 After failing to infect targets with malware in spam emails, the U.S. National Security Agency has reportedly turned to Facebook. According to a report by The Intercept, the NSA “disguises itself as a fake Facebook server” to perform “man-in-the-middle” and “man-on-the-side” attacks and spread malware. The Intercept is the first in a series of publications created by Pierre Omidyar‘s First Look Media. Journalists Ryan Gallagher and Glenn Greenwald claim that Facebook users are tricked into visiting “what looks like an ordinary Facebook page.” From there, they claim, “the NSA is able to hack into the targeted computer and covertly siphon out data from its hard drive.” A Facebook spokesperson provided VentureBeat with the following statement: “We have no evidence of this alleged activity. In any case, this method of network level disruption does not work for traffic carried over HTTPS, which Facebook finished integrating by default last year. If government agencies indeed have privileged access to network service providers, any site running only HTTP could conceivably have its traffic misdirected.”A purportedly official animation, uploaded on Vimeo, reveals how the NSA conducts the Facebook hack: https://vimeo.com/88822483NSA’s Facebook targeting is reportedly a response to the declining success of other malware injection techniques. Previous techniques include the use of “spam emails that trick targets into clicking a malicious link.” It’s noteworthy that the NSA has also allegedly posed as Google to gain access to user data. This news follows NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s appearance at SXSW. During his talk, Snowden stated that the U.S. “needs a watchdog that watches Congress.” When asked if he was satisfied with the current NSA debate, Snowden made clear that he would serve again as a whistleblower if he had a second chance. http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/12/the-nsa-reportedly-poses-as-facebook-to-spread-malware/------------------------------------------------------ watching the vimeo link quick before it "disappears"... |
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It is absolutely stunning to see self righteous anger these self styled progressives can build up. I get the opportunity to watch this every day living in western Washington. Interestingly the author claims that even though they have been wronged by the traditional banking system, the "unprivileged" would not want to to try a decentralized form of financial services. Interestingly she leaves out the fact that government meddling in the traditional financial sector, promoting the increase in subprime lending precipitated a major financial crisis. This crisis disproportionately affected those of lower means. Instead she rails against things like payday lenders as if they are somehow comparable to bitcoin. She also conveniently leaves out the presence of bitcoin communities in China and South America. Last time I checked, there were not a bunch of non Hispanic white men in these areas. Including individuals in these communities would unfortunately skew her numbers making her case for bitcoin as racist tool narrative incorrect. All in all, the author is sadly ignorant about bitcoin. Our banks touched off a global financial crisis and they still exist. One bitcoin related service collapses and the author is about to piss herself with glee because thinks it proves her most hated demographic wrong, the white male.
Ultimately, selling victim hood is a big business. In a country such as the US, with a large diverse population, you prop up a group like white males, as some omnipresent boggie man, and then market literature promoting said stance to the rest of people. I can't believe it hasn't been noted yet, but Think Progress is run by the center for american progress action fund. This is the political funding arm of billionaire banker George Soros. If I had to speculate, I would say this is simply a hit piece by a author who knows who pays for her dinner.
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It's interesting that Soros is not to anyone's knowledge meddling with bitcoin. Probably doesn't / can't understand it.
