NSA Uses EFF Images To Explain Tor; EFF Jokingly Claims Creative Commons Violation
from the now-wouldn't-that-be-a-fun-lawsuit dept
With this morning's revelation of how the NSA and GCHQ are trying to attack Tor, some of the presentations being used by the NSA to explain Tor are somewhat interesting or amusing. For example, in one presentation about the program EgotisticalGiraffe (I don't make 'em up, so don't ask), the NSA amusingly feels the need to highlight the fact that "terrorists" use Tor:Either way, another randomly amusing tidbit in the midst of all of this.
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Filed Under: creative commons, fair use, nsa, nsa surveillance, tor
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(The're already paranoid. Let's really eff with them.)
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I see what you did there.
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It is not some dry presentation drawn from the bowels of PowerPoint hell by some lobotomized wage slave.
The writing style and the kind of humor used, including the obviously self-deprecating jab by highlighting the "terrorists" word that way, shows that whoever made that presentation, and presumably that whole system, is one of us.
One. Of. Us.
It is not some faceless goon defined solely by his desire to screw over the whole Internet while cackling manically. It is a normal technologist like us, with a normal life, with normal desires. He might even be reading the comments here.
That is what hurts the most. It is not an "enemy" attempting to destroy the whole of the Internet civilization. It is someone who should be an ally. To another technologist like me, it feels like betrayal.
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Including the EFF slides whole was an act of subversion.
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It bears repeating
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Does "appreciated" imply you must do it legally?
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