Posts by David Hood
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I think it is just that mass surveillance is actually rubbish at catching people you don't know. It is good for keeping tabs on the general population scanning keywords, and excellent at keeping tabs on specific targets and their extended networks. but against a person with no social networks whom you don't know it in next to useless.
I thought Rawshark was on the way to discovery when he began giving press interviews, but he stepped back from that.
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In the end I decided to vote on the day like others in my family. But I would walk uphill both ways in the snow to vote tomorrow. It feels to me like a historic election, whatever happens, and I really want to be able to say I was there and I voted (I would have voted anyway, but this one feels historic to me).
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Paul, it is worse than that. Jake is a fourth generation New Zealander, and the government frowns upon people not registering Births or Deaths or Marriages. So as there has never been the Starrow family recorded in New Zealand, his parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents are all in trouble with the law.
Make a good supermarket checkout magazine article though, "I was an alien in my own country"
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I think saying the journalists who worked on the stories won the prize is pretty standard usage- saying Woodward and Bernstein won a Pulitzer for their Watergate investigation has been a pretty non-controversial thing. They won it (did the work) for an organisation that was awarded it.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
The argument around declassification is that as documents are supposed to be publically available unless there is pressing need, either these documents were wrong classified as secret or wrong declassified.
the estimate of the damage that the documents becoming public would do, based on there security clearance, is large damage to New Zealand.
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Didn't he describe it as a set of Federated data stores of the various countries, if so I would read it as including/ excluding a particular country's data store.
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Unless you’re Jason Ede, finally out of hiding! That would be awesome.
Brilliant bit of logic there Danielle.
Jason Ede, if that's you and logically it must be, perhaps your time spent arguing on the internet could be better used answering questions, for I have questions for you. Many, many questions.
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actually I thought the key word was
That said, I cannot recall any occasion when we have been involved in public advocacy designed only to discredit an individual, and we would be loathe to do it, whatever the instructions
which I construe to mean he is not denying discrediting individuals in order to discredit what they are saying, he is only saying they don't discredit people as an end in itself.
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For Pie graphs, I would rather credit the "colourful" William Playfair
http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/a-visionary-and-a-scoundrel
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...be careful what you wish for...
Actually what I expressly do not wish is that they just ask the NSA because as a communication between two non-US citizens via an American company the NSA will have a copy.
what I would wish is that, if the defence is that it is a forgery, the investigation use due process and legal powers to obtain the true document from the third party holding it in investigating a criminal matter.
Do I think the governments surveillance powers are overly broad. Yes. Have investigating authorities been able to get warrants to analyse material sitting on servers for a very long time before these new surveillance powers. Yes. Do people committing crimes sometimes forget they are passing their messages through a third party that saves everything? Yes.
Is the amount Facebook and Google know about us a bit creepy? Yes.
I do actually want the rule of law followed here. and followed in an even handed manner.