Such utter bullshit.
Forced Exposure
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, but yesterday a friend of mine asked me how to back up her pictures from her computer. I told her to use a removable drive. My wife said: "Just store them on Facebook". I said: "The US government makes a copy of anything you upload to the internet." My wife was shocked. Our friend said: "I don't want that." (She's from Hungary). We settled on 32 GB flash drives. Moral of the story: Just like Groklaw, the ordinary…
"The US government makes a copy of anything you upload to the internet" So accuracy isn't really something you're all that concerned with? It is my understanding (and certainly could be wrong) that the whole PRISM thing was the ability for the government to get their hands on any data they wished, not that they're making copies of everything. I believe metadata is stored, which is an entirely different animal.
I'm just saying that "ordinary people" will follow what us geeks say, even when we're slightly wrong, because our guesses are much better than their guesses.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
At this point, it would make more sense to store data with the NSA. They have that entire, taxpayer-funded Utah Data Center full of storage. Why not just open it up for people to backup their files cheaply? The slogan could be "It all ends up here anyway."
Absolutely, I bet someone in the govt is thinking about giving each citizen say 10GB of free space that is secure from: hackers , identity theft , foreign espionage etc. All the ones that won't use this offer can then be even more meticulously monitored.
10 GB? How about a terabyte. Between the photos, the movies and the music, 10 GB is much too little. Heck, make it 10 TB, then you're talking.
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#304Since we weren't allowed to say it when it was relevant, and the point was muddled and trampled on in pseudo-rational debates (“Can you find evidence that they’re abusing this new legislation?”, etc.), I'll go ahead and say it now: it's happening. There's still a big world outside the Internet, and yet ironically, we live in a world where some employers are so stupid that they won't hire someone without a Facebook, m…
> the best way to control a population is to analyze and manipulate the information they consume The comparison that some have made between the US Government and Stasi is more accurate than you think, with regards of Zersetzung : > By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that…
Already a term for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)
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#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am in the process of developing a new messaging system to address exactly that issue ( anonymous communication where it is unclear who is talking to who ) The way in which it will work is having all users of the system constantly send encrypted streams to each other ( mostly gibberish ). When you want to send a real message you simply replace the encrypted gibberish with some real content. It will implement "onion"…
The idea of masking real content with gibberish always seems hacky to me, and in security hacky is not a good idea. While I suspect you might be able to make it work, I think a better solution is to go to more of a bitcoin approach. Essentially, set up a new block-chain that allows transactions to contain 'large' messages (IE. large enough for long plaintext, but probably not enough to embed videos). Then, when you w…
Have you heard of bitmessage? It basically does what you suggest.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not in the same way that you can use email though. It is unsafe to use GnuPG on a computer you do not own or trust like a computer at a public library or an Internet cafe. It is, however, possible to register an email address on such a computer and send unencrypted email on that same computer with some precautions and still be fairly sure that the contents will not be connected to you.
What stops you from encrypting the body of the message on you own computer and use USB stick to just copy over an encrypted file?
Nothing, and this is a valid solution if it fits your needs.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the Wikileaks releases contained allegations that Qatar was leaning on Al-Jazeera: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cable...
Yep, most people would say Al-Jazeera is not biased on the topics we are speaking about, but everyone has a corporate master somewhere.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
The thing is, GPG is not bollocks. Barring a major unforeseen discovery, RSA cryptography will easily stand up to five years' retention. If you're worried, use a long keylength. I've been using 4096-bit keys for over a year now and there's no noticeable performance hit for regular comms on my computer. On my phone, 4096 is noticeably slower than 2048, but it still works fine (probably about a 5-10 sec operation to de…
Yet you're using gmail and voluntarily surrendering at least part of your correspondence to Google's prying eyes.
And there's nothing necessarily wrong with doing so. It should further be noted that anything you upload to a Google server is automatically packaged and delivered to the NSA by Google directly, so don't send anything to Gmail that you wouldn't want the NSA to access.
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#309It is really tragic that we have reached a point where something so wonderful as Groklaw cannot effectively function. Nearly 200 years ago, de Tocqueville asked why the American experiment in self-government succeeded while its French counterpart led to the guillotine, mob excesses, and ultimate tyranny and he gave a complex answer whose core was that private moral restraints in the populace served to check the unbou…
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely, I bet someone in the govt is thinking about giving each citizen say 10GB of free space that is secure from: hackers , identity theft , foreign espionage etc. All the ones that won't use this offer can then be even more meticulously monitored.
10 GB? How about a terabyte. Between the photos, the movies and the music, 10 GB is much too little. Heck, make it 10 TB, then you're talking.
That reminds me of the prostitute quote "Now We're Just Haggling Over the Price" by Winston Churchill.