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Another Bait And Switch: Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation... Again
Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
This is how the corporate state rolls. They remove all the important stuff at the last minute, you know, like provisions that might actually protect constitutional rights. This is exactly what they just did with the NDAA, which I outlined in my post The Section Preventing Indefinite Detention of Americans without Trial Removed from Final NDAA Bill. Now we find out from Wired that:
The Senate late Thursday forwarded legislation to President Barack Obama granting the public the right to automatically display on their Facebook feeds what they’re watching on Netflix. While lawmakers were caving to special interests, however, they cut from the legislative package language requiring the authorities to get a warrant to read your e-mail or other data stored in the cloud.
But another part of the same Senate package — sweeping digital privacy protections requiring the government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud — was removed at the last minute.
Currently, the government can obtain e-mail or other cloud documents without a warrant as long as the content has been stored on a third-party server for 180 days or more. The authorities only need to demonstrate, often via an administrative subpoena, that it has “reasonable grounds to believe” the information would be useful in an investigation.
Leahy has repeatedly sought to amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, but he finds little support for it among fellow lawmakers or with the President Barack Obama administration.
Repeat after me: Your Government Loves You. Now go back to sleep.
Full Wired article here.
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The Bat!
Gen. Schwarzkopf passes at 78: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/27/norman-schwarzkopf-...
Wonder if his emails are safe and my condolences.
If you think you have any privacy in the electronic media, you are on drugs or naive.
They have had the ability to read your emails since day one.
They only need a court order to use it against you.
Welcome to the year +29
1984 + 29 = 2013
Orwell had it bang on.
Life imitating art.
Orwell (Eric Blair) was deathly ill, and overcame his personal pain to complete his gift to the world, a warning: 'Nineteen Eighty Four'.
It was a warning, but modern career politicians use it as an instruction manual, and the proles are ignorant as a result.
'The clock strikes thirteen' now in the USA. Will beloveds forsake each other under the jackboot of Big Brother?
don't forget the original title of the book was "1948" not 1984.
If non voluntary registration is imposed on all gun owners then i want all government workers to disclose in real time the financial holdings of themselves, their families, and all individuals connected to them financially. Failure to do so should be considered a breach of trust and trigger a sale to the public at auction of all assets (as is the case with drug dealers and people who can't make rent), information on times and place available too all electronically and through any applicable media.
You know, like the law used to work? Forfeiture of assets at public auction in case of fraud?
This is directed at the federal level, but goes for any and all.
And actually, this should be required anyway, trading on insider information, especially while holding public office, is treason at least.
Watch out for those 11 round clips, land you in fed for 30..
11 round clips? My Browning 9mm has 30 round clips -- 3 taped together - 1 up 2 down. Is that bad?
Repeat after me: your government hates you.
That is all you need to know. The Republic is a finer thing that needs informed and able citizens.
What would you do
If you were asked to give up your dreams for freedom?
What would you do
If asked to make the ultimate sacrifice?
Would you think about all them people
Who gave up everything they had?
Would you think about all them War Vets
And would you start to feel bad?
Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?
What would you do
If someone told you to fight for freedom?
Would you answer the call
Or run away like a little ?
'Cause the only reason that you're here
Is 'cause folks died for you in the past
So maybe now it's your turn
To die kicking some ass
Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
Now there's a hefty fuckin' fee
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?
You don't throw in your buck 'o five. Who will?
Oooh buck 'o five
Freedom costs a buck 'o five
Repeat after me:
Your government loves you - all they want is to take care of you and make certain you have a fulfilling life.
They are prepared to do whatever it takes - to make sure that you are fulfilled.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/gov-dossiers-on-us-citizens/ [12/13/12/
things are moving fast and furious in u.s-gestapo`land
working overtime to disarm americans
proof: u.s behind 911
securitization of all questionable fringe blogs
alert! Alert!! Alert!!!
Fear not. Speak and act for the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Those who do not have most to fear.
the dead bury their secrets... but their mirror'd shadow have no allegiance?
pray tell...
Pray this: the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
The central banksters and their appointed political dupes have ruined themselves, and fear what is to become of them, now that their failures are increasingly plain for all to see.
The true Republic will survive this, and thrive; one for all, all for one. Others and financial opportunists will kill each other, as they always do. They are not our friends.
"Would you think about all them people" -- I might think about all THOSE people but I never think about THEM people. Jesus! Read a third grade English book!
Pedant. Care to comment on the substance of the article? Keep calm and carry on :-)
ZeroAvatar's 3 rule code for dealiing with NSA spies:
1. S h ? o t
2. S _ o ? E l
3. S h ) t U p. (!)
Good luck figuring THAT out!
Big Brother loves paranoia; confuse and conquer.
There is only one thing that protects Americans: the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, the Republic. Defend this, and you have no need to fear.
Feinstein also released AWB bill today, aka How to Ignite Civil War 2.0 Act of 2013.
FB purging "pro-gun" accounts. Shit's getting weird.
I am nobody and have nothing to hide but if icared at all i would look into so kind of encryption method loaded on a thumb drive that could be removed from any computer and used on any computer like public library computers. Does such a thing exist? If not, it sounds like a product that would have a large market. You would sell two at least at a time because the other party would need the same kind of device to de-crypt the message. Hopefully no trace would remain on the hard drive.
There's different encryption programs for different applications, such as IM, file sharing, VoIP, LAN, and Full-Drive encryption.
You could install all of them on a flash drive and use them on the go.
TrueCrypt will do this, but it can be tricky to make sure you're "leaving no trace" on the computer you're working on.
PCs create temp files constantly. You can do whatever you can to cover your tracks with a utility that would wipe temp files and clear caches, then reboot the PC, but there'd always be some potential you missed something because on "public" PCs you wouldn't always know what was running in the background.
Time to go to PGP! Oh yeah, that was infiltrated too!
At least AES is reliable.
Why isn't easy to use public key encryption part of every email program and service, making it a standard where everyone is using it? That's the easiest way to email privacy.
The problem with that stuff is more the user than the technology. Most folks can't even remember a username/password, let alone a public key.