Thanks Doug, Shaun and Jeremy for your answers. (By the way, what is with these acronyms?) I 'll Google "GCHQ" (ahhh i found it, Government Communications Headquarters). IMHO GCHQ & NSA should STFU :-P On 21 August 2014 17:08, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That is why the wise join the cryptome list....If GCHQ can share > information with the NSA and vikki verki to which their native populations > are not privy...then so can cryptome... > > > On 21/08/14 13:04, Shaun O'Connor wrote: > > the uk has similar legislation but it is worded in such a manner as to be > useless to anyone who would try to apply it. > > one trick that our wonderful government uses in order to hide stuff from > public gaze is to put operational work in the hands of a "private > enterprise" which exempts disclosure under the legislation on the rather > suprious grounds of"commercial sensitivity" > > with regards to face book you can safely ignore their request to"supply > your real name" > On 21/08/2014 08:05, Jeremy Compton wrote: > > It stands for Freedom of Information ? its an American acronym. Its where > you request official government information. > > ------------------------------ > From: alopoudis@xxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:15:18 +0300 > Subject: [cryptome] Re: Vague FOIA > To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hi, this must be my first email after some 2 or 3 years of just joining > Cryptome list. > I have read many very interesting discussions here. > So, first of all sorry for my bad english, it's not my motherslanguage. > I really wanna ask what is FOIA . > > And a even more stupid question: Facebook keeps asking me to provide a > picture of my ID because as the message says : "It looks like you are not > using your real name in Facebook". > I asked some friends of me and they never seen that in their accounts in > Facebook and their names are like John Rambo IV. :D > > > On 17 August 2014 04:57, Noah <easilyemailed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Thank you Ryan! I will do that. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 16, 2014, at 3:31 PM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It depends on what you're requesting, really. Generally a good tactic > is to request something small and precise first, and than get information > from that to request more records. I'd probably request the NSA > cryptography suite A in Intellipedia. > > > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Noah <easilyemailed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Ryan. I'm interested in FOIA. How would you go about it? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 16, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Your FOIA requests are so vague as to be useless and easily ignored. > > > > > -- > * PRIVACY IS A BASIC RIGHT - NOT A CONCESSION * > > >