Soros = CAP = Tprogress = Hit piece, calling bitcoiners racists, thus Soros = hit piece on bitcoin community with proxy puppet. Yes he is aware of it and wants to discredit it while "he is not to anyone's knowledge meddling with bitcoin"Center for American Progress is a broader base group than Soros, it's where the current White House gangsters basically came from. If we are seeing a shaping up of the beginnings of an orchestrated sentiment here along the lines of the.... "progressive left = bitcoin is evil" ...that is interesting... What is the most amazing thing is, not knowing anything about bitcoin way back when, I really thought it was a "product" from Occupy Wall Street (the smart ones, not the ones under the tent called "rape free zone)* "Those lefties created bitcoin I am sure. They will use it to make OWS desires a reality" I used to think. Then I got into it and realized it was beyond any policital movement but a true paradigm shift if its potential is trully realized.. ANYWAY  Now it seems the progressives (the one in power and the one on TV, maybe not those here who believe in BTC) are actually defending the banksters, no matter what. How strange. Maybe I am reading this wrong... * http://therealrevo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/womens-safe-tent.jpg |
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The National Wildlife Federation put out a 'Mascot Madness' report detailing climate change's impact on the actual animals. Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., left, warns climate change could destroy a number of college mascots' real-life counterparts. Like college basketball? Excited to fill out your March Madness bracket on Sunday? Well, here’s a pretty big college basketball-related bummer: The National Wildlife Federation put out a report Tuesday entitled “Mascot Madness” that details how climate change could obliterate some of college mascots’ real-life counterparts. “In fact, what I would say – if you pardon the pun – is that the game may soon be over for many of our wildlife mascots unless we reduce our carbon pollution and develop new energy sources,” warned Doug Inkley, a senior scientist for the D.C.-based group. The animals in trouble span the country and the globe, according to the report. Inkley used one particularly strong rivalry to prove the point. “Wolverines are tenacious animals, like the sports teams at the University of Michigan, but they rely on deep snowpack for denning and to raise their young,” he said. “This is disappearing as a result of climate change.” Meanwhile, in nearby Ohio, the buckeye – which is the state's official tree and Ohio State University’s mascot – is finding that Ohio is no longer the most suitable climate to grow in and is high-tailing it to Michigan. “So this rivalry between Ohio and Michigan, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan, could become even more intense, if you will, as the buckeyes invade the wolverine territory,” Inkley said. Other creatures who may face problems include red wolves of North Carolina State Wolfpack fame, whose coastal habitat could be destroyed. Gators – the mascot of the No. 1-ranked University of Florida – face a similar habitat problem. And the terrapins of the University of Maryland, which also live in low-lying areas, additionally could experience a sex-ratio imbalance because of the heat. “They face a reproductive threat,” explained Inkley. “When the terrapin eggs are incubated and the temperatures become warmer because of climate change, a greater proportion of eggs hatch as females.” Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee (and huge college basketball fan), spoke to reporters about the study and suggested that Americans make it a part of picking their March Madness teams. “I want to encourage you to look at the National Wildlife Federation report, match it up with those brackets, see those species that are in danger because of our changing climate,” she said, noting that she would be taking her own advice. “I can’t wait to dig through the report and actually compare the dangers to those mascots to my brackets come Sunday.” http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2014/03/11/rep-donna-edwards-warns-climate-change-will-kill-off-college-mascots
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 On March 6, 2014, President Obama conducted a town hall meeting with Spanish-language media regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. He was asked about the concerns of many Latinos that the law is simply too expensive. He suggested that some families may be spending too much on cable television or cell phones, and not enough on health insurance. http://youtu.be/ijQIJAK0NFA |
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 A professor who describes herself as “Marxist” in her official biography has accused a group of persecution for describing her as such. Wellesley College professor Julie Matthaei describes herself as a “Marxist-feminist-anti-racist-ecological-economist” on the college’s official website, but accused a pro-business group of “red-baiting” for citing this description in an advertisement opposing minimum wage hikes. “It was her description of herself that we put in the ad,” Michael Saltsman, research director for the pro-business group The Employment Policies Institute (EPI), said in an interview with Campus Reform on Tuesday. EPI’s advertisement appeared in The New York Timeson Feb. 27 and included quotations from academic economists — including Matthaei — who had signed a petition supporting the policy. “Suddenly you’re thrust on the national stage, and it was a shock,” Matthaei said in an article in The Boston Globe. “I felt I was being red-baited.” http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5480&app=cro |
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I have no links to share. Very sad... And very strange. Not really sure what to believe.
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Change that we can believe in.
