"Dick pics", what you should know about showing your penis !
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"Dick pics", what you should know about showing your penis !
Invasion of privacy and whatever - are you ok with "them" looking at your "dic-pics" ie photos of your private parts that you choose to share with your partner-on-line ?
F'k those selfie-shoes, this is wacko
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... lance-gchq
F'k those selfie-shoes, this is wacko
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... lance-gchq
F'king nuts (sorry )Seriously.Snowden acknowledged that lots of NSA and GCHQ activity does indeed hoover up dick pics . But he offered some slight reassurance. “Well, the good news is, there’s no program named the Dick Pic Program.”
The strange thing is, there’s something that comes pretty close: the UK intelligence agency GCHQ has collected so many dick pics they’ve become something of a problem for the organisation.
The problem arose, as it were, through a capability codenamed Optic Nerve, which allowed the agency to identify and hoover up any Yahoo webcam imagery that crossed its various bulk interception points across the internet. Rather than just collect the information for specific surveillance targets, the system hovered up virtually everything it saw. In what must surely rank as the most predictable complication in history – though it still apparently took the agency by surprise – it turned out a substantial quantity (up to 11%) of what it was intercepting were pornographic pictures. GCHQ did attempt to add some automated filters to protect its staff from seeing too much adult content, but noted there was “no perfect ability” to do this. Reassuringly (or disturbingly, depending on your point of view), policy documents reminded GCHQ staff that “dissemination of offensive material is a disciplinary offence”.
Such is the reality of modern internet surveillance: the UK’s intelligence agency has, quite literally, taken and stored material from a camera in your bedroom. The UK government has collected what must be one of the world’s largest collection of dick pics (and, for that matter, tit pics), stored them, and on a regular basis viewed – even if unwillingly – quite a lot of them.
And like any disreputable teenager, or modern five-eyes government bound by intelligence-sharing treaties, it will have shared quite a few of those pics with its friends. UK intelligence is typically and automatically shared with the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Thanks to the actions of Edward Snowden in leaking documents, of reporters spending months studying them, and editors brave enough to publish the results of that work, we now know about this.
It is currently perfectly possible, and perfectly legal, that a government employee has seen you naked. The question is, are you bothered? Because when we talk about surveillance reform, this is what we’re talking about.
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Problem is Snowden can now make up any story he wants and people will just gobble it up like the tall tales their grandpa told them when they were kids. True or not. And if he wants to stay relevant (and he does) he will keep them coming...
Anyones says "that's not true" then they're clearly part of the cover up, or have been duped by it. There's no more fact check... he's now like the Stephen Glass of privacy.
Anyones says "that's not true" then they're clearly part of the cover up, or have been duped by it. There's no more fact check... he's now like the Stephen Glass of privacy.
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It isn't like this story is that hard to believe. In any case, he's shown himself to be more truthful than the CIA and all his statements can be verified by independent journalists with access to his documents. I agree he wants to stay relevant though. He's in a tenuous situation in hostile territory. When he ceases to be useful to Russia, he'll be out of options.
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Only the first part was verifiable, and only by it matching the documents he presented. There's no solid way to verify those are legitimate without some cooperation by the US gov't, which they're not giving. But having the documents, photoshopped or not, still somehow gives him credibility. I seem to recall that Glass had "fact checks" for his stories as well.MekongMouse wrote:It isn't like this story is that hard to believe. In any case, he's shown himself to be more truthful than the CIA and all his statements can be verified by independent journalists with access to his documents. I agree he wants to stay relevant though. He's in a tenuous situation in hostile territory. When he ceases to be useful to Russia, he'll be out of options.
I'm not saying he's making it all up... I'm saying we have no idea how to determine the parts he is and the parts he isn't. And making a story that confirms popular beliefs by default makes you popular and makes it "not that hard to believe". Making up a fictional story that goes against popular opinion, or a true one for the matter, likely will be met with much more scrutiny and disbelief.
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FACT : Every time you show your wee-wee online, Jesus cries a little.
And...
And...
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They call me the Catinator.
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OrangeDragon wrote:They call me the Catinator.
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The paradox is, that as it is revealed that the extent of public surveillance is even worse than most people's wildest conspiracy beliefs, public tolerance for lack of privacy is increasing.
Kids who have grown up on social media think that it is normal for everyone(even people they have never met) to know what they are doing at each minute of the day. Things that you would only share with close friends are put out there for all to see.
As a result of this, eventually the public will believe that it is entirely normal that Big Bro is watching you, and "revelations" like Snowden's will interest no one.
As for the govt looking at your naked butt... well why not, everyone else has seen it.
Kids who have grown up on social media think that it is normal for everyone(even people they have never met) to know what they are doing at each minute of the day. Things that you would only share with close friends are put out there for all to see.
As a result of this, eventually the public will believe that it is entirely normal that Big Bro is watching you, and "revelations" like Snowden's will interest no one.
As for the govt looking at your naked butt... well why not, everyone else has seen it.
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That's the thing... there's no need to really "spy" when everyone is out in the open. Though by the same measure, 50 years ago everyone knew your business too... small towns, party line phones, etc. Hell, 20 years ago in the small town i grew up in everyone knew everyone elses business. There's never really been privacy... only the illusion of it.
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