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Thank you for the promote!! That door does sound like R2-D2 getting killed!!

Finally, a FOIA request successfully revealed the CIA to be lying sacks of shit when they claimed they weren't snooping on Noam Chomsky.

Nothing new, really, but it's nice to see it on paper.

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Adam Curtis: maybe the real state secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs and don't know very much about the world.

His story about the origin of MI5 is pure comedy gold. These intelligence officers are less James Bond and more Chicolini and Pinky or Desmond Simkins.

It's a long-ass exposé, but believe me, it's as entertaining as anything I've read on this subject.

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Why the term "metadata" is doublespeak: http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/08/02/metadata/

"So the intelligence community, which never met-a-data that it didn't want to collect, should drop the whole metadata charade." <-

Microsoft put people in quite a pickle when they admitted that all their products, Windows first and foremost, have easier backdoor access than the Kardashians.

Let's say a government agency is employing Windows as their standard OS. Let's say they are legally bound to protect the data they work with, within reasonable limits. Now, if said OS is widely known to be inherently insecure, would that make all of them liable for negligence if they renew any licenses, much less acquire new ones?

Anyways, still looking for an English news source for a specific talk at the Black Hat conference in Vegas. Matthew Cole, a fella working for NBC News, outlined how all the CIA spooks involved in the kidnapping of Abu Omar in Italy were identified by... telephone metadata.

Even the professionals cannot beat the fucking machine, so what does that say about the ordinary citizen. Those blokes were caught because they messed up, but still...

Snowden handed another set of slides over to the largest newspaper in Germany as well as a public broadcasting service. These slides include the names of telecoms that were involved in GCHQ's dragnet program.

The crème de la crème:
Verizon Business, Codename: Dacron, British Telecommunications ("Remedy"), Vodafone Cable ("Gerontic"), Global Crossing ("Pinnage"), Level 3 ("Little"), Viatel ("Vitreous"), Interoute ("Streetcar").

Many of these are customers of DE-CIX, the world's largest IXP, whose operators were adamant in their claim that no foreign service has access to their infrastructure -- no word about their corporate lackeys, understandably so.

And you gotta love how brazen they are in their admission that GCHQ's work is in the best interest of Britain's economy -- yes, economy.

And while we're at it: public broadcast journalists dug out a list of 207 US companies that are involved in intelligence gathering on German soil. Best comment was by the CEO of DE-CIX: these providers (re: Level 3) work in accordance with US law, even in Frankfurt. Not German law, US law.

Maybe we can still beat Puerto Rico in the race to become your 51st state.

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