So here I am sitting in line at a California DMV office. Jesus Christ, it's like every illegal alien in the state decided to show up today. And the communists in Sacramento who want every drop out burger flipper to make $30 an hour so they can buy their illegitimate children new Xbox games. FUCK all the welfare leeches, gang bangers, druggies, drop outs, communists, and other riff raff human shit piles in this fucking welfare state.
And fuck 'restorative justice'. Criminals should fucking rot in jail.
And the communists in Sacramento who want every drop out burger flipper to make $30 an hour so they can buy their illegitimate children new Xbox games.
I'll bet that if they all bought XBox games all the time (or any of the other things one can do with disposable income) would do a lot for the economy. I'm so sorry that you have to deal with all the riff-raff you despise so much, but they are much worse for society when they're homeless and aimless than when they've got state money to spend on housing themselves and have to find a job every so often and keep out of trouble to keep their welfare checks coming.
First of all, if the minmum wage rises to $30 for drop out burger flippers, a burger flipping robot isn't far off. Some people are only worth $10/hour and if you eliminate the $10/hour jobs, they go back to living under the freeway off-ramp and breaking into your house.
Sure, we could lock them all up in jail. But that's just welfare for criminals;
Not if that means chaining them together and walking them down the shoulder of the freeway, picking up trash. If the result of criminal behaviour doesn't buy you a nice, comfy cell with a TV set and XBox, some people might figure its better o
California is short on cash because of a combination of two nitwit rightwing ideas
1. Reduce the ability of the government to raise taxes 2. Make any three strike crime a 30 year sentence so that you lock people up at taxpayer expense
How's that working for you? Hope you really enjoyed your wait in line. You do realize that for a nominal fee you could go to a private DMV service and avoid the wait
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:40PM (#49217179)
... and most people are going to find out too late what the NSA spying is really about.
Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.
This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."
I'm curious about what time in American history that the "other America" ever attended serious film and theater. It's a screamer. Who ever does that? The only people who attend "serious film and theater" are foo-foo coastal leftists.
I also love the Otherizing in progress. In fact, the real America is real, and YOUR side is The Other. Don't like it? There are plenty of other countries out there to choose from. We live in a borderless world.
Let me Godwin that discussion fast... Just remember that Hitler, with a few Hollerith machines [wikipedia.org], which aren't even considered computers by any definitions of the term, managed to classify, sort and exterminate millions of people, just imagine what a malevolent dictatorship could bring today. Think we are past that ? Well, it looks like the Front National, France's extremist and racist party, is posed to win the next election due to the usual two main parties being full of shit and full of themselves (not sure there's a difference there).
Now the million dollar question is: do you really want to give the keys to (in this case, french equivalent to) the NSA to such a party, even if democratically elected ?!? Really ? The best solution is to never build a mass listening aparatus in the first place. Pass laws making it impossible. Buid an anti-NSA whose life work is to search, target, disrupt or destroy by whatever means any mass spying operations.
One of the things that fascinates me about this debate -- in a sickening, slow-motion train-wreck-watching kind of way -- is how inherently biased the participants often seem to be.
For example, try rereading just the summary and comments on this page and counting how many references are specifically to US/American citizens. Does no-one who is not a US citizen deserve to be treated with respect, considered innocent until proven guilty, and protected by law against infringements of their basic rights and freedoms? Does no-one who is a US citizen ever do anything bad? Does anyone really think the passport someone carries -- basically an accident of birth -- is the most reliable indicator of future intentions?
Usually at this point someone pipes up with how the NSA is there to protect US interests, but that argument holds little water. If the NSA is undermining communication security to monitor others then it is undermining security for US citizens as well. And the same for GCHQ here in the UK, and every other state surveillance apparatus. So by the national interest argument, at best every state surveillance organisation in the world except possibly your own is a threat to your basic freedoms and every other nation in the world is acting like a hostile power in some sort of information-age Cold War.
This is clearly an absurd default position. International partnerships and friendships can be mutually beneficial in numerous ways, and we should be working together to develop those relationships for the good of everyone in our increasingly global society. And yet, the current obsession with intrusive surveillance and security theatre is threatening many of those potential benefits in all kinds of subtle ways, and the only news stories about international diplomacy in recent years seem to be about shady back-room deals that further the interests of state power and/or big business, often conveniently circumventing the normal safeguards provided by national laws in the process.
