[cryptome] Re: something to mull over
- From: doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:57:02 +0100
Hi Shaun,
I have read the article. My thoughts are...that it comes back to what
"norms" and "extremes" are...Now, I don't use TOR, and I don't use
Tails, though I am now learning to use Linux Ubuntu. I don't object to
everyone else using the software, though I can't advocate or encourage
them to use it...because I don't use it myself. It's not that I am
incapable of using it, it is just that in my own situation, I don't see
a need for it. I resent the fact that anyone or any organisation
considers me as an extremist because I use linux, or visit a website
which advocates it or provides free downloads. I don't wear expensive
watches, and I don't have to look at them every morning to see if one of
my "friends" has filled it full of explosive, ready to blow up when I
get my morning wake up call...
I can't get neurotic about having a calcified brain for instance, or,
because I can't get it up like I used to. If one doesn't have the
capability or the memory for the past, then how can one? Instead, I
would rather that the NSA and GCHQ and governments and whoever else
would screw the nut and encourage people to use this kind of
software...make anon and encrypted software the <default> position on
all computers, and only target those who are thought to be committing
some kind of serious crime, like money laundering, international and
internal drugs trafficking, illegal arms dealing and illegal subversion
of the elected nation state, with due dedicated legal oversight,
including inspection that works. A bit like the oversight imposed on
Saddam Hussein in Iraq over his armoury of weapons of mass destruction,
which he didn't have, and which we went to war over...and are now
suffering a re-emergence of the 4 Caliphates which disappeared over a
century ago, as a consequence.
However, it should be remembered that, it is those very
organisations...i.e. those named above that carry out those very
activities...including private and public corporations. Such a circle of
activity is a very profitable business and they all feed off one
another. Empty C.I.A. planes returning to the USA from VIentiane and
surrounding countries, made the secret war in Vietnam very expensive to
the US nations taxpayers, but if a bit of private enterprise could be
found to return illegal drugs to the USA, and a few private
entrepreneurs got together in syndicates to organise and distribute the
stuff....and how the capitalist western world just loves private
enterprise initiatives...(not that I am against capitalism) then...what
could one do...after all mother nature always fills an empty space.
So, the question for me is...who is it in the NSA or GCHQ or the CIA who
decides what normal or extremism is. And how do they come to this
decision, what criteria do they use...Is there some kind of committee
that meets up every so often for instance, and would they condemn Linux
servers because they are non-proprietary software, and therefore outside
the norm, even though Linux servers are the norm and even more safe,
secure and reliable than private software? Does this group of persons
go along to the President or P.M. and seek his approval and state why
Linux Journal and those who visit it are extremists I really don't
know...what is the answer....There just seems to be no logic to it...
The last point, is of course the profiling. Eventually, any anonymous
stuff, which is given a number is united or connected to a profile, much
like Google asks its users to "tag" a photo with a name, the time and
place already being in the photo properties. In that way, as President
Obama says, we can connect up the dots...we can..
ATB
Dougie.
It is interesting to note that paediophilia information exchange was
considered quite normal, even respectable in some government circles in
the UK, and reports made to the government exposing its vile aims got
suppressed and lost. But there you are...as I say, there is no logic to
it and that is how it is...
On 07/07/14 23:01, Shaun O'Connor wrote:
anyone read this EFF post>?and the related stories?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/dear-nsa-privacy-fundamental-right-not-reasonable-suspicion
essentially what they are saying if i am interpreting it correctly is
that the more people who use tor, the better the case against the
NSA's "justification" for targeting people merely on the basis that
they are concerned about the pivacy of their communications. and are
making the relevant enquiries/searches.
even the Linux format is treated as"an extremist" publication. by the
NSA.
happy reading
Shaun.
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