United States of Spying

[GomiGirl]

Looks like it's missing Japan but still neat

It does have Japan, but it counts Hawaii as "Overseas" so it's probably Merkin made...

I don't consider Hawaiians to be Americans. They got funnier accents than you.

IIRC, they also have the Brutish flag on their state emblem, don't they? (Sorry, could be fucked looking it up.)

Hawaii and and Australia share lots of stuff. Captain Cook, British Flag embedded in their flag, cane toads were imported from Hawaii - the list goes on and on...

/threadjack

[Coligny]

Yea, but does every plant and animal try to kill anything even remotely human?
Because if not, it's like totally a different planet...

[Taro Toporific]

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations]

Edward Snowden: Ex-CIA leaker drops out of sight
Chicago Tribune/Reuters--7:06 p.m. CDT, June 10, 2013
WASHINGTON --The man who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday ahead of a likely push by the U.S. government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges.
Edward Snowden, 29, a contractor with the National Security Agency who provided the information for published reports last week that revealed the NSA's broad monitoring of phone call and Internet data from large companies such as Google and Facebook, checked out of his Hong Kong hotel hours after going public in a video released on Sunday...more...

FG Exclusive:
Snowden and Mystery Man Spotted in Torrid Tokyo Trist!

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Looks like it's missing Japan but still neat

It does have Japan, but it counts Hawaii as "Overseas" so it's probably Merkin made...

I don't consider Hawaiians to be Americans. They got funnier accents than you.

IIRC, they also have the Brutish flag on their state emblem, don't they? (Sorry, could be fucked looking it up.)

Hawaii and and Australia share lots of stuff. Captain Cook, British Flag embedded in their flag, cane toads were imported from Hawaii - the list goes on and on...

/threadjack

Yeah, but they had all the fun of getting to kill Captain Cook...(mind you, our banana-bending types do, admittedly, get to unleash the cricket bats on the cane toads...) I guess the White Shoe Brigade is similar to the Hawaiians involved with the yaks, too...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations]

Edward Snowden: Ex-CIA leaker drops out of sight
Chicago Tribune/Reuters--7:06 p.m. CDT, June 10, 2013
WASHINGTON --The man who leaked details of top-secret U.S. surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday ahead of a likely push by the U.S. government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges.
Edward Snowden, 29, a contractor with the National Security Agency who provided the information for published reports last week that revealed the NSA's broad monitoring of phone call and Internet data from large companies such as Google and Facebook, checked out of his Hong Kong hotel hours after going public in a video released on Sunday...more...

FG Exclusive:
Snowden and Mystery Man Spotted in Torrid Tokyo Trist!

It seems like Snowden should have done his research a little better.

[Coligny]

In another news... The guy was boning that:

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[yanpa]

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[Samurai_Jerk]

In another news... The guy was boning that:

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He's cute.

[Coligny]

In another news... The guy was boning that:

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He's cute.

And available... De facto... Sort of... Maybe...

[Coligny]

NSA chief drops hint about ISP Web, e-mail surveillance
A secret interpretation of the Patriot Act led to the National Security Agency vacuuming up all of Verizon's phone logs. The NSA may be doing the same for e-mail and Web-browsing logs too.

Moar... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589 ... veillance/

[Coligny]

Meanwhile in France...

France prohibits sending currency, coins and precious metals by mail

Which when you know the successful delivery rate of parcel/thick envelope is more a precaution for users of the postal service than anything else.... (*)

Moar http://www.resourceinvestor.com/2013/06 ... als&page=3

(*) the joke have always been, if you want to get rid of a corpse after a murder, mail it to yourself. It will vanish forever... Guarantee...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

(*) the joke have always been, if you want to get rid of a corpse after a murder, mail it to yourself. It will vanish forever... Guarantee...

Wouldn't it just be easier to send to an address with a house number of 81 or greater?

[Russell]

Snowden Web manga profile still online

Edward Snowden has become the world’s hot-button item since divulging that the U.S. National Security Agency has engaged in a massive spying effort targeting Americans and individuals overseas, touching off one of the country’s most explosive intelligence scandals of recent years.

But in 2002 he was apparently just a teen who loved manga, anime and video game culture and worked for a now-defunct animation company based in the U.S., according to Snowden’s profile page at the firm that could still be viewed on an Internet archive as of Saturday.

