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Government gives ‘thumbs down’ to idea of banning Facebook
He stressed the Government never had any intention to ban the website as more than 15 million users in Malaysia alone are registered on Facebook.
"Many people are using it for various purposes including personal communications and even online businesses.
“To ban the website is just impossible," he told a news conference at the launch of Air Asia's Redbox, a new low cost courier service Thursday.
The new service called Redbox, is designed by the airline to provide low cost courier services, providing customers up to 50% savings in costs compared to existing courier services.
Shabery also noted that banning Facebook was just a suggestion from certain quarters to try and filter the abuse on the Internet.
"The Ministry so far had received more than 2,000 reports involving Facebook abuses and when I told them we are looking into the cases, they think that we want to ban the website," he said.
He added that he had conducted a survey and the result indicated that 54% people who took part in it do not support the banning of Facebook, 24% supported the ban while the rest had neither agreed nor disagreed.
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Phone snooping via gyroscope to be detailed at Usenix
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Some missing details:
1.Clinton was caught in dragnet surveillance when flying with a plane over some area of crisis.
2.This happened to other US politicians as well.
3.Already in 2013 policy was changed not to do that anymore.
edited 16th Aug '14 9:32:35 AM by Uchuujinsan
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Amazing. Who would've guessed the gyroscope could act as a second microphone.
The 'sonar hack' from The dark knight is almost beginning to look almost believable.
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Researchers find security flaws in backscatter X-ray scanners
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What, more? Those things were already borderline worthless.
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Ferguson is about net neutrality, too
The NSA made its own Google-esque search engine which it shares with lots of other agencies.
EDIT: Wow, no replies yet? Really? This is... kind of a big deal.
edited 26th Aug '14 5:39:30 PM by speedyboris
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Meh.
Considering how badly things have gone wrong in the past because different agencies got territorial and didn't share info it seems like a good idea.
Now if there're sharing data that they shouldn't have than that's bad, but the idea that the different agencies have a communal search engine so they actually share info, that sounds pretty smart to me.
edited 26th Aug '14 6:07:54 PM by SilasW
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That's exactly what I was thinking of. If anything this is a good sign, as it shows that someone learnt the actual lessons of how 9/11 happened, rather than the "o god we need to monitor everyone all the time and bomb more countries" 'lesson'.
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Pretty much. Their dragnet results shouldn't be on there, but it existing at all is a good thing.
"The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept."
This could be a big deal if it could be confirmed. It appears that they are precisely sharing the results of their massive dragnet surveillance programs. But I cant find confirmation on any other news source, I've never heard of the "Intercept" before so I dont know how reliable a source they are, and this sounds on the face of it to be completely illegal (the main reason that the Justice Dept. and the Intelligence Community do not share more information is that they are not allowed to). So I'm skeptical.
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Hey wasn't this the premise to chuck?
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Apples and oranges. That was a case of info on a small group of individuals planning an imminent attack not being shared. This is a massive database where any government agent can look up dirt on anyone, at any time, for any reason (that is, it doesn't have to be related to terrorism). Totally different scale.
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I'm sure there are different levels of classification involved. Incidentally, the United States Intelligence Community have their own wikanote , Intellipedia.
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Oh really when?
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Which is bad because...?
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Care to share the source that says they don't need a warrant to view info on a person like they normally do for the metadata? Or are we talking about other information gathered though legitimate channels?
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Note, I get the distinct impression that data they aren't supposed to have comprises the majority of its traffic. But still, as a concept it's something I'm surprised they didn't have sooner.
If the article in the link is completely accurate, then no warrants are being sought, and no individual protections are being used. Getting the content of a phone call you made last week to the UK is as easy as a Google search. That would be controversial, to say the least.
That said, Im not getting excited about it because I dont know how reliable the article is.
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Yeah that doesn't sound right, it contradicts what Snowden has been saying, which is that it's metadata being collected, additionally I think it's the Snowden leaks that show that a warren is required to acess such information.
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Report: NSA eyed preset strikes in cyberattacks
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