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To me, the scariest part of all this is your opinion.

Nations are, and have always been, in a state of competition for dominance and resources.

Knock one out, and some other will fill the vacuum instantly, while their people clap and cheer - death to the USA, my country #1.

This idea that the USA should just leave everyone alone, and then the world will be a perfect place is so naive that it's absurd and self-destructive.

Pretending that you can get a job as an IT guy at some contractor's place, then steal government laptops, bring them home, then sift through the data to gather whatever dirt you can find, and give that dirt away to other nations is most certainly treason and espionage.
As far as staying in the US goes, rather than rehash grey-area's superb take down of this argument, I'll just point you straight to the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928295
I think that most of what he has said so far has been corroborated. He has done enough to raise awareness of the issues that we know to be true. He should do whatever he needs to remain safe.
Indeed--at this point he must be conservatively considered a de facto agent of a foreign government.
ARM instructions are 32 bit, so there is a problem when you want to load a 32 bit literal. The assembler will get around this by sticking literals in the text section and then fixup the load with the correct offset.

Example, using a simple input:

.globl _start
_start:
ldr r0, =0x20200000

Disassembles to:

.globl _start
_start:
ldr r0, [pc, #-4]
.word 0x20200000
I didn't realize everything I read is supposed to drive me to action. Can't I just find it interesting?
Like your previous question, this is a non sequitur. The answer to a local terror attack is not hysteria about stopping all terror and surveillance of all citizens (99.9% of whom will never encounter terrorists in any form). The answer is to give the police and law enforcement time to do their work (which they do very well) and support them in trying to catch the people who committed that crime. The Boston bombers were found by police work after the fact, not by the mass surveillance of the population you are advocating as a solution to 'stop terror'. That's a solution to another problem - it's far more useful for finding dissenters of any stripe and undermining the rule of law than for catching terrorists.
all I can say is, have you seen the existing housing stock in sf? It's not like that much of it is earthquake safe. And landlords have fought like hell to avoid retrofitting [1].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/14/san-francisco-earth...
"Because their violation harms people directly." is what I meant here.
don't forget to mention that Google is also the entity reporting that the information was handed over.
Thanks! That makes sense, I'm only familiar with the old assembler from BBC Basic :) 0x202 wouldn't be a constant that you could use with MOV now I think about it, since it could only express integers generated with an 8 bit value and a shift.
Can someone clarify if Google had to reveal they had done this? The article implies that they did not, and thus the reveal was a "not evil" gesture of transparency. But I'm wondering if they may have known it would get out anyway and they are just getting in front of it. Anyone have more information?
Push back more on the request?

The 4th amendment includes this part:

"particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized"

Describing what you want as " all e-mails " is exactly the type of description this part of the amendment is meant to prevent. It's way too broad.
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Not a MOV and an ADD?
Man you've been sucking the propaganda up. Yes, crooks. Who do you think politicians work for? It's not the constituents. It's the financial elite. Where do the financial elite work? Wallstreet. What do the financial elite read? Wallstreet journal.
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> The lack of solutions itself is a sign that no one has anything better to offer than what the NSA is currently upto.

Not doing what the NSA is currently up to, and letting a 9/11 happen every year, would be better than what we're currently doing.

"Preventing all terrorism" is both impossible and wildly impractical: to even get close, you must eviscerate the freedoms in your society and undermine the rule of law.

The "solution" is "be an adult, and don't go in to a frenzied panic every time you get hurt".
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A month ago mocl was considered vaporware by many. Not releasing it was damaging their "brand".
Yes of course, but the key here is that even if you could stop all terror attacks, many things are more important than stopping terrorist attacks, many things which are undermined by dragnet surveillance. Stopping the terrorists is entirely the wrong debate and not the most important issue here - it's a convenient hot button issue which, because it has no solution and is emotive, distracts much time and attention from the real issues in question.
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There are quite a few similarities. I remember realizing that the typical MBA is essentially indistinguishable from the Soviet "apparatchik."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik

"Members of the "apparat" were frequently transferred between different areas of responsibility, usually with little or no actual training for their new areas of responsibility. Thus, the term apparatchik, or "agent of the apparatus" was usually the best possible description of the person's profession and occupation."
Well, it is an inherent flaw of "cloud" based services.