“I like Japanese, I like food, I like martial arts, I like ponies, I like guns, I like food, I like girls, I like my girlish figure that attracts girls, and I like my lamer friends,” Snowden wrote on his Ryuhana Press profile page, which bore a 2002 date. “That’s the best biography you’ll get out of me, coppers!”

Snowden appeared to be a big fan of Japanese video games, including “Tekken,” a popular martial arts role-playing game (RPG) originally developed by Namco Ltd. “I always wanted to write RPG campaigns with my spare time,” Snowden wrote.

Reuters first reported on Snowden’s profile page Wednesday. The page was reportedly deleted after the news agency made an inquiry, but it could still be viewed at web.archive.org/web/20040629231646/http://www.katiebair.com/ryuhanapress/ed.html. A line at the bottom of the page reads: “All contents © Ryuhana Press, 2000-2002.”

Snowden was still a teenager in 2002, but the profile put his age at 37.

The page carried an anime-like illustrated portrait of Snowden, who is seen wearing thin rectangular glasses — just as he appeared in recent media interviews that shook the world’s intelligence community to its core.

Snowden’s job title is listed on the page as “Editor/ Coffee Boy.”

Ryuhana Press “was created for the purpose of showcasing new talent in the rapidly expanding world of anime-style art” but was shut down in February 2004, one of the firm’s websites states.

“However, this is not the end,” the website says. “The entire point of this website was to help educate new manga artists about the inside workings of the industry, and to give our artists a hands-on lesson about the tough world of publishing.”

According to Reuters, the defunct company listed an address next door to the NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland.

[Coligny]

Sooo.. Tekken was an RPG.... Totally explain why I never liked it...

[Coligny]

NSA admit listening to phone calls without warrant.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589 ... -warrants/

Funny, I would have bet money that they'd either go for "fuck you iz nashiunal security" or "noooo we didn't do nothing"... Instead they seems to be shifting to damage control mode...

Yesterday they were all "the guy could not have had access to the data supporting his claims" which was already looking like a seriously panicky move...

From slashdot:

Snowden Is Lying, Say House Intelligence Committee Leaders
from the somebody's-pants-are-on-fire dept.
cold fjord writes
There are new developments in the ongoing controversy engulfing the NSA as a result of the Snowden leaks. From The Hill: 'Emerging from a hearing with NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander, Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, and Dutch Ruppersberger (Md.), the senior Democrat on the panel, said Edward Snowden simply wasn't in the position to access the content of the communications gathered under National Security Agency programs, as he's claimed. "He was lying," Rogers said. "He clearly has over-inflated his position, he has over-inflated his access and he's even over-inflated what the actual technology of the programs would allow one to do. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do." ... "He's done tremendous damage to the country where he was born and raised and educated," Ruppersberger said. ... "It was clear that he attempted to go places that he was not authorized to go, which should raise questions for everyone," Rogers added.'

http://m.slashdot.org/story/187469

[TennoChinko]

* If Edward Snowden Had Watched '60 Minutes' In High School He Could Still Be Living In Hawaii With His Beautiful Girlfriend

Former IT guy Edward Snowden, 29, is not in a good position right now.
He's stuck in Hong Kong, waiting to be interrogated by Chinese officials.

These Chinese officials are going to ask him to turn over thousands of secret documents he stole from the NSA, a client of his former employer, Booz Allen.

If Snowden does what these Chinese officials ask, he'll reveal American security secrets to one of America's biggest security threats.

If Snowden does not hand over documents to China, he may face extradition back to the United States where life in prison is a very real possibility.

Meanwhile, Snowden is apart from his beautiful, live-in, pole-dancing girlfriend. She's in Hawaii. She's been writing on the Internet about how she feels "lost and alone."

Snowden is also now out of his job at Booz Allen, where he was getting paid $125,000 to $200,000 per year.

Snowden got himself in this position by using his systems administrator's access to the NSA's network to download thousands of secret files onto a thumb drive, and then handing over the contents of this thumb drive to reporters at The Guardian and The Washington Post.

And for what reason did Snowden do this?

He was hoping for a revolution.

Snowden told The Guardian that he believes the documents he leaked reveal that "the NSA and the intelligence community in general is focused on getting intelligence wherever it can by any means possible."

He said the documents show that, through an Internet spying program called PRISM, "Any analyst at any time can target anyone ... I sitting at my desk certainly have the authorities to wiretap anyone — from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President."

He said his hope is that these disclosures will force "the public ... to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong."

