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from the if-a-phone-is-tapped-and-no-one-hears-it-does-it-make-a-sound dept.
Fluffeh writes:
"National Security Agency documents released this week by The Washington Post gave a glimpse of an NSA program that allows the agency to capture the voice content of virtually every phone call in an unnamed country and perform searches against the stored calls' metadata to find and listen to conversations for up to a month after they happened. Bulk methods capture massive data flows 'without the use of discriminants,' as President Obama put it in January. By design, they vacuum up all the data they touch; meaning that most of the conversations collected by RETRO would be irrelevant to U.S. national security interests.
Of course, whether that capture can be considered monitoring comes down to semantics. In the NSA's reasoning, it's not 'surveillance' until a human listens in. And since most of the calls accessible by Retrospective are flushed from its 'cache' after a month without being queried, the NSA could argue that the calls have never been surveilled."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by wonkey_monkey on Friday March 21 2014, @09:20AM
Wow, thanks Washington Post, I couldn't get a handle on this whole "recording" thing until someone used a time-travel analogy.
What next? Ford brings out a new car and calls it a revolution in "vehicular incremental teleportation"?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday March 21 2014, @09:23AM
Hah. Okay, not "into the pasta," although I do like the sound of that.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 21 2014, @10:06PM
As Slashcode has yet to be fixed such that it handles Unicode properly, the proper way to cut and paste remains dragging and dropping into an ASCII-only text editor.
This will expose all characters that Slashcode will not display correctly.
(It may even convert them for you.)
Leafpad, as an example, converts an em dash into a double-hyphen and converts a "smart" quote[1] into a regular quotation mark.
As I recall, Notepad does the same.
Look for anything that hasn't been auto-converted and tweak that by hand.
Only then should you drag and drop your blockquoted text from the text editor into the posting page.
[1] I call those dumb quotes.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday March 21 2014, @10:21PM
Or, alternatively, learn to use Preview as I should ;)
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 1) by SlackStone on Friday March 21 2014, @05:48PM
The "Time Travel" analogy is too hard for me to explain to others. I like to spin it as TIVO for the entire Information Super Highway.