If they are surprised by this then they obviously shouldn't have been using google in the first place.
FWIW, removing things from history entirely is easy with git using git-filter-branch. The real problem is realizing that you need to do that in the first place.
It depends on what you mean by "host your own email." Sure, a server at, say, RackSpace, might be vulnerable to government intrusion without your knowledge, but if you have a physical server at your home, then the best that the government can do (without your knowledge) is to tap your upstream connection, which does little for past emails.
reminds me off the Hermann Goering quote from the Nuremberg trial in 1947.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the
country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the
country to danger. It works the same in any country."
This bureaucracy has not come from Mars, you know... I'm still at loss how people in California can invent technologies which alter the whole course of the civilization but are stuck with the government which is, by any outsider account, certifiably insane - and don't even try to do anything of effect about it. Or maybe the said people just have enough money that they don't care? After all, if things go bad you can always take your money and move to the next country which haven't go bad yet.
It's unrealistic for CATO to go digging through court cases across the country. They use aggregate sources of data from other institutions funded specifically to study police. Thus their data is limited to confirmed court cases and available police documents from other organizations.

Their success rate for 40,000/yr does properly reveal if the botched raids were a cost of doing business or a consequence of increased militarization. For all we know, stricter scrutiny regarding situations where SWAT teams are used could reduce the raids to 35,000/yr and almost completely eliminate botched raids without decreasing overall safety (the primary reason for using SWAT teams). The point here is to point out excessive force in a few categories of situations, not to put into question the whole purpose of SWAT teams.

A cursory search reveals these "botched" raids in 2012 alone:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/06/swat-team-throws-...

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/cops-kill-dog-handcuff-kids-in-wr...

http://www.businessinsider.com/9-horrifying-botched-police-r...

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/aug/04/arizona_swat...

http://rt.com/usa/swat-billings-burns-fasching-312/

Or how about this: when the DEA pulled local SWAT resources (the majority of local SWAT forces) to raid Oaksterdam in Oakland (unarmed civilians protected by state law), they failed to respond to a shooting in a university a few MILES away.

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/LegalizationNation/archives/20...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/oakland-sc...

The shooter described lining people up against and firing at them Ceaușescu style.
Help NSA: print a few years of your email and snail-mail them the package
would this work as a kind of citizen's initiative?
I am not located in the US and for me it would be a little expensive, but it might be worth it.
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I challenge myself to answer the following questions in everything I read: Has this taught me anything new and valuable? (If not, move on quickly) How can I apply insights from this article today? (Wait and I’ll forget) When have I applied the ideas from this post? Where have I not, but could have? (What was the difference?)

Nice philosophy, with one giant outlying case: The best and the worst of anything you can possibly read will seem the same: like a waste of time. And the only way to tell the difference is to add one new dimension: time. The best things you read will seem like a waste of time today, but one day you'll realize that it changed your life.

Apologies to Maslow, a suggested hierarchy of reading value:

=================
/ 6-WasteOfTime \
/ 5-DifferenceMaker \
/ 4-Actionable \
/ 3-SomeValue \
/ 2-Engaging \
/ 1-Interesting \
/ 0-WasteOfTime \
===============================

So how do you know if something that appears to be a waste of time is Value 0 or Value 6? You don't. Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut.
What's a "person of interest"? Can they obtain a (normal) warrant for that? What's the charge brought against Assange from the US government?
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"But... but.. I was getting this cookie for you!!"
> Or, if you're in the "host your own email" crowd, what makes you think your ISP won't cooperate with the government just like Google does?

They don't have the information Google does because it's on an e-mail server under your bed. And you enjoy certain legal protections as a citizen in your home country.

It's not a particularly enticing solution but it does have its upsides.
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edit: I'm going to tone back my comment a bit and try to assume the best - that this was a simple misunderstanding and not an attempt to trivialize intolerance.

I believe the person you are replying to was making a statement about widespread Chinese government and corporate practices, and not about the Chinese people in general. God knows that the American government and corporate practices are under a constant barrage of attacks from around the world, yet we do not accuse those critics of xenophobia or racism.

Also, from the Hacker News Guidelines: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
It compiles to C; there is no JIT/bytecode/interpreter. It may be created from scratch.

http://wukix.com/dist/mocl_eclm2013.pdf
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There is a 10-bullet list of the particular things to be seized. How would you have made it more specific?
From http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/le...