There are two major problems with Snowden's plan.

One is small. One is big.

The small problem with Snowden's plan is that the information contained in his documents appears to be false or incomplete. They said that PRISM gave the NSA direct access to the servers of companies like Google and Facebook. That's not true.

The big problem with Snowden's plan to shock the American public into an anti-surveillance revolution is that the documents he leaked contained only old news.

There is a report out today from the AP saying that it has been "known for years," that there is a program which "copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis."

In fact, the American public has known that the NSA has extensive Internet-spying programs since 2000.

That's when "60 Minutes" reported: "If you made a phone call today or sent an e-mail to a friend, there's a good chance what you said or wrote was captured and screened by the country's largest intelligence agency."

The "60 Minutes" report exposed the existence of a program called Echelon, through which the governments of Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand worked in coordination to spy on each other's citizens on the Internet.

If you read the transcript from that "60 Minutes" episode, Echelon sounds like a more invasive program than PRISM.

"60 Minutes" is a massively popular news program. Ten million, sometimes 20 million people, watch it every Sunday. Even more watched it back in 2000.

And yet, the American public reacted to "60 Minutes'" expose with a yawn.

Since Snowden's leaks, many people have passed around an old quote from Benjamin Franklin.

It reads: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

It turns out the American public disagrees with Benjamin Franklin on this count.

We are willing to trade a little online liberty for a little offline security.

This is not irrational. We do not live in the world as described by George Orwell's book, "1984." In "1984" the government uses a fake war as an excuse to spy on its people. In our world, the war is real. It kills people at marathons, in office buildings, andon bases in Texas.

The point is this.

If any report on the NSA's Internet-spying powers was going to shock the American public into action, it was that "60 Minutes" report 13 years ago.

It did not.

Neither did a 2005 report from The New York Times about how the NSA monitors the Internet's fiber optic cables.

Nor did former AT&T technician Mark Klein's 2006 revelation that the NSA installed a computer at a San Francisco switching center.

And so, the sad, final truth is this.

If, back before he dropped out of high school, 16-year-old Edward Snowden had just managed to see that "60 Minutes" report and witness the collective yawn that followed, he might have, 13 years later, decided that the American public would never share his fear of surveillance.

He might still be living in Hawaii with his beautiful, pole-dancing girlfriend, working a job with a ~$200,000 salary.

[Coligny]

The small problem with Snowden's plan is that the information contained in his documents appears to be false or incomplete. They said that PRISM gave the NSA direct access to the servers of companies like Google and Facebook. That's not true.

Well if the guy say so...
Why isn't the NSA using the same line...

As for the apathy, yea, sure, maybe, but 13 years ago the Internet use was nowhere as common as now... Joe Sixpack haven't even heard of it...

But... Wait... Checking source... Godsomuchdamnit... I byte the troll bait of business insider... Shit cock suck...
But it's true that whistleblowers might have a longer life if they STFU... There is nothing new here...

[Mike Oxlong]

Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure

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But interviews with more than a dozen current and former government and technology officials and outside experts show that, while Prism has attracted the recent attention, the program actually is a relatively small part of a much more expansive and intrusive eavesdropping effort.

Americans who disapprove of the government reading their emails have more to worry about from a different and larger NSA effort that snatches data as it passes through the fiber optic cables that make up the Internet's backbone. That program, which has been known for years, copies Internet traffic as it enters and leaves the United States, then routes it to the NSA for analysis.

Whether by clever choice or coincidence, Prism appears to do what its name suggests. Like a triangular piece of glass, Prism takes large beams of data and helps the government find discrete, manageable strands of information.

The fact that it is productive is not surprising; documents show it is one of the major sources for what ends up in the president's daily briefing. Prism makes sense of the cacophony of the Internet's raw feed. It provides the government with names, addresses, conversation histories and entire archives of email inboxes.
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[Coligny]

Unfortunate signature material found on a fark comment:

I do believe that 2013 will be known as "The Year The People Talking To Me Through My Tin-Foil Hat Were right!"

Really all we need now is the alien bodies from Roswell and the Second CIA shooter from the Grassy Knoll to surface and we will have a clean sweep!

[Coligny]

NSA: the good old days in pictures

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-phot ... t-archives

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

NSA: the good old days in pictures

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-phot ... t-archives

You're reminding me of French spies...like the one who fell in love with the Chinese "woman" and didn't discover for decades that "she" was a "he," even after they'd had a (full-blood Asiatic) baby. Or the couple jailed on the paradise after they got caught blowing up stuff in their ally's port.

