They are just corporate stooges trying to game the system and want the advantages of Wall St. And according to their own they are basically evil. America has gone down the toilet because of people like them.

Totalitarianism is a system where technologically advanced instruments of political power are wielded without restraint by centralized leadership of an elite movement, for the purpose of effecting a total social revolution, including the conditioning of man, on the basis of certain arbitrary ideological assumptions proclaimed by the leadership, in an atmosphere of coerced unanimity of the entire population (p. 754).

Brzezinski, Z. (1956). Totalitarianism and rationality. The American Political Science Review, 50(3), 751-763.

It is amazing how eager many Americans are to throw away their rights for a massively exaggerated claim of safety.

Thanks for the thread, reorg.

- this article is the real thing, interesting that they published it in English, I wonder why

Thanks for posting it.

and possibly an abandoned stripper girlfriend or two.

We need to know the truth of those important matters before we can evaluate how trustworthy he is on a completely unrelated subject.

K&R

apparently refuse to do so. The NSA defenders have jumped ship!

is go full AES256 (or better) encryption on all email and web use. Not to stop the NSA because it won't... but it sure as hell will slow them to a crawl! Talk about resources.... whoa. Not to mention it would be the best possible protest.

Wait a minute... who's that knocking on my door? They look like Mormons on a mission........

One other thing: It's too bad we have to defend news sources like Deutsche Welle to DU news controllers. That is a sad statement of the state of the world in itself.

It does the job well but is limited by the algorithms available. 4096 bit is basic minimum now, anything less isn't worth the effort. What really matters is the encryption algorithm. 4096 bit using AES256 is a good all around balance between speed and security. There are better... but there are many, many worse ones. Most average systems with basic certificate security employ practically useless cryptology.

PGP is a great Open Source UNIX based front end for basic encryption. GPG is another alternative, also Open Source.

A BND employee was arrested today and questioned over his contacts to the NSA. It is alleged that he provided information on the work of the Bundestag committee that currently investigates the illegal NSA activities in Germany

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014839595

http://www.dw.de/german-intelligence-employee-arrested-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-us-on-bundestag-nsa-committee/a-17758337

When will they learn that justice isn't worth it.