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So the situation is 10x times worss than in the Ukraine and it gets 1% of the coverage. Finally... Someone gets it. (of course not sure about 10X, but it is pretty bad. I am NOT linking gorry bloody images on bitcointalk, unnecessary) |
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Bad Vibe? Where? Bitcoin finds friendly territory at SXSWDon't expect bitcoin's recent failures to be the end of crypto-currencies. Tech executives and industry professionals at South by Southwest Interactive are steadfast in the belief that virtual currency is here to stay. "There are two questions that are important to ask. One is, what is the future of crypto-currency? And it's very obvious to all of us that crypto-currency is inevitable," said Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas at a panel at SXSWi on Friday. "There's a danger in having it not be regulated in some form, but people will take it and debate that as this plays out," he said. The other question? Whether other crypto-currencies will be modeled after bitcoin, or full an as-yet-unknown model. "Is it going to be like the Napster of crypto-currencies? I think that we don't know. This is still a pretty new space," he said. Bitcoin feels more volatile right now because people are still trying to wrap their heads around the fact that it's bits and not paper, said Nico Sell, the CEO of the messaging app Wickr. But that mentality won't last forever, she added. "The spikes are amazing right now, but bitcoin is one many virtual currencies. These currencies are 100 percent the future, but we are in the beginning of figuring this all out, but crypto currency is stronger than paper, but we are early on in the process," Sell said. "I'm sure paper didn't work so well in the beginning either." (Read more: Bitcoin pits the gold bugs vs the 'techno geeks') It's too soon to whether Bitcoin will be the virtual currency that goes mainstream, she said. Other players are certain to challenge it. "Bitcoin is definitely number one in the space, but it's such a volatile market that it's really about survival and who can survive this," Sell said. "I think it's a wide open area that we are going to see tons of innovation over the next ten years. And it's hard to say right now who will shake out on top," she said. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2014/0310/Bitcoin-finds-friendly-territory-at-SXSW |
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so we should all start using encrypted VPNs to connect to the web. there are even free ones out there these days. hidemyass, cyberghost etc. oh and send them to this, as well as the cats, given the bush's involvement in the intel services. Now the obama's involvement supersedes by tenfold the continuous program from bush. agreed, it's just that that picture really expresses my opinons of these people very clearly. when i'm feeling polite, anyway. it's a collage, in case you didn't take a close look.   |
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so we should all start using encrypted VPNs to connect to the web. there are even free ones out there these days. hidemyass, cyberghost etc. oh and send them to this, as well as the cats, given the bush's involvement in the intel services. Now the obama's involvement supersedes by tenfold the continuous program from bush. |
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USTIN, Texas — Glenn Greenwald, editor of the newly launched digital publication The Intercept, told attendees at SXSWi that the National Security Agency is wary of anyone who takes steps to protect their online activity from being hacked, such as using encryption tools. “In [the NSA's] mind, if you want to hide what you’re saying from them, it must mean that what you’re saying is a bad thing,” Greenwald said via a Skype video call. “They view the use of encryption… as evidence that you’re suspicious and can actually target you if you use it.” Greenwald is one of three journalists who activist Edward Snowden entrusted with access to his entire trove of classified documents about the NSA’s surveillance program. During the past year, Greenwald has been dissecting this massive pile of information, adding context and piecing together reports on the NSA’s more questionable surveillance activities. The results have been published in a string of bombshell articles by Greenwald, first in the Guardian and now in The Intercept. Given his access to these documents, Greenwald has a deeper understanding than most of how the NSA operates. Greenwald’s extensive knowledge of the NSA makes what he’s saying all the more concerning. During the panel, Greenwald said the NSA is able to target encrypted communications because so few people actually use encryption tools. That makes the people who are actually trying to stay secure stick out like sore thumbs, thus making it much easier for the agency to focus its efforts on hacking the relatively small bits of encrypted data that they intercept. “I do think individuals have the principal obligation to protect their data,” Greenwald said, likening that responsibility to that of lawyers who protect their clients or journalists who protect their sources. But, he said, the biggest reason to begin using encryption is to make it far more difficult for the government to gain access to your data without going through the proper channels — such as legal warrants, wiretap orders, or subpoenas. And it’s not just the NSA that Greenwald blames for the overly invasive