there are spies/agents who became naturalized US citizens - how to detect those??…
The FBI and NS are doing far more to destabilise the US than any foreign actors.