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> Each company sets up a "safe-deposit" server for delivering specific one-off subsets of subpoena'd data, and the company's engineers deliver data to that server upon demand.

But when it's been shown that a single subpoena can be "all phone data for three months for every customer", then describing that as "direct access" doesn't seem completely unreasonable to me.

It's clear that there are crucial and important technical details missing. But it's also clear that the NSA has much more fluid access than one-user-per-approved-subpoena-at-one-point-in-time. Depending upon the target audience of the leaked PRISM slides, the description "direct access" may be quite prudent.
Apologies for not closely following the thousands of different UX improvements / add-ons / tweaks available for Android.

You should apologize, though clearly you're being sarcastic. If you're going to claim that Samsung is copying what Apple has done, you'd better know what Samsung, stock Android, and probably at least a couple other flavors, have already done.

The point is Samsung will copy it.

Copy what, exactly? The look and feel of iOS 7 (at least from a few initial screenshots; I haven't tried it myself yet) looks how Android has looked for over a year and a half now.

Certainly the UX of iOS 7 is (presumably) still distinct from Android, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about.

They don't care what Android is doing - they do their own thing.

You clearly -- by your own admission -- aren't qualified to make this statement. Multitasking on iOS is a watered-down, shittier version of multitasking on Android. Notifications on iOS were basically ripped from Android. You may claim that Apple never saw what Android was doing and happened to come up with similar solutions, but that seems a bit naive to me.

That's a fact.

No, it's your opinion.
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The US is spending billions on immigration control, and still have several millions of illegal immigrants. For me this is a sign that restrictions on immigration as they now exist don't work, don't benefit society and should be rethought.
Exactly. Also, as they are becoming more similar to Android, it won't take much for users to actually switch to it. I am sure Google is happy to see this development.
If it was up to me I would have publicised the threat to sue - Riverbed's correct reaction should have been to acknowledge the issue and fix it, although they didn't know I had a whole bunch more lined up and only stopped because I got bored.
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Concrete steps that I have made to gain control over my data:

- hosting my DNS server ( bind ) along with my domain

- Made my own RSS reader and blog with openid authentication (server/client)

- Installed ftp server ( vsftpd )

- Installed my own mailserver (nice tutorial here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer)

Planning to:
- install my own xmpp server

I want to create an integrated, user centered platform, that will provide ( mail, blogging, storage, ftp, feed reader, an openid identity & social networking ) and make it really easy for somebody to install it on a raspberry pi + some external storage and have its own personal micro data center.

Someone could also consider Citadel (http://www.citadel.org/)

If you ask me, I'd say that the personal data center is the future ( the free future )
Well he did allude to all of the insane things he supposedly had access to like operative names, safe houses, etc. even saying something to the extend of bring the NSA down in an afternoon. If I was going to have deadman's switch, it would be all that stuff. He doesn't seem like the type to do it outright, he doesn't seem to want to cause that level of chaos and damage (if indeed he does have the power), but who knows what will happen if he shows dead somewhere.
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I wouldn't say the NSA killed the goose any more than I would say any other organizations that request warrants for user data did. What killed the goose was mass hysteria caused by a mistaken belief that Google let NSA see any user's data at the touch of a button. Poor journalism killed the golden goose.
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ironically I, as someone who holds pieces of papers from some of the most highly esteemed institutions of education in this country and others, listening to Snowden speak for 30 seconds and digesting the implication of his actions has easily convinced me that he is a man of greater intellect, integrity and courage than myself or many of my similarly degree-equipped classmates.

the lack of a degree makes his star shine even brighter for me.
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Booz Allen added Snowden's salary in the revised press release announcing his firing. Strange. Here's the text of the current version of the press release dated 6/11:

Booz Allen can confirm that Edward Snowden, 29, was an employee of our firm for less than 3 months, assigned to a team in Hawaii. Snowden, who had a salary at the rate of $122,000, was terminated June 10, 2013 for violations of the firm’s code of ethics and firm policy. News reports that this individual has claimed to have leaked classified information are shocking, and if accurate, this action represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm. We will work closely with our clients and authorities in their investigation of this matter.

http://www.boozallen.com/media-center/press-releases/4839932...

Here is an earlier (original?) version of the same press release dated 6/9:

Booz Allen can confirm that Edward Snowden, 29, has been an employee of our firm for less than 3 months, assigned to a team in Hawaii.

News reports that this individual has claimed to have leaked classified information are shocking, and if accurate, this action represents a grave violation of the code of conduct and core values of our firm.

