omnibus PRISM/NSA/free Edward Snowden/encryption tutorial thread

Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who questioned Alexander about the section, wanted specific figures about what attacks had been averted.

Not yet, responded Alexander. But he vowed to have them soon.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06/12/live-updates-cybersecurity-hearing/?hpid=z1#liveblog-entry-46364

Soon

exaflop is a word that makes me laugh

but otherwise :/

Bamford's book 'The Puzzle Palace' is a great read, of course dated now but a good history of the NSA. I still need to read Shadow Factory.

Shadow Factory is outstanding. Definitely check it out.

I will!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/snowden-wants-people-of-hong-kong-to-decide-my-fate/2013/06/12/a69e94ee-d370-11e2-a73e-826d299ff459_story.html

He added, “I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law.”

suchhhh a paulite

for $200,000 he can eat a lot of dim sum

i don't think i can even bring myself to read that friedman piece. is it as bad as i expect?

aw hell be a man!

Don't read it. You can still be a man J.D. without reading Lil' Tommy Friedman. Go read something good. Something else. You should never read anything by Tommy F.

oh god he just quoted fuckin' david simon

Someone else is having a ball quoting Simon

ppl keep saying they want more 'nuanced' takes on this -- and i agree! -- but i'm afraid that what they mean is stuff like:

So I don’t believe that Edward Snowden, the leaker of all this secret material, is some heroic whistle-blower. No, I believe Snowden is someone who needed a whistle-blower.

The Three Stooges-- Sully, Friedman, and D. Simon

It sounds like his girlfriend Sally Stripper blew his whistle plenty, am I right, guys? ;)

do we know for sure that it was tears on her keyboard

A few weeks ago, at a Reuters summit on cybersecurity, Gen. Keith Alexander said, “The great irony is we’re the only ones not spying on the American people.”

guam is spying on us??

read that as: gwar is spying on us??

This is in the first row of results for GISing "gwar spying":

http://184.173.194.236/~worm64/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/gwar_santorum.jpg

I do not know why.

I'm getting to the point where I wish Orwell had never written '1984'. The Right referencing it whenever 'political correctness' was mentioned was bad enough, but now I can't read anything without it being invoked.

we should force everyone to call it 'nineteen eighty-four.'

the gwar on terrorism

the clapper in that link from above:

Clapper’s deceptions don’t stop there. Rambling on in his rationalization to Mitchell, he focused on Wyden’s use of the word “collect,” as in “Did the NSA collect any type of data ... on millions of Americans?” Clapper told Mitchell that he envisioned a vast library of books containing vast amounts of data on every American. “To me,” he said, “collection of U.S. persons’ data would mean taking the book off the shelf and opening it up and reading it.”

that is either insanely idiotic or a total lie

clappertrap

if you're going to obfuscate, fucking obfuscate

to repeat my favorite and most oft-used phrase: don't piss on me and tell me it's raining

"either"

this is any selfrespecting tabloid's headline tho

Clapper told Mitchell that he envisioned a vast library of books containing vast amounts of data on every American.

i meant pullquote

how borgesian!

iknorite can't get over vision of him wandering blissfully but officiously through the stacks

"collecting" a book here and there

where IS that copy of Fanny Hill, it's never on the shelves

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/50/Terrorist_300.jpg/200px-Terrorist_300.jpg

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmwrz0BwsT1qd9gmo.jpg

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/d/artist-david-byrne/album-look-into-the-eyeball/cd-cover.jpg

iatee is it tru u went down your local poledancing class & called them all strippers, later telling police, "it's ok i'm a liberal! hilary 2016!!!"?

its tru

remember romney said binders full of women and everyone acted like it was somehow funny or notable for some reason, idk it was so long ago they were strange times

Obama has metadata full of women

Clapper told Mitchell that he envisioned a vast library of books containing vast amounts of women.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/snowden-says-nsa-hacked-china/

“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.

Snowden said he wanted to expose the government’s hacking activity to show “the hypocrisy of the U.S. government when it claims that it does not target civilian infrastructure, unlike its adversaries….Not only does it do so, but it is so afraid of this being known that it is willing to use any means, such as diplomatic intimidation, to prevent this information from becoming public.”

pollin pollin pollin

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-government-surveillance-programs.aspx
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57588748/most-disapprove-of-govt-phone-snooping-of-ordinary-americans/

btw David O Russell has an Abscam (google it) movie coming out this fall, so the '70s are BACK BABY!

― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 June 2013

abscam plays a big if backgrounded part in the popular motion picture Donnie Brasco

"Edward Snowden's online past revealed"

For all you potential whistleblowers here on ilx: this is what will happen if you come forward. I fear for Garu G the whistleblower tbh

If the President can kill any citizen with a flying death robot without a trial and people are fine with that....

just wait til they find his reddit account

THERE IT IS -

http://ath-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/slideshows-wide/061313Cartoon1_3.jpg

Snowden's online past looks super fucking mild

Totally. Plus that cartoon has the worst drawn t-shirt I've ever seen - thought he was holding a billboard at first.

“We hack network backbones – like huge internet routers, basically – that give us access to the communications of hundreds of thousands of computers without having to hack every single one,” he said.

Relevant book on the early history of this type of wiretapping

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/BMBcover.jpg

Sadly paw at my man totem is kinda lolzy