9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats

[Maat]

Link -
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/1 ... foil-hats/

Quote:
(November 2011)

9 Reasons Wired Readers Should Wear Tinfoil Hats

By David Kravets
November 24, 2011

The FBI's Digital Collection System connects FBI offices and telecom providers around the country to coordinate collection of phone taps for investigations of all sorts.

There’s plenty of reason to be concerned Big Brother is watching.

We’re paranoid not because we have grandiose notions of our self-importance, but because the facts speak for themselves.

Here’s our short list of nine reasons that Wired readers ought to wear tinfoil hats, or at least, fight for their rights and consider ways to protect themselves with encryption and defensive digital technologies.

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[Electric Monk]

1. Fixed link

here

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Duplicate Thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2378872 GD yesterday

[Electric Monk]

3. Well, the one we're in now made it to the Greatest page, while that one didn't, so...

I'm kicking this one back to the top.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. Its a slow day...

[Electric Monk]

7. and now there's yet another thread on this, so I'm kicking this one more time

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2384978

[CreekDog]

10. for you?

:rofl:

[Atman]

5. Yeah. But that one is old and can't be rec'd.

Freaky story. K&R.

[CreekDog]

9. thread police?

i remember when you got snippy about a duplicate thread last month in GD because there was a thread the day before in the Gun forum.

:rofl:

[woo me with science]

6. K&R nt

[arikara]

8. We've all talked about these things here

separately, at one time or another. Taken singly they are all bad enough, but listed all together they are downright chilling. But hey, if we're not doing anything illegal, what have we got to worry about. Apart from a bit of pepper spray, taser action, maybe some police brutality or a false arrest that is.

[Maat]

11. Well-put (n/t)