surveillance. “The national security state in Washington has so completely perfected the art of co-opting and capturing whatever safeguards are created, that they’re very adept at turning them into further tools for their own power rather than what they’re intended to be,” he said. The best example of this co-opting, Greenwald said, is with the heads of congressional intelligence committees. “Very quickly, the people in those [intelligence agency] communities figured out how to install slavish loyalists as the heads of those committees so that those committees failed at their designed function to exercise oversight. … “So you have the heads of these committees in the House and Senate — Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) — that are the leading apologists for the NSA and who wake up every day to think about ways to trick Americans into believing that there’s going to be a reform, when in reality it’s just going to be designed to strengthen the NSA,” Greenwald said. One cause for concern is that the crowd who turned up to hear Greenwald at SXSW was a mere fraction of the size of the crowd that had gathered just hours before to hear Snowden himself address the public (also via Skype) for the first time since being exiled from the U.S. In other words, lots of people want to hear about government surveillance; not so many are interested in hearing about how to stop it or slow it down. Obviously, the topic of encrypting ones’ data isn’t nearly as important as it should be. Greenwald said earlier in his discussion that this probably has something to do with the perception that using encryption tools are difficult. “The barrier most people have when it comes to encryption is more psychological than anything else,” he said. Recalling a conversation with Snowden about installing encryption tools to communicate, Greenwald said initially he blew Snowden’s suggestion off because he didn’t see the value in it. “I read the things he was saying and my reaction was, ‘Wow, this is incredibly complex. This is like some difficult outer planet bird language that will take me weeks to master,’” he said. “And once I actually did it I realized how incredibly easy it is.” But even though Greenwald doesn’t think U.S. citizens can count on elected officials to help streamline the need for encryption, that doesn’t mean nothing can be done to boost adoption. “There are definitely strides that the tech community needs to make those tools even more user friendly,” Greenwald said. http://venturebeat.com/2014/03/10/nsa-views-encryption-as-evidence-of-suspicion-and-will-target-those-who-use-it-security-journalist-says/------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If everything we do on the internet is encrypted then everyone will be suspicious 100% of the time. |
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 Unclear who killed student during street clashes in San Cristobal, where anti-government protests have been fiercest.A student leader was fatally shot in the western university city of San Cristobal after a long day of street clashes in which Venezuelan security forces attacked and dismantled barricades at key intersections, according to the city’s mayor. Local TV reporter Beatriz Font said there were unconfirmed reports of at least two others wounded by gunfire after dark on Monday in the city of 600,000 people where student-led protests erupted last month and where anti-government unrest has been fiercest. The human rights group PROVEA tweeted that one student was seriously wounded by a bullet. National Guardsmen firing tear gas and plastic shotgun pellets had battled protesters all day in residential neighborhoods, Font told the Associated Press news agency. The slain student leader, Daniel Tinoco, was shot in the chest after dark, San Cristobal Mayor Daniel Ceballos said on Twitter. The opposition politician did not say who might have killed Tinoco, but tweeted that armed paramilitaries allied with the government known as “colectivos” had battled protesters along with the National Guard. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2014/03/student-leader-shot-dead-venezuela-201431153641763808.html |
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It is absolutely stunning to see self righteous anger these self styled progressives can build up. I get the opportunity to watch this every day living in western Washington. Interestingly the author claims that even though they have been wronged by the traditional banking system, the "unprivileged" would not want to to try a decentralized form of financial services. Interestingly she leaves out the fact that government meddling in the traditional financial sector, promoting the increase in subprime lending precipitated a major financial crisis. This crisis disproportionately affected those of lower means. Instead she rails against things like payday lenders as if they are somehow comparable to bitcoin. She also conveniently leaves out the presence of bitcoin communities in China and South America. Last time I checked, there were not a bunch of non Hispanic white men in these areas. Including individuals in these communities would unfortunately skew her numbers making her case for bitcoin as racist tool narrative incorrect. All in all, the author is sadly ignorant about bitcoin. Our banks touched off a global financial crisis and they still exist. One bitcoin related service collapses and the author is about to piss herself with glee because thinks it proves her most hated demographic wrong, the white male.
