nope, remove all domestic data from their servers

Post #377,800 by boxley 7/9/13 2:17:05 PM Reply	nope, remove all domestic data from their servers send all the police swat teams to afghanistan to give real soldiers a break. If they dont want to go, put on a blue suit, take some ridealongs with real police officers then get them on patrol. Put real strong doors on the cockpits and send the tsa home. We are spending billions to give the elites tools to suppress us. Let them go back to stealing the old fashioned way. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #377,801 by rcareaga 7/9/13 2:31:00 PM Reply	See, Scott, now you've got me agreeing ...with boxley. It is foolish for us to leave all this apparatus of oppression lying around. Even had it been used responsibly to date—HA!—it will inevitably be abused more and more going forward. Will we get to outright Stalinism? I don't know, but it should be troubling to all that we've approached as closely as we have these early innings to High Brezhnevism. It's not going to be easy—it may not be possible—to back this truck up the hill, but anyone with eyes to see has to have an idea of what's waiting for us at the bottom of the road. I don't want to go there. cordially,
Post #377,803 by Another Scott 7/9/13 2:34:47 PM Reply	I know the arguments. I just don't see it. :-)
Post #377,807 by rcareaga 7/9/13 2:48:46 PM Reply	I hope I'm being unwontedly gloomy ...and that your own sunny optimism proves the cannier read. Doubt it, though. cordially,
Post #377,802 by Another Scott 7/9/13 2:33:57 PM Reply	How? Omar from Upper Volta has a Verizon phone. Is he a US person or not? How about if he's on a travel visa visiting the US and gets a cheap phone? How about if he takes that Verizon phone to Canada. How can you tell before-hand whether he's a US person or not? 325.86.998.123 (or any other example bogus IP number you choose) - is that a US person or not? How can you guarantee that it's not domestic? If you say to the NSA - "you cannot collect any domestic information, not even for a millisecond" - you effectively prevent them from doing their job. Might as well close the place down. That's fine if you want to close the NSA down, but that's not fine if you expect the NSA to collect foreign intelligence. The NSA having a database of US metadata that is not tied to individuals is not suppressing me. YMMV. Cheers, Scott.
Post #377,806 by drook 7/9/13 2:41:43 PM Reply	Technical question How much of the data going in and out of the country still does it by wire (or glass) and how much by satellite? Once upon a time you didn't call Europe without going over a transatlantic cable. Seems pretty straightforward to limit their access only to the points where something leaves the country. Yes, this leaves cases of foreigners here, or Americans abroad, but it gets us a hell of a lot closer to their documented mandate. -- Drew
Post #377,809 by Another Scott 7/9/13 2:52:34 PM Reply	They seem to monitor all kinds of EM radiation. Maps. http://www.nsa.gov/sigint/faqs.shtml 1. What is Signals Intelligence? SIGINT involves collecting foreign intelligence from communications and information systems and providing it to customers across the U.S. government, such as senior civilian and military officials. They then use the information to help protect our troops, support our allies, fight terrorism, combat international crime and narcotics, support diplomatic negotiations, and advance many other important national objectives. NSA/CSS collects SIGINT from various sources, including foreign communications, radar and other electronic systems. This information is frequently in foreign languages and dialects, is protected by codes and other security measures, and involves complex technical characteristics. NSA/CSS needs to collect and understand the information, interpret it, and get it to our customers in time for them to take action. Our workforce is deeply skilled in a wide range of highly technical fields that allow them to this work, and they develop and employ state-of-the-art tools and systems that are essential to success in today's fast-changing communications and information environment. Our researchers are working constantly to help us anticipate and prepare for future developments. Some internet connectivity maps are here - http://www3.nd.edu/~...y/gallery_old.htm China tries to monitor everything on their network. They don't succeed. http://www.theatlant...een-reset/306650/ My $0.02. Cheers, Scott.
Post #377,943 by Ashton 7/11/13 11:51:22 PM Reply	Nice piece by Fallows.. And the last ¶ kinda puts in perspective those Other Great Questions. (No guesstimated Answers to any of those: a wise choice, I wot. But that was in 2008, Are we There yet?) Got one here, though, 'Eat the Rich' / It's the only way to be Sure.
Post #377,808 by boxley 7/9/13 2:50:47 PM Reply	Re: How? cdma phones dont work elsewhere. If Omar is traveling in canada who gives a rats ass? If Omar is plotting to do bad things to americans he will be ratted out in canada or be made to smuggle dope from mexico. Who cares. If Omar makes it here and starts running amok hopefully a pissed off citizen can put paid to his anguish. Why not, we do it for the criminals. http://www.nydailyne...article-1.1380615 Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #377,810 by Another Scott 7/9/13 3:00:42 PM Reply	Multiband phones are common. Verizon has them. What if Omar is on the border between the US and Canada? The point I'm trying to make is, there are complications introduced by modern communications that make deciding who is and who is not a "US person" simply by looking at metadata difficult. Someone anywhere in the world can use VPN or lots of other things to make it appear that they're somewhere else. AFAIK, anyone can get a virtual machine on Amazon's servers if they're willing to pay the price (or if not, there are certainly ways around whatever rules are in place). Are they a US person? How can you tell if you're just looking at metadata? The government and the NSA says they have rules and procedures in place to try to address those complications. We can choose to believe them or not, just like we can choose to believe Snowden and Greenwald or not. We can argue that more transparency and more restrictions are needed, or not. But I don't think we can say that the task that the NSA has is easy or that it is trivial to exclude information from US persons. That doesn't pass the simplest of tests, IMHO. I think I'm done for now. :-) Cheers, Scott.
Post #377,811 by boxley 7/9/13 3:21:10 PM Reply	sawright, Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep

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