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Why are these latest NSA stories getting flagged so much?

I don't like that PG has relaxed the flagging so much. You can probably flag even tens of stories a day now without having your flagging removed.

Yeah where is the value for my tax dollars? I want top shelf Powerpoint presentations.

and a beard... like terrorists can be stereotyped like that. This is more than just propaganda, this is the mentality of the type of people who put these presentations together. That fact that whoever wrote this presentation has profiled people like this. I would wager that 99% of online "terrorists" are sitting around in jeans and t-shirts, on safe soil, have probably never handled a gun, let alone an AK-47 (or whatever that is on his back), probably don't have a beard. The ones financing them probably spend their life wearing a suit and tie and are either driving a top of the line vehicle or are driven everywhere in a top of the line vehicle.

If you look at the world around us and review the history of terrorism, most of it's been funded behind the scenes by one of the major superpowers, and you can't overlook the fact that a large portion of this has been by backed by the US. It's funny how when the US wants a government toppled, the terrorists are "friendly" and funded and armed by the US government, but when they're counter to US interests, they're suddenly part of the axis of evil and must be destroyed...

Perhaps if they stopped funding this ignorant behaviour and stopped supplying munitions to these terrorist interests, the problem would eventually go away... spend more on education and tolerance towards all points of view, enlightenment, the world would become a more peaceful place.

When will "democratic" governments eventually realize that money and greed is not the best approach to the furthering the human experience on this planet.

Sorry, didn't mean to get off on a rant there, but that one picture triggered a bit of annoyance.

Pretty sure it is. If you need serious anonymity, like if your life depends on it, get a botnet and use the trojaned PCs as proxies. Use public WiFi, and use cheap laptops that you replace regularly and/or VMs, and don't forget to fake your MAC address. Create multiple fake personas to confuse attackers. Have stuff you write rephrased by someone else, so they can't do a corpus analysis on your writings. Do as much offline as possible. If you have to transfer information, avoid the internet. Use dedicated lines, dialup, dead drops, etc. etc.

I'm so glad I have nothing to hide.

I wonder, if you flag too much, do you get a 'querulant' flag yourself that makes the site ignore your flags? :-D

I would totaly implement something like that if I were PG. Seems to fit the mindset of HN, as it also uses hellbans.