[cryptome] Re: Surveillance Free Day Part 1
- From: lucas power <power.lucas@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 10:06:06 -0400
metadata n. a set of data that describes and gives information about other
data.
[1969 *Proc. IFIP Congr. 1968* I. 113/2 There are categories of
information about each data set as a unit in a data set of data sets, which
must be handled as a special meta data set.
1970 *Coshocton (Ohio) Tribune* 26 June 6/2 The FBI said [he] illegally
gained information from the computer system of Metadata Computing Inc. of
Louisville, Ky.]
1977 *ACM SIGMOD Rec.* Dec. 10/1 A simple inquiry of the data
dictionary can show what metadata (that is, data about data and functions)
remains to be collected.
1987 *Philos. Trans.* (Royal Soc.) A. *322* 373 The challenge is to
accumulate data..from diverse sources, convert it to machine-readable form
with a harmonized array of metadata descriptors and present the resulting
database(s) to the user.
1998 *New Scientist* 30 May 35/2 With XML, attaching metadata to a
document is easy, at least in theory.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Gary Wallin <garylwallin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was pleased to see that DARPA was investigating Trans Cranial
> Stimulation. A couple of years ago I checked with my shrink to see if it
> was available here in Iowa. Found out it's been tried a little but seems to
> have fallen by the wayside. Probably not as effective or as profitable as
> the pharmaceutical company's' products.
>
> Looks to me like the ActivistPost site is a tin foil hat operation that
> pushes paranoia as a means of gaining power and influence over the eyeballs
> that land on the site. I was disappointed to see ads pop up for
> pseudo-scientific FREE ENERGY machines. It's not just the National Security
> State that induces fear to gain power and advantage. There's a large number
> of private sector 'Information' pages that do the same thing.
>
> By the way, has anybody checked the Oxford English Dictionary and
> Historical Thesaurus for information about the word 'Metadata'? I'm curious
> about when and how it was first used in the modern context. As a member of
> the bankrupt Lumpen Proletariat I can't afford the Oxford Dictionary's
> paywall.
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> On 7/29/2013 1:10 PM, In Harms Way wrote:
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> With all due respect, Gary, but if you can not refute this
> http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/secret-darpa-mind-control-project.html-
> you will have to realize that the wonderful new world you so easily want
> to get adapted to will not stop at surveillance. Unless you change and
> fight for your humanity - of which real privacy is a fundamental right - I
> am afraid that your vegetative state is near.
>
> Gary Wallin wrote, On 29/07/2013 20:28:
>
> For a quick look at how metadata can be abused, look here:
> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=579_1375101344
>
> The more you try to protect yourself, the more you will come under
> surveillance and the less privacy you will have. The Panopticon is an
> evolutionary (or perhaps evilutionary) change in our social behavior. The
> simple expectations of privacy that we grew up with in the 1950's no longer
> apply. We will be assimilated and will have to adapt. It is our Humanity
> that we have to protect, not our privacy.
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> On 7/29/2013 8:59 AM, In Harms Way wrote:
>
> Gary, you maybe want to change your name to Gary Borg Wallin.
>
> We have nothing to hide - but we have something to PROTECT!
>
> Let's pull the plug on them.
>
> IHW
>
> Gary Wallin wrote, On 29/07/2013 15:49:
>
> On 7/29/2013 6:28 AM, John Young wrote:
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> http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/surveillance-free-day-part-i.html
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> An entertaining take on the preposterous idea of going surveillance-free.
>
> I like the salient commentary: "Both Jon and Gary pointed out one of the
> central paradoxes of my day – that, by downloading Tor and HideMyAss, by
> paying for software in Bitcoin, wrapping my phones in foil, and by turning
> my head into a giant glowing orb, I’m effectively asking to be put on a
> terrorist watch list. It’s the digital equivalent of hanging a big “I’M
> SKETCHY” sign around my neck."
>
> As we learned from the Borg in Star Trek - Resistance is Futile!
>
> Surveillance is part of our nature now and we must learn to live with it.
> Better that it be used to freshen the air and inform the public than become
> a tool of those that would oppress.
>
> --
> All my email is subject to viewing by the Panopticon ::
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon ::
> Except in the imaginations of the netizens there is no real secrecy or
> privacy on the Internets. The powers that be have been elevated to lofty
> positions of near omnipresence. Enjoy, adapt, and survive.
>
>
>
>
> --
> All my email is subject to viewing by the Panopticon ::
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon ::
> Except in the imaginations of the netizens there is no real secrecy or
> privacy on the Internets. The powers that be have been elevated to lofty
> positions of near omnipresence. Enjoy, adapt, and survive.
>
>
>
>
> --
> All my email is subject to viewing by the Panopticon ::
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon ::
> Except in the imaginations of the netizens there is no real secrecy or
> privacy on the Internets. The powers that be have been elevated to lofty
> positions of near omnipresence. Enjoy, adapt, and survive.
>
>
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