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PRISM - Canada can finally find out who is behind the robo calls
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 11:11 AM EDT
The news that US telcos have deep details of who, what, when and for how long on
cross border calls will help the Canadians solve the riddle of who is behind the
robo call scancle - all CSIS has to do is ask their American cousins for the
info.

I'm sure that will happen post-haste.

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50 years for stealing $35 rack of ribs
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 12:25 PM EDT
"A habitual offender may have committed his final felony, after a jury sentenced him to 50 years for stealing a rack of ribs from a shop .. He will have to serve at least a quarter of his sentence before being eligible for parole. He allegedly rejected a 20-year prison sentence in a plea bargain before the trial". link

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Jim Sensenbrenner: This abuse of the Patriot Act must end
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 05:19 PM EDT
Link

Last week, the Guardian reported that the Obama administration is collecting records of every call made to, from or within the US, as well as records of many digital communications. President Obama has tried to deflect criticism by claiming "every member of Congress has been briefed on this program." While some members of Congress were briefed – particularly those on the intelligence committees – most, including myself, were not.

The administration claims authority to sift through details of our private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can. I disagree. I authored the Patriot Act, and this is an abuse of that law.

...

Technically, the administration's actions were lawful insofar as they were done pursuant to an order from the Fisa court. But based on the scope of the released order, both the administration and the Fisa court are relying on an unbounded interpretation of the act that Congress never intended.

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower video
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 07:05 PM EDT
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations

The Guardian

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Web Inventor Speaks Out On PRISM
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 08:51 PM EDT
Web Inventor Speaks Out On PRISM “I call on all Web users to demand better legal protection and due process safeguards for the privacy of their online communications, including their right to be informed when someone requests or stores their data. Over the last two decades, the Web has become an integral part of our lives. A trace of our use of it can reveal very intimate personal things. A store of this information about each person is a huge liability: Whom would you trust to decide when to access it, or even to keep it secure?

Who can recommend a service provider that doesn't have a special relationship with the NSA

Facebook: 'We do not provide any government organization with direct access to Facebook servers`

Google: 'Google cares deeply about the security of our users' data`

Apple: 'We have never heard of PRISM`

Microsoft: 'We provide customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena`

Yahoo!: 'Yahoo! takes users' privacy very seriously`

Dropbox: 'We are not part of any such program`

Of course this is very disengenious, the slurping is done at the telecom switching centres, before it gets to the 'servers' ...

The secret of Room 641A ..

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7 Years Ago - USA Today: NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 09:32 PM EDT
The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.

The NSA program reaches into homes and businesses across the nation by amassing information about the calls of ordinary Americans — most of whom aren't suspected of any crime. This program does not involve the NSA listening to or recording conversations. But the spy agency is using the data to analyze calling patterns in an effort to detect terrorist activity, sources said in separate interviews.

Leslie Cauley, USA Today 5/11/2006

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Computational complexity...
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 04:55 AM EDT
Seeing as I only got joke responses last time, I'll try to explain what I mean
better this time:


(Computational models are equivilent to languages, and languages are sometimes
easier to reason about, so I will be using both here, and explaining some basics
so people understand what sort of complexity I'm talking about)


Heirarchy of computational complexity (I have probably missed some intermediate
layers):

Dictionarys (stateless flowchart with no loops)
Regular Expressions (stateless, finite flowcharts)
Turing Machines (flowcharts with an infinite memory space)

Each of these can solve some problems that the previous one cannot, and each of
these has problems it cannot solve.


Has anyone done any work on classifying the human brain into one of these
catagories? And is anyone looking for the next layer in the heirarchy?
Everything I can remember that we've tried to add to a Turing Machine has been
shown to be equivilent to a Turing Machine.

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Ubuntu in light of PRISM
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 11:20 AM EDT
The bug report about sending all local searches to online servers has been
revived due to PRISM:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shopping/+bug/1054776

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Daniel Ellsberg on the NSA
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:11 PM EDT
Link

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden's whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an "executive coup" against the US constitution.

...

Snowden did what he did because he recognised the NSA's surveillance programs for what they are: dangerous, unconstitutional activity. This wholesale invasion of Americans' and foreign citizens' privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we're trying to protect.

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Rendition link to PRISM?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:23 PM EDT
The Guardian is reporting that Britain's GCHQ first started getting produtive with PRISM early 2012. It was about the same time that their buddies down under, ASIO revised their earlier assessment of a refugee, Ranjini, and scooped her up in Australia's domestic rendition program”. link

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"Can it really be a crime to expose crime?" - Daniel Ellsberg
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:53 PM EDT
7:07 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7wXVWjVfSY

Daniel Ellsberg - Wikipedia (Ellsberg released the 'Pentagon Papers' in 1971)

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Raspberry Pi gets easier to use with Noobs software
Authored by: tiger99 on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 01:14 PM EDT
BBC

The H

Nice to see that there is continuing progress. The camera is available too, in case anyone missed it.

Meanwhile, one of the kids I gave one to for Christmas has developed a full colour brochure on his, using LibreOffice. It never occured to him to use any Monopoly product on his mother's laptop. But he did email the pdf to the laptop for printing. He had to get his mother to set up a Gmail account, because they seem to set an age limit, and he was too young to have his own account.

Next time I visit, I will be showing them how to use Samba, I think.

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bing search results in IOS
Authored by: designerfx on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 02:53 PM EDT
11:46AM PDT - Bing search results
Well, not only is this another "apple must spite google", but isn't this equally bad for the fact that bing is terrible at search results?

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US immigration seize Bradely Manning Defence Fund records
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 02:53 PM EDT
We announced some excellent news last night: the U.S. has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by David House over the government's 2010 search and seizure of his laptop and other electronics at the airport .. House's electronics stored the identities of members and supporters of the Bradley Manning Support Network. Given the controversial nature of that cause, House and others were deeply concerned that the government seizure of this material would frighten others from lending their time and money to the organization

The ACLU and the ACLU of Massachusetts brought the lawsuit on House's behalf, charging that the government targeted House solely on the basis of his lawful association with the group, and doing so violated his First Amendment right to freedom of association as well as his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable search and seizurelink

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