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Is there? Did you say you were around islington tonight?

The point is more that once again the government decide to ban small phones because of the possibility that a TINY percentage of the population might use them illegally.

I tell you what, let's just disable all cell towers in the UK in case some bad people use phones to do bad things. Safer for all of us that way..

Ban bikes, and all transport, to stop weed drops.

Visitors are allowed car keys. Phones disguised as key fobs are easier to smuggle in then pass to the prisoner who can then hide it on his or her person. Imaging trying to insert an iphone up your jacksy versus a key fob. I know which I would prefer.

I'd say it would be down to whichever had the more powerful and therefore more pleasurable vibration.

While we are on the subject of the NSA.
Tormail was brought down by them a couple of weeks ago after the founder of Freedom hosting was arrested. FBI use the usual rhetoric of looking for nonces which is fine, but you can't help but feel this is just a pretext for what they are really after. The big players behind Silkroad

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/tor-tormail-dark-web-communication-pgp/

Anyone who thinks they are completely safe in the Dark web should think again

All this shit though is probably encouraging people to encrypt or look for options that don't involve some yank sniffing through all your emails. If more people encrypt boring shit, it'll waste the snoopers time and that makes me happy.

Assuming this is genuine, and the treatment goes ahead, at what point do they transfer her to a female prison??

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition. I also request that, starting today, you refer to me by my new name and use the feminine pronoun (except in official mail to the confinement facility).

While we are on the subject of the NSA.
Tormail was brought down by them a couple of weeks ago after the founder of Freedom hosting was arrested. FBI use the usual rhetoric of looking for nonces which is fine, but you can't help but feel this is just a pretext for what they are really after. The big players behind Silkroad

http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/tor-tormail-dark-web-communication-pgp/

Anyone who thinks they are completely safe in the Dark web should think again

Similar thing happened to Lavabit, an encrypted mail service that was said to be Edward Snowden's webmail of choice. Ladar Levison put ten years of his life into building his business until one day he got a knock on the door from the NSA... It seems he was ordered to betray his users or shut up shop. He chose the latter. I'd love to know the full story but the NSA has used anti-terror laws to gag Levison and deny him his constitutional right to free speech.

This makes me sick.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/driver_shabby_cabby_fC4bYIKh1lxUNeDJzNZcMJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattan

Assuming this is genuine, and the treatment goes ahead, at what point do they transfer her to a female prison??

apparently he blows more than just whistles.

http://www.zdnet.com/us-court-rules-masking-ip-address-to-access-blocked-website-violates-law-7000019701/

Similar thing happened to Lavabit, an encrypted mail service that was said to be Edward Snowden's webmail of choice. Ladar Levison put ten years of his life into building his business until one day he got a knock on the door from the NSA... It seems he was ordered to betray his users or shut up shop. He chose the latter. I'd love to know the full story but the NSA has used anti-terror laws to gag Levison and deny him his constitutional right to free speech.

My understanding is that it's likely that the order was to hand over user details, etc, and not shut it or mention it. It seems he could still be in shit for shutting it...

Apollo deleted the post...ignore this

Apollo deleted the post...ignore this

you could always... delete yours?

Not if quoted

Not if quoted

All this shit though is probably encouraging people to encrypt or look for options that don't involve some yank sniffing through all your emails. If more people encrypt boring shit, it'll waste the snoopers time and that makes me happy.
Why a "yank"... the Brits and Chinese are just as sniffy. But leaving states aside... Companies are also sniffing looking for gold in the mine. O2/Telefonica recently wanted to sell GPS position data to 3rd parties for market research. Where you are is sometimes more important and says more combined with time and grouped into clusters than what you may say--- and also much easier to process.

It safe to say that sadly tags are never coming back now..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23796712

Why a "yank"... the Brits and Chinese are just as sniffy. But leaving states aside... Companies are also sniffing looking for gold in the mine. O2/Telefonica recently wanted to sell GPS position data to 3rd parties for market research. Where you are is sometimes more important and says more combined with time and grouped into clusters than what you may say--- and also much easier to process.

Because it was the NSA/Snowden report that brought this whole mess into the public eye.

Everyone knows companies capture everything they can but they are bound by rules that require them to ask permission for your data, rules about how long it's held, whether it needs to be anonymised, etc. It's the fact governments create laws or simply ignore laws allowing them to bypass any of these checks and balances that has people riled.

It safe to say that sadly tags are never coming back now..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23796712

If they're all indoors monitoring people slag each other off on twatter then can we get back to running all those red lights? #trollface

Talking of spies I'm not sure we need to worry - it sounds like they are all shit and youcould pobably wander around with a megaphone shouting 'look you, I'm a terrorist' and they'd probably not notice.

interestign thing on the BBC about it- sure I saw the link on here but not sure where.
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There's something incredible going on in the press today re: Snowden and the NSA.

I don't know if you guys have seen this, but basically the Independent has a scoop about a secret military facility in the middle east that collects and processes people's private data. This would be interesting in itself, but it's made much more so by the Independent's claim that their intel comes from Ed Snowden's NSA files.

Something Snowden vigorously denies. He has apparently never shared his NSA data with the Independent. And why would he? He works with the Guardian, keeps his cards close to his chest and so far has managed to stay alive. He's not about to start helping the Guardian's biggest rivals, is he?

So where does the intel come from? It's interesting. There's only two groups that have ever had access to Snowden's data. His close confidants in the media like Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras and as of this week the UK Government. That is assuming that they have begun processing David Miranda's seized hardware, which they almost certainly have.

So who's feeding the Independent? We don't know at this stage but it's certainly very convenient that while they are being smashed in the ratings by the Guardian they stumble upon a 'Snowden style' exclusive. It's even more convenient that this exclusive paints Snowden as a reckless operative who for the very first time is releasing information that could pose a tangible threat to British troops on the ground.

Something ain't right.

bun da bnp?

^^ something aint right. So, just to clarify: The government is feeding information to the independent to discredit Snowden and the Grauniad, the indie gains ratings and the govt gets to shift public opinion?

The thick plottens.

I think the Independent has a lot of questions to answer. Last week the world's most elite security forces had failed to capture Snowden or obtain a single byte of his data (despite downing diplomatic aircraft, threatening international trade sanctions and intercepting half the world's communications). This week a second-rate British newspaper mysteriously gains access to that data.

The difference between this week and last week? David Miranda.