I don't think this position is sustainable, but my worry is that it will eventually fail not because we decided like civilised people that this kind of behaviour is unhealthy and unacceptable, but because it created so much of a them-and-us divide between normal people and powerful organisations like governments and big businesses that we reached a point of widespread civil disobedience or even actual civil war, causing catastrophically vast damage to society for at least a generation and out of all proportion to any threat these measures ever protected against.
boy, the anglo imperium wants to rule over YOU in the most economical way. You should really get rid of your rose tainted glasses. They play hardball like the commies did. So far they are quite close to Total Domination and they play very smart.
Android has infected almost all new phones everywhere. And if smart phones dont suffice, the british have covered the CPUs via the ARM fabless company. Imagine that - every Russian politician carries a complex piece of british digital circuit !
"One of the things that fascinates me about this debate -- in a sickening, slow-motion train-wreck-watching kind of way -- is how inherently biased the participants often seem to be."
Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most pe
>Well, it looks like the Front National, France's extremist and racist party, is posed to win the next >election due to the usual two main parties being full of shit and full of themselves (not sure there's >a difference there).
It's not hurting their chances that 12 civilians were murdered by religious fanatics, in an environment where there are many members of the same religion who surfed up in the '50s to work in factories which are long since closed, leading to high unemployment, and that as many
I love how radical leftists are sober, sane people that we really need to sit down and listen to, while their counterparts on the right are crazy nutbags and it's better to overthrow democracy than allow them to take any kind of real political power. Democracy does not mean "my side wins 100% of the time".
Bruce needs to try to get on Michael Medved's Radio Talk Show.
Medved is a conservative talk-show host and he has voiced the "if you don't have anything to hide..." opinion on the air. However, he is particularly open to opposing opinions and he is very polite to his guests. He often has authors on his show (particularly if they have viewpoints that differ from his).
This would be good publicity for the book, informative for the listeners, and I'd be surprised if Medved wouldn't welcome Bruce to his show.
However, I have been sitting here thinking about this. The need for privacy. Why do we *need* privacy?
Usually several reasons. 1) we want to hide something from someone else (doing something to them they would not like, adultery, stealing something of theirs, etc ) 2) we do not want to be judged by someone else (doing something society finds objectionable/subversive, homosexuality, drugs, smoking, drinking, etc) 3) we are doing something we should not be doing (stealing some money, vandalism, spying,
Privacy is usually needed only because of judgment of others. Either rightly or wrongly. We are trying to avoid the judgment of others.
Perhaps we are attacking the problems in the wrong ways? Maybe the needs for privacy is something we should look into?
The judgements of others are extremely dangerous, are unstable and fickle, and are riddled with extreme prejudice and half-assed truisms. Never before has there been such potential for every single behavior to be recorded and subjected to groupthink scrutiny. It follows that never has there been a greater need to exist as a private individual.
"Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, author Bruce Schneier could have justifiably written an angry diatribe full of vitriol against President Obama and the NSA for their wholesale spying on innocent Americans and violations of myriad laws."
Not without also lashing out at the source of all the warrantless wiretapping; George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, aimed at stringing up as many random "terrorists" (really just fanatic extremists minding their own business) as
Schneier straight-out says that ubiquitous surveillance and data minding [sic] are not suited for finding dedicated criminals or terrorists. The US is wasting billions on these programs and not getting the security they have been promised.
Combing through mass surveillance data to identify potential terrorists is like looking for a needle in a haystack, where the government has created both the needle and the haystack.
That's market making. Create a problem, then sell the solution.
1.) Use Daimler and Benz's invention to meet people in a physical location instead of discussing stuff on NSAphone, NSApp and NSAface
2.) USE THE FOREST. Rich people used the forest for a long time to discuss sensitive matters. They call it "hunting". Too expensive for NSA to bug up the entire forest
3.) Stop using TVs. They are Programming Devices and YOU are the Device To Be Programmed. They fill you up with tons of bullshit like "Saddam has WMD, lets make war now". Also see McLuhans work
I am so happy that an expert and leading thinker in practical Information Security practice as well as philosophy is keeping this torch alive among the utter and dismaying apathy of the general public at large. I for one have been so personally beaten down by the powers that be after spending years initially trumpeting warnings considering this issue, and the rush to get all data into the cloud damn the future consequences, that I am personally too weary to continue to resist the tide running against sound privacy logic, all in the name of saving a few dollars in the short term.
