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U.S. Government Moves To Exploit Paris Terror Attacks To Ban Privacy
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last week, the British Prime Minister told Parliament that he wants to “ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate.”
Strong encryption refers to the act of scrambling data in such a way that it cannot be understood by anyone without the correct key or password — even law enforcement with a warrant, or the software manufacturer itself. It’s used in some of the most popular tech products in the world, including the iPhone, WhatsApp messenger, and Facebook.
A highly respected cryptographer and security expert is warning that David Cameron’s proposed ban on strong encryption threatens to “destroy the internet.”
– From the post: Top Computer Security Expert Warns – David Cameron’s Plan to Ban Encryption Would “Destroy the Internet”
You didn’t think the surveillance state would give up that easily did you? Of course not.
Unsurprisingly, fresh off the heels of the Paris terror attacks, the usual authoritarian suspects in the U.S. government are running around exploiting the tragedy in a bid to further erode privacy and civil liberties.
Bloomberg reports:
The bloodshed in Paris led U.S. officials Monday to renew calls for limits on technology that prevents governments from spying on phone conversations, text messages and e-mails.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said she asked Silicon Valley companies to help law enforcement and intelligence agencies access communications that have been encrypted — or scrambled to evade surveillance — if terrorists are using the tools to plan attacks.
“I have asked for help. And I haven’t gotten any help,” Feinstein said Monday in an interview with MSNBC. “If you create a product that allows evil monsters to communicate in this way, to behead children, to strike innocents, whether it’s at a game in a stadium, in a small restaurant in Paris, take down an airliner, that’s a big problem.”
This woman has absolutely no shame whatsoever.
Brennan said he hopes the Paris attacks will serve as “a wake-up call” for European governments who have been critical of spy programs.
Yes, wake up and give up your freedoms before the terrorists have a chance to take them. That’ll show ’em.
Investigators in France are still piecing together how three coordinated teams of gunmen and suicide bombers managed to create carnage in one of Europe’s most heavily policed cities. So far, five of the seven assailants who died have been identified — four of them French citizens, and one believed to be a Syrian who entered Europe as an asylum-seeker.
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said that terrorists are using encryption to communicate — on everything from apps to gaming systems. Last week, Belgium’s deputy prime minister said that “the most difficult communication between these terrorists is via PlayStation 4.”
Players using Sony’s popular gaming system can communicate via direct messages or by voice. A Buzzfeed story said that players, who can be located anywhere in the world, have found even more elaborate ways to communicate, including using “weapons during a game to send a spray of bullets onto a wall, spelling out whole sentences to each other.”
So people are spraying messages to each other in video games, and we’re supposed to believe the threat can be countered by getting access to everyone’s What’s App messages.
New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton on Monday called on technology companies to help investigators, although he didn’t specify exactly how. Technology has been “purposefully designed by our manufactures so that even they claim they cannot get into their own devices after they’ve built them,” Bratton said on MSNBC.
“They need to work with us right now,” Bratton said. “In many respects, they’re working against us.”
So the guy clearly has no idea what he’s talking about, but he’s talking about it anyway.
Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on MSNBC Monday that “it’s time we had another key that would be kept safe and only revealed by means of a court order.”
Privacy advocates pushed back against the arguments, saying restrictions wouldn’t make Americans safer.
“Any attempt to mandate back doors or prohibit the technology altogether would basically amount to trying to outlaw math, and any attempt to do so will fail to make us safer against terrorism, while making us all much less safe online and also threatening our digital economy,” said Kevin Bankston, director of the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, in an e-mail.
“In the end, we can hurt ourselves much more than the terrorists can hurt us,” Bankston said. “Indeed, that’s their entire strategy — to make us injure ourselves, our political values, our economies, our security — in our attempt to injure them.”
Indeed, and we seem intent on continuing to hurt ourselves as much as we possibly can.
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Jon MCcain. Isnt he an ISIS founder?
What "company" are they referring to in Silicon Valley? There is no "company" that encrypts muh data, the programs are covered by GPL.
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Banning encryption will not stop terrorists. Steganography will overcome any spying.
