yeah the government doesn’t care if people know or disapprove because the u.s. is not a democracy. you will never vote the surveillance state away, the same way you’ll never be able to vote against going to war
I imagine part of it is so Russia doesn’t know exactly what Ukraine’s military arsenal is.
“Oh the US just gave 10 tanks to Ukraine? Let’s be on the lookout with our tank busters for 10, and after that we won’t worry about tanks during our assaults.”
Biden administration has no reason to withhold Congressional report on how foreign recipients of U.S. military assistance comply with human rights law
Uh... yes he does. He has been knowingly funding a genocide for a while now.
He has also killed any effort in the UN to stop it, and has made zero calls for sanctions on US Senators that publicly threatened the WJC if they try to interfere in the genocide.
Perhaps you should read the first link in my comment and figure out who that source was, and step out of denial.
…and I guess you’re fine with him blaming a DNC staffer, whose parents on top of dealing with their son being murdered, then also had to face claims he was the source of tampering in one of the most controversial elections in US history?
Wow AND he was protecting Russia? How er… Great of him. \s
The hiding I kind of have sympathy for because he was raised in an Australian cult named “The Family” - which was a matriarchy in which he and other children were made to silently hide in the walls when the authorities came.
So his issues with women and propensity to hide from authority figures I can kind of understand on a pathological level. Doesn’t make it excusable, I just have sympathy for being a bit messed up in his personal life.
Same. Instead of actually trying him for something he might have actually done, he’s being persecuted by US because they are embarrassed their dirty secrets got exposed.
He’s an information terrorist that’s why he’s going down. He had secrets about everyone but released only the ones that would help his side. That doesn’t make him a noble whistleblower, that makes him a manipulator.
You just described every single corporate journalist. They literally only work and release stuff that fits their company’s set narrative. That’s what freedom of press guarantees.
Yes, and ironically private companies are protected by the First Amendment from the government as they are not the government. The stupid argument is that these private companies are utilities like water or electricity, so they should serve everyone without any option to refuse or remove.
For the most part, it should be nothing to worry about, as the case is stupid on its face, but with how political courts in the US become, it’s a gamble on how they will rule since legal precedents and case law means nothing.
Private companies are already regulated by the government. But they are not run by them government, so if you are removed it doesn’t infringe your First Amendment. If government want to start hosting their own social media instances like some Europe countries has done with Mastodon they are welcome to do so.
The fact that you don’t like how they are regulated, is a different question. Complain to your politician that takes from bribes from these private companies to make your life worse.
Indeed. To be a public square, it has to be operated or controlled by the government, so your one sentence is flawed on its face. I tried to educate you, you are welcome to ignore me.
But Alabama’s grand jury secrecy statute only prohibits grand jurors, witnesses, and others directly involved in grand jury proceedings from disclosing information about a grand jury. It does not prohibit journalists from reporting information provided by sources, presumably because the legislators who drafted the law knew that would be unconstitutional.
The statute also prohibits the inducement of a grand juror, etc. into disclosing such information.
Police chief was accused of sexual impropriety, and the newspaper was investigating.
A prominent local restaurant owner got caught in a DUI and the newspaper got a tip and investigated. On investigation, they decided the story was not newsworthy.
Police raided the newspaper claiming that the DUI tip was the result of illegal computer hacking, and that they had to confiscate the computers to analyze for evidence of hacking.
The judge who signed the search warrant also had a history of DUI.
Critics believe that the police used this hacking claim as a thinly veiled excuse to cripple the newspaper and check to see what they really had on the chief.
Critics have also suggested that the police themselves may have leaked the information to set up the flimsy excuse for the search.
Even if everything is encrypted when powered off, and decrypted while running, if you get raided while everything is running, it’s irrelevant. If you’re logged in and someone can just sit down at your computer and see everything, all the security in the world is meaningless.
Unless you have a giant electromagnet in your server rack, remote connection only from your local machine to that rack, and a panic button that fries the whole damned thing should your door be busted down, I’m not sure what else the answer is.
Even if your security is perfect, they can waterboard your ass until you give up the keys, and no court will ever call it misconduct, because they can just declare you a domestic terrorist or an enemy combatant, giving them carte blanche.
Problem #1: and this has been the prime problem for 22 fucking years: The Patriot Act. Every. Single. Bit. Of. It. Must. Be. Repealed. The harm it’s caused and the power it’s given the government is incalculable.
Problem #2: the rising tide of fascism
Problem #3: general apathy, and general lack of understanding of how computing works. We are rapidly accelerating backward in the general public’s understanding of computing principles. Hell, even just how to navigate a file system. The proliferation of locked down devices and walled gardens has driven our collective computing knowledge into the fucking stone age. You won’t get most people to adopt gpg since most mobile mail clients don’t support it. You won’t get people to encrypt their computer’s filesystem because they either don’t have a general purpose computer anymore, can’t be bothered to do so, or the idea of installing an OS that supports it is just fantastical.
Problem #4: third-party privacy services (encrypted chat apps, VPNs, etc) have a profit motive that will eventually override any other motivation.
Problem #5: cloud computing is just someone else’s computer that you don’t control.
Even if everything is encrypted when powered off, and decrypted while running, if you get raided while everything is running, it’s irrelevant.
Well, you can hit the power switch. The local constabulary isn’t gonna be smart enough to plunge the computer into liquid nitrogen and work on extracting the symmetric key from the frozen memory (although, federal authorities might be).
I know that it’s pretty easy to pick the lock on my front door. Or to break the window and get in. But still, there are a non-zero number of burglars who would be stopped by that lock. Same with my bike lock, which is a bit harder to pick but still possible. Nevertheless, the lock itself does deter and prevent some non-zero number of opportunistic thefts.
There are a non-zero number of law enforcement agencies that would be stopped by full disk encryption, even if the device is powered on and the encrypted media is mounted. There are a non-zero number of law enforcement agencies that would be stopped by all sorts of security and encryption strategies. And I’d argue that simple best practices would stop quite a few more than you’re seeming to assume: encrypt any data at rest on any devices you control, and then use e2e encryption for any data stored elsewhere.
You don’t even have to be that technically sophisticated. For Apple devices, turn on FileVault (as it is by default if you log into an Apple account when you set up the device), turn off iCloud. For Windows devices, use Bitlocker. For Android, turn on the “Encrypt Phone” setting, which is on by default. If you’re messing around with your own Linux devices, using LUKS isn’t significantly more difficult than the rest of system administration.
Bitlocker only support win 10/11 pro or above, most devices are shipped with win 10/11 home which doesn’t have the capability. Linux supports full drive encryption using LUKS.
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