"...against President Obama and the NSA for their wholesale spying on innocent Americans and violations of myriad laws..."
All this NSA spying on Americans started during Bush W Bush's reign. It has been pretty well documented. So put the blame where it should begin. Obama gets the blame for not shutting down the program(s).
Christ, it doesn't matter. Obama, Bush, same damn thing. It's a false dichotomy intended to mask the fact that there is a single power structure at play (Government, Inc.).
uh, no. (Score:0)
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TFS is really poorly written and edited. Maybe they should make Slashdot summaries into a wiki.
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What is TFS that you are referring to?
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why not?
i would read it but i don';t leave near an airport
FUCK LIBERALISM (Score:-1)
So here I am sitting in line at a California DMV office. Jesus Christ, it's like every illegal alien in the state decided to show up today. And the communists in Sacramento who want every drop out burger flipper to make $30 an hour so they can buy their illegitimate children new Xbox games. FUCK all the welfare leeches, gang bangers, druggies, drop outs, communists, and other riff raff human shit piles in this fucking welfare state.
And fuck 'restorative justice'. Criminals should fucking rot in jail.
Sorry,
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u r a little baby...u deserve to wait.!!!!
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And the communists in Sacramento who want every drop out burger flipper to make $30 an hour so they can buy their illegitimate children new Xbox games.
I'll bet that if they all bought XBox games all the time (or any of the other things one can do with disposable income) would do a lot for the economy. I'm so sorry that you have to deal with all the riff-raff you despise so much, but they are much worse for society when they're homeless and aimless than when they've got state money to spend on housing themselves and have to find a job every so often and keep out of trouble to keep their welfare checks coming.
Sure, we could lock them all up in jail. But tha
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First of all, if the minmum wage rises to $30 for drop out burger flippers, a burger flipping robot isn't far off. Some people are only worth $10/hour and if you eliminate the $10/hour jobs, they go back to living under the freeway off-ramp and breaking into your house.
Sure, we could lock them all up in jail. But that's just welfare for criminals;
Not if that means chaining them together and walking them down the shoulder of the freeway, picking up trash. If the result of criminal behaviour doesn't buy you a nice, comfy cell with a TV set and XBox, some people might figure its better o
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California is short on cash because of a combination of two nitwit rightwing ideas
1. Reduce the ability of the government to raise taxes
2. Make any three strike crime a 30 year sentence so that you lock people up at taxpayer expense
How's that working for you?
Hope you really enjoyed your wait in line. You do realize that for a nominal fee you could go to a private DMV service and avoid the wait
You must have sine you are so superior
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ROFL you fucking copy/paste you rant every week. SSDD.
Reality is bruce... (Score:5, Interesting)
... and most people are going to find out too late what the NSA spying is really about.
Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.
This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY [youtube.com]
Brezinski at a press conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmUS--QCYY [youtube.com]
The real news:
http://therealnews.com/t2/ [therealnews.com]
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/ [amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/ [amazon.com]
http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/ [amazon.com]
Look at the following graphs:
http://imgur.com/a/FShfb [imgur.com]
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html [ucsc.edu]
And then...
WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6 [businessinsider.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnkNKipiiiM [youtube.com]
Free markets?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349 [youtube.com]
Free trade?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju06F3Os64 [youtube.com]
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/ [amazon.com]
"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.
In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."
Important history:
http://williamblum.org/ [williamblum.org]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcA1v2n7WW4#t=2551 [youtube.com]
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well...isn't that just the point of this book..to make people aware?
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"well...isn't that just the point of this book..to make people aware?"
Problem - human reason doesn't work the way we thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ [youtube.com]
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I also love the Otherizing in progress. In fact, the real America is real, and YOUR side is The Other. Don't like it? There are plenty of other countries out there to choose from. We live in a borderless world.
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I think the point about "serious film and theater" means film and theater which addresses the human condition or speaks truth to power.
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I am Bruce, you insensitive clod!
This book is truly epic (Score:0)
I just spend the last 2 nights reading it.
We need to stop the spying by the NSA.
Read the book and call your congressman. Now!
Too little, much too late (Score:1)
yes - Bruce is 10000% right.
yes - this book is really good.
but...the NSA has already opened pandora's box. the genie is out and their ain't no way it will be closing any time soon.
the NSA owns congress. Enough said.
I guess that dates me. (Score:3)
... the NSA owns congress. Enough said.
