Understanding Metadata

[bannination]

Your false analogy doesn't support your argument.

Sure it does, it's an outrageous solution to a non-problem. (Only statistically it's 4 times less outrageous.)

[Ombudsman]

Your false analogy doesn't support your argument.

Sure it does, it's an outrageous solution to a non-problem. (Only statistically it's 4 times less outrageous.)

Which is not a remotely accurate analogy. Collecting metadata is not the equivalent of bulldozing a mountain. It's the equivalent of trail maintenance.

[Ombudsman]

Liar...you're such a simpleton...get a proofreader...whining...That's how you are.

You're too old to act so childish.

[bannination]

Your false analogy doesn't support your argument.

Sure it does, it's an outrageous solution to a non-problem. (Only statistically it's 4 times less outrageous.)

Which is not a remotely accurate analogy. Collecting metadata is not the equivalent of bulldozing a mountain. It's the equivalent of trail maintenance.

Even better, trail maintenance is completely ineffective against lightning!

[Ombudsman]

Your false analogy doesn't support your argument.

Sure it does, it's an outrageous solution to a non-problem. (Only statistically it's 4 times less outrageous.)

Which is not a remotely accurate analogy. Collecting metadata is not the equivalent of bulldozing a mountain. It's the equivalent of trail maintenance.

Even better, trail maintenance is completely ineffective against lightning!

You clearly have no experience with trail maintenance.

Other than an irrational fear of privacy concerns, is there any other reason why the Dept. of Defense should not have the proper tools to defend the public?

[Ombudsman]

I doubt you've ever left your house much less built a trail but please tell me how bulldozing a mountain in any way is an accurate analogy to collecting metadata. Oops, you still don't know what metadata is do you?

Once again your pathetic need to kiss Banni's ass has made you look foolish.

[Ombudsman]

Still haven't figured out what metadata is huh?

[Ombudsman]

Vrede part of the reason you seem incapable of getting along with so many different people is that you have yet to make public your personal lexicon. Since you have your own definitions for terms it would be helpful to have a quick reference for understanding Vrede-Speak. I'll get to work on that since you're likely too lazy to do it yourself.

[JTA]

After this NSA fiasco, "metadata" is probably going to become a new media buzzword. Soon people will begin attaching all kinds of negative meanings to it.

A: "Did you know your music files contain metadata?"
B: "Oh snap now the NSA can track me!"

[bannination]

After this NSA fiasco, "metadata" is probably going to become a new media buzzword. Soon people will begin attaching all kinds of negative meanings to it.

A: "Did you know your music files contain metadata?"
B: "Oh snap now the NSA can track me!"

Millions of students will cry out in terror when they realize their teachers can see the metadata of their reports.

[Ombudsman]

After this NSA fiasco, "metadata" is probably going to become a new media buzzword. Soon people will begin attaching all kinds of negative meanings to it.

A: "Did you know your music files contain metadata?"
B: "Oh snap now the NSA can track me!"

Precisely. Excellent comment but Vrede will never comprehend what you're saying.

[JTA]

After this NSA fiasco, "metadata" is probably going to become a new media buzzword. Soon people will begin attaching all kinds of negative meanings to it.

A: "Did you know your music files contain metadata?"
B: "Oh snap now the NSA can track me!"

Millions of students will cry out in terror when they realize their teachers can see the metadata of their reports.

Have no fear; PC-Matic and Norton AV probably have an option to clean your computer of all meta-data.

[Ombudsman]

Wait for it....wait for it...


Vrede will google Norton then the shit will hit the fan.

[Ombudsman]

...Opps, you still don't know that I scoffed at your stupid question, do you?...

Yes Darling, I understand that you often give the hand to things you don't comprehend.

[rstrong]

Cory Doctorow explains why metadata tells things about you that you don't want others to know. With help from Winston Churchill and Alan Turing.

The Guardian: Metadata – a wartime drama

[rstrong]

ArsTechnica: What the Ashcroft “Hospital Showdown” on NSA spying was all about

Now, documents leaked by Edward Snowden have finally given us a clearer idea of what that showdown was really about: the wholesale collection of Internet metadata.

The infamous showdown took place in March 2004, while Ashcroft was recovering from illness in a hospital bed. Acting attorney general James Comey—now President Obama’s nominee to head the FBI—was refusing to reauthorize one component of the secret surveillance program. Comey concluded that it was illegal. This prompted White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to rush to Ashcroft’s hospital room in hopes of getting the ailing AG to countermand Comey, who was tipped off about Gonzales’ plan and sped there as well.

In the confrontation that ensued, Ashcroft supported Comey both formally (because Comey was legally the attorney general while Ashcroft was incapacitated) and on the legal substance. Bush reauthorized the program despite the Justice Department’s conclusion that it was unlawful. Comey then threatened to resign—with Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller, and other top officials reportedly ready to join him. Bush ultimately backed down, and the troublesome program was briefly suspended until it could be renewed under a different legal authority.