Former NSA Technical Director Wiliam Binney sums up in 4 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcoMDRNC_cs
<-- Preference for Liberty
<-- Preference for Security
They will only decrypt terrorist communications.
But, they can only find that out after they decrypt the communications.
So, they have to decrypt it to find out what's in it.
Where have I heard that before?
pods
Isn't it funny how NSA / Five Eyes & Authorities never know who & where these attacks may occur? However, They quickly know after the fact exactly who they are & where they are?
It's obvious it's a staged event, like so many others. Have you not come to realize that when they perpetrate something upon the people, they have all the answers almost immediately, but when the people find out about their evil plans & expose them, there are investigations that take years to find out who the perpetrator is & even beyond that, nothing ever happens to the perpetrator?
If they knew in advance, as we are told it's necessary to surveil absolutely everything everyone does in whatever nation to avoid such acts, how do these acts continually occur?
Pretty obvious, don't ya think?
Senator John McCain, an Arizona Republican and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on MSNBC Monday that “it’s time we had another key that would be kept safe and only revealed by means of a court order.”
And who's going to implement that you piece of filth? microsoft? apple? Try again. I don't even use them. Soon, I won't even use andriod.
Must.. destroy... liberty... to.... save it....
The terrorists running Congress are FAR more dangerous than the ragheads running around the Middle East.
what i got out of the last few days is the mother fuckers on top of us can monitor everything we say except when talking shit to 13 year olds on Playstation 4. but they are working on breaking into that too. snowden 2016
Feinstein wants to ban/spy/monitor/tax/penalize/fine...Playstation owners now?
That is Theee-Feinstein-Plan?...lol.
What's next...you'll have to register your Playstation with...the Feds? Will there be a background check and waiting period involved? Can the Federalis possibly maybe scheme to extract a little moar "revenue" by "licensing" and "regulating" Playstations?
Will there be Class 3 Playstations for serious gamers?...is it possible to segregate peoples habits a little moar?...lmao!!!
Fucking Feinstein, I swear.
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Wut...my troll wants to be sodomized by Feinstein?
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That doesn't prove it is staged, face recognition software is the shit. All the various agencies with files on potential offenders do is simply feed coverage of ongoing events into their software and boom, they know. It's basically a marriage between face recognition and massive databases on people.
How about the fact that if you make a $500 mistake on your taxes (and your name is not timmah or clinton) the IRS rocks your check and starts seizing your assets within 1 year?
Hate to say it, but they need to fire about 300,000 the 110 I.Q. (max) try hards at langley, the NSA, and various "think tanks." Instead put a bunch of Lois Learners in charge of US spy craft.
Americans, it’s time to panic! WW3 already started!!! Events linked to Prophecy!
http://tinyurl.com/ofszc9f
+100,000
People should watch this 4 minutes. Very few views so far.
Thanks, JRobby. Unfortunately people here (and I've been guilty of this) seem more interested in up-voting the snarky comments that ZH is famous for rather than watching and disseminating a short, straight forward insider indictment of this entire spy apparatus.
So stop ruining the fun already...
Each crisis is release trial balloon, how much is citizenry tolerate. Patriot Act, Cyprus Bail-in, Kristallnacht...
As we debate (rightfully so) the freedoms we are losing, the wars we are fighting, President Obama is busy changing the very structure of our society. That is his priority, the rest is a useful diversion.
For sure the federal bureaucracy, nevermind Obama, will not propose the one thing that would work: profiling muslims, monitoring mosques, banning all foreign support for mosques, closing muslim "charities"
Please, never blame Obama for anything. It is pointing the blame in entirely the wrong direction. Obama is puppet, the worst president ever because the system is ever-more broken. How would the most honest man in the world do? Never happen.
Focus on the source of the problems, the many policies of the government that the President may or may not agree with, doesn't matter, the fact that we have governments with policies is the failure.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/in-reality-everything-is-c...
They control very much of what you think. I have to work like hell to keep my mind independent of all the propaganda, of course fail at times. In doing that, I see the patterns everywhere. The one going on just now leading up to the rate hike is beautiful to watch. We just learned that the economy is doing well, that extremely low rate of labor force participation is just normal trends, might get worrisome in the future, but entirely explicable. Right.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/for-world-peace-arm-your-n...
