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There's been plenty of evidence that the official whistleblower program was either a joke or worse, an attempt to snare discontents and suppress them: e.g. TLDW: former head of the whistleblower program at the DoD basically saying it was fatally compromised by criminal proceedings against said whistleblowers (specific case Thomas Drake) that probably used information supplied to his office and were blatant attempts to suppress whistleblowing via Chilling Effect. Also has to be said that Snowden (unlike Assange/ WL though even they didn't leak absolutely everything they got) didn't leak everything to the world, indeed he leaked a small amount and most of the really juicy stuff is escrowed against the CIA giving him a polonium sandwich. He leaked selected stuff to selected journalists and it was only stuff that (1) most rational people suspected already happened and (2) the foreign alphabet soup acronyms would already know about. The idea that China with one of the most controlled internet ecologies in the world wouldn't know that a PRISM/ xkeyscore program existed is laughable as they have the exact same thing in operation there. More broadly, Snowden is certainly qualified to comment as he'd have a good idea of what foreign countries can do from his time in the NSA('s contractor), but in this case it probably doesn't matter. Assuming the FBI information is correct her server had appallingly bad security that was vulnerable to a bog standard Romanian hacker and while that was probably 'just' gross stupidity she also appears to have tried to hide evidence via mass deletions (later recovered off a cloud back up). Whether she'll get in trouble for it or some underlings will take the fall- probably with a promise of a pardon later, per Susan McDougall- is an open question, though the obvious fall guy already has an immunity agreement. She certainly should be in trouble for it though as there's no need for her to have deliberately lost classified material, only negligently lost it. I can't see any way that having a badly configured private server against protocols and designed primarily to subvert Freedom of Information requests then using it for classified material doesn't pass the negligence threshold. Yes, but have seen him comment on things that Schneier is probably better to comment on. Then again, it was on Reddit. Shame the movie about him doesn't look that promising

Hah. Good question but parents took us here for some reason. And Trinidad is kind of unsafe these days - 1.3MM people yet 403 murders, 500 shootings and 829 sexual assaults in 2014. Also the island is full of Trinidadians. Duplicitous scum, all

Trinidad

Why? He was asserting the negative.

Ah reminds me of back home. Water would only be on from 4 to 6 and then 18 to 20 I think. So everyone had massive tanks.

Why would she be worse than Trump?

Wow that is more brazen than I would have expected.

You deny the greatness that was C&C?

Hm, doesn't whistleblowing entail working internally rather than just leaking everything to the world? Minor quibble I suppose. Though now the guy is treated as some authority on security, heh.

Yup. Felt that way about the base game. So far it is fun to run around Toussaint, found more interesting spots than I usually do. Shame I am useless at combat though.

Twitter. Mankind's worst invention

Reddit is even more fun to read this week.

Oh yes. Years of having no life mean a lot of cash for these sales. Muahahha Anyone want a GK 20th anniversary edition key ?

2 bucks cheaper than Steam. Woo. Summer sale starting today.

Nothing, just says things about you people, really. Starting up Blood and Wine, forgot how crap my gear is.

A country saving indictment. Ah, dramatics.

Engineers can say with accuracy when it will be finished. Yeah.....

And who is it putting a gun to the head of the "business that only cares about dollars"? The government that only cares about dollars. It gets those dollars from those very businesses you want it to protect you from. I've said it a million times, I'll say it again. The largest corporation in the world could not take one penny from my checking account without my permission. The smallest government right here in Tipton County TN can take all of it along with my home, freedom, and my very life. Who should I really be afraid of here. By itself the government is a much bigger threat than any corporation. And if the corporation is using the government to do it's dirty work the government is still the threat. Well think of OSHA or the EPA.

Well except when they have to put a gun to the head of business who only care about dollars. Always like that line in Blue Mars about them. Anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.

Or you fought a valiant battle against productivity, that you won. He was just being productive in the opposite direction

That is a surprise. May get that game on sale after all. Hah. And its 50% off on GOG. Woo

https://twitter.com/Angryrobotics/status/739884596502749184 Jay Wilson leaving Blizzard and games industry in general it seems. Can't say he'll be all that missed.

Wonder if they'll eventually form a guild or some other worker's association.

Nope. Am looking at sunshine right now. Pretty sure that is reality.