One of his colleagues, Susan Hennessey, more or less says it's no big deal, all the robust legal and procedural will stop him if he tries. She must be new to government. https://www.lawfareblog.com/duty-serve-trumps-america
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 31 Oct 2016 @ 7:47pm
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No doubt about it. Too bad American conservative Christians don't do that. Instead of helping the poor and other very Jesus-y things, they want to persecute others by pressing their religious laws into law.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 31 Oct 2016 @ 6:13am
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You're either trolling or don't understand what you've been reading here for years. The subject matter Techdirt covers is inherently about politics. Patents, copyright, surveillance, privacy, security, etc., etc. -- all politics.
As for the poor maligned American "Christian," who seems to consider it his moral duty to force others to live according to his narrow beliefs, consideration of that subject would only lead to being blinded for a couple of weeks while I wait for my eyes to roll forward again.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 31 Oct 2016 @ 5:14am
I'm absolutely no fan of Comey's, but just look at the way FBI agents are leaking to the press about who the emails are supposedly between and even how many there might be. There was no chance he could have held this off even if it would have been the right thing to do (which I'm not convinced it would have been).
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 27 Oct 2016 @ 6:12am
I'd install my own pole (so to speak) if it would help get my Google Fiber installation moving faster. I dream of how sweet that day will be when I finally get to kick Comcast to the curb.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 26 Oct 2016 @ 7:49am
Re: How to Highlight Dodgy Actions 101
By instead lying and trying to obfuscate the issue however they keep the attention on both the emails and their (bad) attempts to discredit them, and what was a minor issue that would have fallen to the wayside is instead kept front and center.
Welcome to the Clintons. They do this all the time. Hell, this is the second time they've played the Obfuscate, Lie, and Spin game about emails. It's a different tactic in this case, but the same old game.
I've publicly declared that this particular lefty-lefty will not defend, deflect, or otherwise compromise my intellectual integrity for them ever again.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 26 Oct 2016 @ 7:42am
Re: You are doing Benenson an injustice.
This election is not about angel vs devil. For whatever reason, it is about moderate turd vs humongous turd. Whoever approaches election day with the "turd is turd" stance deserves to end up buried in shit way over his head.
This is not only the most succinct, but also the most accurate description of this election. Brilliant. Kudos to you, sir.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 26 Oct 2016 @ 7:38am
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Standard operating procedure for a Clinton. they love to go right up to the outer edge of the line, even a half-step beyond sometimes, but when they do rather than own it they'll spin like the Looney Tunes Tasmanian Devil to obfuscate, cover up, and lie, and they'll gladly solicit the same from others. It's why so many lefty-leftists (what Howard Dean called the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party) trust her even less than Republicans.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 26 Oct 2016 @ 7:30am
Re: Re: Re: Re: No more head in the sand for the left?
Um, no. You're thinking "progressive" as in turn of the 20th century Progressives, which were what we would consider liberal Republicans today. But that's not the way it's been since the 60s. When Democrats moderated and cast off their working class constituency in the 70s and 80s, they decried progressives as being too far to the left.
Check out Thomas Franks's (an historian) writing, esp. "Listen Liberal" for the history of the rise of "Third Way" Democratic politics, i.e. movement to the center, which gained the upper hand under (Bill) Clinton. It's a great history, and corrected my understanding of the terms "progressive" and "liberal" as well.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 13 Oct 2016 @ 8:03pm
Attribution
A note about the "attribution problem" -- Attribution doesn't work like that for the U.S. We don't rely on the forensics like a security company (or even the FBI, perhaps) does -- we get most of our evidence from extensive NSA penetration of foreign networks and the Internet itself, including at times watching them unfold in near real-time.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 4 Oct 2016 @ 1:23pm
Even worse than previous programs
The biggest development here, it seems to me, is that this operation completely does away with any notion of a criminal predicate. Previous efforts have mostly been about "connecting dots," i.e. searching those communicate with suspected terrorists, or at least those communicating with people from what the US deems TerrorLand.
