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GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

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Re: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

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Post by _ls7m »

acqq wrote: post #237
_ls7m wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be more accurate, Jesus' ministry and teaching was a fulfillment of the law (the previous commandments) and the Old Testament, not a replacement. The law is still a valuable resource for Christians in understanding the character and holiness of God, among other things. "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Jesus speaking in Matthew…

I see you decided to omit Matthew 5:18. Don't pretend it doesn't exist. They are the actual words of Jesus if you believe that the Bible was inspired by god. See my other comment here for more.

I also 'omitted' the rest of the bible. I quoted the whole verse of Matthew 5:17. I don't see any issue with Matthew 5:18 in regards to my statement.

Re: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

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Post by StandardFuture »

acqq wrote: post #207
wavefunction wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus' ministry replaced all previous commandments. Something Christians have forgotten and an agnostic has to constantly remind them of.

Says who? Definitely not Jesus himself as quoted in the New Testament (his words, directly quoted): Matthew 5:17-18 "Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished." The "law or the prophets" is, of course, everythin…

Actually, you are wrong in this case. :/

Christians have absolutely no responsibility towards the Mosaic Law and only strictly towards the teachings of Jesus (whom they declare their leader).

Paul says this in a letter to a group of new Christians living in Collosae (modern day Turkey)sometime in the mid 1st century (50-60 C.E.) [0]

[0] http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+2%3A1...

Re: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

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Post by PythonicAlpha »

gommm wrote: post #46

This kind of data would be tremendous treasure trove for future historians :-) Imagine if we had this kind of data on previous periods, we'd be able to infer a lot of how people behaved, what their pastime was, better understand the fashion sense (or lack of it for certain photos apparently)... More seriously, in a way, I think it's good that this happened because I hope that it will be a wake up call to the public o…

But what view will the historians get from us?

I fear, they will write, that the beginning 21st century was full of perverts!

What do they have from other centuries:

Goethe, Franklin, Hugo, ....

And from ours:

People that strip before the webcam??

Re: GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

StefanKarpinski wrote: post #19

This really isn't any worse than the other invasions of privacy that have been revealed – but it's much easier to point at it as an egregious and visceral violation of privacy. Even though webcam stills may be the least important (or useful) spying the US and UK have been doing, this may be some of the best fodder for arguments to limit such activities. So thank you, UK, for being so dumb.

As a citizen of the UK, I say - that's quite alright, happy to help :-)

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

nl wrote: post #236
pavel_lishin wrote: post #174

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Charlie Stross features a gay couple in one of his novels, and one of the conditions of their employment for a top secret government office is that they must be explicitly out about their homosexuality - one attends a Pride Parade once a year in order to comply with these regulations. I thought it was a pretty clever idea.

That's a pretty common requirement for many classified positions in the real world (not having to attend pride parade, but being out about your sexual preferences).

is this true ?! Any evidence? Is there a page on whitehouse.gov with F R Smith - foot fetish (moderate), would like to be a Gimp but never found the right owner.

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Post by tn13 »

This is a networked society fighting against government system designed to be hierarchical and other way round. In my opinion one primary reason for this that the governance model through Democracy is broken. We need to evolve to something other than democracy.

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Post by MartinCron »

coldtea wrote: post #169
wavefunction wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jesus' ministry replaced all previous commandments. Something Christians have forgotten and an agnostic has to constantly remind them of.

That. As an atheist from an "orthodox Christian" background (as opposed to protestant, baptist or the catholic church), I cannot really understand why people who call themselves Christians even quote the Bible, and seemingly only awful anachronistic parts, as opposed to the New Tastement. Perhaps they should call themselves "Mosians"?

They actually don't quote all of the really awful anachronistic parts, just the parts that align with their world view. It's not like they have a problem with shellfish, after all.

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Post by MartinCron »

Loughla wrote: post #165
tzakrajs wrote: post #96

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I'll cite a source for you: "If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)

Not to get too far afield from the original post, or to start a religious debate where we end up calling each other Hitler, but I've got some good stuff for you: "But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart." (Matthew 5:28) "If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulte…

To be fair, knowing that your political enemies had purchased male and female slaves would also be useful political blackmail.

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Post by steve19 »

UnoriginalGuy wrote: post #110
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #86

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Oh wow. That's a good point. And my MacBook lights an LED when my webcam's active, but it doesn't for the microphone. Perhaps it should?

The LED light on the webcam is bypass-able. On many cheap laptops it is controlled in software (at the kernel level), but even on Macs where it is meant to be hardware enforced it can be bypassed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18... Disabling the camera LED is a fairly standard feature in malware suites. Even a lot of USB webcams control the LED from software. The LED is just a feel-good f…

The only surefire way to disable your webcam is to place a little square of gaffer or electrical tape over it. Total cost: $0.01 and can be reversed in an instant.

(Doesn't help with the microphone)

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Post by eliasmacpherson »

user24 wrote: post #195
eliasmacpherson wrote: post #83

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Hacksaw a 1/4 inch jack, insert. Disable what you can at software level, remove drivers/codecs for recording. Not easy though.

"iMac has two built-in microphones" https://www.apple.com/imac/features/ So that won't work for me, sadly.

i'm sure there are some environments that have strict no mic's requirements, i wonder what they do to disable mic's on the iMac. Perhaps they don't use iMacs or disable sound in the bios?
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