The NSA and your privacy

[NilsFG]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... rveillance

Well, at least now it won't go unnoticed when he 'disappears mysteriously'. Still not a bright future for him I reckon.

General public's reaction are off the chain btw #riots #yolo

[hugh]

those guys are fuckin mugs

[alphacat]

And yet if you point out that the 20th c. regimes most famous for monitoring citizens like this were the NSDAP and the Soviet bloc, they'd be quick to point out "yeah, but we're the good guys."

[Laszlo]

I would be more angry with those twats on twitter but #NSA has been trending for the past few days and the sentiment of the masses seems to be the opposite of the above foolishness.

[test_recordings]

I would be more angry with those twats on twitter but #NSA has been trending for the past few days and the sentiment of the masses seems to be the opposite of the above foolishness.

These people don't understand what the government has in store for them or what it already does

[Reese_Liar]

So umm...

[NilsFG]

So umm...

Well, i guess the whole terrorism preaching thing worked then. This is all just becoming so sad.

[wormcode]

So umm...

Well, i guess the whole terrorism preaching thing worked then. This is all just becoming so sad.

lol y do u give a care. wat do u hav 2 hied, r u a terist????
its not liek u have nucular bombs

[esfandyar]

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ba0cc8 ... nouncement

[nousd]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/18 ... en_review/

[_Agu_]

It seems to me that the most americans or maybe people in general are completely brainwashed...

[rickyarbino]

The US and UK have a more authoritarian and hierarchical culture so learned helplessness is pretty prevalent.

"More" than where?

[test_recordings]

The US and UK have a more authoritarian and hierarchical culture so learned helplessness is pretty prevalent.

"More" than where?

Okay, very, not more. I implied a tendency

[deadly_habit]

If you're online, not using a VPN/TOR/anything that hides tracking or cookies, use google, use gmail/yahoo/msn, have social media of any sort, own a smartphone or any phone that has GPS capabilities... welcome to having no privacy.
Just be being on this forum there are about 5 or 6 tracking and archiving bots.

[deadly_habit]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/ju ... rveillance

Well, at least now it won't go unnoticed when he 'disappears mysteriously'. Still not a bright future for him I reckon.

General public's reaction are off the chain btw #riots #yolo

The irony of them being on twitter.

[pulsewaves4stopsines]

The NSA has a storage facility where I used to live. I think it was actually mentioned in that youtube video a couple pages back, now that I think about it.
There was a group of people that quickly sprung up to protest its construction. Petitions, people writing to local and state politicians was all heavily encouraged and despite the seeming majority being against it, not a thing was done, because only a small handful of people actually did anything beyond "fuck the NSA now I can't text my drug dealer because the govt is spying on me"

I get so angry when people I talk to admittedly refuse to educate themselves about what's going on in our government, or refuse to do anything because some bullshit related to, "the government is corrupt and I'd rather watch it from the outside because nothing can be done and freedom is an illusion anyways." I see more and more people giving less of a fuck because it would mean averting their attention away from video games, money, the internet, and drugs.

[test_recordings]

The UK is actually getting really proactive, especially now there are viable alternatives to the three main liars

[rickyarbino]

Acting like they don't have secrets of their own.

[Muncey]

I think in comparing these operations to those of the Soviet Union/China its important to realise that although those regimes were way more oppressive than those of the US the people were never under the impression of being free. The most dangerous thing is that we can have a society in which people think (for the most part) that they're completely free yet are high regulated and controlled and happily accept the situation, blindly still believing they're completely free. I mean, isn't it the point of spying that the people you're spying on aren't aware you're doing it? The fact everybody now knows, yet they continue to do it regardless is mindblowing to me. If it was really a safety thing then it would have ended with Snowden/Wikileaks because now all the terrorists are aware of what they do, the fact its continue proves (to me at least) it isn't in the interest of safety and against terrorism at all - not a shocking statement I know, but theres a difference between believing it isn't about security and knowing theres an ulterior motive and the fact they're continuing this 'top secret' operation despite it being common knowledge now is enough to suggest to me theres definitely another purpose to this 'spying' nonsense.

[faultier]

I mean, isn't it the point of spying that the people you're spying on aren't aware you're doing it? The fact everybody now knows, yet they continue to do it regardless is mindblowing to me. If it was really a safety thing then it would have ended with Snowden/Wikileaks because now all the terrorists are aware of what they do, the fact its continue proves (to me at least) it isn't in the interest of safety and against terrorism at all - not a shocking statement I know, but theres a difference between believing it isn't about security and knowing theres an ulterior motive and the fact they're continuing this 'top secret' operation despite it being common knowledge now is enough to suggest to me theres definitely another purpose to this 'spying' nonsense.

i'm convinced the whole Snowden thing was some sort of psy-op, not sure what the purpose of it is though