On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, massive amounts of information about people doing ordinary >> things like editing articles about Homer Simpson is kind of the opposite >> of intelligence; it IS the haystack, not the needle. >> > > And yet, PRISM is exactly about collecting the full haystack. And it makes > sense, if you ignore the privacy implications: Collect everything in your > multi-zetabyte storage device, even if you aren't going to analyze it right > away.
And we give every needle a distinct and descriptive name. > And yeah, editing articles about Homer Simpson is one thing. Editing > articles about the Tea Party, on the other hand... Or DeCSS, or AACS, .. Or 2012 Benghazi attack, Efforts to impeach Barack Obama, Drone attacks in Pakistan, .. Or PRISM (surveillance program), Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, .. It would be good *if* the WMF can provide assurances to editors that they havent received any national security letters or other 'trawling' requests from any U.S. agency. If the WMF has received zero such requests, can the WMF say that? There wouldn't be any gag order. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter says that the gag orders were struck down, pending appeal. That means we may have to wait a while.. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
