NSA spying... brought to you by Caress. WTF?

Three cheers for the ACLU: Patriot 215 doesn't authorize NSA's bulk collection.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/07/nsa-phone-records-program-illegal-court

Yup; that and everything else.
- Guantanamo
- /banks
- /insurance companies
- /silicon valley bullshit
- /NSA
- hating the republicans while taking the exact same viewpoint on 75% of the issues
- all in on supply side economy
and last but not least,
- drones, drones, drones

I keep waking up and hoping this whole administration was a bad dream. It's "almost" like money is controlling the entire Federal US government regardless of party.

Super combative terminal jokey from the winning team is on camera saying he can't close IE On a system that is supposed to be secure ... I'm guessing CTF at DEF CON would wipe the floor with these folks.

Claiming to have "won" against the NSA at the end, more like failed less than the others.

These exercises are fine in themselves, but anybody who knows what they are doing and has been tasked to comply with NIST security controls ( the ones the US Gov requires) will notice that many of the requirement unambiguously reduce the security of the system, and the folks who audit these projects don't care how bad it is as long as it's checked on the list.

The problem for the military is that regimentation, "sailor proof" instructions and other necessities of running a massive organization that has to assume the lowest common denominator just don't work in computer security. If people don't know what they are doing no amount of check-listing is going to solve the problem.

Anybody who really knows what they are doing -- as some of these students may one day -- will realize that you have to choose one or the other optimal security or regulation compliance.

disclaimer: my rant may be excessive, I just wasted 18mo building a server cluster that needed to pass gov audit - so I'm bitter

Im sure the red cell guys had the private key hashes of all their security certs anyway....these guys were NSA.....encryption means nothing to them, unless you are using OTP.

It always amazes me how politicians can get people to vote against their own interests. All you really have to do is push a few well-oiled buttons and people will cut off their nose to spite their face just to avoid being labelled.

"Universal healthcare? Are you a socialist? Vote for me and I'll make sure that massive insurance companies can keep fucking you over"

"What do you mean you think the NSA is going too far? Are you a terrorist? Vote for me and I'll make sure we can spy on you as much as we want"

"Climate change? Are you some kind of hippie? Vote for me and I will let companies and countries line up to skull fuck the planet"

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/07/new-zealand-ironsand-waihopai-nsa-gcsb/

Intelligence sharing between GCHQ and the NSA breached human rights laws, says IPT.

Consequences?

:crickets:

Most intriguing thing that's happening in the *worldaffairs in my opinion. Outside all things NSA/spying *promote *quality

No, but they should accept in this day and age that a ton of douches might snap secret pics of them (potenially upskirt shots when the girls are going up an escalator or something), fap to said pics, then upload the pics for others to potentially fap to. Not saying that's right, but it's a possibility that anyone wearing a mini-skirt would be foolish to ignore.

It's a digital world now. As @Jerykk was pointing out, the best way to avoid naked pics of yourself showing up on the Net is not to take naked pics of yourself (and even then some scumbag might install a hidden camera in a changing room or shower and you wind up on there anyway). From jilted ex-lovers to NSA hoovering data to security breaches/password leaks that seem to be making headlines every day, the odds of a naked pic of yourself being made public against your will (whether you're male or female) are exponentially higher these days. I think anyone who takes naked pics of themselves and doesn't expect them to show up online at some point (could be decades from now) is being a bit naive, especially if they are digital pics,

Still alive after four days of too much info to process and too little sleep. So I'll just dump a list of talks here that might interest you:

- Richard Stallman: Freedom in your computer and in the net
- Jake Appelbaum/Laura Poitras: Assassination lists, planetary surveillance
- Tobias Engel/Karsten Nohl: SS7, the backbone of mobile networks, is fucked beyond repair (two talks, same topic: one, two)
- Laura Poitras and others: cryptography for high-profile journalists
- Bill Scannel: Inside Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg (NSA spy post - wierd talk)
- internet of toilets
- What Ever Happened to Nuclear Weapons?

Tune in: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/saal1/

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-docs-reveal-dubious-details-of-targeted-killings-in-afghanistan-a-1010358.html

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s-war-on-internet-security-a-1010361.html