We will work closely with our clients and authorities in their investigation of this matter.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-06-09/booz-allen-promptly...

Edit: add press release text

Edit2: add original press release text
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"[EDIT] - editted for pretentious-ness, hopefully I got all of it out"
- Appreciated. :)
If they could, they would implement something like PRISM as fast as possible. The German parliament tries for years now to establish data collection.
And Apple didn't become the most valuable company in the world by not playing to the consumer-driven culture, making sure there is a good reason for people to drop hundreds (or thousands) each year on updated smartphones, tablets, and laptops.
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Where did Snowden himself claim firsthand experience? Nowhere. That sentence is the author's conjecture. It's shoddy journalism.

This is exactly the same as how the slides saying that the NSA collects data directly from the companies was misinterpreted by WaPo to mean direct access to all the companies' user data. I suspect Snowden jumped to the same conclusion when he came across those slides while sysadminning, and that's why he's in the mess he's in now.
The reverse Alan Colmes of print media...
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Anyone who isn't an independent developer starting out (i.e. those with existing apps and larger organizations who perhaps have other apps that will require additional work just to maintain their current state.)
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He took a massive risk, to advance our society.
But under a subscription model, the best set of stories wins, not the best set of clickbait headlines.

So if people want the gossip, then yes, subscriptions would still have quality problems. But if people want good information, then the publisher would not profit from serving crappy content under an enticing headline.
USA Inmigration officers have a good record of not being logical at all.
CloudFront doesn't use Anycast for content routing - only the DNS side is Anycast
Sounds like a very nasty and clever way of publishing: One of 'em calls Snowden a traitor and then another calls him a hero. Two opposing stories, all for the eyeballs.

I'd much prefer media to choose a side/ideology and then stick to it. New Yorker went in bed with snoopers earlier, so I don't see any reason to up-vote this story; even if the second author has written in favor of the people.

Choice of the medium to broadcast is, I believe, a very important factor when it comes to context of writing on state control, public policy etc.

[Edits] I've flagged this story.
Off-hand comment while Greenwald attempted to describe what type of life he was leaving behind.
Night and day. Vim on one screen and a multitude of things on the other: Matlab, a Windows VM, Web Browser, Terminal, etc. Combine dual screens with a tiling window manager (XMonad, Awesome) and you're laughing.

As far as physically managing two screens: I have a laptop dock at my desk which has a display port. Drop my laptop in and instant additional screen. Come home and sit on my couch, plug in HDMI and use my TV as a monitor, really great for web development.
How do we know that they would not be collecting even more info on us by making such a request?
"By electronic e-mail" groan
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It maybe a simple matter of releasing details that everyone is clamoring for and yelling about. BAH's main interest in this matter is diverting blame for the leak away from their organization. They are not really interested in Snowden. They'd rather he be ignored than attacked.
After this past week, how can you possibly suggest that webmail providers like GMail are trusted third parties?
Glass can't do AR overlays either, unless you only wanted to overlay a small area in the upper right of your vision.
You're probably right. But Marco's argument hinges on the idea that:

- there will be fragmentation

- hence it will be difficult for developers to write apps that make the most of iOS6 and iOS7

- hence this is an opportunity for nimble new players to enter the market and capture the iOS7 userbase

I agree that there probably wont be fragmentation, but the point is, Marco is saying if there was, it will be a brilliant opportunity. Therein lies the mental gymnastics.
The title steers the people who are interested in the story of the man himself.

But I thought the content was steering people to the real issues.

I think this article one of the better ones on the front page here now today.
Maybe some day curvecp will save us.
Then why does it need the MyGlass app running for GPS?
I missed that; can you provide a link?
Here's the video, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAQlsS9diBs
Google/NSA Alliance has Privacy Advocates Concerned (2010)
Dear Americans, seems you lost it long before the PRISM happened.
The majority of of the article discusses the latest information about the NSA, and how we should hold NSA officials responsible for repeatedly lying to congress. Did you even bother to read it?
They require a "digital signature" for email requests, but say nothing about the format, nor any requirements for the signing key. You'd think that the NSA, of all organizations, would not put such technological naivete on public display.
Isn't the whole scandal that there really is only one list, and everyone is always on it?
Members of US Congress who signed this... click

None. Hmm.
Fleet looks very interesting! Thank you.
It's bordering on conspiracy theory territory, but "threat to the government commits 'suicide'" is so expected, it's cliche.
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Here's a quote from the article. It touches on the three subjects you mentioned: NSA, snooping, and `Orwellian`.

