And any answer may be given. For security purposes, I salted (i.e. added plus-or-minus a random amount in the range of "large fraction of the actual answer") my responses to the nosy (US) "long form" (before it got replaced with the ACS form).
"Hey, boss, we've found that the terrorists are communicating by hiding messages in porn pics. We've put together a team to monitor this channel 24/7...."
Is it just me, or does "Hans von Spakovsky" sound like a name created by a pulp hack who couldn't decide whether to make the villain a Nazi or a Commie?
In addition to denying reality, Hanningan's not so hot with the idioms, either, pluralizing "heaven". Unless GCHQ's extensive surveillance extends into the otherworldly, and they've documented a plurality of heavens.
Maybe he would have gotten it right if he's stuck to a metaphor from his own side of the aisle ("...with the devil knows what consequences...")
The reality is that LEOs aren't "going dark", it's that they're getting blinded by the light. The Boston Marathon bombing case (where the Feds blew of clear and specific warnings about the Tsarnaev brothers) is a classic example of the real information-overload problem.
Given that it's the tech companies who put cameras in millions of people's pockets with which to catch Cops Behaving Badly, then they've earned the title "gatekeepers of justice", and a damn good thing, too.
The explanation is 2,000 words long. It does not make a huge amount of sense
It seems to have finally been pulled from his page, but of course nothing that catches people's attention ever truly disappears from the Internet. Behold, a serving of word salad that makes Sarah Palin look like Daniel Webster:
Curious by nature, I wanted to test the suggestion that somehow, lurking out in the pornographic world there is some evil operator waiting for the one in a gazillion chance that a candidate for federal office would go to that particular website and thereby be infected with a virus that would cause his or her FEC data file to crash the FECfile application each time that it was loaded on the day of the filing deadline, as well as impact other critical campaign systems. Well, the Geek Squad techs testified to me, after servicing thousands of computers at the Baileys Crossroads location that they had never seen any computer using their signature virus protection for the time period to acquire over 4800 viruses, 300 of which would require re-installation of the operating system. We are currently awaiting their attempt at recovery of files on that machine accidentally deleted when they failed to backup files before re-installation, a scenario about which Matthew Wavro speculated openly to me before we were informed by the Geek Squad that that had indeed occurred. Generally, the circumstances in which I have been involved in a life with over 30 years of leadership, I cannot just shoot from the hip, like reporters in this town who could not even get my campaign history straight, an incumbent who believed that 7000 Americans died because of global climate change, a nomination rival who assumed that a “conservative surge” was just going to magically appear in November like it did on Super Tuesday, had they not been Dump Trump Democrats in fact, or who now is being called silly by the incumbent for not doing his homework on Metro. I don’t just like being right wing, I also like being right.
But, now let me tell you the results of my empirical inquiry that introduced me to Layla and Ivone. Around Powerball lottery time, January 9, 2016, I calculated the odds that my friend Rev. Howard John Wesley and I working independently arrived at the same prayer plan, and I was able to determine that there was about a one in a billion chance that that could have occurred in the way that it did. (www.facebook.com/...). Well, as much as folks like Duffy Taylor want to hope that the Devil is waiting for Christian candidates on a particular pornographic website to infect his or her FEC data file is even more improbable than my Paul and Silas story, and I know that Duffy Taylor is not a man of faith belief; so, I don’t know how he empirically arrives at his conclusion. I couldn’t see the probability or possibility without a RAND computer.
Ultimately, the only thing that will stop this sort of nonsense is a "death penalty" (work matures into the public domain immediately) for particularly egregious attempts to abuse copyright law.
Lastly, it's imperative to understand that we are in the middle of pending litigation.
"We"? Is the Aiken Standard a defendant in the case? Or, more likely, did they run a police press release under the cover of an editorial without properly scrubbing off the serial numbers?
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On the post: Australian Government's Stupid Census Plans Puts Privacy At Risk, May Destroy Their Own Census
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They're just asking for people to check "yes" on this question and ignore all the others, aren't they?
On the post: Australian Government's Stupid Census Plans Puts Privacy At Risk, May Destroy Their Own Census
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And any answer may be given. For security purposes, I salted (i.e. added plus-or-minus a random amount in the range of "large fraction of the actual answer") my responses to the nosy (US) "long form" (before it got replaced with the ACS form).
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On the post: Yes, ISIS Is Using Encryption -- But Not Very Well
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On the post: Michael Bloomberg Comes Down On The Wrong Side Of The Crypto Wars: Supports Backdooring Encryption
Re: Not even wrong
On the post: Michael Bloomberg Comes Down On The Wrong Side Of The Crypto Wars: Supports Backdooring Encryption
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
On the post: Court Tells Cops They Can't Seize Luggage And Send It Hundreds Of Miles Away In Hopes Of Generating Probable Cause
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(No, I don't think I'm being one bit unfair, given the pattern of willful criminality shown by the police in this case.)
On the post: Facebook Is Flagging/Banning Accounts For Posting An Admittedly Strange Children's Book Illustration
Catherine thought it was just Great.
On the post: Spies In Denial: GCHQ Boss Says Snowden Didn't Kick Off Debate Over Surveillance
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Maybe he would have gotten it right if he's stuck to a metaphor from his own side of the aisle ("...with the devil knows what consequences...")
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Re: ONLY 25K?
On the post: Lawmakers From The Great Theocracy Of Utah Looking To Block Porn On Cell Phones
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On the post: Lawmakers From The Great Theocracy Of Utah Looking To Block Porn On Cell Phones
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The only question remaining is: Idiot or Troll?
On the post: District Attorney Arguing Against Encryption Handed Out Insecure Keylogging 'Monitoring' Software To Parents
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On the post: District Attorney Arguing Against Encryption Handed Out Insecure Keylogging 'Monitoring' Software To Parents
On the post: Dear Politicians: At Least Close Those Porn Tabs Before Sending Out Your Campaign Screenshots
It seems to have finally been pulled from his page, but of course nothing that catches people's attention ever truly disappears from the Internet. Behold, a serving of word salad that makes Sarah Palin look like Daniel Webster:
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"We"? Is the Aiken Standard a defendant in the case? Or, more likely, did they run a police press release under the cover of an editorial without properly scrubbing off the serial numbers?
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