Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data
Why I won't be buying an XBOX [1] or any device necessarily related to Microsoft's product line for the future.
Why I won't be buying an XBOX [1] or any device necessarily related to Microsoft's product line for the future.
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Is this a joke or what ? what do people think the NSA does ?
What's Outlook? *shrug*
amen.
Just a matter of time, when big company's start pointing fingers each other and USA isnt that "bad" anymore.. I bet google,apple, and so on - do and done this all the time.
Also People should realize that nothing is for free - and they shouldnt share their whole life with the internet community.
I stopped using Outlook ten years ago when it kept gleefully handing over my computer to unsavory email attachments before I could delete them.
Go to hotmail.com and fnd out?
Are you deliberately trolling, or just spectacularly ignorant?
In several cases, the NSA has monitored the phone calls of American citizens in real time. From an article in Wired magazine, quoting Adrienne J. Kinne, a "voice interceptor" for the NSA:
Granted, journalists could be seen as significantly more of a "risk" to "national security" than the average citizen, but that doesn't mean their rights should be infringed upon any more readily.
People should be free to say whatever they damn well please without fear of their phone calls being intercepted, or their emails read. This is precisely what the Fourth Amendment was designed to protect.
The fact that so many Americans are completely okay with this, and put bunting up around their fucking houses last week without giving a second thought to how their once-great country has been stolen from them, makes me fucking sick.
It's not the first time he posts something like this. Spending your time educating him on basic ideas just doesn't seem worth it.. I would respect his opinion if he actually put thought into a post about infringing rights.
Yeah, it really does. Aside from several personal (and professional) reasons, one of the biggest motivating factors in my decision to leave the U.K. and move to the States was the supposed sanctity of the Constitution.
As someone who voluntarily moved here to escape the police state tactics and (so I thought) unprecedented surveillance of the British government, imagine my horror to discover things are perhaps even worse here.
It's been a very, very hard decision to reconcile, but I remind myself of the fact that even Canada - once seen as the sane neighbor to the north - is almost just as bad.
Seems there's no escaping it wherever we choose to go, but I still haven't resigned myself to the fact that everyone should just accept it in the name of imaginary threats and government smokescreens about the extent of the real "threats."
Unfortunately there's a joint effort by progressives and neocons to undermine the US constitution (often while they undermine eachother) and build up the size and power of the federal government.
We even have groups calling for anarchy as a means to cause enough chaos that more power can be grabbed and or new forms of government achieved.
We can trace a lot of it back to the early 1900's with the influx of fabian socialist who ended up finding their place in politics.
The good news is that the growth of libertarianism and more anti-establishment groups are forming. So only time will tell if this is remedied or not. If not then yeah the US wont be a very good safe haven at all.
Comments like these make me question the sense of humor of some people on this site. It was a joke. You know, because Outlook is old...? Calm down.
Yeah thats why they just have software that sorts it out and keep it as an archive forever. Maybe you've said something offensive to your mates in a private email.
Your in an important position in the future, they use this against you.
No matter how innocent you think you are, they could find evidence to use against you(they could even fabricate it).
People are stupid if they trust anyone with information about them. Even if somehow information about you personally is of no merit. The information of the whole group could be very useful.
awww yea
MS and NYC are bundling the system and selling it to other cities around the world, they split the profits something like 70/30.
Oh damn they aren't real...
As much as I personally disapprove of the applications of a lot of their stuff, DARPA has some awesomely cool shit. Like this robot, for instance.
No, a progressive would be against such an intrusion on rights, I like to think of myself as a progressive and I'm horrified by such police state style government policies
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1. Make up a fake threat that can neither be defeated nor defused.
2. Whip up the populace into abject fear by hyper-focusing on negative news.
3. Then leverage that fear to justify all sorts of spending on security.
4. Make the citizens into the enemy and erode their rights incrementally so most people won't notice.
5. Anybody whistle blower (Snowden, Manning, Assange) will be branded a terrorist and threat to the people. Possibly claiming their actions are aiding the enemy that "hates our freedom".
6. Rinse and repeat.
Honestly, a lot of the "wars" our government is fighting are just ways to justify jobs (DEA), profits (military contractors), and power (political dynasties).
There has been a secret experiment conducted with the masses called "Social Engineering" which is used on social media networks. There are certain things they do that the people don't know about to basically get everyone to hate everyone online therefor start to hate the world as a whole in general. To engineer a breed of hateful, violent, and desensitized humans. A lot of times there will even be fake profiles aka the drones that are programmed out there to specifically target certain people. So beware, and don't let anything from social medias get to you. All of that hatred build up from a cruel, and sadistic experiment on human behavior is not worth effecting your real life. So next time you feel negative energies from people online remember not to let it get to you because it's part of the social engineering experiment. Just thought I'd let you know.