I'll give the French one thing...they did realize how Teutonic the Untied States is before most cuntries cottoned on to it.

[Russell]

NSA: the good old days in pictures

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-phot ... t-archives

You're reminding me of French spies...like the one who fell in love with the Chinese "woman" and didn't discover for decades that "she" was a "he," even after they'd had a (full-blood Asiatic) baby.

If they have a baby together, then that should be sufficient evidence that the Chinese "woman" is a woman. Unless, of course, the French was a "she", and she got the surprise of her life by being impregnated by the supposedly female Chinese.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

NSA: the good old days in pictures

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-phot ... t-archives

You're reminding me of French spies...like the one who fell in love with the Chinese "woman" and didn't discover for decades that "she" was a "he," even after they'd had a (full-blood Asiatic) baby.

If they have a baby together, then that should be sufficient evidence that the Chinese "woman" is a woman. Unless, of course, the French was a "she", and she got the surprise of her life by being impregnated by the supposedly female Chinese.

No wonder even the French could catch Mata Hari....
Sorry to have beaten around the bush. Subtlety has never really been my forte...

This is the case I'm referring to...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot

[matsuki]

NSA: the good old days in pictures

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/a-phot ... t-archives

You're reminding me of French spies...like the one who fell in love with the Chinese "woman" and didn't discover for decades that "she" was a "he," even after they'd had a (full-blood Asiatic) baby.

If they have a baby together, then that should be sufficient evidence that the Chinese "woman" is a woman. Unless, of course, the French was a "she", and she got the surprise of her life by being impregnated by the supposedly female Chinese.

No wonder even the French could catch Mata Hari....
Sorry to have beaten around the bush. Subtlety has never really been my forte...

This is the case I'm referring to...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Boursicot

I know some FG have questionable taste in lemurs but...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I know some FG have questionable taste in lemurs but...

French....I think he must have seen the hairy armpits.

[Russell]

US scrambles to find Edward Snowden and urges Russia to co-operate

Amid farcical scenes at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, an Aeroflot flight to Havana, packed with journalists, took off apparently without him. As the Airbus A330 began to roll back from the gate, Nikolai Sokolov, an Aeroflot gate employee, said: "He's not on board."

Around two dozen journalists settled in for the 12-hour journey to Havana – a flight on which no alcohol is served.

In heated exchanges, the White House rejected comparisons with its previous support of "political dissidents" made by a Russian journalist at the briefing. "There is a big difference," said Carney. "Snowden has been indicted with a criminal offence".

The Russian journalist was shushed quiet by another reporter in the White House press room when attempting to ask a follow-up question.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

US scrambles to find Edward Snowden and urges Russia to co-operate

Amid farcical scenes at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, an Aeroflot flight to Havana, packed with journalists, took off apparently without him. As the Airbus A330 began to roll back from the gate, Nikolai Sokolov, an Aeroflot gate employee, said: "He's not on board."

Around two dozen journalists settled in for the 12-hour journey to Havana – a flight on which no alcohol is served.

In heated exchanges, the White House rejected comparisons with its previous support of "political dissidents" made by a Russian journalist at the briefing. "There is a big difference," said Carney. "Snowden has been indicted with a criminal offence".

The Russian journalist was shushed quiet by another reporter in the White House press room when attempting to ask a follow-up question.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Even if you think Snowden is a traitor and side with the US government, you have to admit it's pretty rich of them to expect China or Russia of all places to turn over someone accused of espionage.

[wagyl]

Around two dozen journalists settled in for the 12-hour journey to Havana – a flight on which no alcohol is served.

I wonder if this gentleman had a ticket.
(Given his penchant for deleting tweets, there is a wardog announcing his presence in Russia. Probably keen to get the lowdown on the Tokyo expat scene from Ed.)

[yanpa]

Around two dozen journalists settled in for the 12-hour journey to Havana – a flight on which no alcohol is served.

I wonder if this gentleman had a ticket.
(Given his penchant for deleting tweets, there is a wardog announcing his presence in Russia. Probably keen to get the lowdown on the Tokyo expat scene from Ed.)

Oh, Mother Russia. Good to be back in your arms, sipping the sweet northern air, gazing upon the crowded forest all the way to Siberia

Sounds like he's found one of them gooolagz for foreigners.