Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet 413
Nerdfest writes "Bruce Schneier writes in The Atlantic: 'Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Some, as we've learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either out of patriotism or because they believe it's easier that way. I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight.'"
Al Gore wants the Internet back (Score:4, Funny)
>> The government has commandeered the Internet
Somewhere, I'm sure Al Gore is pissed.
Re:Bruce Schneier (Score:5, Funny)
Garbage. The comment he was replying to was indulging in "ad hominem [yourlogicalfallacyis.com]" and he was attacking that argument by pointing out that it wasn't even attacking the right person. The parent poster didn't even claim that Bruce is right.
I hereby declare a new logical fallacy; "Argument by yourlogicalfallacyis.com"
Re:Do you think that will make any difference? (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions.
Who here is against having their most intimate moments broadcast on the internet, in the name of security and safety? Who here wouldn't mind a few of their nude pics being printed out on the NSA workgroup printer, laminated, and taken home to be used in the shower? I for one think we need to embrace these privacy nudists, and what more, make their database public, so everyone will know that so and so's wife is really an A-cup, and that so and so's husband is coming up a little short. I think it's pertinent, and obviously well worth the taxpayer's money, that we know exactly how often your teenage son is whacking it up in his room, and what your young daughter was doing last night with her boyfriend. I think the world needs to hear about it, even if you don't; that way, when you step into the office in the morning, people can replay select moments from those audio / video recordings, so you can relive through them as well. I tell you, if we do not know whether the French President is truly worthy of being called France's best lover (or at least, well-endowed), then we haven't gone far enough.
What more, this will give all the people at church something to gossip about. Hell, people at school, at work, even the grocery store will finally be able to grade who is, and isn't, given their absolute best in the sack. We can publish rankings, and ratings (based off of viewer's actual footage), of just what a person is willing to do to please someone of the opposite, or even same, sex. We can print baseball cards, with their names and stats on the back, and candid poses on the front, and have people trade them around for a better set. We can even have a set for people in office: Hilary Clinton, Size, Waist, Bust, Favorite Positions, etc. I tell you, our public figures will lead the way here, in forming a truly transparent government; I'm sure someone will sneak a video camera into the White House, and find out exactly what goes on after-hours within. This could truly be a bold, new America...free from its Puritanical upbringings, ready to scare terrorists away with the sound of a hundred thousand pants being shed.