And you can expect that to shrink because defense was disproportionately the largest recipient of cuts in the sequester. "The government" cut the defense budget by $42 billion with more automatic cuts coming in the next few years to keep defense spending basically flat until 2020.
Also worth pointing out that at less than 5% of our GDP, we're currently spending less money on defense than at any other wartime period in the last 100 years.
I think it's time people started migrating their conspiracy theories away from the military to the Medical Industrial Complex.
Edit: Apparently war was really cheap in the 1800s.
It doesn't matter how much of the GDP goes to military, it's still very profitable for those involved and as long as there's profit for those industries, they will want to sustain anything that will keep the Feds buying contracts. Besides that, I wasn't just talking about military. There's the NSA, DHS, DEA, CIA, and other Federal security/police. None of those agencies of the Federal government would be so significant if not for the rampant fear and paranoia that people are fed.
It's not about the percentage of taxes, it's about creating an industry that's larger and agencies that are more powerful than they should ever have been just so those that stand to profit can have more profit. As I said, "regulatory capture" is a problem and it's potential for harm is independent of its funding. The best customers in the US is the government because they have lots of money to spend, thanks to mandatory taxes. So all that's needed for government security and military contractors to form a profitable industry is to create a desperate need for such an industry. Also, it's about the fallout of such practices, because even the least funded agencies can do immense harm to the people's civil rights if given a long enough leash.
The Federal government is basically one huge piggy bank that has mandatory depositors and every industry will do whatever it takes to get a piece of that, which includes creating unsubstantiated terror and trampling on civil rights.
https://twitter.com/search?q=EJosephSnowden&src=typd
The fact that the military NEEDS money that those businesses you're describing would reap profits from and can't get it because politicians are hopelessly gridlocked should tell you exactly how effective that "regulatory capture" is.
Every narrative benefits somebody, "safeguarding the nation at any cost" plays big with conservatives so Fox News spreads that shit like herpes. Others benefit from the narrative that the nation is under attack by misinformation campaigns from corporations. Ron Paul benefits from the narrative that the federal reserve pulls money out of its ass and inflates away your savings.
Just because somebody benefits doesn't mean it's part of some cynical plot to undermine the political process and funnel cash somewhere.
You might be more of a libertarian then.
I highly recommend looking up where progressives came from, their "era" in the early 1900s in which they existed in both parties and had complete, almost dictator like control. What resulted was a re-segregation of blacks from whites, confiscation of private property and gold from the citizens by the government, executive orders stopping all enforcement of anti-trust laws so the leadership could appoint who is successful and who isnt, eugenics which lead to creation of planned parenthood, even partnerships with a budding nazi germany. The early era progressives helped create and build up the technique known as propaganda, which relies on appealing to sentiment to gain support (and it works, but is easily abused). FDR was probably the closest thing the US had to a dictator.
That is why its so surprising to see many take up the mantle of that group again, I just begin to think they dont now about the origin of the progressive movement or where it came from (fabian socialist immigrants). Ultimately it leads to less individual and civil liberties in favor or a more collectivist approach with a big emphasis on the unions and those in power. They are very intrusive.
History and an observation of actions are the best thing to go by. Again, look up the history and the actions done by that group, it was never about opposing an intrusion on rights, but rather the complete opposite. Their earliest philosophers outright rejected the founding fathers of the US, claiming that any claim to freedom as a natural right is nothing short of mythological. They believed that government, as a divine power of sorts, should be able to guide and lead people in the right direction. Sadly that direction is whatever they or who is in power sees fit.
Anyways, I think its important that we as americans realize that there is a general push to take away liberties and undermine the constitution by both sides, and that many of yesterdays villains are coming back into the lime light due to the next generation forgetting what the past generations went through.
You are confusing the Progressive Era with the modern terminology of the use of Progressive. Its the same thing people use to demonize democrats because they used to be the party of segregation because of dixiecrats.
Please stop and get with the 21st century.
I am doing no such thing. Please recognize you may have a confirmation bias which you can use to overlook or excuse the current parties involved.
Both parties can be demonized equally as they both stem from the same party and have followed the same over all path, though one is running a bit faster than the other.
- US Budget splits (piechart )
- GPO Budget reports, Budget report for 2013, for 2014
- Can't vouch for this source but the picture is interesting
- again can't vouch but interesting representation of the numbers