Resist with the love of your soul.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/you-who-allow-yourselves-t...
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Again, rot-13.
Rot-13... If they ban encryption then only criminals will use encryption... Time to solve. Only the time it took me to pull up a website. The Rot-13 was just a guess, which turned out to be correct.
Standard Disclaimer: http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/
yeah, rot 13. just for fun I guess...
This site allows you to choose the key
http://www.xarg.org/tools/caesar-cipher/
Qm G ayl sqc pmr24
Just for fun. The fun is that the dorks at the NSA are actually looking at this stuff right now. Try this for fun NSA:
N ENZ ENAT HAFNSR.
TBIREAZRAGF NPG ZNANTRF N BNE.
OBYQSNPRF SNGGRA BAR URA.
A clue: Russian Fuckery.That's too easily translated:
sVay urlgay onaway apelcgvbaray uragay aylbay evzvanyfpay vyyjay frhay apelcgvbaray.
Even the NSA can do that one.
Best encryption in the world is writing a letter and dropping it in the mail.
Ban the internet!
V frr jung lbh qvq gurer.
Fuck the NSA. They are no match for the elite hacking skill of Zero Hedge!
:D -ob1
??? ?? ??? ?????
Messages posted in font not supported by web forum sites makes the message unreadable to people without elite hacking skills.
Damn straight. ROT-13 btw is all too easy...
Standard Disclaimer: after spending far too many hours trying to solve the 4th section of Kryptos, some shit you just recognize without even thinking about it.
Short Shameful Plug: http://elonka.com/mammoth/acknowledgements.html My name is on that list somewhere. Not that it means a damn thing. Other than I worked on the project during my lunch hour...
He is fighting us here so he doesn't have to fight them over there.
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Yes, and as well the Clinton woman Grandma Dracula.
http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2014/09/01/hillary-clinton-grandmo...
McLame and his sidekick Grahamnisty will scare all the sheeple into BEGGING for protection. Stupid people suck!
McLame and his sidekick Grahamnisty will scare all the sheeple into BEGGING for protection. Stupid people suck!
It is indeed a wakeup call for us citizens. Our deep state and corrupt CIA is intent on keeping the terror flowing until they get the laws they want. We have to resist, their propaganda is their most potent weapon, we must resist their urge to hate.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/18/you-who-allow-yourselves-t...
And oppose their false flags, part of every divide and conquer operation. If you can't trust your neighbor to cover your back, you aren't doing neighbor right.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/15/for-world-peace-arm-your-n...
Everywhere we look, hidden connections control big pieces of our future. What do you think that means?
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/11/14/in-reality-everything-is-c...
The filthy Neocon/Neoliberals will never be happy until we are all in chains. Instead of stealing away whats left of our freedoms, why don't we send the Kagans to fight ISIS. One look at Victoria Nudelman's ugly face should be enough to scare away anyone.
Add Mr. Yellen and Mr. Albright to that list.
bring it you assholes...
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
George Orwell
Clearly not the new version of Operation Gladio. Nah, this is all legit.
I came to conclusion yesterday that I'm living in the stupidest era of human history. Sure, humanity has more knowledge now than ever but when you factor in that knowledge and technological advances, it makes the stupidity and gullibility of humans even worse.
we have the greatest access to information with the internet and yet the population is dumbing down at a pretty scary rate.
I blame Kanye and the Kardashians... it aint the porn as many have asserted... I still manage to find time to connect the dots... in between...
The problem is people WANT to be sold/mollified/directed because their logic follows the easiest path... which the puppet masters via their lackeys in the MSM are more than happy to pave for them.
Unfortunately, Homo Sapiens, as an apex preditor, will be as lazy as its environment allows it to be.
And don't think for a moment that the psychopathic oligarchy doesn't understand this. This is the whole purpose behind the welfare state and every other redistribution scheme. It's all about subsidizing mediocrity at the expense of excellence, because the oligarchy wants NO competition from amongst the masses/rabble/goyim/etc.
