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My Dad reading me The Hobbit sometime in the second half of the 1970’s.
Thank you Dad. :-)
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@BreakingNews: Facebook says will divulge requests for data, including those for national security – @Facebook http://bit.ly/11BUiBT 02:03
- Go Zuck! 02:03
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@adamgoldmanap: Facebook Releases Data, Including All National Security Requests https://newsroom.fb.com/News/636/Facebook-Releases-Data-Including-All-National-Security-Requests … 02:09
- That was disappointing. Fed requests bundled up with all other requests for which the process is better understood. 02:11
- Without breakdown is of limited utility for really understanding what is going on. 02:11
- But you can of course obviously see that the number is not millions, which I guess is the immediate point. 02:12
- & since I broke the seal & did some nonautomated tweets today, I’ll have to do a manual summary anyway, so might as well tweet some tdy. :-) 02:15
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@F_WRLCK: @abulsme @BreakingNews @facebook I guess you could say that Facebook changed the NSA’s privacy settings without telling them. 02:16
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@F_WRLCK Except the Facebook stmnt says this is the result of negotiation with govt. 02:17
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@F_WRLCK At first I was having visions of Zuck going to jail for releasing info on principle. But unfortunately, doesn’t look like it. :-) 02:18
- RT @jeffjarvis Apple v fig: FB got 9k total demands in 6mos (w/FISA); GOOG up to 1k Natl Security Letters in 12 mos (w/out FISA): http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US/ … ??:??
- Google Data too. Not combined with other things. Common between both, numbers ARE pretty low. 02:55
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@jeffjarvis: Administration toying with us. This isn’t transparency. Start with number of FISA demands. What’s the harm? 03:40
- The Google stuff was something a bit different. Gotta look at this stuff closely. 03:41
- Yes -> Reading – Some Questions For and About Edward Snowden (Kevin Drum) http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/some-questions-and-about-edward-snowden … 03:45
- Reading – Al Gore: NSA’s secret surveillance program ‘not really the American way’ (Suzanne Goldenberg) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/14/al-gore-nsa-surveillance-unamerican?guni=Network%20front:network-front%20full-width-1%20Breaking%20news%20ticker:Breaking%20news%20ticker%20(editable):Position1 … 03:49
- Reading – Secret Court Ruling Put Tech Companies in Data Bind (Claire Cain Miller) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/technology/secret-court-ruling-put-tech-companies-in-data-bind.html?hp&_r=1& … 03:53
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@MikeIsaac: annnnnnd microsoft follows suit, releases data request #’s in aggregate, like Facebook: http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2013/06/14/microsoft-s-u-s-law-enforcement-and-national-security-requests-for-last-half-of-2012.aspx … 03:55
- Reading – Poll: Majority Says Snowden Did A Good Thing, But He Should Be Prosecuted (Tom Kludt) http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/poll-majority-says-snowden-did-good-thing-but … 04:03
- Reading – NSA cyber spying on China not a surprise, but it’s not ho-hum, either (Mark Clayton) http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2013/0614/NSA-cyber-spying-on-China-not-a-surprise-but-it-s-not-ho-hum-either?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+All+Stories%29 … 04:16
- Reading – Facebook, Microsoft release NSA stats to reassure users (Declan McCullagh) http://m.cnet.com/news/facebook-microsoft-release-nsa-stats-to-reassure-users/57589461 … 14:23
- Reading – AT&T issues Wireless Emergency Alerts update to iPhone 4S, 5 (Mariella Moon) http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/15/att-wireless-emergency-alerts-iphone-4s-5/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget … 14:25
- Reading – Edward Snowden: Classified US data shows Hong Kong hacking targets (Lana Lam) http://m.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260306/edward-snowden-classified-us-data-shows-hong-kong-hacking-targets … 14:30
- Good Read -> The NSA Leaks & Pentagon Papers: Whats the Difference Between Snowden & Ellsberg? (France-Ruta) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JoshuaGreen/~3/jfMIB0jfWuo/ … 14:39
- Reading – Latest results put Rouhani ahead in Iran poll (Aljazeera) http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201361522643286979 … 14:44
- Reading – The NSA’s Prism: why we should care (Doctorow) http://m.guardiannews.com/technology/blog/2013/jun/14/nsa-prism … 14:52
- Reading – Google opts out of FISA disclosure deal calls it вЂa step back for users;’ Twitter agrees (Dieter Bohn) http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4432368/google-opts-out-of-fisa-disclosure-deal-made-by-facebook-and … 14:56
- Reading – Iran’s Election Surprise? (The Dish) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/andrewsullivan/rApM/~3/oMbyhDV-Bc4/ … 15:00
- Unfortunately, overblown initial NSA reports will ultimately hurt cause of actually re-strengthening 4th amendment protections. 15:11
- There is lots of real stuff that is of concern. But credibility evaporates quickly when items overstated, facts and details wrong, etc. 15:15
- Of course, there may be more revelations to come, but perception will be tainted by errors in earlier reports. 15:16
- Good Overview -> Secret to PRISM: Even Bigger Data Seizure (Braun/Flaherty/Gillum/Apuzzo) http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-prism-success-even-bigger-data-seizure … 15:24
- Reading – An Outbreak of Reasonableness in Tehran (Juan Cole) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/juancole/ymbn/~3/zUoDXQevEyI/reasonableness-conclusions-election.html … 15:33
- Important -> How did mainstream media get the NSA PRISM story so hopelessly wrong (Ed Bott) http://www.zdnet.com/how-did-mainstream-media-get-the-nsa-prism-story-so-hopelessly-wrong-7000016822/ … 15:49
- Reading – Blue Boy (Josh Marshall) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Talking-Points-Memo/~3/iGGr07WEKak/story01.htm … 16:01
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@BreakingNews: Iran’s interior minister declares moderate candidate Hasan Rowhani victor in presidential vote – @AP, @Reuters 16:02
- Reading – Source: Obama Considering Releasing NSA Court Order (Carrie Johnson) http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/14/191822828/source-obama-considering-releasing-nsa-court-order?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter … 16:19
- Reading – NSA Apparently Surveils About 0.01 Percent of Foreign Facebook Accounts (Kevin Drum) http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/06/nsa-apparently-surveils-about-001-percent-facebook-accounts … 16:21
- RT @joshuafoust A program of activity is not a software program. A secret slide about software doesn’t mean the software is secret.
#prismbasics ??:??
- Reading – Daddy’s Little Dalek (Jill Harness) http://www.neatorama.com/neatobambino/2013/06/15/Daddys-Little-Dalek/ … 16:32
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@BreakingNews: Egyptian President Morsi says Egypt has decided to cut all ties with Syria – @Reuters 19:25
- Good Summary -> Reading – PRISM Isn’t Data Mining and Other Falsehoods in the N.S.A. “Scandal” (Kurt Eichenwald) http://m.vanityfair.com/online/eichenwald/2013/06/prism-isnt-data-mining-NSA-scandal … 22:13
- [Abulpost] Haircut Time Again!: Before: After: This is Alex’s fifth haircut. (And my umpteenth.) Brandy … http://www.abulsme.com/?p=12815 23:11
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