"We notify users about legal demands when appropriate, unless prohibited by law or court order."
You can use that method (arm usually uses a "mov" and "movt" to load upper and lower half-words), but you would be using 2 instructions to accomplish the same thing that ldr with a literal pool does in one.
Or instead of pushing him to do whatever it takes to protect his own life which ultimately is a human reflex, the US Gov could have said: ok we acknowledge there is a problem with the data we gather, with the policies we enacted and with the way we informed the people, come back home we won't charge you for espionnage and we will listen to you to improve how we could protect the US without compromising privacy.
We can't verify the authenticity of any documents, but we also have no reason to believe that they are contaminated or sourced from foreign governments, at least not yet. And did he ever say he would "face the consequences?" The interviews I watched indicated that he felt he could not receive a fair trial in the US, which is why he felt the need to flee.
Fun fact about Aeroflot: The slogan for Aeroflot back in the days of the USSR was "You Have Made The Right Choice", which is ironic since Aeroflot was the only airline in the Soviet Union.
That's true. However, as an answer to the above it may well be acceptable without needing a different library.
I challenge myself to answer the following questions in everything I read:

1. Has this taught me anything new and valuable? (If not, move on quickly)
2. How can I apply insights from this article today? (Wait and I’ll forget)
3. When have I applied the ideas from this post? Where have I not, but could have?
(What was the difference?)

Whenever I read an "I challenge myself to answer the following questions..." list in a blog post, I think "Wow, do I challenge myself like they do in this scenario? Will they mind if I steal their technique? Will I stick with it? Do they stick with it?"

I say this because it's often a potential 'takeaway' from an article to apply similar challenges in one's life, and like Jason says, unless it can be applied immediately it is often forgotten.
Sorry for the late reply; from my experience anything FUSE-based sucks too much to qualify as even barely usable.
If your email server were under your bed, the FBI would just serve the warrant on you in person, seize your computer and all other computers in the same building, any spare disk drives, routers, appliances, and whatnot laying around, and probably half of the rest of your belongings besides.

For those of you outside the USA, the NSA/DIA will just hack into your server and take your email.
>That's unrealistic, because we simply won't put up with mass casualty events.

Honest question: Why not?

Obviously we don't want mass casualties, but we don't want thousands of traditional murders or automobile fatalities or cancer deaths every year either, and we don't allocate insanely disproportionate budgets or construct a surveillance state to address any of those things. If anything we under-perform in addressing them.

I mean let's even compare to other mass casualty events. There have been hurricanes that have caused more deaths than 9/11. Where is the call for a war on CO2 to reduce climate change induced mass casualties? The answer is that there is no lobby for it. Nobody is going to get paid a trillion dollars, if anything the oil and coal companies would lose money. So the mass casualties there don't get politicians, lobbyists and PR flacks whipping the media into a frenzy over it, instead it just gets swept under the rug.

We as citizens have a duty to not allow ourselves to be manipulated like this.
You assume they can't just rootkit and browse your server at will?

On one hand, government agencies are notoriously ineffective with technology. On the other hand, I'd rather assume competence and be incorrect than the opposite.
Already thoroughly discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5920530 and here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5921005
What kind of society we live in where corporations, whatever their political leaning or agenda is, decide how we can spend our money.. or not.

A few years ago, I've gone completely "plastic" & banished cash from my wallet. In light of developments such as this, I'm starting to reconsider my decision. Today Visa, tomorrow Square..
You're not questioning, you're proclaiming a statement which has no proof but the proclaiming itself. Following your metaphor, you should be feeling like you're in physics lab proclaiming the reason for gravity is God's will. Don't be surprised somebody would ask for some proof to that and for some explanation about how one could verify that.
I would highly consider to the grandparent poster that they do their own due-diligence on the life in the state of Texas, particularly if they have children. Check the poverty rate, access to health care, pollution, and education rankings that all rank among the worst in the US.
Finally someone with a realistic solution that can be politically acceptable.

Amazing to watch how defensive people get over a question.

So thank you, for showing everyone else who has been downvoting me into oblivion, the right way to react to questions that make one uncomfortable.