That part about spraying bullets to spell sentences is pretty damn funny.
hell, why not just morse code your shots? (oh, crap! did I just aid/abed terrorists? cause, you know, they'd NEVER think of this on their own...) then once they're on to that come up w/a "bee language" (interpretive dance w/your characters). then once they're on to that use codewords on twitch.
wow, that took a whole 30 sec to come up with (& I'm not ever a gamer) - good thing the terrorists are stupid, huh? but yeah, people planning attacks on this scale OBVIOUSLY trusted apple/google & were using normal chat so this could have been prevented if only big brother had the keys, right?
All those people died to serve a PR campaign of the Americans...
no who's the real enemy here?
We need a 2nd amendment for encryption.
We need an ammendment for privacy.....oh wait. Never mind.
We need a new amendment describing math as a right not a privilege.
Encryption tools used to be treated as munitions, subject to export controls. They're trying to stuff a genie back in a bottle.
Yes, but "restricting technology" is akin to "stopping evolution"...
FAIL.
The Art of Rifle Morse Code.
I let my rifle do my talkin pilgrim
Just think of how safe and healthy we will be in our cages.
feeding time starts in 1 hour! Get your bowl ready!
Yes. And we need the eggs.
There is a wonderful thing called one time pad encryption. It's easy to do and unbreakable. Then there is the good old fashioned human courier that has been used for millennia. They need an excuse though and this is the gold standard.....
Exactly right. Here's a way to use an innocent deck of cards to generate a cypher that Neal Stephenson included with his excellent book, Cryptonomicon.
https://www.schneier.com/solitaire.html
Decisions decisions, should our betters add playing cards to the list of DHS contraband or charge $500 for an annually recurring license and background check?
By Joseph Kishore18 November 2015
US officials are moving rapidly to exploit the terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday to push forward with already existing plans to undermine encrypted communications and vastly expand the powers of the state.
The Obama administration, which created the conditions for the tragedy in Paris with its war policy that has laid waste to much of the Middle East, is now using it to further its criminal operations. The campaign is being led by John Brennan, Obama’s CIA director, who has been personally implicated in both the NSA’s illegal and unconstitutional spy programs and the CIA’s torture program.
In remarks delivered Monday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Brennan blamed insufficient spying capacities for the terrorist attacks. “A lot of technological capabilities that are available right now… make it exceptionally difficult, both technically as well as legally, for intelligence and security services to have the insight they need,” he claimed.
As with responses to other attacks, there is no effort to reconcile claims that insufficient “intelligence” allowed the attacks in Paris to happen with the fact that the individuals who carried out the shootings were known to intelligence agencies, with several being actively monitored. One of the alleged attackers, Omar Ismaïl Mostefai, had been flagged by French police for suspected “radicalization” but had been allowed to travel to and from Syria unhindered. Warnings from Turkish officials were ignored.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-18/us-government-moves-exploit-par...
Bruce Schneier covered this and has some interesting links that blow the rationale for back doors all to hell.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/11/paris_attacks_b.html
It is funny how the police in France can find so many suspects so quickly after the attack but had no clue that an attack was coming. It is almost as if they LET it happen. But that is just crazy talk.
Well they are having a global climate change summit there and needed to lock things down. Our King will be attending after all.
Everybody just start sending anything you can download as encrypted files. My files will be things like the constitution, the fate of the Roman Republic due to corruption, chocolate cake recipes, chicken salad recipes from Woody Allen, and the book 'Negroes I've Met While Yachting'. These types of files should help them find the terrorists when they force the password loose.
Hell, send the files directly to the NSA with the footnote you're just a "concerned citizen" trying to do your Patriotic Duty."
Megabaytes of truly random noise over the net will spur investment in super-computer technology, drive up black budgets, and boost GDP for the win.
This has an entire campaign based on ideas like that.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/american-gestapo-agency-he...
Mine is one of many playing with these ideas in the patriot world.
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/operation-afghanistan-1000...
https://thinkpatriot.wordpress.com/patriot-games/
Dup.
Well if we just learn that American indian language they used in WWII we could be fine.
Esperanto!
