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"Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:07:00 +0100

“Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.”

- Edward Snowden, Guardian Q and A, 2013-06-17 (via gwire)

People have an unfortunate tendency to think about people, not systems.

"The Silicon Valley operation works alongside a parallel program, code-named BLARNEY, that gathers up..."

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:39:52 +0100

“The Silicon Valley operation works alongside a parallel program, code-named BLARNEY, that gathers up “metadata” — address packets, device signatures and the like — as it streams past choke points along the backbone of the Internet. BLARNEY’s top-secret program summary, set down alongside a cartoon insignia of a shamrock and a leprechaun hat, describes it as “an ongoing collection program that leverages IC [intelligence community] and commercial partnerships to gain access and exploit foreign intelligence obtained from global networks.””

- U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program - Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras in the The Washington Post.

I can’t wait to see the shitty clip art behind BLARNEY’s logo.

The US government’s spies know how to make fucking ugly...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:35:29 +0100

The US government’s spies know how to make fucking ugly PowerPoint slides, I see (via)

jomc: jwherrman: This is the actual cover page of the NSA’s...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:09:52 +0100

jomc:

jwherrman: This is the actual cover page of the NSA’s internal Google guidebook pic.twitter.com/IIWER6qi34 (via Twitter / jwherrman: This is the actual cover page …)

"Cathy Gellis, a technology attorney who drives to work over the bridge every day, used to always pay..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:23:00 +0000

“Cathy Gellis, a technology attorney who drives to work over the bridge every day, used to always pay in cash. She’s uncomfortable with the idea of placing a transponder in her car that could theoretically record her movements not only over the bridge, but everywhere.”

- From Golden Gate Bridge’s new cashless tollway promises convenience in exchange for privacy by Adrianne Jeffries for the Verge.

I wonder if Gellis carries a mobile phone? I can’t think of a better transpoder to legally (if not actually) track people with.

thingsmagazine: RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, from Cold...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:54:00 +0100

thingsmagazine:

RAF Fylingdales, North Yorkshire, from Cold War: Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-89

Aerial view of RAF Fylingdales, 16 September 1963 (via)

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:55:29 +0100

Aerial view of RAF Fylingdales, 16 September 1963 (via)

Motivational slogan in the entryway of the Military Police...

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:25:48 +0100

Motivational slogan in the entryway of the Military Police quarters in the basement at the NSA Field Station, Teufelsberg, Berlin.