And in the end, this debate will only move forward over reasonable solutions.
Not fancy speeches on privacy and freedom.
Which I have had more than enough off.
What about using BitCoin as a form of receiving donations?
Afraid I'm not well versed in European banking history, just the highest of highlights, e.g. I know the names Medici and Rothschild, of the Credit-Anstalt failure and various of the current names. (This is a very post-WWI American attitude per http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375412301/)

But I am something of a domain expert on firearms, and yes, the Beretta family has been privately making guns since 1526 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta):

"The Beretta company was established in 1526, when gunsmith Maestro Bartolomeo Beretta of Gardone Val Trompia (Brescia, Lombardy, Italy) was paid 296 ducats for 185 arquebus barrels by the Arsenal of Venice. The bills of sale for the order of those barrels are in the firm's archive."

And I know their post-WWII quality is very good, my father is big on them for smaller stuff since he'd left handed and they're big on being adjustable for lefties, even ejection direction in carbines (!). They got the contract for the US military's "new" handgun---well, as of 1985, I carry the previous 1911 design since it fits my hands perfectly---and of course they set up production in the US.

I bring this up because they made the mistake of doing that in Maryland, prior to this year perhaps the most tolerable of the viciously anti-gun states in the US. Once it started going over the top post-Newtown, one of the family members came over, talked to the governor, etc., to no avail, and now they're expanding outside of the state and eventually moving production. They of course took it as among other things a personal insult, and no doubt deeply understand the vicissitudes of politics.
What languages do you like to work with?

One related thing I can suggest is to contact the author first and see if they're interested in help. Because a lot of projects admins are non-responsive to pull requests. Perhaps because they're just busy, they don't really put much time into the project or any other reason. It's kinda frustrating to submit a contribution to a project and then get zero response to your pull request.

If you contact them first and they don't even response - that's probably a good tip that they won't respond to your pull request either.
> If you have online contact with someone that's of interest, there's a chance all of your info will be of interest also.

Yes, I believe two degrees of separation is the rule of thumb here. McCarty is one degree, so to complete the graph, they need all his data.

William Binney mentioned this two-degree rule in his recent interview w/ USA Today (warning, autoplay):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...

Note that two degrees was Binney's conservative proposal at the time to help preserve the privacy of the general population. The higher-ups weren't interested. But I assume there has been some research into how many degrees of separation are required to reach some threshold of confidence, and 2 degrees is pretty good.
I used to have diplomatic immunity as well. Getting to ignore parking tickets and other fines, police officers treating you like royalty, no security checkpoints or lines at the airport (and a very comfy ambassador's lounge), complimentary upgrades to first class and not having to pay taxes (sales or otherwise) at the host country are the first that come to mind.
The way I see it, Google set up a system that is easy to conduct surveillance on. Gigabytes of storage, no way to actually delete messages over IMAP or POP3, and in various subtle ways GMail discourages the use of encryption.

This is all probably inadvertent, but it indicates that protecting users from this sort of surveillance is not a priority.
Remind me again how telling the Chinese when and how the NSA was hacking them makes us or our country safer?

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/06/nsa-leaker-edward-snowd...

"has divulged information to the Post which showed how computers in the SAR and on the mainland had been targeted by the NSA over a four-year period."

Pointblank, this had NOTHING to do with the domestic NSA surveillance he was uncovering. It just gives the Chinese a really good idea of how you're carrying out your surveillance and allows them secure their networks.

For all of the security stories about the Chinese hacking Google and other US companies and stealing their secrets, I find it ironic nobody seems to care this country had been trying to locate and disrupt this sort of state sponsored hacking.

So yeah, this is WAY beyond what I consider "whistleblowing"
We're using RQ in production and are very happy with it. We chose it over Celery because the "protocol" is much more straight-forward than Celery - when something fails, I can peek at the state of redis or the RQ source code and know what's going on.

The only downside is that, like Celery, RQ forks for every task. This can feel a bit heavy for some of our simpler tasks, although it hasn't proven to be an issue yet.
About that...

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/visa-invests-in-squ...
Indeed, the article is credited to him, thanks for pointing that out (missed that!). But the original posted site ("smartmotorist") didn't seem to have any credits, so unclear if it's a rip-and-post or if Mr. Beaty was part of "smartmotorist". Regardless, I think Trafficwaves.org gives more info, so wanted to share.
Looks interesting, I will give it a try soon.
>Yet politicians the world over, in the aftermath of terrorist attacks are expected to act tough.

So act tough. Demand justice. Capture Osama bin Laden.

The rest of it is just defense contractors and bureaucrats capitalizing on the tragedy to engorge their budgets and claim new powers.