Glenn Greenwald is suprised that even the fucking NYT Editorial Board is calling this shit out for the police state tripe it is:
https://theintercept.com/2015/11/18/nyt-editorial-slams-disgraceful-cia-...
By degree. But moving at warp speed...
Swedens "next" after what the foreign minister said about Israel. And then Obama looking to enforce total gun control in the U.S. before his "exit"!
Fine, I'll give up my secrets just as soon as the Fed gives up all of its secrets. [insert suitable idiom used to indicate that something is highly unlikely ever to happen]
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin
Add this to the invasion of privacy crusade: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-06/new-york-prosecutor-ca...
If they do this, your smartphone becomes a conduit to everything in your collection: laptop, tablet, desktop. If they do this, the SIM on my phone moves back to my old flip phone. It has AOL instant messenger, (which I never used even once, because internet service was extra cost in the plan at the time), and isn't smart enough to have a virus. Let them monitor that, the freaks. What the government doesn't seem to get, is they are making every person feel like a criminal. Doing that, they lose the trust of the population. Next time I see a crime committed, I just drive past and leave my phone in my pocket. You want to make me part of your problem, or part of the solution? Elitists: They don't care about all the good you ever did in your life. To them, it adds up to nothing, because they don't have morals or ethics themselves. So fuck 'em. Now I'll just be a 'neutral' citizen, head turned.
Not just trust in Government, they are likely to destroy the profitability of the tech sector at the same time.
I'm ditching my smartphone and will not own another one again, also going 100% open source software. Fuck it.
John McCain and the rest of the NeoCon elements within the Federal Government,don't exactly like Tyler.Is that an understatement or what?
I think the first question to ask these people of Congress is do they know what the internet is and do they know how to use it. Do they send the same email 10 times to one receiptant and call them to ask if they got their message? Wasn't it less than 7 years ago that Senator McCain didn't use the internet, and now he wants to control and monitor how I use it, funny.
To be fair, I'm sure that the Hanoi Songbird can manage the Internet as well as he can fly a plane.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/place-moratorium-all-refugee-resettlement-middle-east-wake-paris-terror-attacks
Petition Title: Place a Moratorium on all Refugee Resettlement from the Middle East in the Wake of the Paris Terror Attacks.
In the wake of the Jihad terror attacks in Paris of 13 November, we demand that an indefinite moratorium be placed on all refugee resettlement from Middle Eastern nations.
It has recently come to light that one of the Paris Jihad attackers possessed a Syrian passport and passed through Greece in October 2015. According to Nikos Toscas, Greecexs deputy minister in charge of police, xThe holder of the passport passed through the island of Leros on Oct. 3, 2015, where he was identified according to EU rules.x
Seeing how this attacker easily exploited Europe's refugee policies, we can only assume that others will exploit our generous, and porous, system in order to commit acts of terrorism on our sacred American soil.
Mr. President, WE demand an indefinite moratorium. Protect America!
The Gladio operation in Paris seems to be working as expected on the public.
Now in view: Stasi State on steriods.
Let Anonymous take care of it. According to the DWN, they are already posting the names and addresses of IS supporters and recruiters. And I trust Anonymous more than the US government, Sen. Feinstein not at all.
Russia faxes the Boston FBI about the Tsarnev brother and Turkey faxes Paris about what's his name but nobody bothers to find these guys...
Too funny.
Ever notice that the IRS can always find anyone on the planet that owes back taxes?
It really is incredible. And he father of the under wear bomber calls the State Department and says his kid may be about to go off the rails and they either blow him off or enable the kid.
The only way to solve the "terrorist" problem is to: 1) kill the terrorists families; 2) quit committing actions that incentivize "terrorist" activity.
If oil is the issue, just get it done by redrawing the borders and wiping out the people there. Those are your only choices UNLESS you are the MIC and always need an enemy to keep stealing from the savers and taxpayers to fund your crony cartel companies.
Think of the children
IMO they already have "keys". Them saying otherwise only re-enforces my assertion. The best way to get information is for the mark to feel safe sending his messages.
Considering the huge amount of spying that has ramped up in the last fifteen (15) years has not resulted in the stopping of one (1) terrorist operation should tell a thinking person something. Yes?
