NSA's 2012 mission statement boasts its ambition to track “anyone, anywhere, anytime,” according to document leaked by Snowden.

Source code in the Obamacare website requires you to give up your right to privacy, including privacy of your medical records.  This is in direct conflict with HIPAA.

Em wrote:

So then why didn't congress think of that when they wrote the bill?

In a perfect world, Dorothy's house would crush Pelosi, Palin, Clinton, and Coulter. They're the new eyebleach.

Dmtdust wrote:

http://nationalreport.net/wyoming-christians-report-forced-obamacare-rfid-chipping/

Being good Christians, and assuming his intent was pure, we told him he could. ........ Suspecting that he may be an agent of evil, we refused the chips.

But we enjoyed the salsa.

The Limeys snuff free speech

NSA Throws A Hissy

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Complete wankery!

Despite offering evidence that certain targets played online games, the program did not, according to the NSA document, achieve any actual counter-terrorism successes

I have to admire the leader of this group, dude got permission for him and his hand-picked team to play on-line games all day and get paid a nice salary to do so.  I wonder if the cantina in their building had to stock up with extra Doritos and Mt. Dew?

Tall Paul wrote:

I wonder what kind of a budget they had for housing, clothes and sex toys. There's not much else to do in Second Life.

Sounds a lot like real life...

The story so far, in case you haven't been paying attention.

square wrote:

The story so far, in case you haven't been paying attention.

President Obama has been mostly silent on the issue. In August, he appointed a five-person panel to review intelligence policy, and the group is scheduled to issue recommendations by the end of the year.

Basically, go sit down and create a few sound bites that will justify what we are doing;  find a way to soothe the ordinary voter.

choad wrote:

Plus side, the NSA's tech sector collaborators will maybe eat shit and die. Bottom line, though, we're totally boned.

"In our Q1 earnings call of November 13th, we stated that product orders in China declined 18% in Q1 FY14, whereas in Q4 FY13, we referenced that our business in China had declined 6%," a Cisco spokesperson told Ars. "By comparison, China bookings were up 8% in Q3 FY13. So, yes, there is a short-term trend of declining business in China, which we have acknowledged."

choad wrote:

Plus side, the NSA's tech sector collaborators will maybe eat shit and die.

Big Blue in the hot seat.

In other news, federal judge gets out of line, soon to be slapped down.

[District Judge Richard] Leon's order grants an injunction that will shut down the NSA's Bulk Telephony Metadata Program, and it requires the government to destroy the metadata collected on the plaintiffs' accounts. The shutdown will only happen if an appeals court agrees with Leon, who has stayed the injunction pending appeal, "in light of the significant national security issues at stake in this case and the novelty of the constitutional issues."

Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander had previously testified to Congress in 2011 that the NSA would occasionally collect letters addressed to Santa, but insisted that it was totally accidental and that no one was actually reading or storing them.

NSA's Truck-In-Middle Exploits

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choad wrote:

U.S.-based technology companies face a serious threat. The NSA disclosures may reduce U.S. technology sales overseas by as much as $180 billion, or 25 percent of information technology services, by 2016, according to Forrester Research Inc., a group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Ooops, did someone kill the goose that laid the golden eggs?

Fucking nitwits.

https://vine.co/v/h9PBY0Z2DIz

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choad wrote:

U.S.-based technology companies face a serious threat. The NSA disclosures may reduce U.S. technology sales overseas by as much as $180 billion, or 25 percent of information technology services, by 2016, according to Forrester Research Inc., a group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Meanwhile the Chinese will keep making clone devices with their own spyware installed over the top of our pirated firmware. Lovely!

Fast forward to 2025, caught in a Havana time warp driving unmodified Chevys to elude the man.

Emmeran wrote:

We know if you are speeding, we know if you don't brake, we know if you drive bad or good so be good for goodness sake

OBD baby, just one more jack into your life

OBD-II is a requirement of the government under EPA regulations, as is the requirement to store event history if the airbags deploy. Every car tracks all of that information, it just depends on how long it's stored. Some cars store a minute or less of logs, some store hours. Every shift, every speed, every touch of a pedal. Some even store changes to the radio or AC so they can see if you were fiddling with the volume when you ran down that little old lady.

NSA Whistleblower William Binney Tells All

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Hand me the Blackphone please.

So the NSA makes phones now?

Spies call for Snowden's murder.

Obama pleases no one.

I heard a analysis of Obama's changes to the NSA by Tom Ridge, former head of Homeland Security.  His take is that the program is vital to national security and Obama knows it.  He says the changes are mostly for public consumption and the practices will continue in the same or slightly modified forms.