"""

Another Snowden leak, which Greenwald and the Guardian published over the weekend, was a set of documents concerning another secret N.S.A. tracking program with an Orwellian name: “Boundless Informant.” Apparently designed to keep Snowden’s former bosses abreast of what sorts of data it was collecting around the world, the program unveiled the vast reach of the N.S.A.’s activities. In March, 2013, alone, the Guardian reported, the N.S.A. collected ninety-seven billion pieces of information from computer networks worldwide, and three billion of those pieces came from U.S.-based networks.

"""
The entire absence of information about that almost makes me wonder whether they expect you to sign a piece of paper, scan it, and attach the image.
"i's" solves a communication problem, by resolving ambiguity.

redefining "beg the question" creates a communication problem, by introducing ambiguity.

Inventing new words like "blog" is progress. Confusing existing words is like solar flares flipping bits in RAM, causing unrecoverable damage to our shared system.
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Just refused geolocation and got stuck in a "user denied geolocation" loop had to kill safari to get off site
Let's fire Booz | Allen | Hamilton

Freaking war profiteers.
Government is a god-object.
Which issues are you looking for a UK group to cover and campaign on that ORG does not?
Interesting. http://simpleredis.com is a similar service, but for Redis instances (for testing, CI etc), including a nice console. Instances terminates after one hour, but you can run an instance forever if you validate your email.

Been thinking about doing the same for VPS, but using LXC instead (actually already using it for internally for running tests, CI etc).
I have to agree that in his actions the public benefit by far outwieghs the "security" risk. In a country where people have been blocked from travelling for mentioning "bomb" and "airport" in the same tweet it's not really shocking that the security apparatus is monitoring the internet. Like he mentioned there's a reason Osama's home had no internet or phone connection. So this leak only does one thing, show the extent that American's civil liberties have been eroded for something that has killed less people in total since 2000 than chocking
> http://www.theworknumber.com/Employees/Why/Verifications.asp

Does the FCRA allow an employee's data to be released (to non-FBI/NSA clients, natch) without the employee's consent?
It's fairly easy to rig a laptop display to a micro controller just clever enough to run a login screen simulator, gut out the actual computer electronics and battery, and replace them with contraband or a bomb. Tel Aviv security, which I've been through several times, want to be sure the computer is of the kind it's supposed to be.

Login screen simulators are old tech. Friends of mine used to run them on the terminals at the college I studied at in the 80s to harvest other student's account details. Nowadays they're a lot more sophisticated. If you think you know more about security than the Israelis you're sadly mistaken.
I think tolerate is the wrong word.

I live and grew up near on of the military bases. If I would not have met some people stationed there and had the chance to visit them I would only have known there is a big area which is well guarded.

There is and was no incident I am aware of involving someone from the US military which could have put them in a bad light.

Even people I know, who are strictly against military forces and war, do not really care.

From my point of view, and I think I am not alone with this one, it is pretty simple. They live there, do their jobs, do not cause trouble and provide jobs. Without considering taxes and other things it is like a branch of an American company.
This will just become another record in the database of course. But is it worth it to have a record of your signature to (possibly?) obtain (some of) the data they collected on you? That's what you have to decide.
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For XMPP, I recommend checking out Prosody (http://prosody.im). You can get a working system up with Off-the-record instant messaging and internal file transfers in an afternoon, if you're familiar with UNIX system administration.

If you use a client like Jitsi, you can do ZRTP encrypted calls through the server as well. Use your own SSL certificates for SSL.

Ejabberd is also good, however the debug information was pretty inadequate. Also helps to be familiar with erlang.
I deleted all my accounts - FB, G+, Dropbox. I even took android off my phone. http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/06/08/its-our-own-f...
I know they have my data still, but as dlinder has said "the real value is not continuing to feed the beast.
Honestly, I think iOS has gone too flat.

Flat is beautiful, and easy to use, if it strips away non-functional chrome. It's even more beautiful, but a little hard to use, if it obscures the controls. A pro user (say, one who's trained on a previous version, and knows what functions are available) might feel at home, but it's just not intuitive anymore.
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Expired "More" link is very annoying. Especially for browsing such threads as "Who is Hiring".

I understand you don't have a time, so quick fix (and quite useful actually) - have an option to show the thread without pagination.
I agree, but it is the fact that Greenwald (rather than just the average conspiracy theorist) clearly has this on his mind that I found interesting.
1. Given Apple history of screwing developers, I doubt they are doing it for developers.

2. It's my opinion. I think the hybrid new design is much worse than the old one. I like the old design. It's different and not old.

