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• On the post: It's Come To This: Commentators Arguing That The Press Commits A Crime In Exposing NSA Surveillance

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 18 Jun, 2013 @ 07:59pm

  The comparison to Wikileaks is apt: The government has to prosecute both of them or neither. It looks like they are choosing both.

• On the post: Why The Tech Industry Should Be Furious About NSA's Over Surveillance

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 12:56pm

  How long until the data scoop that was (not really) authorized solely for national security becomes used for:
  
  1. Enforcement of ordinary crimes
  
  2. Corruption in the form of espionage on behalf of US companies against foreign companies
  
  3. Corruption in the form of espionage on behalf of connected US companies against normal US entities
  
  4. Corruption in the form of blackmail of domestic political opponents by politicians in power
  
  5. Corruption in the form of blackmail of ordinary people by security personnel who copy embarrassing information

• On the post: Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 10:33am

  How long before NSA says "Hey Microsoft, don't fix that particular bug just yet"?

• On the post: FBI Boss: Collecting Billions Of Phone Records Could Prevent Next 9/11, Boston Bombing — Despite Not Having Prevented The Originals

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 07:28am

  I happen to believe that the prevention of the Boston bombing or even 9/11 is not justification enough for what is happening. Worse, we didn't give these people a blank check, they have taken it without asking.

• On the post: Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 14 Jun, 2013 @ 07:18am

  How are they going to get the Chinese to pay for Windows now?

• On the post: Rep. Peter King Lies About Glenn Greenwald, Uses Those Lies To Say Greenwald Should Be Arrested & Prosecuted

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2013 @ 06:46am

  I say give Greenwald/Guardian the Assange/Wikileaks treatment. They have to or else they have to let up on Assange/Wikileaks. Then, MSM will finally find their outrage. it could be a good turn of events.

• On the post: The Current Surveillance State Is The End Result Of Two Consecutive Presidents Rewriting Their Job Descriptions

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2013 @ 02:02pm

  Re: Re: Chimpy

  aWol <== clue

• On the post: Perhaps The NSA Should Figure Out How To Keep Its Own Stuff Secret Before Building A Giant Database

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2013 @ 06:48am

  Re: Re:

  So, when will he receive the Assange/Wikileaks treatment?

• On the post: Google Opens Up Some More: The 'Secret' Computer System It Uses To Give Info To NSA Is Secure FTP

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 12 Jun, 2013 @ 06:46am

  Is this story saying "OMG, all they are using is sftp!" or is it saying "Well, thank goodness they are using sftp!"?

• On the post: Perhaps The NSA Should Figure Out How To Keep Its Own Stuff Secret Before Building A Giant Database

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2013 @ 02:00pm

  So, Glenn Greenwald is writing about classified information that was leaked. I assume Salon.com will now receive the same treatment as Wikileaks.

• On the post: How Can NSA Surveillance Leaks Both Be No Big Deal And Put Us All In Danger?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2013 @ 02:02pm

  James Clapper is the one who violated his sacred trust for this country.

• On the post: Edward Snowden: Whistleblower Behind Leaks Outs Himself

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2013 @ 08:06pm

  When someone like Snowden has his life ruined for protecting us from our would-be protectors, I view him as a hero who gave his life in the protection of liberty, every bit as much as I do a soldier who loses his life in war.

• On the post: Horrifying Supreme Court Ruling Lets Police Collect DNA Because You Might Just Be A Horrible Criminal

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 06:03am

  Re: Re:

  "Rather, what the August 4 match "identified" was the previously-taken sample from the earlier crime. That sample was genuinely mysterious to Maryland; the State knew that it had probably been left by the victim's attacker, but nothing else. King was not identified by his association with the sample; rather, the sample was identified by its association with King."
  
  The same can be said for fingerprints.

• On the post: President Obama Comes Out Strongly Against Patent Trolls; Here Are The Details

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2013 @ 05:59am

  Intellectual Ventures is from Texas, right? Does anyone know how to find out whose contributions in 2008 were bundled by Texas lobbyist Ron Kirk (soon thereafter to be rewarded by appointment as USTR)?

• On the post: Lawsuit Over Who Gets Starbucks Tips

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 31 May, 2013 @ 03:53pm

  It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis.
  
  I know what my next Photoshop project is now!

• On the post: IP Commission Thinks YOU Should Pay For China's Infringement

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 10:00am

  Remember in the 1980s, when we put a tariff on Japanese import cars? The US auto makers didn't take the market share that would have afforded them, they just raised their prices by $500 too. Any tariff proposal should include provisions to prevent that from happening again.

• On the post: How Long Before A Patent Kills A Hundred Million People?

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 29 May, 2013 @ 12:27pm

  Fortunately, the virus does not seem to have spread widely during that three-month delay, but next time we might not be so lucky.
  
  It didn't kill 100 million in its first three months, but it still might in its last three months.

• On the post: Reporters Find Exposed Personal Data Via Google, Threatened With CFAA Charges

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 22 May, 2013 @ 12:27pm

  %wget www.terracomonline.com/index.php
  
  So now I'm a criminal because I didn't ask my browser to get it?

• On the post: The War On Journalists: DOJ Claimed Fox News Reporter Was An 'Aider, Abettor, Co-Conspirator' With Leaker

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 May, 2013 @ 08:03pm

  Re: So, anyone who still believes that "1984" is fiction?

  Apparently Amazon doesn't think so, since it erased 1984 from Kindles.

• On the post: The War On Journalists: DOJ Claimed Fox News Reporter Was An 'Aider, Abettor, Co-Conspirator' With Leaker

  

  BentFranklin ( profile ), 20 May, 2013 @ 12:16pm

  "Is there any method of communication that is not being monitored?"
  
  Yes, the old fashioned way: meeting in parking garages wearing trench coats.

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