talking to the NSA

[billy.pilgrim]

never been a fan of these people since lil bush's pudgy kernel klink stood up and announced that the 4th does not require probable cause for a search and the fauxies loved it.
As I understand all calls and emails are computer screened for certain words and the when the words are found, a human then analyses the conversation
someone tell me why we couldn't overwhelm their search for code words by including those same code words in all of our email and phone conversations - just include "bomb, terror, assignation, poison, disrupt, plane, etc in all email - if enough people did this in every email sent they couldn't keep up

[Boatrocker]

never been a fan of these people since lil bush's pudgy kernel klink stood up and announced that the 4th does not require probable cause for a search and the fauxies loved it.
As I understand all calls and emails are computer screened for certain words and the when the words are found, a human then analyses the conversation
someone tell me why we couldn't overwhelm their search for code words by including those same code words in all of our email and phone conversations - just include "bomb, terror, assignation, poison, disrupt, plane, etc in all email - if enough people did this in every email sent they couldn't keep up

It might be annoying for all of us to be placed on the Ministry zum Fatherland Sekurity's No-Fly List.

[billy.pilgrim]

I could get by without flying and I’ve always been fond of love civil disobedience
As steve goocie said when lil bush and kernel hayden klink were illegally listening, “only the terrorists have to worry, they can listen to me all they want”
it’s obvious that laws don’t work – civil disobedience is about all that is left

the plane swerved to avoid the homemade exploding IED bomb causing George bush to shit in his underwear causing the murder of the lice in his shoe

[rstrong]

I just set up a new iPad. But I wasn't receiving the verification emails for iCloud.

It turns out that the mail server was rejecting them. Or to be more precise, the DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) system was rejecting them. The messages don't match what Apple sent, or don't match Apple's public key.

A year ago I would have dismissed this as incompatibility between different implementations of the standard by my mail server and Apple. Now I have to wonder if this is the NSA's doing. I'm a foreigner, so the NSA isn't subject even to the pretend legal limits regarding American citizens. Intercepting this message - which would give the NSA access to everything in my cloud AND my location at all times - is just the sort of thing we now know that the NSA is doing. Many of the recent revelations deal with NSA spying not for terrorism, but for industrial espionage.

I doubt the iCloud problem is the NSA's doing. But that paranoia will be there from now on and is certainly valid. Like other security threats, a slim chance of your system being targeted must be treated as if it were a certainty.

As I mentioned before, American companies have led the world on operating systems, web servers, SQL servers, email servers, programming languages and their compilers, and now the cloud storage and social media systems that combine all of them.

And now the NSA is giving those American companies and their products the same reputation for trustworthiness as generous offers from Nigeria. I hope the foreign companies with alternative services are polite enough to thank them.

[Wneglia]

Drone Hacking for Fun and Profit

Scary shit.

[rstrong]

Drone Hacking for Fun and Profit

Scary shit.

Ridiculous.

Sure, Wi-Fi snooping is a real thing. But doing it through a drone is just stupid. A guy with the same software on his laptop, sitting in in a Starbucks or outside in his car, is going to draw FAR less attention.

In less than an hour of flying, he obtained network names and GPS coordinates for about 150 mobile devices.

It's called "wardriving", and people did far better than that 10 years ago, just driving down the street in their car with a laptop closed in a bag on the seat next to them. Without drawing attention.

[rstrong]

Just wait until our most prominent right-wing politician, Rob Ford, leaves the mayor's office and hits the Tea Party speech circuit.

[bannination]

never been a fan of these people since lil bush's pudgy kernel klink stood up and announced that the 4th does not require probable cause for a search and the fauxies loved it.
As I understand all calls and emails are computer screened for certain words and the when the words are found, a human then analyses the conversation
someone tell me why we couldn't overwhelm their search for code words by including those same code words in all of our email and phone conversations - just include "bomb, terror, assignation, poison, disrupt, plane, etc in all email - if enough people did this in every email sent they couldn't keep up

Contextual analysis, bayesian filtering.

Basically, they could (and probably already do) use this technology to filter out most false positives. It's alot more than just one word terms.

In my opinion, it wouldn't work.

TLDR; the same algorithms that keep spam out of your inbox can be used to filter that out.