-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 and now for something more lighthearted: When citizenship is dictated by regular expressions you know your democracy is built with the wrong programming language
On 06/07/2014 20:23, coderman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Nathan Andrew Fain > <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... the half hazard rules protecting five eyes users. Apparently >> as someone (terrorist or not) accessing Tor from the five eyes >> nations you are filtered out. If you also happen to have looked >> at the linux journal there is no filtering for five eyes so you >> would have been tagged. This inconsistency shows how foot loose >> things were/are at the NSA. >> >> This would fit with what Diane Roark said in her interview with >> Frontline [1]. She protested the removal of strict filtering for >> US Citizens and was buffed by every side. In that light it is >> clear the US made the entire cache free game for one or many >> engineers without anyone looking over their shoulder. A ship >> early fix later policy many engineers love so much. > > well said. any protections of the nature ThinThread would have > made systemic and pervasive are instead left as ad-hoc, opt-in type > filters upon what is so clearly full take (at the deep inspection > point at least. i agree with Graham that it is far to expensive to > mirror all traffic everywhere back to NSA) > > i also completely disagree with the legal interpretation of "a > search" occurring only when a human analyst sees the intelligence > gathered, and not when the intelligence gear gathers it. > > > >> In the end, with their budget, a 50% reduction in efficiency from >> a regex would just justify a few hundred more distributed >> computing nodes. The only person in the chain that may question >> this would be a pro-surveillance tax payer that knows regular >> expressions. So it may not indicate the age of the filters at >> all. > > i never considered the "hire more mediocre analysts for budget > justification" angle, which is impressive, as i'm usually a pretty > jaded individual ;) > > > >> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/united-states-of-secrets/the-frontline-interview-diane-roark/ > >> > you might the mix a friend made for the Tor hackfest a fun listen: > > two versions (which has better voice over?) > > https://peertech.org/files/Prodigy_-_Their_Law_-_Toggs_Diane_Roark_Remix.mp3 > > https://peertech.org/files/Prodigy_-_Their_Law_-_Toggs_Diane_Roark_Remix2.mp3 > > [ cache friendly plaintext > http://207.198.103.187:8081/Prodigy_-_Their_Law_-_Toggs_Diane_Roark_Remix.mp3 > > http://207.198.103.187:8081/Prodigy_-_Their_Law_-_Toggs_Diane_Roark_Remix2.mp3 > ] > > > best regards, > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlO51tkACgkQveagdEkPM4BS9ACfTVkt9wuxG8nS5xzWw2PFSLd/ qpAAn1wrqEmgiQf7dbROOUjX9VCLKO/W =6d75 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
