- According to some of the newest Edward Snowden leaks as reported on by Glenn Greenwald on Monday, government spies are infiltrating websites in an effort to persuade public opinion and discredit opposition.
The documents from the GCHQ (the British equivalent of the NSA), titled “The Art of Deception: Training for Online Covert Operations,” were given to the NSA and leaked by Snowden. They reveal that the GCHQ is involved, through a unit known as JTRIG (Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group), in “the monitoring of YouTube and Blogger, the targeting of Anonymous with the very same DDoS attacks they accuse 'hacktivists' of using, the use of 'honey traps' (luring people into compromising situations using sex) and destructive viruses.”
Conspiracy Theorists eat your heart out.
Just saw this on Reddit, and someone just mentioned Hubski in a comment there. Hopefully not everyone jumps ship and ends up over here. I'd prefer to avoid the masses of BS that show up on Reddit at this point, for the most part. The scary part to me is that they are purposefully injecting sites with malware and overall trying to make things less secure. I mean, WTF. Why would you want to do that. Don't you want people to be able to properly run a business. CHances are you inject a vulnerability into a system, a GOOD hacker with extremely bad intentions will find it...
Same here. Looking forward to a more thoughtful version of reddit.Just saw this on Reddit, and someone just mentioned Hubski in a comment there. Hopefully not everyone jumps ship and ends up over here. I'd prefer to avoid the masses of BS that show up on Reddit at this point, for the most part.
I started lurking here after that comment; I think the reddit users that are frustrated with reddit's inanity and will be good for hubski will gravitate here, while the r/funny types will stay where they're comfortable.
So a man that basically believes that free thought should be curtailed and made illegal, is rewarded with a position reviewing NSA practices by President Obama? Sounds like democracy to me folks.
We can't be sure, but I wouldn't guess that other governments are the /only/ reason. The commonly held attitude of 'but others did it first' or 'but others do it too' is so childish and wrong to me. Yes they may be trying to counteract other governments/companies/groups/whatever, but it's not like the US/UK was brought down to this level by that 'enemy'. It's more like they led the charge.
Not sure how I missed a khaaan appearance, how are you doing? I hope all is well, you should check out the #photochallenge posts, your work would be most welcome there.
I suppose it's a possibility, though with the amount of money at MtGox and the apparent incompetence of their devs my bet is on some criminal or criminals looking for a lucrative heist.
To the Five Eyes, the disruption of alternative currencies IS a lucrative heist