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An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Re: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Post by skinnycow »

>Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners.

Well, as an outspoken American who has been screaming about this since the ATT story broke in 2006, that was a needless slap in the face.

Re: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Post by Goopplesoft »

wavefunction wrote: post #3

I'm an american and I care about widespread surveillance of foreigners.

Yeah, that honestly almost felt like a challenge to his fellow presenters and show caring by boycotting the conference as well.

EDIT, Also NSA is a intelligence agency: spying on foreigners seems to me like it'd be their objective, regardless of the revelations... Lets not act surprised about this now. Other foreign intelligence agencies do their share of spying on foreigners too (again, their objective). Unless you're stressing 'widespread'.

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Post by LionRoar »

"In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at them but at non-americans. Surveillance operations from the US intelligence agencies are targeted at foreigners. However I’m a foreigner. And I’m withdrawing my support from your event."

I realy like all the double layers he put into this :D Its a joy to read.

Re: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Post by wavefunction »

andrewb wrote: post #8
wavefunction wrote: post #3

I'm an american and I care about widespread surveillance of foreigners.

I'm a person and I care about widespread surveillance of people.

Yes, this is the most important, that we are all people regardless of what identities were were born into or adopted since!

I was just responding to his point that "Americans wouldnt' care about surveillance of foreigners" which is why I marked myself as an American. Some of us care.

Re: An Open Letter to the Chiefs of EMC and RSA

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Post by AlexanderDhoore »

Goopplesoft wrote: post #5

Knew his name was familiar. Mikko Hypponen has some great Ted talks as well: http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_how_the_nsa_betrayed... http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_three_types_of_onlin... http://www.ted.com/talks/mikko_hypponen_fighting_viruses_def...

Another great one is "The History and Evolution of Computer Viruses" [1].

I actually have the viruses he demonstrates. You can download them here [2]. He emailed them to me once. Just load them into DosBox!

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yswPIwDFYDY

[2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/rhqt3wh8hzuf8vn/dosboxViruses.zip

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