Snowdon is a dummy

Fascinating to see the absolute isolation you appear to be living in.

That's the main reason, I keep reading.

Sorry my friend but the NSA is and had been completely out of control and over funded

and are ruining our relationship with the rest of the world.

Nor have the mass phone spying program been shown to be making us one bet safer and as a example of that all those phone records had not found or stop one attack on the US.

NSA is screwing the nation big time.

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http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/20/21975158-nsa-program-stopped-no-terror-attacks-says-white-house-panel-member

A member of the White House review panel on NSA surveillance said he was “absolutely” surprised when he discovered the agency’s lack of evidence that the bulk collection of telephone call records had thwarted any terrorist attacks.

“It was, ‘Huh, hello? What are we doing here?’” said Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago law professor, in an interview with NBC News. “The results were very thin.”
While Stone said the mass collection of telephone call records was a “logical program” from the NSA’s perspective, one question the White House panel was seeking to answer was whether it had actually stopped “any [terror attacks] that might have been really big.”
“We found none,” said Stone.
Under the NSA program, first revealed by ex-contractor Edward Snowden, the agency collects in bulk the records of the time and duration of phone calls made by persons inside the United States.
Stone was one of five members of the White House review panel – and the only one without any intelligence community experience – that this week produced a sweeping report recommending that the NSA’s collection of phone call records be terminated to protect Americans’ privacy rights.
The panel made that recommendation after concluding that the program was “not essential in preventing attacks.”
“That was stunning. That was the ballgame,” said one congressional intelligence official, who asked not to be publicly identified. “It flies in the face of everything that they have tossed at us.”

Their job is to spy on enemies and fake allies

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Their job is to spy on enemies and fake allies

So the American people are the enemy along with the rest of the first world population?

We are not talking about just one government spying on other governments here we are talking about one out of control government spying on everyone in the world to the degree they can do so including their own people.

Then everyone who has been manipulated into thinking the NSA is doing something wrong will be manipulated into thinking everything is OK again.

Right, Bill. The intelligence community should just pick out the people they know mean us harm...and only spy on them.

Jacob Appelbaum, a US Internet activist and one of the people with access to Edward Snowden's documents, has told a Berlin paper that his apartment was broken into, saying he suspected US involvement.

Berlin resident and US national Jacob Appelbaum told Saturday's edition of the "Berliner Zeitung" daily that he believed he was under surveillance in the German capital. Appelbaum told the paper that somebody had broken into his apartment and used his computer in his absence.
"When I flew away for an appointment, I installed four alarm systems in my apartment," Appelbaum told the paper after discussing other situtations which he said made him feel uneasy. "When I returned, three of them had been turned off. The fourth, however, had registered that somebody was in my flat - although I'm the only one with a key. And some of my effects, whose positions I carefully note, were indeed askew. My computers had been turned on and off."
He told the Berliner Zeitung that his experiences in Berlin might at first appear to be coincidence, but said that "when you start keeping track, their frequency does become striking."
Appelbaum accused the US security services of practicing a policy of subversion or disruptiveness similar to that in the former Communist East Germany.
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Appelbaum moved to Berlin citing better privacy protection in Germany and saying he did not feel safe in the US after a series of airport detentions after trips abroad. ... ... ...
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In August in Berlin, Appelbaum delivered Edward Snowden's acceptance speech after he was awarded the biannual Whistleblower Prize by a group of NGOs.

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Right, Bill. The intelligence community should just pick out the people they know mean us harm...and only spy on them.

Just like the police should not search every home in the nation looking for stolen goods they should not monitor all our private communications looking for Terrorists hiding under our beds.

The government acting as it is now is far more of a threat to our freedoms and well being as a people then all the terrorists in the world combine.

Actually, he IS a specialist in computer safety.

Actually, he IS a specialist in computer safety.

I was referring to the profession of Appelbaum.

Interesting and yet he leave a desk top computer where someone could break in and access it adding software of hardware to it?
http://www.dw.de/snowden-ally-appelbaum-claims-his-berlin-apartment-was-invaded/a-17315069
All bets are off as far as safety using it in the future, even if it is protected with truecrypt, if someone had have physical access to your computer with special note of someone with the technology of the NSA.

Bill does not teach computer safety. He teaches paranoia.

The data are encrypted, he communicates mainly via Thor ...

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Bill does not teach computer safety. He teaches paranoia.

Unlike you I have an idea of what can be done if someone with the resources of an intelligence service is allow access to a computer.

I know about such matters as the evil maid attacked that can get around even truecrypt by placing software in the boot sector of a hard drive and hardware key loggers.

When you are a likely target of an out of control intelligence service with tens of billions dollars yearly budgets there is no such thing as being paranoia over your data security.