And take a moment to consider all these people that work for these spooks and various law enforcement take an oath to support and defend the constitution which explicitly makes their daily routines unlawful and traitorous no matter how many laws they pass that are not in pursuance thereof... (Article VI) .
It should be obvious the government rules by the gun these days,,, which is why they prefer you not to have one. Some day soon they will attempt to correct this error and at that moment you will be able to tell the patriots that talk the talk from those that walk the walk.
6 months ago they said cyber security was our biggest threat, now it's secure data
EXCELLENT NEWS!
Some people in SV still holding freedom and decency above money and totalitarianism I guess.
“I have asked for help. And I haven’t gotten any help,” Feinstein said Monday
Isn't the garbage 'Patriot Act' or provisions in it about to expire soon (or already has) ?
Is this reason to re-institute the garbage ?
The intelligence community is the segment of our world that is most endangered by all this high-tech crap. Problem is, they have become LAZY.
Instead of putting the hard work into data collection/interpretation, studying the enemy, learning his ways, customs, languages, making the contacts, infiltrating, etc...they now sit, slack-jawed in front of glowing screens. "The machines" do all the 'work' with keyboard strokes, or so they believe.
We are far LESS safe these days, with our intelligence community so enthralled with their new toys that they are neglecting the old-school methods needed to actually USE all the data they are collecting.
Newer agents aren't being properly trained either, it's all tech, tech, tech...To defeat an enemy you have to understand him, know something about what makes him tick. Collecting his emails and phone messages isn't going to give you any useful info in the absence of that. Data must be INTERPRETED after collection, or you are just a hoarder of useless information. And you can't interpret that which you can't understand.
So, the NSA-style data-collection makes us LESS safe, and makes agencies like the NSA LAZY and INEFFECTUAL. These people need to be told to put the shiny gadgets DOWN and get back to actual WORK. Learn those languages and customs, grow those bushy beards, make those connections that bear fruit after many years...lazy fucks...go out and DO THE WORK you are supposed to, keep us safe for REAL instead of wasting time and resources rifling through the 'underwear drawers' of peoples private communications from in front of your monitors.
If you create an enemy, you know their Five Ws.
The human asset, making history for over 3,000 years
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." ~~Ben Franklin
How so, Ben? I gave up my liberty and got free Obamaphone, free housing, free food stamps, free healthcare, free college...and the list goes on.
So what's not to like about losing liberty for all these wonderful perks.
*/sarc/*
Reading between the lines: contractors have a goldmine in supplying technological services to alphabet agencies, whereas those agencies' budgets should be prioritizing humint. Mass adoption of real encryption shuts down the mass spying tech, shutting down much of the outsourcing, shutting off the skimming. edit: see Bemused Observer's post
That's great C but how do you budget all of those "alphabet agencies" when all of your infrastructure has been aggressively outsourced to Asia?...
Oh that's right "QE infinity" and threats to the people you outsourced all of that labor too when they don't do what you want them to do, when you want them to do it with your superior "Naval power" that you can't afford anymore because you don't control the entire "energy card" with that "universal currency" that MUST be used to pay for it...And when that doesn't work?... oh let's see... Massive short selling on your market(s)?... Freezing of your assets?... Sabotaging your industrial ports... And last but not least using acts of wanton terrorism to kill thousands if not hundreds of thousands using your proxies aka. Blackwater/Academi/Xi to train ISIS/ISIL/Al Nursra/Al Qaeda!
A note of warning to the Federal Reserve, IMF and ECB... Hurry while "supplies last"....
Don't want those market(s) to collapse before you have the opportunity to start WWIII first!!!
It really is dovetailing almost perfectly with "V for Vendetta"!
Watch it and think of the world we are living in today....
It's CRAZY!!
The psychopaths in government will only use their new surveilance tools to supress legitimate political dissent.
