Anklebiter, why are you looking at me longingly?
'Cuz once you go black, you never go back.
[Waggles eyebrows]
(Ladies: Same thing is true of goblins, btw.)
Is the GPS on a smart phone that accurate, or is it using the same tech that tells the screen to flip?
Couldn't say. But there's an article on Business Insider interviewing CIA Chief Technology Officer Ira "Gus" Hunt, that makes some claims.
Unfortunately, Business Insider isn't working real well today (NSA?) and I can't get the actual text up again.
No, of course it isn't.
He was on trial last year or the year before, for lying to U.S. immigration when he applied for asylum. I'm pretty sure he was found not guilty. The only place I saw it getting news coverage was on CounterPunch.
But the only people I have ever met who knew who Juan Posada Carilles, or the School of the Americas, or Efrain Rios Montt, or any of the other terrorists and dictators subsidized by the United States of America, are communists. Okay, maybe some radical liberals, too.
The American press is kind of a joke.
So apparently Snowden's still in Russia, according to the Finnish newspapers.
What, he's been to Israel already?
Information works like that. He doesn't need to have it.
What, he's been to Israel already?Just saying that the technology is out there, not that the US had anything to do with that cyber attack on Iran or that the US could match Israeli hackers, or that Snowden is any sort of living Trojan horse, defecting from the USA, like a gift, and seemingly accepted by the US's rivals. But it would make for a great movie though.
No, I meant,
He's essentially traveled through two of the countries that probably do the most spying on the US and supposedly he still has unreleased sensitive information.
What, he's been to Israel already?
...Russia probably has some pretty smart hackers of their own, and given time I'm sure they could hack Snowden's computers and possibly retrieve it from wherever he hid it on the WWW. Maybe not but I'm sure they're looking over his equipment as we speak, if he is indeed in Russia. Maybe he's still in China.
No way. If this guys has half a brain (and by all accounts, he does), then whatever drive he used was subjected to a DOD-grade wipe (and likely destruction) shortly thereafter. Drives are cheap, but certainty isn't.
I just wanted to report that I was in Hong Kong last week visiting and that there was a giant "Save Snowden, Save Freedom" banner hoisted up off the main drag near the Central district. Make of it what you wish.
I don't follow.
If he wipes it, he doesn't have access to it anymore, which means he can't prove anything.
If he doesn't have anything more than he's already told, then he can wipe them, but why bother: He's already given the info to the world.
If he's got something else then it does matter, but wiping it defeats the purpose of having anything else.
The assertion to which I was replying was:
"...hack Snowden's computers and possibly retrieve it from wherever he hid it on the WWW." (emphasis mine)
The assumption (not mine) was that he stored the evidence on the Internet, and that our hypothetical investigators would be able to tell where by examining the hard drive of the computer used to upload it.
I suspect, and I'm not a computer expert, but there's all sorts of places that you can dump files anonymously that he could remote access, and that's likely what he's done with his files rather then carrying a jump drive. Buuuut you need to access those files I suppose, and I doubt just cleaning you internet history is enough to keep those cleaver hackers from following bread crumbs back to wherever he's hidden those files. Especially if they have his computer.
I wouldn't describe myself as a computer expert either, but you're correct -- just clearing one's cache doesn't actually remove the files. It just makes the operating system not show them to you.
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what bothers me abour these three, but especially the last two, is that the people involved were ready and willing to pay the ultimate price for what they were doing.i think snowden IS risking death with this.
I realize myopinion is not popular in this, but I do not see snowden doing this here. I think people are inferring the wrong things from 1984 in this one.What specifically is the difference?
Government of Rafael Correa offered the USA $23 million dollars for human rights training.
Hee hee!
Why is no one talking about James Cartwright?
Well, I'm sure they are...
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Apparently Norway is considering re-evaluating Snowden's asylum application.
Maybe it's so they can finally shout "NO-WAY" and giggle like school girls. Or maybe there's a "There's your snow, enjoy" joke in there somewhere.
We Already Have the Stasi, Might as Well Have the Jobs and Healthcare, Too!
Apparently Norway is considering re-evaluating Snowden's asylum application.
Maybe it's so they can finally shout "NO-WAY" and giggle like school girls. Or maybe there's a "There's your snow, enjoy" joke in there somewhere.
If this drags on much longer, it'll be winter in Norway and he may find himself snowed in.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/18/white-house-silent-renewal-nsa- court-order
"Do I have a reasonable expectation of privacy in anything but maybe a letter I hand-deliver to my wife in a [secure facility]?" asked Blake Farenthold, a Republican from Texas.
At Wednesday's hearing, Litt was asked by Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House judiciary committee, if the administration thought if a surveillance program "of this magnitude … could be indefinitely kept secret from the American people?"
"Well," Litt replied, "we tried."
Snowdens out and about in russia. My suspicion of him has yet to abate.
Nor my hatred of Obama and the other Stooges of the Plutocracy. Guess we cancel each other out.
Why is it so hard to get people moving nowadays?
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Why is it so hard to get people moving nowadays?
Bread and circuses. If people have those they don't act en masse.
Why is it so hard to get people moving nowadays?Bread and circuses. If people have those they don't act en masse.
By moving I meant doing something about all the corruption and oppression around there in the US.
Then again, the US isn't the only one suffering of this. Sadly, most are content at watching the trainwreck for now.
By moving I meant doing something about all the corruption and oppression around there in the US.
Then again, the US isn't the only one suffering of this. Sadly, most are content at watching the trainwreck for now.
Nothing is wrong until after you hit the iceberg.
By moving I meant doing something about all the corruption and oppression around there in the US.
Then again, the US isn't the only one suffering of this. Sadly, most are content at watching the trainwreck for now.
Indeed. I found a rather fitting quote after digging around.
"You begin to see problems - But how do we get others to wake up ?
The environment is designed to prevent it - almost an analogy to the MATRIX movie.
Still very little in the media, and people are either kept so busy, or distracted in several ways to have the time to notice."
Also, anyone ever heard of a guy named Bill Benson? He apparently wrote a book about the 16th Amendment that got banned for some reason.
I see your plan is to sit and do nothing, which is of course the worst thing to do. Props to you, jeff.
They're ready to detain people indefinitely. What else is there left aside from a violent uprising by this part?
I see your plan is to sit and do nothing, which is of course the worst thing to do. Props to you, jeff.
They're ready to detain people indefinitely. What else is there left aside from a violent uprising by this part?
It is not clear that even a violent uprising would succeed at this point. In other words, we may already be boiled frogs.
Now you're just putting words in my mouth. *Sigh* I never said anything about giving it up.
Also, what is there to give up over there? Over there in the US, democracy has been dead for a while now.
You know what? I'm not even going to entertain you with a response anymore. I see no reason to bother anymore.
If this thread and all the other news lately haven't shown you that the US is a police state by now, you're beyond hope.
Noone likes words being put in their mouths or the idea that the only option is to agree with someone or they are wrong.
You know what? I'm not even going to entertain you with a response anymore. I see no reason to bother anymore.
If this thread and all the other news lately haven't shown you that the US is a police state by now, you're beyond hope.
I think an actual Police State would be better then the Kleptocracy we have now. :(
Now you're just putting words in my mouth. *Sigh* I never said anything about giving it up.
Also, what is there to give up over there? Over there in the US, democracy has been dead for a while now.
During what time period are you saying it was ever alive?