Revealed: NSA's PRISM, mass digital surveillance; direct access to your data

[Mike Christ]

Lol so anyways, who needs all that democratic CISPA/SOPA/PIPA bullshit when you can just do what you want anyway.

Also, this: surprise!, we're in it.

[MysteryMiner]

You are so wrong. Faschism is form of collectivism. My source are original pre-war books by Benito Mussolini. Police State are one of properties of society not directly related to form of government or ideology. Communists, monarchists, fascist dictatorships and now democracy have police state too.

[Mike Christ]

You are so wrong. Faschism is form of collectivism. My source are original pre-war books by Benito Mussolini. Police State are one of properties of society not directly related to form of government or ideology. Communists, monarchists, fascist dictatorships and now democracy have police state too.

America is run by fascists and attempts to carve all its citizens into fascists (unsuccessfully, though we have a few on this forum; see: anyone who says "If you don't like it, then you can get out.")  I'm not sure if you're trying to say I'm using the wrong term (I thought about it for a while and I'm still not sure if it's the word I'm looking for) or saying that America's not fascist, but the police state is drawn from fascism, else you couldn't have it; your citizens wouldn't believe your BS, and there's a whole heap of fascism in this country with democracy as the shell.  Perhaps plutocracy or oligarchy would've worked better.

[mprep]

Is the NSA limited to collecting data from servers based in the US only, or servers owned by US owned companies no matter where they are based?

I think they can from any entity they can get their hands on.

[BitSmile]

Is the NSA limited to collecting data from servers based in the US only, or servers owned by US owned companies no matter where they are based?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video
I think by what the whistleblower said in this video, they are not limited to anything. He said he could even wiretap Obama if he wanted.

[manfred]

Question is where does this leave Bitcoin?  The NSA made SHA-2 sitting right at the heard of it and having a natural back door build into it.

[Flashman]

I think the possible danger to bitcoin from this is that there is a huge upsurge in use of crypto for private communications, resulting in attempts to ban crypto or filter/suppress traffic that appears to be encrypted.

[bonker]

I can highly recommend the dub tribute to that album.

Dub is for kids and musically primitave simpletons

[BitSmile]

Question is where does this leave Bitcoin?  The NSA made SHA-2 sitting right at the heard of it and having a natural back door build into it.

[manfred]

I think the possible danger to bitcoin from this is that there is a huge upsurge in use of crypto for private communications, resulting in attempts to ban crypto or filter/suppress traffic that appears to be encrypted.

Thats the issue, your using the tool they give you (SHA function), but don't let u see it for a obvious reason. Its like sticking you best piece into the glory-hole. Job gets done, but what else happens (photo taken, measured.....)