In Defense of the NSA

[SteelCrysis]

Largest intelligence leak in history and it came about from an outside contractor. That is a new level of idiocy.

Mistakes are inevitable, pal.

I don't see a ton of information about our governments inner workings pouring out of Langley, do you? I also did not critique the NSA failing to see various terrorist attempts from happening either. What I do bash them for is randomly letting all this information get on the internet through a fucking outside contractor.

Maybe you aren't looking in the right places. Moles happen in every intelligence agency.

DNS blacklisting Tor........ You don't know how this shit works, do you? Let's say DNS is a giant phonebook, Tor doesn't have any phone numbers listed. Actually, Tor can't natively support DNS- wrong networking protocols altogether(but still protected by net neutrality).

DNS is a giant phonebook for converting URLs to IP addresses. Adapting DNS or another link in the chain to block Tor shouldn't be a problem.

When the mafia was still around, typical citizens were safer than they are today, by a lot.

The people who lived in Bulger's day might disagree with you. Or Capone's. Or Gotti's.

Fair treatment to data. Online child porn is data. Fair treatment to data. Online child porn is data.

Net neutrality makes it against the law to block all Tor traffic. It's a thing. We could do it now, but it appears that you actually care about data being treated equally, so you aren't willing to give that up. Other people care about privacy, they aren't willing to give that up.

So, when someone else becomes president, should you be executed for supporting child porn because you want all data to be treated 'fairly'. Online child porn is data- are you going on record saying it should be treated equally to the poison control center?

You may think I'm against Net Neutrality, I'm not per se, but it sure as fuck isn't as cut and dry as a lot of knee jerk reactionists try and make it out.

Somehow fair treatment enables people, rather than technologies? Since when was illicit activity on the Internet benefited compared to before net neutrality? There's not enough laughing gifs on the internet to describe this stupidity. And people think Rollo's a fantasist.

Interesting film regarding the NSA - real stuff.  Real shit:

https://citizenfourfilm.com/

Very high review scores:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizenfour/

Wiki description:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenfour

As of 2013, it was confirmed that there are over 1.2 million closely scrutinized on a terrorist watch list.  It's not just Police State, but Surveillance State (and World).  Brazil is pissed about how much the NSA is snooping into Brazil's aggregate network, consuming a large percentage of the bandwidth of the entire nation.  Gobs and gobs of bandwidth is being used up by the NSA all across the world, especially Europe as well.

People can call themselves whatever they want to sound good. As the quote falsely attributed to Upton Sinclair says, "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." But does making all these movies (this is hardly the first privacy advocacy movie) amount to anything other than the sheep from Animal Farm baaing "Privacy good, NSA b-a-a-a-a-a-a-d"?

BTW, Brazil has recently ended its objections to the NSA: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/06/16/braz...ack-obama/ Who wants to bet the reason for this is because Brazil has set up its own version of the NSA?

Another example of the mainstream media's Big Lie against the NSA came to mind. Remember when the Equation Group was found? It had similarities to Stuxnet. Did the media say it could be the NSA and Israel working together again, or just Israel? Nope. The NSA took sole blame with no conclusive evidence whatsoever that they were even partially responsible.