Get one from Texas.
I haven’t forgotten that there were people who called me a nutjob conspiracy theorist for saying that drones would one day be used over American soil.
Now those same people tell us that its for our own good.
Yeah, tax cheats. Just tax cheats. It has absolutely no interest in the politically troublesome. Just tax cheats.
LOTSA spinny gobbeldy gook that in not based on facts, eg case example, but authors aganda, IMHO
Directed to omit SODs involvement... a little doggy but the key aspect revolves around the alleged creation of an investigative file. In essence if they are handed a case and the information cannot be verified through an investigation without SOD data, the case is dead. Also IRS SAs only rarely take the stand as they are not witnesses to the data and testimony that make the case. AUSAs deal with the Defense Attorneys. SAs do not unless one shows up at a meeting and the Agents are there to “ASK the questions, not to answer them”
THE ARTICLE NEEDS FACTS. BTW anyone, including a manager who attempts to interfere in a case can be investigated for interference with a Federal Investigation. AND no one I know would ever take the stand and lie, I think it is called perjury. If you have a spouse and kids, the job does not pay enough to go to jail.
NEEDS A LOT MORE DATA TO REFLECT ON THE IRS SPECIAL AGENTS.
We will soon see a wave of off-shore encrypted replacements for things like traditional email, chat, P2P and Facebook.
What will really send the shivers up the NSA’s spine will be the fact that they will almost certainly use elliptic curve public key encryption (ECC) This is the encryption used by Russia to secure their most sensitive stuff. It’s also what the NSA uses internally.
Diffie-Hellman/RSA is no longer acceptable by either Russia or the NSA for the most sensitive data. Work has been progressing on new algorithms to attack the discrete logarithm problem...that’s the problem that makes it hard to break current public-key crypto.
Just as the NSA is getting their hopes up for a breakthrough algorithm to attack Diffie-Hellman/RSA everyone with brains will move to ECC.
The reason the new ECC services will pop up overseas is the fact that Certicom (The Blackberry people) holds patents on ECC. I wonder if the NSA is paying them to make it so costly to use ECC that developers stick with Diffie-Hellman?
Cloud computing providers are in a big slump right now because of revelations about NSA snooping. Look for this lucrative business to also move elsewhere soon and utilize ECC.
What people are beginning to demand are data systems where they alone hold the keys and no telltale data is on servers anywhere...or at least not anywhere in the jurisdiction of US authorities as they are no longer trustworthy.
I expect other shoes to drop soon that will destroy confidence in commercial operating systems like windows.
IMO we will see a move to Linux by most people concerned about data security. Zorin Linux and Linux Mint are good distros for beginners as they are nearly as easy to use as Windows even for total newbies.
A good, open-source, full-disk encryption tool is a wise choice if you are determined to protect your data.
Don’t depend totally upon the firewall built into your cable/DSL router to keep the bad guys out! It would be incredibly easy to place a back-door in these routers.
I could do it so I know a lot of others could. I’d place the back-door in the hardware not the firmware.
Absolutely nothing...
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Guess what. He lied. Again.
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IMHO, the only purpose for a facility as huge as the Utah Data Center was to store EVERYTHING, every phone call, email, and click of the mouse. The big lie is that taking possession of private communications is not a violation of the Fourth Amendment if nobody looks at the content. It is equivalent to raiding your home and copying all your files, and then claiming that it's not an illegal search.
The first thing that needs to happen is to cut those fiber optic links at the sources where they tap into major trunks. Then we'll talk about what kind of surveillance is appropriate for the purpose of interdicting international terrorism. Frankly, we could do a lot more by purging this country of Islamic nationals, which a bounty system could accomplish quite promptly.
Boss: I have a few articles on privacy tools that I don’t believe have been posted. A tad dated (couple months). Would you be willing to forebear a bit on the classification?
And yet Republican “leaders” (like Lindsay Graham, Peter King, et al) assure us that there’s nothing to see here - the NSA spying is necessary to catch terrorists.
If only these “leaders” would get on board with conservatives and fight this obvious NSA spying overreach, they would gain the support of independents, millenniums, and even many liberals. With that support Republicans would probably win the next three elections.
Instead these Republicans hem and haw and meanwhile more and more Democrats are grabbing this ball and running with it.
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for Republicans to significantly expand their “big tent” and to prove that they stand for liberty and personal privacy. Instead, they show themselves to the wavering groups of non-Republican voters, who are right now seeking fighters on this issue, as petty supporters of big, corrupt government.
The US government is breaking our laws. In that sense, it has gone from being the servant of the People to become simply a massive criminal organization.