Ultimately, selling victim hood is a big business. In a country such as the US, with a large diverse population, you prop up a group like white males, as some omnipresent boggie man, and then market literature promoting said stance to the rest of people. I can't believe it hasn't been noted yet, but Think Progress is run by the center for american progress action fund. This is the political funding arm of billionaire banker George Soros. If I had to speculate, I would say this is simply a hit piece by a author who knows who pays for her dinner.
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It's interesting that Soros is not to anyone's knowledge meddling with bitcoin. Probably doesn't / can't understand it.
Soros = CAP = Tprogress = Hit piece, calling bitcoiners racists, thus Soros = hit piece on bitcoin community with proxy puppet. Yes he is aware of it and wants to discredit it while "he is not to anyone's knowledge meddling with bitcoin" |
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I think that's a good idea actually willikon, he's got a link to the thread so perhaps he will see it.
My ideas are always amazing my dear mistress_magpie. Don't you dear forget it. But you did. Now... Fetch me my whip!!!!!!!! |
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How 'bout a Linux phone : Ubuntu PhoneIMHO no use with iOS, Android or Mobile Windows in terms of secure privacy - as they all have numerous backdoors deeply nested in their core OS. I repeat: After these privacy issues on the desktop OS, you are still thinking about Ubuntu Phone? Go to privacy settings and turn off "Include online search results" solves the whole privacy issue. Source is completely open so you can look for any backdoors.  I still prefer this over any os where you can be 100% sure your data is send to national security agencies and used for marketing purposes Ubuntu has privacy issues or Apple? Both. And simply turning off "Include online search results" doesn't change anything. Ubuntu is still partly proprietary, which means that it can send data to somewhere without you knowing it. I did not know Ubuntu was partially closed source. That is news to me. I have to tell the Kubuntu, Xubuntu communities it is the case... |
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Sweet lady christ Wilikon, all you keep doing is finding extreme examples of the people with the most ridiculous views out of all the daft wankers on the vast and silly landscape that is the internet, and posting them here claiming that they represent the views of most feminists!
It is absurd - all of you must surely be aware on some level that feminists do not believe (e.g.) that all sex is rape unless a contract is signed first.
It is very simple. If you believe that men and women should be treated equally - congratulations! You're a feminist.
Regarding my "extreme examples" why don't you contribute to this thread with everyday examples of feminists with fully funded organizations that share your views of how feminism should be working right now? I was born around the time men visited the Moon and my mom was an entrepreneur with many employees all her working life, my sister is a one woman boss, in control of her life and her company. Am I aware of women wanted to be treated equally? Sure I do. I just look around my family. In this thread I am providing examples of the substance of this article: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/26/study_everyone_hates_environmentalists_and_feminists_partner/If you want to believe Salon.com was absurd to even write it then you are free to do so.  . If you want to believe because I linked a stupid article I am the one who believes in it, then go ahead too. I am not a sweet lady, but if you want me to be that fantasy in you head, then go ahead too |
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The nation is a left leaning publication. I've been working with this reporter so he has a clear and accurate view of bitcoin - this is an oopportunity for btc to reach a currently untapped audience.
He should do a hmm "reversed AMA?" on Reddit/bitcoin so everyone can see the interview in real time. Everybody has a bias, from left to right. In this case when his article will be "printed" the whole world would be able to do a back and forth between the original "blockchain" and his article. He should avoid doing another "Newsweak" with the bitcoin community and think like the blockchain: wide open. My free advice. |
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