I guess that dates me. When I was growing up it was J. Edgar Hoover via the FBI. B-b
hc nu n âu (Score:-1)
Uh, yeah... (Score:0)
"Bruce Schneier could have justifiably written an angry diatribe full of vitriol against President Obama" ...but if he did it would have been RACIST!
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More likely did he not do so because the NSA had launched its wholesale spying on Americans well before Obama became president.
Small data (Score:4, Interesting)
Now the million dollar question is: do you really want to give the keys to (in this case, french equivalent to) the NSA to such a party, even if democratically elected ?!? Really ? The best solution is to never build a mass listening aparatus in the first place. Pass laws making it impossible. Buid an anti-NSA whose life work is to search, target, disrupt or destroy by whatever means any mass spying operations.
And small scope (Score:4, Interesting)
One of the things that fascinates me about this debate -- in a sickening, slow-motion train-wreck-watching kind of way -- is how inherently biased the participants often seem to be.
For example, try rereading just the summary and comments on this page and counting how many references are specifically to US/American citizens. Does no-one who is not a US citizen deserve to be treated with respect, considered innocent until proven guilty, and protected by law against infringements of their basic rights and freedoms? Does no-one who is a US citizen ever do anything bad? Does anyone really think the passport someone carries -- basically an accident of birth -- is the most reliable indicator of future intentions?
Usually at this point someone pipes up with how the NSA is there to protect US interests, but that argument holds little water. If the NSA is undermining communication security to monitor others then it is undermining security for US citizens as well. And the same for GCHQ here in the UK, and every other state surveillance apparatus. So by the national interest argument, at best every state surveillance organisation in the world except possibly your own is a threat to your basic freedoms and every other nation in the world is acting like a hostile power in some sort of information-age Cold War.
This is clearly an absurd default position. International partnerships and friendships can be mutually beneficial in numerous ways, and we should be working together to develop those relationships for the good of everyone in our increasingly global society. And yet, the current obsession with intrusive surveillance and security theatre is threatening many of those potential benefits in all kinds of subtle ways, and the only news stories about international diplomacy in recent years seem to be about shady back-room deals that further the interests of state power and/or big business, often conveniently circumventing the normal safeguards provided by national laws in the process.
I don't think this position is sustainable, but my worry is that it will eventually fail not because we decided like civilised people that this kind of behaviour is unhealthy and unacceptable, but because it created so much of a them-and-us divide between normal people and powerful organisations like governments and big businesses that we reached a point of widespread civil disobedience or even actual civil war, causing catastrophically vast damage to society for at least a generation and out of all proportion to any threat these measures ever protected against.
Re: And small scope (Score:0)
boy, the anglo imperium wants to rule over YOU in the most economical way. You should really get rid of your rose tainted glasses. They play hardball like the commies did. So far they are quite close to Total Domination and they play very smart.
Android has infected almost all new phones everywhere. And if smart phones dont suffice, the british have covered the CPUs via the ARM fabless company. Imagine that - every Russian politician carries a complex piece of british digital circuit !
If you had told Churchi
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"One of the things that fascinates me about this debate -- in a sickening, slow-motion train-wreck-watching kind of way -- is how inherently biased the participants often seem to be."
Or maybe you're just not versed in history...
http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137 [williamblum.org]
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You need to get informed.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/Encounter-1968jan/18-29/&chrome=true [google.com]America in the Technetronic Age 1968
Search document for 'control' to help find.
Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most pe
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>Well, it looks like the Front National, France's extremist and racist party, is posed to win the next
>election due to the usual two main parties being full of shit and full of themselves (not sure there's
>a difference there).
It's not hurting their chances that 12 civilians were murdered by religious fanatics, in an environment where there are many members of the same religion who surfed up in the '50s to work in factories which are long since closed, leading to high unemployment, and that as many
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have u been to paris recently?
in 2014, u know what the #1 name for baby boys was? Mohammed.
Nuff said.
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the reason the extremists are winning in france is that the muslim extremists have been there for years.
walk thru paris and u will hear almost as much arabic as french.
as much as france hates israel and could care less about the jews of france; they are scared for themselves.
the french birthrate is abous 1:1.4.
the muslim birthrate is about 1:8
they are scared of the math.
but...it's too late.
france = jeddah.
Michael Medved (Score:3)
Bruce needs to try to get on Michael Medved's Radio Talk Show.
