tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146023519551564248.post8225247148199787905..comments2023-03-06T08:56:19.796-05:00Comments on Disgruntled™: almost as though someone were watching donkey porn with medirtykid©http://www.blogger.com/profile/17712034219668968583noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146023519551564248.post-89977634021754512472013-06-09T20:55:14.357-04:002013-06-09T20:55:14.357-04:00http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/7/the...<a rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jun/7/the-national-security-agencys-collection-of-phone-/?page=all#pagebreak</a><br />"Stellar Wind" Yet another 'new' program name... I've also seen "thin thread" the archival system used to organize all this data, and, of course "prism". <br /><br />I am beginning to have little doubt in my mind that somewhere, there exists a database of every TCP/IP datagram that's ever been sent anywhere within the U.S. in the past decade.dirtykid©https://www.blogger.com/profile/17712034219668968583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146023519551564248.post-91175433059449970772013-06-09T16:58:55.050-04:002013-06-09T16:58:55.050-04:00http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-E...<a rel="nofollow">http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/</a><br />A long and interesting read that breaks down the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' straw-man argument on many levels.<br /><br />and an entertaining, and really old take on similar 'technologies' which, of course, ends in 'aliens' because that is how these things are holywooded into being some sort of fiction: <a rel="nofollow">http://archive.org/details/TheOuterLimits-Tos-1x07-O.b.i.t.avi_90</a>. Try not to take the technojargon too seriously, but the demoralization aspects, and some of the other dialogue is actually pretty 'on point'. dirtykid©https://www.blogger.com/profile/17712034219668968583noreply@blogger.com