Truthdigger of the Week: Anonymous NSA Leaker

By A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 11:54am |

Four major Internet, technology and privacy stories hit the Web this week.

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The courage required to divulge state secrets is remarkable. We live in an age of unprecedented attacks on those who blow the whistle on what they believe to be wrongdoing in government and business. The disclosures came during the same week that the U.S. government began a trial against perhaps the nation’s most famous whistle-blower, Pfc. Bradley Manning. Manning will likely face life in prison or worse for sending classified documents to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

The NSA whistle-blower will likely face a lifetime sentence if he or she is ever caught.

by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 11:55am

And I just posted another link where the government defended Scott Bloch for harassing whistle blowers - even helping him reverse a plea bargain where he'd go to jail for a minimum token month or so, so now he'll get to serve no jail time. (unless a less-than-impressed judge revokes this - stay tuned for Jun 24 or so)

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 12:18pm

Apparently holed up in Hong Kong - guess didn't like Hotel Ecuador. Comments below the article are pretty scary. Many people don't have a sense of right to privacy vs. worry about terror.

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 5:21pm

The weak link in the ability of our government, foreign governments or hackers to access data on all of us is the amount of data that corporations keep on all of us. Whether we buy a pack of chewing gum online or join a social network, we give up information without or consent. We are tracked so the company can send us other products, or sell our buying habits to other corporations.

Governments and hackers would have to track us down individually if corporations did not feel that our data belonged to them merely because we bought chewing gum.

Working on privacy issues has to deal with what corporations can consider their right to track us in addition to curbing government snooping.

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 5:57pm

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by NCD on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 6:27pm

LOL....?????

by trkingmomoe on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 9:47pm

The NSA is busy at work on the subversive statement.

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 10:09pm

Yes, I am encrypting all my digital data and then destroying the key to foil the NSA digital dragnet.

I may even quit posting 50 times a day to Facebook as they don't have a system to encrypt my likes.

by NCD on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 11:35pm

That's one way to deal with it. But they're likely to drag you in just to explain what you're writing. I've decided all my posts will now be written at a 10th grade level to be absolutely sure there's no misunderstanding with the folks at the NSA. Its also good practice in case I ever want to write a Time/Life book.

by ocean-kat on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 12:54am

You should first watch Closet Land:

Set in an unspecified country, Madeline Stowe's character, a children's book author, is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding anarchistic messages into her book, entitled Closet Land. The book is a story about a child who, as a result of bad behaviour, has been locked in a closet as punishment. While in there, the child is greeted by a group of childhood ally archetypes who innocently attempt to comfort the scared little girl. The seemingly simple content is questioned by the government, which accuses the author of encouraging and introducing anarchism among its audience of naïve children.

by Elusive Trope on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 7:29am

The same 'folks' who (1) were tipped off on a suspect by the Russian authorities (2) interviewed the suspect in the last 2 years (3) had photographs of him at the scene (4) could not identify him from the photos in their possession (5) finally caught him because he shot a Boston cop and (6) a carjack victim left his cell phone on in the stolen car?

by NCD on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 11:18am

In November 2007, David Foster Wallace posed Benjamin Franklin's question of how much freedom we would be willing to give up for a little security in the cybernetic age. Is the public willing to accept the risk of attack that politician's will argue will come if we lift our guard?

by rmrd0000 on Sun, 06/09/2013 - 11:09pm

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