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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 09 2013 @ 09:55 PM EDT
I wonder how many companies are rethinking their switch from in-house servers to
the cloud?

Tufty

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The Secrecy is key to Fascism
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 12:49 AM EDT
They (DOJ,FBI,NSA) 'Say' that they are not deep drilling into the massive database, but who knows for sure? There is no oversight contrary to what they spin. But they say they need all of the call detail records in order to connect the dots. And when they say 'all', they mean 'ALL', not just Verizon. So at nearly 2 Trillion call records and growing, it is ripe for abuse.

So, maybe the FISC could shine a little light, get DOJ out of their twisted mess, and remove some of the secrecy.

Link

June 7, 2013 | By Mark Rumold and David Sobel Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret

In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security Agency's surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional. Significantly, the surveillance at issue was carried out under the same controversial legal authority that underlies the NSA’s recently-revealed PRISM program.

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

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The real reason the NSA need your phone calls
Authored by: globularity on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 05:41 AM EDT
The old saying the devil makes work for idle hands looks to be at work here.
They do not have enough significant threats to keep them occupied or more to the
point employed. So they invent threats to grow their budget. I have seen
various govt sock puppets claim various nasties that they need to protect us
from, not one ever materialized and the ones that did materialize they claim
they didn't see coming then come out with lots of rhetoric and want more money.

I am sure in terms of raising the life expectancy of the populace they purport
to protect, diverting the majority of their budget into the hospital system
would be far more cost effective.

The smart money compromises a countries security through its decision makers,
the general populace is not a significant threat to security, it may pay to ask
some NSA spokesperson what threat models they are using (Don't expect a
sensible reply)

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Windows vista, a marriage between operating system and trojan horse.

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Authored by: PJ on Monday, June 10 2013 @ 09:44 AM EDT
What Snowden said is that they keep all the collected
data, and then in the future, if there is a reason
to suspect someone, they can go back and find everything
you ever said to anyone after having shown probable cause
to be able access it.

That's what creeped him out. That and the fact that
in reality they may not wait for probable cause and
permission. He claimed he could access everything
about anyone, for example.

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