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It's a very clever recruiting strategy. ;-)

I'd say that will happen for some time after you introduce hardware switches. But it will certainly wear off. I don't see that as a valid reason.

True.

I'd say that it's the responsibility of those familiar with technology to reveal what possibilities it opens up.

And of course it's the responsibility of the Press to give these points the visibility they deserve.

And one problem of the past was probably the disconnect between tech people and Press people (tech was not understood by the people behind the presses). Today, we have tech bloggers and social media. Let's hope this will make up for something.

I don't think it's wise to trust any such "privacy setting".

What devices really need is a hardware switch allowing us to physically disconnect cameras and microphones.

I've never understood why this was not introduced as a standard when laptop cams/mics started being built-in.

Society has accepted to be tracked all the time/everywhere with the introduction of mobile phones.

If we don't like this, we should start to talk more proactively to people about the dangers our technology brings.

The 1st question for me is still this one:

Why on earth should I not eat natural and unprocessed foods?

It seems to me that this is what our bodies are trained to process. Why change that?

I've never understood how prisons could be allowed to become private businesses. It's "evil" by definition.

From what I hear, the mainstream media in Europe generally doesn't really push Greenwald's stories.

There is really no valid justification for these circumstances. It leads me to assume/believe that European media is also controlled by those in power.

> Freenet is a distributed data storage network designed to prevent censorship, provide anonymity and be hard to block.

A very similar solution offering this is http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/

You get decentralized/p2p encrypted VOIP/chat/messaging/file sharing (written in C++).

General intro for "darknet" solutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29

> I can't see him doing much worse as the head of a major news medium than Rupert Murdoch

Worst compliment ever.

As long as Germany allows the construction of huge NSA surveillance centers within its borders, I will consider this country NSAland.

Although I currently can't see any evidence of involvement of any government branch, the ultimate result may be the same nevertheless.

Google Glass certainly has the same issue, but to an even higher degree, since we know about the collaboration of Google with the NSA.

EDIT: thanks for the correction, missed that one.

Portugal is on it:

http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/23/portugals-drug-experie...

The next question: How come with all this, the cartels continue to exist?

He gave planet Earth an important wake-up call: Democracy is about to be shot in the head.

(And personally, I don't think we should expect more whistle blowers in the coming years, because the NSA sure as hell will make sure it will never happen again, so this makes this moment even more important.)

He did all this showing us that he's ready to be tortured and die for this cause.

EDIT: This is history being written. What happens now and what does not will define the future we and our children will have. I thought this was 100% obvious.

I believe he's made a couple of obvious (maybe naive) mistakes, but he has the right mindset, has shown that he is willing to sacrifice a lot. He definitely deserves our support.

IMO, he should just not be left alone at the top of WikiLeaks, it should be a little bit more "democratic". I am of course fully aware that collaboration always means a certain risk of being infiltrated.

It seems more like Distracting yourself to me.

Is this a serious question?

No!

Tell Obama to forward his.

Good idea, provided you're not saying it's an either-or.

Again, it's not about either-or - unless one activity prevents you from participating in another activity.

We need to take all bullets we can get and fire them in parallel (online and in meatspace).

> They make the participants and observers feel better

To some extent, this is good b/c it helps everybody to understand they're not "the only one around here who...".

Democracy in full effect.

> "If I can't get basic information about these programs, then I'm not able to do my job", Rep. Griffith told me.

Very similar to the judges who do not know enough about technology and make decisions about things they don't understand.

> there is a strong precedent for these HN-policy meta-discussions to be killed by mods.

If this is true, it would be a pretty sad state of affairs.

If such a discussion comes up, it's because of a lack of transparency.

An open discussion has the benefit of generating valuable feedback for PG.

As a general request, I would welcome more transparency (about how things are handled and what we can and cannot expect from HN).

EDIT: I also believe that a lack of it will ultimately lead to HN being replaced by something else.

We know that they do.

I'd add to that that control over hardware (such as chips, etc.) seems a tad more powerful.

And then, it could also be about preventing Samsung from gaining market share in the "spying market".

Off topic, but this post (and discussion) illustrates very well why technology and politics can never be separated.

You would need a very strong and valid argument to separate these two topics.

One reason to protect Apple may be the fact that the NSA has access to Apple and their users' data, which is certainly very valuable to them.

It's really just about the money/power and influential people sharing it among them and protecting it.

Direct link to the list: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8_USrDOQxfdX18xbHpGbzJtNzA/...