Feinstein ... groan
I'll make you a deal, beeyatch, gt all your congressional traitors to totally stop funding israel, and not take any advice from any jew on any matter of foreign and domestic policy, get rid of all jews in government (including you leaving office), abolish the fed res banking system, and nationalize all media, making sure it is run by american patriots and no jews, wait a few years to see how that goes, and then you can install a camera up my a@@
Some of you may remember this...
http://opensource.com/government/15/2/us-government-retires-clipper-chip
Standard Disclaimer: What you may not have known was that Intergraph had already trademarked the name "clipper" years before... LOL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_architecture
Feinstein is a Jew cunt.
Dear TPTB,
A. If having a gun-free zone in France/Europe didn't help the victims of these terrorist acts
B. If Turkish intelligence warned French intelligence (they thus HAD the necessary intel), but they did not act, then...
Why would having more Draconian measures against The People be at all effective against future attacks? The answer, of course, is that they wouldn't. The terrorists would only do more of what they are already doing: Use low-tech and no-tech methods of communicating, which is what people have been doing for >10,000 years.
But let's not confuse the Pretext (more NWO totalitarianism) with the Pretext ('Security'), shall we?
You may not be fooling anyone here on ZH, but what do you care, if you manage to fool and intimidate the 95% into compliance, or limit ZH activists to mere venting in its blog site? For you know, and I know, that the smarter a person is, the less likely they are to risk their economic, social and physical comforts for something like a public protest or organizing something more (Civil Disobedience, for starters, or an actual Revolution). As long as the 95% have their dose of 'Soma', nothing will happen.
Hey, i'll take Soma that.
Assholes. The drug dealers on "The Wire" knew not to use cell phones. And then there's this:
https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/11/GCHQ-J...
There hasn't been any privacy in the US since The-Anti-Patriot Act was passed, and its subsequent upgrades.. what planet is are these people living on?
What's insane is not even 24 hours after Paris happened, every major media outlet was running an anti-encryption story, most of them so bogus that anyone with a smattering of knowledge about the subject saw through it. Shit, the NYT actually ended up pulling their story, it was so bad.
Not that everyone on ZH doesn't already know it, but the MSM is beyond corrupt at this point and is merely a mouthpeice of the deep state and nothing else.
The tech companies got fucked by the NSA and aren't playing ball, and TPTB are so pissed about it they're trying to force their ways on others rather than the usual "unseen hand" guiding things, knowing full well that what they're trying to get would have done nothing to prevent any attacks anywhere. This is just using the attacks for every possible goal TPTB wants to achieve after creating the opportunity to make the changes. Fuck these assholes.
"The bloodshed in Paris led U.S. officials Monday to renew calls for limits on technology that prevents governments from spying on phone conversations, text messages and e-mails."
Like that is somehow going to prevent terrorists from private communication.
Eventually we will all be walking around buck naked...can't have the goyim hiding illegal guns, bombs, DVDs, cash and drugs under their clothes. Come on it's for the children!
Comrade! Your comment is encrypted...DAS RAYCISS or something. Please report to Room 101 immediately!
TPTB must watch
The People who are
the victims of the crimes of
TPTB.
Dumb fucks. Hoist on their own petard. It is the government's silly and insatiable curiousity about everybody's busiess everywhere that has given the imptus to cryptology develpment which apparently now enables terrorists to chat with impunity.
Politicians and the internet, the two just don't mix. Politicians just are not able to understand a non-centralised framework. Does anyone remember the hot air and blustering about crakcing down on filesharing around the end of the 90s into the 2000s? Yeah, worked out well, didn't it?
If you kill encryption you kill:
Online banking
Online shoping
Remote access to servers
Secure traffic between anything and anything else, like, say, Goldman moving its many digital zeros around.
You kill consumer spending, money velocity AND the internet in one stroke. Genius!
Aaaaaaaand, all of those dirty little secrets passing in emails between these megalomaniacal fuckstain politicians about hookers, blow and backhanders will be available for all to see. I'm sure they wont like that. Nooooooo....
It would be a cyber-crime free for all, just sniff the network and eveything arrives on your drive in plaintext. Fucking outstanding. What brilliant, brilliant minds these people have.
If you ever needed convincing that politicians are ignorant, out of touch simpletons, I would struggle to offer a better example than this.
'we just want to have access to encryption'. There are enough exploits being discovered every single day that compromise systems. That's bad enough - if you build in deliberate backdoors, you might as well not bother with encryption at all.
