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The above, directly from an Associated Press article seems fairly innocuous and non-problematic on the surface. But between the lines there are some very, very dangerous tones being tiptoed around.
Anyone with a fair amount of computer knowledge will probably begin to zero in on the issues rather rapidly. Snowden was almost certainly utilizing FOSS ( Free open source software ) both in his job and in his ( supposed ) extra curricular activities.
IE it is beginning to appear that the powers that be are going to be shifting blame toward the FOSS software Snowden ( and all of us ) had access to...
the gaping HOLE IN THE STORY OF HOW A FEDERAL CONTRACTOR IN A SENSITIVE INSTALLATION WAS ABLE TO NOT ONLY SMUGGLE USB THUMB DRIVES IN AND OUT - BUT WAS PLACED AT WORK STATIONS WITH LIVE AND UNCONTROLLED USB PORTS!!!!
This is one of the many reasons I personally believe Snowden is an active agent and that this entire episode was planned
Even if you don't know a thing about Linux - think of it this way... In cyberspace Linux is every bit as important to our freedoms as the fight for gun rights is. The two fights are very, very similar in scope and consequence. If FOSS software is classified as dangerous by the US government, and we are all left with just Windows and Apples OS as our choices? Well we might as well just pull up a second chair and sit an NSA agent down next to us when we are online - because their view to our activities will be exactly that open and unimpaired.
Originally posted by NeoParadigm
Nice comparison.
I don't know much about the stuff, but why do you think that the NSA can't track you if you use Linux?
Originally posted by NeoParadigm
Also who cares anyway? I don't use Linux. Let them watch.
Originally posted by NeoParadigm
I never had the illusion that the information I send trough the systems of other parties, is private.
Originally posted by NeoParadigm
The whole idea is prepostrous, as if for every single person using the net, an NSA agent would be looking along. And especially if you are not using Linux.
Get real Heff.
There has been a huge attack on FOSS for ever dude, it's called Windows and Mac OS. The fact that you have to use "wine" to play a game or use some Win/Mac only programs is proof enough. The fact there are like maybe "two?" ,if that, viruses for FOSS is proof enough that there is a huge attack on users using anything but idiot friendly Corp Crap products. Please understand that flapping your trap does not make you sound like you know what your talking about.
Seriously, evidence? evidence of what are you asking for? Are you so incapable of reading between the lines that that the need to do so makes you grumpy, impolite and soap box for evidence?
You have the passion of a true thinker, but you totally lack thought when you post and you come off as this annoying thing that just wont go away.
STOP ASKING FOR EVIDENCE ON MATTERS OF OPINION!!! (this is a discussion, debate but not a grammar school showdown for the teacher)
I never actually suggested anything of the sort. The entire data stream is susceptible to intrusion or compromise.
Even if you don't know a thing about Linux - think of it this way... In cyberspace Linux is every bit as important to our freedoms as the fight for gun rights is. The two fights are very, very similar in scope and consequence. If FOSS software is classified as dangerous by the US government, and we are all left with just Windows and Apples OS as our choices? Well we might as well just pull up a second chair and sit an NSA agent down next to us when we are online - because their view to our activities will be exactly that open and unimpaired.
The preposterous part, IMO, is that some fail to understand that the data is being analyzed and that it doesn't take a 1 to 1 ratio of NSA agents to accomplish it.
Well we might as well just pull up a second chair and sit an NSA agent down next to us when we are online - because their view to our activities will be exactly that open and unimpaired.
The entire data stream is susceptible to intrusion or compromise.
Originally posted by NeoParadigm
I just said I don't know much about the stuff.
Anyway, what you say has nothing to do with Snowden or that article. If an OP makes claims he should offer more than "it is between the lines". I see no connection, not even implied.
The NSA, with the complicity of my ISP, my social networking sites, and my email providers, having access to every single thing I transmit digitally is ONE thing... But thanks to Linux I can have a fairly comfortable knowledge that the NSA and FBI are not rooting through my physical storage devices as will - and that, if they are, my superior firewall, encryption, and other measures are making it a very difficult task for them.
Frankly put, FOSS software makes spying on us more difficult and that is why many ( myself included ) feel that it is soon to be targeted. The first wave of such a targeting will be by negative association... Terrorists rely upon Linux.... That horrible man who did that horrible thing used Linux as part of his preparations... etc.
There has been a huge attack on FOSS for ever dude, it's called Windows and Mac OS. The fact that you have to use "wine" to play a game or use some Win/Mac only programs is proof enough. The fact there are like maybe "two?" ,if that, viruses for FOSS is proof enough that there is a huge attack on users using anything but idiot friendly Corp Crap products. Please understand that flapping your trap does not make you sound like you know what your talking about.
But don't worry lol, NO ONE will ever come after Linux lol, it would be like humans attacking an advance alien race that gave the humans every scrap of technology they ever had.
Besides Snow was an administrator, meaning he is the one who controlled the USB ports.
But don't worry about FOSS
Illusions, if they are already observing you, they are going to get to your files too, if they want.
What is stopping them from using those words right now, if this is the obvious agenda? If this is the objective of the article then why is there no connection made? Why didn't they mention Linux or any FOSS? Why do we have to read between the lines?
Why are you discussing me?
What is stopping them from using those words right now, if this is the obvious agenda? If this is the objective of the article then why is there no connection made? Why didn't they mention Linux or any FOSS? Why do we have to read between the lines?
As a system administrator, Snowden had the ability to move around data and had access to thumb drives that would have allowed him to transfer information to computers outside the NSA's secure system, Alexander has said.
www.military.com...
That has been your refrain on two threads that I have shared with you over the last couple of days. I guess it's because you are loud and are drawing attention to yourself.
What sort of operating systems and applications that are able to discreetly transfer files run on USB sticks, NP? Those might be the lines to read between.