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    NSA can read your emails as you type them (not kidding)

    The Canadian government collects metadata. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-surveillance-investigation-is-anyone-listening-to-your-phone-calls/article12478252/ as for the use of metadata of communications, as far as i understand, it's a better predictor of variables of...
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    something you can do about NSA surveillance

    Where on earth are you getting this information from? I'm glad you're playing devil's advocate but I think your making this up -> "its likely discarded after 4 years or so". On the contrary, I think it's very likely. Despite being almost universally incompetent, the government is good at doing a...
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    something you can do about NSA surveillance

    sadly this is becoming true. according to Wikipedia there are ~1 billion facebook users worldwide (world population = 7 billion), and ~167 million US (50% of US population). And check out this article from Forbes: Beware, Tech Abandoners. People Without Facebook Accounts Are 'Suspicious.'...
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    Privacy - Short counters to nothing to hide, nothing fear arguments.

    You know he's a 29 year old systems administrator at one of the most sophisticated intelligence agencies in the world. I'm pretty sure he thought it through. Just because he reached a different conclusion that you did doesn't mean he doesn't know what he's doing. I think it already is in the...
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    NSA can read your emails as you type them (not kidding)

    Actually this isn't really a surprise. It slipped during a CNN interview, and I don't think very many people caught this: . Notice at 1:05 what is said by Ambinder If you assume that the NSA has open access to Google servers, which is what the leaked PowerPoint slides imply, then it follows...
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    NSA + FBI Files Leaked, Massive Snooping on Millions of Americans

    Yes, thank you. This needs to stop, and we need to do something about it. Don't forget that the FBI used counterterrorism agents to monitor the peaceful occupy protests: Mass surveillance and peaceful dissent being treated as terrorism. Not trying to panic anyone, but you must be able to see...
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    NSA + FBI Files Leaked, Massive Snooping on Millions of Americans

    not true. Booz Allen Hamilton, the private contractor who was hired by the NSA, analyzes this data. So does SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation. Actually people underestimate how mature this industry has become. As I mentioned in another post on the Escapist, there are, in fact...
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    something you can do about NSA surveillance

    no less than $10 billion, to be precise, is the estimated budget of the NSA. (What the NSA costs taxpayers [http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillance-cost/index.html]. CNN Money. June 2, 2013.) It probably wouldn't be hard to calculate just how many terabytes or petabytes...
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    Privacy - Short counters to nothing to hide, nothing fear arguments.

    They are already here in the US and their use is growing quickly: They're cheap and small, and the software is already on the internets.
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    Privacy - Short counters to nothing to hide, nothing fear arguments.

    Government secrets are usually things like war crimes and terrorism and torture. Not secrets your average Joe might be carrying around. Anyways, a counterargument comes from one of the establishments think-tanks, the Recording Everything: Digital Storage as an Enabler of Authoritarian...
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    something you can do about NSA surveillance

    in the CNN coverage in that Youtube clip, watch it a few times and note what the reporter says: 0:10 "And he's also damaged national security" 0:44 "Clapper has ordered initial findings by the end of the week on how much harm has been done" 1:09 "What this system allows the NSA to do is...
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    something you can do about NSA surveillance

    The escapist wrote an article on this already, NSA Harvests Facebook, Google, Apple User Data, Secret Files Claim [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/124721-NSA-Harvests-Facebook-Google-Apple-User-Data-Secret-Files-Claim], but didn't suggest what should be done about it. If you don't...
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    Poll: Do you think that we will go to war with aliens?

    haha if by we you mean America then of course. think of all the money to be made by manufacturing space ships and lazer weaponry. lets see how many wars in modern American history have not been about money or the result of lunatic war-mongers? alternatively if they aren't fit for enslavement...
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    What means "Get outside and travel the world!" Why?

    My perspective: I've learned infinitely more on something as important, to give a silly but best i can think of example, on the Israel-Palestine conflict reading Norman Finkelsteins books and looking at the "22 days of death and destruction" from Amnesty International along with looking at the...
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    What means "Get outside and travel the world!" Why?

    I get this a lot. People telling me to "get outside" and "travel the world". I also hear people say this to others. What the hell does this mean? What benefit is there to me in "traveling the world" and what are people actually telling me to do when they say this? Is this an insult? I'd like...
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