'NSA should come clean about domestic spying': Ray Kelly - NYPOST.com
Kelly gets a highly personalized lesson in, “First I spied on the Muslims, and I thought it was cool because I was not a Muslim.”
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17 June 2013
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8:20
I don’t really want to call it “foreign intelligence” (court) anymore, because I think it’s just become a surveillance court, OK? And we are all foreigners now. By virtue of that order, every single phone record that Verizon has is turned over each and every day to NSA.
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16 June 2013
Facebook’s self-reflexive utility explains why the company finds privacy so tricky. The freedom to read and experience things privately is essential to self-development, the core proposition of the Emersonian ideal to which the Palo Alto tradition is heir. But Facebook’s core proposition is that when we collectively build the social graph, everyone benefits. The exact nature of those gains is perplexing; the company’s commercials show a lot of young people touching and smiling. Something good.
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16:47
“In 2011, 79 people were killed in Kings County by automobiles, and more than 23,000 were injured.” (via Brooklyn Drivers Kill The Most People In NYC : Gothamist)
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14:47
My inbound twitter feed this weekend is an eclectic treat.
Civil libertarians express horror at the extent of secret domestic surveillance by the US government. Democratic party loyalists attempt to distract with identity politics, because that has always worked. Cyclists hyperventilate about the latest citibike troll. Occupyists express hope (and envy?) for the backbone shown by our counterparts in Turkey. Everybody else pretends things are normal enough for them to tweet their usual industry-specific trivialities.
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10:27
After Profits, Defense Firm Faces Pitfalls of Cybersecurity - NYTimes.com
Mr. McConnell speaks often about the need for the private sector to jolt the government out of its attachment to existing systems, noting, for example, that the Air Force fought the concept of drones for years.
Yeah, thanks for that! What amoral miracle will the merger of corporate and government interests bring next?
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15 June 2013
Follow these rules and I’m sure your submission will be accepted by any of the A-list websites, to be forwarded on Facebook and Twitter by thousands of “my party right or wrong” stalwarts.
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15:10
Apple nailed it. These are exactly the people who will be using AirDrop to send the latest Rogue Wave concert track between their iPhones 5 running iOS 7. (I watched this video so I would know what everyone is loving/hating this week.)
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14 June 2013
“Apparently, if you think hiding information about spying on Americans is bad, you are misguided. The real problem is that Snowden didn’t understand that his role is to sit and be quiet while the “best and the brightest” keep Americans in the dark about government snooping on private citizens.” (via The Sickening Snowden Backlash - The Daily Beast)
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13 June 2013
U.S. to increase military support to Syria rebels | Reuters
Somewhere in the middle east, sunni and shi’ite people are fighting. (How dare they.)
Does anyone anywhere seriously believe, “this conflict will work out better if the United States gets involved”?