But this, this is a search of everyone, right from the start, no suspicion or even mere connection to some suspect. It's the equivalent of searching everyone's house for evidence they committed some crime. It's an actual general warrant.
HegemonicDistortion (profile), 4 Oct 2016 @ 12:35pm
Maybe CALEA or even All Writs Act? Yahoo would be an easier target since they have the least incentive to defend against it (in trying to sell the remaining shell of the company).
If the government wants companies to be held accountable for their security lapses, then make them financially liable to their customers for breaches.
Stupidly, our "cyber protection" law that got rolled into the omnibus budget bill last year provides for some civil immunity if companies share data about breaches with DHS, which will only make security even less important to companies.
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Re: SOMETHING FLOYD ABRAMS SHOULD REMEMBER TODAY
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https://www.lawfareblog.com/burden-donald-trump
One of his colleagues, Susan Hennessey, more or less says it's no big deal, all the robust legal and procedural will stop him if he tries. She must be new to government.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/duty-serve-trumps-america
On the post: FBI Boss Blows Past Policies, Guidelines, His Own Staff To Bring Back Clinton Email Investigation
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On the post: FBI Boss Blows Past Policies, Guidelines, His Own Staff To Bring Back Clinton Email Investigation
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As for the poor maligned American "Christian," who seems to consider it his moral duty to force others to live according to his narrow beliefs, consideration of that subject would only lead to being blinded for a couple of weeks while I wait for my eyes to roll forward again.
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On the post: The Clinton Campaign Should Stop Denying That The Wikileaks Emails Are Valid; They Are And They're Real
Re: How to Highlight Dodgy Actions 101
Welcome to the Clintons. They do this all the time. Hell, this is the second time they've played the Obfuscate, Lie, and Spin game about emails. It's a different tactic in this case, but the same old game.
I've publicly declared that this particular lefty-lefty will not defend, deflect, or otherwise compromise my intellectual integrity for them ever again.
On the post: The Clinton Campaign Should Stop Denying That The Wikileaks Emails Are Valid; They Are And They're Real
Re: You are doing Benenson an injustice.
This is not only the most succinct, but also the most accurate description of this election. Brilliant. Kudos to you, sir.
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On the post: The Clinton Campaign Should Stop Denying That The Wikileaks Emails Are Valid; They Are And They're Real
Re: Re: Re: Re: No more head in the sand for the left?
Check out Thomas Franks's (an historian) writing, esp. "Listen Liberal" for the history of the rise of "Third Way" Democratic politics, i.e. movement to the center, which gained the upper hand under (Bill) Clinton. It's a great history, and corrected my understanding of the terms "progressive" and "liberal" as well.
On the post: The Clinton Campaign Should Stop Denying That The Wikileaks Emails Are Valid; They Are And They're Real
Re: Re: No more head in the sand for the left?
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*fist pump*
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-$6.50 -- Credit: bogus Broadcast TV Fee
$9.95 -- Bill Transparency Fee
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Attribution
On the post: Yahoo Secretly Built Software To Scan All Emails Under Pressure From NSA Or FBI
Even worse than previous programs
But this, this is a search of everyone, right from the start, no suspicion or even mere connection to some suspect. It's the equivalent of searching everyone's house for evidence they committed some crime. It's an actual general warrant.
On the post: Yahoo Secretly Built Software To Scan All Emails Under Pressure From NSA Or FBI
On the post: DHS Offers Its Unsolicited 'Help' In Securing The Internet Of Things
Accountable
Stupidly, our "cyber protection" law that got rolled into the omnibus budget bill last year provides for some civil immunity if companies share data about breaches with DHS, which will only make security even less important to companies.
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On the post: Brazilian Court Agrees Wikipedia Can Use Publicly-Available Personal Information For An Article
Is the ruling really this limited? What if she hadn't disclosed that info herself, but it had been correctly reported? Could Wiki use it then?
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