Medved is a conservative talk-show host and he has voiced the "if you don't have anything to hide ..." opinion on the air. However, he is particularly open to opposing opinions and he is very polite to his guests. He often has authors on his show (particularly if they have viewpoints that differ from his).
This would be good publicity for the book, informative for the listeners, and I'd be surprised if Medved wouldn't welcome Bruce to his show.
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Agreed.
However, I have been sitting here thinking about this. The need for privacy. Why do we *need* privacy?
Usually several reasons.
1) we want to hide something from someone else (doing something to them they would not like, adultery, stealing something of theirs, etc )
2) we do not want to be judged by someone else (doing something society finds objectionable/subversive, homosexuality, drugs, smoking, drinking, etc)
3) we are doing something we should not be doing (stealing some money, vandalism, spying,
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Privacy is usually needed only because of judgment of others. Either rightly or wrongly. We are trying to avoid the judgment of others.
Perhaps we are attacking the problems in the wrong ways? Maybe the needs for privacy is something we should look into?
The judgements of others are extremely dangerous, are unstable and fickle, and are riddled with extreme prejudice and half-assed truisms. Never before has there been such potential for every single behavior to be recorded and subjected to groupthink scrutiny. It follows that never has there been a greater need to exist as a private individual.
Fails on premise (Score:0)
"Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World, author Bruce Schneier could have justifiably written an angry diatribe full of vitriol against President Obama and the NSA for their wholesale spying on innocent Americans and violations of myriad laws."
Not without also lashing out at the source of all the warrantless wiretapping; George W Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, aimed at stringing up as many random "terrorists" (really just fanatic extremists minding their own business) as
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When your argument starts "with the other guy" you've lost.
Needle in a haystack (Score:4, Insightful)
Schneier straight-out says that ubiquitous surveillance and data minding [sic] are not suited for finding dedicated criminals or terrorists. The US is wasting billions on these programs and not getting the security they have been promised.
Combing through mass surveillance data to identify potential terrorists is like looking for a needle in a haystack, where the government has created both the needle and the haystack.
That's market making. Create a problem, then sell the solution.
GROW BALLS (Score:-1)
Folks, EVERYONE CAN
1.) Use Daimler and Benz's invention to meet people in a physical location instead of discussing stuff on NSAphone, NSApp and NSAface
2.) USE THE FOREST. Rich people used the forest for a long time to discuss sensitive matters. They call it "hunting". Too expensive for NSA to bug up the entire forest
3.) Stop using TVs. They are Programming Devices and YOU are the Device To Be Programmed. They fill you up with tons of bullshit like "Saddam has WMD, lets make war now". Also see McLuhans work
Also (Score:0)
...take the wire cutter to the GSM radios they now infect cars with. BMW already does it and so do others.
You go Bruce! (Score:3)
Bruce Schneier is my hero!
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bruce fer prezident!
Get your facts straight. (Score:2, Informative)
"...against President Obama and the NSA for their wholesale spying on innocent Americans and violations of myriad laws..."
All this NSA spying on Americans started during Bush W Bush's reign. It has been pretty well documented. So put the blame where it should begin.
Obama gets the blame for not shutting down the program(s).
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Barry Obama inherited it from Bush.
He could have stopped it day 1 of his presidency.
He didn't.
He is wrong.
He is guiltly
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Christ, it doesn't matter. Obama, Bush, same damn thing. It's a false dichotomy intended to mask the fact that there is a single power structure at play (Government, Inc.).
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The useful idiots keep saying "Barry inherited ti from Bush"
They don't see what Barry has done - NDAA anyone? PATRIOT II?
Now reading the Kindle version (Score:0)
This is really an amazing book.
Schneier lays down the facts.
Our privacy is at stake and about to be lost.
The NSA is bad.
But just as bad is Facebook and Google.
the NSA is illegal.
but FB & Google...people are giving their personal lives over to them.
Enough is enough!
Great book but Bruce understates... (Score:0)
this is truly a great book...but but Bruce understates the issue.
The NSA needs to be completely stopped.
He says just cut it in half.
They are too big and too too dangerous.
i dreamed a dream... (Score:0)
that i had a bruce schneier bobblehead doll that automatically read this book to me...
i wish it was real.
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I had a similar dream...
but it was with Lady Gaga singing to the NSA.
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i had a dream...but it was lady gaga singing to the nsa