I'd laugh, but these are the same people that are in control of the nukes.
"You kill consumer spending, money velocity AND the internet in one stroke. Genius!"
Maybe bail-in harvest time is nearing.
Idaho and Montana are pretty cool. They wouldn't bother with a nuke out there.
I am still waiting for an explination as to how the worlds biggest porn collection is going to make us safer.
Buncha pervs if ya ask me. The other reason is they are looking for shit to steal. Then we have the blackmail issue.
Fucking getting sick of these fiat games in all its forms.
Brief interlude with history...back when the Internet was young, one of the largest on-line porn collections was on a server at MIT. You have to think in terms of technology. Outside of the government, who else actually had scanners then?
Standard Disclaimer: I once wrote a script to ping out the internet. Used to run it in the background after I left work in the evening. The results were sometimes interesting. At the time, most of the west coast connections overseas ran through servers at Stanford.
You know, there's pedophilia and child abuse among your cronies, sweetie, if you REALLY want to touch on the topic of evil monsters that are a big problem.
So should I thank our troops for these "freedoms" they're fighting for?
We will not comply.
>> the British Prime Minister told Parliament that he wants to “ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate.”
This begs a rather obvious question for Prime Minister's question time -
The Prime Minister has stated that he wants to “ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate.”
Under a Conservative government, will the general public no longer have a safe space in which to communicate?
They don't seem to mind them having a safe space for oil refining and trade in Turkey and Israel.
I bet there are more than a few privacy grabbers among the RINO crew in CONgress.
The above was later followed by this:
ProtonMail Statement about the DDOS Attack
Authorities already know all the terrorists and all the terrorist sympathizers by name but they have to keep harassing patriotic Americans in the name of diversity!
Boy it would sure be nice to see some valid answers to some very basic questions from the pervs at the NSA.
What % of the US pop do they have naked pictures of?
What % of the under age pop do they have naked pics of? Why not delete all of them?
How far does the data go back?
How many poeple have access to any of the data on me? IP in particular?
How many of the personal conversations between my wife and I do they have? None of those are anyones buisiness period under any circumstance.
Is there any doubt why Goatbama is importing Syrians by the 10s of thousands?
Let them in, they get rowdy, then its crack down time on Americans. Its a no brainer, but Americans seem to think its got something to do with compassion. What the fuck is wrong with Americans?
Also, someone mentioned that they won't get rowdy until after Obama is out so it can be blamed on the next president. That makes sense to me. I still can't believe that America voted for a President that will be an accomplice to terrorism. It just blows my mind.
Welcome to Earth. You must be new in town.
Well, the Internet will likely be next. It is more than apparent that it cannot be allowed to continue to exist in it's current state. Who knows how they will do it. We will probably get hit by the "masterminds" or evil China with something that they claim only affected the internet, when it goes back up it won't be the same. Something will go down.
Terrorists just need more NeoCons like John McCain in order to help bankrupt the United States by way of endless war.
The Swedish press recently interviewed Snowden in Moscow. In the interview he lists 5 top secure programs:
Tor, Signal, Off the record, Tails OS and Qubes
I remember a time when there was always a public figure or even the press, that would stand-up against gross violations of the Constitution. Especially by those who took an oath not to do so. No more. Only those crazy conspiracy theorists. /sarc
If you like your internet you can keep your internet.
Right up Trump's alley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4DjrBC4K-Q
They are not going to stop anyone from doing anything. I really don't have anything to hide and in fact I flaunt it right in front of their faces. They don't do anything. You know why? They are there for a paycheck off our backs [insert currency] and don't give a shit about you or your safety. That is all it is.
If you like your privacy you can keep your privacy.
Note also that Sen. Diane Feinstein supports civil asset forfeiture that enables cops to steal from innocent civilians without due process and without a conviction. She says civil asset forfeiture is an important tool for law enforcement, but as with warrantless surveillance, it will be abused and will make the greatest threat to the American people its own government, not any terrorist or criminal.
The Founding Fathers knew that the local, state, and federal governments would always be the greatest threat to the people, and we have let things deteriorate past the point of no return...
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