3. How is starting from scratch is good for users? Remember, we are here for users and not developers. Also, there are lots of apps not affected by this change: games and apps with their own UI just come to my mind.
Well, I wonder why cant we create too many false positives for them to make the whole data meaningless ?

Instead of hiding all our private communication we can generate fake communication across the whole internet which might raise flags in NSA's system. (I would have given more concrete examples but I am scared that tomorrow some NSA freak might knock on my door.)
The ones that lasted a long time.
Ask HN: Who can we make NSA believe that their exercise is useless? 
The simplest way I see is to generate so many false positive signals in their system (by creating fake communications that might raise flags).
Yes, 1954/55: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_and_Paris_Conferences

"The London and Paris Conferences were two related conferences in London and Paris in September–October 1954, that decided about full sovereignty of West Germany, ending of its occupation, and its admittance to NATO."
I have an 8gb truecrypt file on dropbox, pretty much regardless of what they're compelled to do, it's secure. That's the model I think should be standard for cloud ops.

However, you do bring up an interesting point, it is indeed harder to do "useful stuff" when the store is untrusted and has no idea what it's holding, string searches et al become pretty much impossible generally speaking, big bummer there.

Perhaps this will be a good accelerant for the adoption of homomorphic encryption algorithms?
Is there an article or initial analysis somewhere summarizing all that's known right now about this scary NSA/PRISM business (with links to sources ideally)? Or is it still too soon for such a thing?

I'm participating in a Google Student Ambassador program at my university and since I've always stressed the importance of privacy (especially in the era of the cloud) I feel obligated to educate my friends and colleagues about this.
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Not to mention that one is voluntary* and one isn't. Sheesh, my grandparent comment needs a healthy dose of perspective.

*I'm using voluntary here in the most straightforward sense possible. You can switch services if you'd like, or even turn off ad targeting for most services. You cannot, however, go to a an nsa.gov link and click the "Please don't track me" box.
If you use your smartphone as much as most people do, a few hundred bucks is a steal on a per-hour basis.
Aye, but no Chinese without political involvement and no mental problems would freely claim (and believe!) he's a free man living under a democratic regime.
Exactly. Why is it so hard to implement PGP? We have turn-key servers and what not, but a simple PGP is not possible? Here are some insights why PGP is pretty much... dead.

http://geekyschmidt.com/2010/08/28/netcraft-confirms-pgp-ema...
I think the whole OP is an illustration
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Given I've also known a few unrelated people do this, I believe your blanket dismissal foolish when it's simple to falsify the thesis: check iOS 6 adoption after Google Maps was released.
One can have little doubt that the real terrorists look upon all this with glee.

I imagine the perpetrators of extremist based terrorism see this erosion of civil liberties as an enormous win.

Yes. Snowden is definitely a hero, of dare I say it, historic proportions.
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@monsterix I think you stopped reading too soon. A few paragraphs in the major focus of this article indeed takes Snowden's side and sticks to it, addressing exactly the real issues (not 'steering away' from them as you claim).

This article goes further than others with links to sources of intelligence agencies denying these programs on record (basically "lying" to congress), see http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/07/privacy-wy... and http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/03/20/nsa-chi... ), and concludes with a quote by Daniel Ellsburg:

“Snowden did what he did because he recognised the NSA’s surveillance programs for what they are: dangerous, unconstitutional activity. This wholesale invasion of Americans’ and foreign citizens’ privacy does not contribute to our security; it puts in danger the very liberties we’re trying to protect.”

It's one of the better written stories that explain the issues well and clearly supports Edward Snowden. Today I've been sending this story to friends who are seeking to understand the issues.
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I do not argue that it should be covered. Just that it is irresponsible. I would argue that GMail accounts are as well.

"Picture this, man convicted of murder after subpoena to online marketing date reveals targeted ads for icotoners and shovels after GMail exchange with lawyer."

It's a stretch of the imagination but we live in a crazy world.
And what happens if they do make a mistake? Could you imagine the effects to society if this Complete Database were leaked -- if everyone's internet record were made public? It's mind-boggling.
It's Kafka, not Orwell we should be reading (PRISM)
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> So they release an "open" letter trying to redirect the masses attention
> If Google really cared this letter is like 5 years too late doncha think?

You should read the news occasionally. Google has been publishing a Transparency Report since 2010, and has been expanding it since then. Not quite 5 years, but more than long enough to render your comment paranoid nonsense.
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Surely the government sign off doesn't make it either consitutional or legal until it's been directly challenged in court?