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Since the inception of Smart TV's, I've often wondered, is it still possible to buy a modern "stupid" TV?
I bought a Bravia, it doesn't connect to the Internet and it doesn't have a camera or microphone aimed at me, it performs quite well at being a television.
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> However, Julian Assange has repeatedly said that the source is not the russian goverment or a affiliated state party How would he know? Isn't wikileaks set up so that people can submit data anonymously? Is he claiming that they got the data through different channels? Why would an insider purposefully leak the data in a way that de-anonymized him to Assange and possibly others, instead of using the established chan…
> How would he know? Not all leaks are submitted through the web forms. Craig Murray has stated that he received some of the leaks in person from a DNC insider during a face to face meeting in Washington, and he couriered those leaks to wikileaks himself. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/14/craig-murray...
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Think about it. Having the code copyrighted, would leave a paper trail.
Not really; copyright is mostly implicit. If US law made all code developed for the purposes of the CIA automatically copyrighted, the code would be copyrighted. Right now the law says it isn't, so it isn't. Having code be copyrighted does not require any explicit registration.
There's little interesting technical detail in any of this. It looks like stuff that would be classified CONFIDENTIAL; it's mildly embarrassing, but doesn't give much away.
If I was CIA and I wanted to waste time by arguing and distracting forum readers, what would I be posting in this thread?
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Wouldn't it be easier to try and push for a return to a more open/free society? I don't see how a monarchy solves anything in the US.
How do you justify that with > unless every other nation stops doing this there is little value in being the only "clean" country (assuming somehow we stop) If there is little value in being "clean", intelligence agencies have minimal to 0 oversight and accountability, and a non-trivial percentage of the population wants them to dominate geopolitics through any means necessary, how will we ever have an open/free soci…
Hypocrisy aside, in theory it would be possible to have an open society domestically even if these tools are used internationally.
Taking the chance to vent just a bit. These are the sort of things I have been telling people about but have been derided as paranoid and a conspiracy theorist. The Samsung TV was a great example of this, which I called would be more than just samsung sending voice data. Also, so many people have loved to respond to people talking about this with some variation of, "but you're not important, why would they bug you".…
This phrase is currently being spread by right-wing conspiracy sites and was under the radar of most people until very recently. In other words, it seems very much that you, as an otherwise reasonable person, are being manipulated by people whose main interest is clickbait (for money) and/or some political agenda that has nothing to do with news.
I've seen this detachment from reality increase more and more due to the Internet and the way some people acquire their information from their select peer groups, and it's a sad thing to watch.
Don't take me wrong, I'm not saying that there is no corruption or no potential for domestic surveillance abuse in the US, but by using such phrases you seem to be parroting merely what others feed to you. It works the same way as viral marketing works so please don't fall for it!
Just a side note, I agree with some of the other things you write.