Big brother is watching. Thanks to William Binney, "a former NSA code breaker" (cryptographer?), we know more about Stellar Wind, the government's project to collect all US electronic communications. Did I write "all"? I meant ALL. That's all phone calls, emails, SMS texts. All. Collect it all to sift through it to connect all the dots. They will know all of your associates.Also see the NYTimes article: the-national-security-agencys-domestic-spying-program.
Why is this on the Op-Ed page and not on the front page? There will be more on this.
It's even a side plot on HBO's The Newsroom.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
very nice quote
Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason. I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.Barack Obama's keynote at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America conference in Washington, D.C., in 2006
Saturday, December 3, 2011
SOPA, Protect-IP, NDAA
SOPA, PROTECT IP, HR 1540 (2012 NDAA)
No more freedom of the press.
No more freedom of association.
No more habeus corpus.
Fascism.
Need I say more?
By the way, If you are reading this, you have downloaded it & taken a copy of it. This is copyrighted material (even though I have not registered my copyright) as all original works are, so beware: you might get five years for this act!
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Yes, I do need to say more. It might be pretty easy to bypass the web site filtering proposed by SOPA. Simply don't use the DNS servers provided by your ISP.. If you don't understand the previous sentence, give up now and start sucking your thumb. Otherwise, change your DNS setup (on your router or computer) to point to one of the freely available DNS servers not run by an ISP, perhaps one hosted in a different, and perhaps more free, country.. Check out the OpenNic Project (or skip directly to the instructions.) Here is another list of free DNS providers; I'm sure you can google for others. Pick one that gives you good performance. If you savvy, could get set up your own caching DNS and use one of the free DNS addresses as a forwarder to get even better performance--but perhaps your router already does this--or you could try using this tool to figure out a good performing DNS.
No more freedom of the press.
No more freedom of association.
No more habeus corpus.
Fascism.
Need I say more?
By the way, If you are reading this, you have downloaded it & taken a copy of it. This is copyrighted material (even though I have not registered my copyright) as all original works are, so beware: you might get five years for this act!
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Yes, I do need to say more. It might be pretty easy to bypass the web site filtering proposed by SOPA. Simply don't use the DNS servers provided by your ISP.. If you don't understand the previous sentence, give up now and start sucking your thumb. Otherwise, change your DNS setup (on your router or computer) to point to one of the freely available DNS servers not run by an ISP, perhaps one hosted in a different, and perhaps more free, country.. Check out the OpenNic Project (or skip directly to the instructions.) Here is another list of free DNS providers; I'm sure you can google for others. Pick one that gives you good performance. If you savvy, could get set up your own caching DNS and use one of the free DNS addresses as a forwarder to get even better performance--but perhaps your router already does this--or you could try using this tool to figure out a good performing DNS.
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