Re: The NSA Has Apparently Stopped the Domestic Surveillance Program Snowden Exposed - Hit & Run : Reason.com
> https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/05/the-nsa-has-apparently-stopped-the-domes > https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html https://reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/axog2w/sen_wyden_calls_for_permanent_end_to_nsa_phone/ https://reddit.com/r/technews/comments/axfy0l/controversial_nsa_phone_data_collection_program/ https://reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/axon7w/nsa_phone_program_to_shut_down/ https://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/axg53h/nsa_weighs_ending_phone_surveillance_program/ > https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-luke-murry-and-daniel-silverberg-national-security-congress > Saturday, March 2, 2019, 1:30 PM LFB seems to have been the outlet partner chosen to scoop this propaganda... "This week, Margaret Taylor sat down with seemingly unlikely partners: Luke Murry, National Security Advisor to Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Daniel Silverberg, National Security Advisor to Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer." > My guess? The specific program initially exposed by the Snowden docs > outlived its usefulness, as a next generation program doing the same job > "better, stronger, faster" displaced it. That new program does not > exist for legislative and legal purposes, because nobody outside > compartments with authorized access to it knows it exists. Why this "news" from unelected [and even uncleared access] aides, via nothing tier media, and not jointly from top brass positions, legislative, judicial, and Pres? Why dodge or not claim such "good news", unless it's actually embarrasingly fake under the hood? For so long as TOP SECRET and all the taps, interfaces, databases, gigawatts, datacenters, biometrics, ID passport license, and governments exist... there will never be any significant and or lasting reduction in spying surveillance collection control laws theft propaganda torture murder war, etc. Has history ever proven otherwise, short of the moment of collapse, revolution, invasion? Same old, over and over. Another moment will come. Be different next time.
Re: The NSA Has Apparently Stopped the Domestic Surveillance Program Snowden Exposed - Hit & Run : Reason.com
On 3/5/19 6:27 PM, jim bell wrote: > https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/05/the-nsa-has-apparently-stopped-the-domes > From an article cited in the blog post referenced above: ?When the agency then fed those numbers back to the telecoms to get the communications logs of all of the people who had been in contact with its targets, it ended up gathering some data of people unconnected to the targets. The agency had no authority to collect their information, nor a practical way to go through its large database and cull those records it should not have gathered. As a result, it decided to purge them all and start over." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html So... if this presents an accurate account of the NSA's statements, the NSA has very obviously lied. No "practical way to go through its large database and cull those records it should not have gathered"? When in fact, a single query based on the unique identifiers of "authorized" collection targets could grind through those records and delete all that did not include such an identifier in any of the fields. Granted, that might have taken weeks to set up and test and days to run against the 'live' data, costing thousands of dollars worth of burn rate: But that constitutes FAR less than the proverbial drop in the bucket, relative to NSA's staff, technology and budget resources. An operation purging all but "contacts of contacts" would have taken an order of magnitude longer, and so forth with 3rd hand contacts, etc. But IF that database was of any potential use at all for targeting people on enemies' lists for detailed social network profiling (as intended), by definition a clean-up process falls within the scope of NSA capacity and budgets. My guess? The specific program initially exposed by the Snowden docs outlived its usefulness, as a next generation program doing the same job "better, stronger, faster" displaced it. That new program does not exist for legislative and legal purposes, because nobody outside compartments with authorized access to it knows it exists. Considering that U.S. public policy embraces mass murder "in The National Interest," just recording and saving everything that crosses the network for later use in retroactive surveillance raises no possible "moral" or "legal" issues. Hell, consider what archive.org, a nonprofit, manages to do. Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20190130133923/https://www.brookings.edu/research/recording-everything-digital-storage-as-an-enabler-of-authoritarian-governments/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: How to achieve 1 meter accuracy with Android Was: Re: Dropgang vulnerabilities
On 2019-03-05 11:47, grarpamp wrote: Surround them with love, forgive, pray to not be fucked again? That's noble and personal. The amazing piety of the Trotsyites during the early seventies has given me a permanent allergic reaction to superior holiness. Commies are always extremely holy, the holiest of social Justice Warriors, and the holiest of all are the Trotskyites, who during late twenties and early thirties, poured burning gasoline over the peasant's children to force him to reveal where the seed corn was buried, and tortured their fellow Jew with fire in the hope he had some more gold coins buried away. Similarly, Social Justice Warriors are so committed to nonviolence, that they will punch you in the face because your facecrime constitutes violence.
The NSA Has Apparently Stopped the Domestic Surveillance Program Snowden Exposed - Hit & Run : Reason.com
https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/05/the-nsa-has-apparently-stopped-the-domes
Phys.org: IBM announces that its System Q One quantum computer has reached its 'highest quantum volume to date'
Phys.org: IBM announces that its System Q One quantum computer has reached its 'highest quantum volume to date'. https://phys.org/news/2019-03-ibm-quantum-highest-volume-date.html
