NSA data mining

[kallipolis]

Personally I believe we would get more people headed to office if the top job entitled one to endless stress relieving concubines.

May I enlighten you....the top job does come with the advantage of endless stress relieving concubines....but the incumbent is obliged to deny the existence of those perks, for fear that an intern might be considered more useful than a wife........

 

[JayHawk]

May I enlighten you....the top job does come with the advantage of endless stress relieving concubines....but the incumbent is obliged to deny the existence of those perks, for fear that an intern might be considered more useful than a wife........

Bwahahaha.... I will assume you know that if I were to get a political wife, get to the top, and then start fucking every twink that moved.... they would throw me out on my ear.

 

[palbert]

Developing:

The WSJournal reports Gen. Alexander offered to resign. He was refused so as not to hand Snowden a victory. (!!)

One of the really big questions many of us have had throughout the revelations of the NSA's scandals is how the hell have Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and NSA boss Keith Alexander kept their jobs through all of this. ... So now it's come out, via a report by Siobhan Gorman in the Wall Street Journal, that Alexander did, in fact, offer to resign but that the White House rejected the request, because they didn't want to hand Snowden a victory.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...no-because-it-didnt-want-snowden-to-win.shtml

An endorsement of the Peter Principle AND Hanlon's Razor at the same time.

 

[Kulindahr]

just . . . wow.

 

[palbert]

From the chickens come home to roost department:

After the Solicitor General wrung some necks at Justice and required that it reveal when NSA spying played an undisclosed part in the evidence creation in a criminal trial, a Federal Judge has delayed sentencing in the proceedings for someone earlier convicted of terrorism.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...mit-they-failed-to-reveal-use-nsa-data.shtml:

In one such case, of "would-be bomber" Mohamed Osman Mohamud, who was accused of wanting to bomb a Portland Christmas tree lighting ceremony, this news has put his sentencing on hold. The details of Mohamud's case suggest it was yet another case of the FBI stopping a plot of their own making, as the entire "plot" was created with undercover FBI agents. But there are also some questions about how the FBI first targeted Mohamud. Now, it appears that it may have been due to NSA activities. Mohamud had been found guilty earlier this year, and was scheduled to be sentenced in just a few weeks, but the judge -- realizing that the NSA revelations throw a big wrench into all of this -- has agreed to postpone indefinitely the sentencing. ...

Case reference: USA vs. Mohamud, 10-NJ-497, USDC Oregon. (http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/504)

I hope we will hear of many more such cases.

 

[Kulindahr]

From the chickens come home to roost department:

After the Solicitor General wrung some necks at Justice and required that it reveal when NSA spying played an undisclosed part in the evidence creation in a criminal trial, a Federal Judge has delayed sentencing in the proceedings for someone earlier convicted of terrorism.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...mit-they-failed-to-reveal-use-nsa-data.shtml:



Case reference: USA vs. Mohamud, 10-NJ-497, USDC Oregon. (http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/504)

I hope we will hear of many more such cases.

I hope we hear of FBI agents going to prison for setting people up in order to get convictions, instead of looking for actual bad guys.

 

[palbert]

From the and the beat goes on department:

The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...92873a-5cf2-11e3-bc56-c6ca94801fac_story.html

E.s.

(Cite has graphics.)

Of course some would say this is conjecture. No wonder the Utah installation keeps exploding.

 

[palbert]

Well, it appears NSA is tracking, monitoring and actively participating in on-line games.

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/w...-elves-and-trolls.html?ref=international-home

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/09/nsa-spies-online-games-world-warcraft-second-life

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And in other news,

Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users

Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers’ data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama and Congress to set new limits on government surveillance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/09/t...s-on-government-surveillance-of-users.html?hp

In their most concerted response yet to disclosures by the National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AOL have published an open letter to Barack Obama and Congress on Monday, throwing their weight behind radical reforms already proposed by Washington politicians.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-companies-demand-sweeping-changes-to-us-laws

The open letter is here: http://reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/:

Consistent with established global norms of free expression and privacy and with the goals of ensuring that government law enforcement and intelligence efforts are rule-bound, narrowly tailored, transparent, and subject to oversight, we hereby call on governments to endorse the following principles and enact reforms that would put these principles into action.

 

[Sausy]

Is there ANYTHING that these busybodies won't do in their never ending quest to trample individual liberties in perpetuity? Of course the government should go after those who would terrorize us, but this has expanded into an all-encompassing power trip. When dos it become enough for them?

 

[Benvolio]

This administration will use it against Republicans as its IRS does.

 

[palbert]

Contrary to the other tech companies

AT&T Tells Shareholders To Mind Their Own Business Concerning Its Relationship With The NSA

Verizon and AT&T have remained remarkably silent concerning all of the reports of NSA surveillance, which is fairly incredible, given that it appears that they have been the major players in basically handing over full access to their backbone networks to the NSA -- even to the point of volunteering to do so, rather than having to wait for a court order. It's no surprise that, unlike various internet companies, the telcos have not been at all supportive of attempts to allow for greater transparency over how companies work with the NSA.

.... (A) bunch of shareholders have filed shareholder proposals with both companies, demanding that they start to file transparency reports concerning how they cooperate with government surveillance. AT&T has flat out rejected this request, saying it won't even include the proposed resolution on the ballot at the annual AT&T shareholder's meeting.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...ss-concerning-its-relationship-with-nsa.shtml (With ATT letter to SEC justifying its position)

It seems these are management issues - not shareholder ones - and ordinary business matters beyond shareholder input.

I believe the SEC has some say in this. We shall see what happens.

At least ATT's historical allegiance is becoming clearer.

 

[Stardreamer]

So now the latest information is that NSA and british spy agencies have been sending and recruiting agents to go into Second Life and World of Warcraft looking for terrorist networks. Cause we all know Jihadists, Elves, Orcs, Furries, and Nekos just go together. hehe

 

[Kulindahr]

Is there ANYTHING that these busybodies won't do in their never ending quest to trample individual liberties in perpetuity? Of course the government should go after those who would terrorize us, but this has expanded into an all-encompassing power trip. When dos it become enough for them?

It's Parkinson's Law at work with a vengeance. The more potential threats these guys can concoct, the more underlings they can justify, and the more bureaucratic power and status they get.

 

[Kulindahr]

So now the latest information is that NSA and british spy agencies have been sending and recruiting agents to go into Second Life and World of Warcraft looking for terrorist networks. Cause we all know Jihadists, Elves, Orcs, Furries, and Nekos just go together. hehe

Shouldn't they all just be trolls?