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> The FBI is not collecting or storing any photos or information that you enter in the app. So what's the advantage of using this vs. the photos you probably already have of your child, and a notes app for recording height and weight?
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The FBI and other 3 letter agencies have been vacuuming up every communication between us, warrantless, for so many years it’s crazy. That unconstitutional overreach has been used to do what exactly? No I really want to know. It’s not keeping us safe, because someone who is basically a cartoon caricature of a school shooter can scare everyone they come in contact with, get a long gun and ammo, and execute a mass shoo…
> "That unconstitutional overreach has been used to do what exactly? No I really want to know. It’s not keeping us safe..." Unpopular opinion, but you know the old saying: No one hears about the times the FBI, CIA, etc has stopped a terrorist act, you only hear about the disasters that eventually played out. For every one sick person that went on to do something crazy, hundreds have been caught before anything happen…
And if you don't understand the upset for having some stranger rife through your private data, may I have a full dump of your email inbox?
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And how does one do packet inspection: * if packets are only sent via carrier, not wifi * if packets are sent to aws instances, which is very common * if it all stops when phone is rooted, which is common for many apps
* deep packet inspection of carrier based communications is a thing [1]. * Gov't is mandated to use AWS Gov instances which are quite easy to distinguish [2]. * there are ways to bypass those rootchecks to make a rooted phone seem not rooted [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection#United_... [2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-govcloud-earns-dod... [3] https://stackoverflow.com/questio…
That's not, in fact, true. The certifications that apply to AWS Gov make it easier to meet certain government compliance rules that apply to certain categories of data, but it is possible to meet the standards on a platform that isn't certified or certified to a lower level (but it means more administrative work for the org using the platform) and many Commercial AWS offerings have FedRAMP certifications, anyhow. I work in an org touched by FedRAMP, and which is almost entirely on AWS commercial, not Gov.
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The FBI and other 3 letter agencies have been vacuuming up every communication between us, warrantless, for so many years it’s crazy. That unconstitutional overreach has been used to do what exactly? No I really want to know. It’s not keeping us safe, because someone who is basically a cartoon caricature of a school shooter can scare everyone they come in contact with, get a long gun and ammo, and execute a mass shoo…
> "That unconstitutional overreach has been used to do what exactly? No I really want to know. It’s not keeping us safe..." Unpopular opinion, but you know the old saying: No one hears about the times the FBI, CIA, etc has stopped a terrorist act, you only hear about the disasters that eventually played out. For every one sick person that went on to do something crazy, hundreds have been caught before anything happen…
[citation needed]
You are going to get flagged to death. Rightfully so.
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When one learns about who controlled him and how they are on the road to real understanding of the FBI in history. (Hint: Trumps former mentor was involved!) Unfortunately, in my analysis of the various 3-letters, they are so compartmentalized that the top-down corruption is not seen by the generally good intentioned middle and lower men. So the bureaucratic momentum keeps the agencies preserved when in reality they…
Ironically this could well be a brilliant counter intelligence post pretending to be as stupid as it sounds. What better way to make sure the FBI keeps removing people's freedom than by making it a partisan issue? Trump, born in 1943, was responsible for Hoovers cache of compromat. A word that entered the Russian lexicon because the KGB was so impressed by what he was doing in Washington in the 1930s.
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Ironically this could well be a brilliant counter intelligence post pretending to be as stupid as it sounds. What better way to make sure the FBI keeps removing people's freedom than by making it a partisan issue? Trump, born in 1943, was responsible for Hoovers cache of compromat. A word that entered the Russian lexicon because the KGB was so impressed by what he was doing in Washington in the 1930s.
Is there any evidence that the word has entered the Russian lexicon from English? The Russian "компромат" feels like a straightforward contraction of "компрометирующие материалы", following the same pattern as many other Soviet neologisms like "нарком" or "комбед".
>Kompromat refers to materials collected specifically for the purpose of blackmailing the target. It’s a Russian portmanteau of komprometiruyushchiy, “compromising,” and material, “material,” and if those Russian words look familiar, it’s because they are; they were borrowed into Russian from English.
The sheer stupidity of two nations borrowing a word from the other to sound smarter and more worldly ought to blow your mind. But it happens so often that anyone who is polylingual just has to deal with it.
The worst example is Latinx. Americans who wanted to cosmopolitan in the 90s decided that Latin wasn't good enough since everyone knew what Latin meant. So they started saying Latino instead. With the 10s craze of gender neutrality Latino was now problematic so it was changed to Latinx only in the way someone who has never passed high school Spanish could. Now instead of the English word Latin we have the abomination Latinx being forced on Spanish speakers by English speakers in the name of progress.
Low grade corruption ...and here's why: The FBI is understaffed, misdirected & underfunded for its real mission, which I would argue must be fighting public corruption, organized crime and counter-espionage. Any objective analysis would conclude the Bureau has been politicized and its resources have been directed at operations, investigations and training that does not fulfill its core mission. The bad PR and mistrus…
The FBI has seized assets through civil forfeiture for decades. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-06-09/fbi-beve... That's not "low grade" corruption. It's the plainest form of corruption conducted en masse and in a highly organized fashion. When an arm of the government can take your property without due process, any suspicion towards them is warranted. With regards to this new app, I wouldn't be surpris…
Scully: Why would the aliens ONLY abduct people who installed the FBI app on their phones? Mulder: They must have a mole inside the Bureau! Skinner: If you go down this road I can't protect you. Smoking man: smokes
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Is there any evidence that the word has entered the Russian lexicon from English? The Russian "компромат" feels like a straightforward contraction of "компрометирующие материалы", following the same pattern as many other Soviet neologisms like "нарком" or "комбед".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-does-komp... >Kompromat refers to materials collected specifically for the purpose of blackmailing the target. It’s a Russian portmanteau of komprometiruyushchiy, “compromising,” and material, “material,” and if those Russian words look familiar, it’s because they are; they were borrowed into Russian from English. The sheer stupidity of two nations borrowing a word f…
I'm Russian myself, and I find it extremely dubious that either of the constituent parts of the word was borrowed into Russian from English. Russian Wiktionary gives 1720 for the first known use of "материал" (material), and illustrates "компрометирующий" (compromising) with a Dostoyevsky quote from 1846. Both predate the time when English was the primary source of borrowings, so they're far more likely to have been borrowed from French or German.
This M-W article is wrong about other things, too - e.g. "пропаганда" (propaganda) is from German.