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Inspector Clouseau (Score:5, Funny)
Inspector Clouseau
Re:Inspector Clouseau (Score:5, Insightful)
I believe everything and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone and I suspect no one.
Missing Option (Score:4, Funny)
Gotta Go With Cuba (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Gotta Go With Cuba (Score:4, Interesting)
I picked Cuba, because, what with their meager resources, it's validation of mattering. It'd almost be an honor to be monitored by them. Plus, you know, interrogations on the Caribbean beach. I'm sure that it's JUST like that.
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Yeah, I went with Cuba too, but for different reasons.
Look at how much resource the NSA has, or the Ministry of State Security... Now compare those to Cuba. I'd rather people spying on me were resource poor.
Re:Gotta Go With Cuba (Score:4, Interesting)
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Sure, US companies are probably the biggest market for your web search history and the list of stores that you shop at, but the market for information like your credit card number, your checking account number and routing information, and your mother's maiden name is world wide. So the question is are we talking about "3rd party cookies" spying or "malware with keylogger" spying?
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The answer is middlemen. Surely.
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DRINK!
(Sorry, I have a new drinking game. One of the rules is you have to drink whenever someone says "you are the product".)
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I think the smart thing to do would be to allow everyone 100 gigs of cloud storage by the government. No need to spy on people when they upload everything to you. The vast majority would be happy to trade privacy for free storage.
Proud to be an American! (Score:2, Insightful)
As a 3rd generation American citizen I would rather be spied on by the USA than any other country. Besides, nothing surprising has been revealed about what the NSA was doing, it's all been known for decades. New medium, same old spying. You would have to be under 30 or been sheltered from the nightly news the last 20 years to not know that governement agencies tap into everything from phones to snail mail and all digital variations there of. Kids these days...
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I was actually perfectly aware that it was very likely happening. What of it? That doesn't make it okay. No one notable bothers to make the argument that it's surprising; they just say that it's morally wrong and unconstitutional.
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Besides, nothing surprising has been revealed about what the NSA was doing, it's all been known for decades. New medium, same old spying.
Do not let anybody tell you that. We didn't know the detailed picture of what is happening today. We didn't know about the very extensive Internet wiretapping of NSA. We didn't know about PRISM, we didn't know about XKeyScore and various other tools. We didn't know about NSA infiltrating to standardization bodies to weaken cryptographic algorithms. And so on.
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The NSA isn't going to land me in jail or kill me
Uhuh. Sure, dude, sure.
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Re:Proud to be an American! (Score:5, Informative)
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It's not nearly so cut-and-dried as you suggest: source [theguardian.com]
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Very interesting. Now can we please have those rules properly expressed in BNF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_Form [wikipedia.org] ?
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I feel like folks far, far away from here knowing something private about me would have less inherent risk of impacting my life than folks who could stop by and knock on my door sometime.
Are you an unfriendly person? What's wrong with folks coming by to visit? They're from the government, and they're here to help. Maybe they'll bring cookies.
Sigourney Weaver (Score:3)
Well, if we can choose who we'll be spied on by....
mark
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Obviously, none of those (Score:2)
Cuba Libre (Score:2)
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they just don't want protests at gitmo. they want to be the only american customer of cuba you see, keeps the beachfront property pricing down.
Missing Options (Score:5, Funny)
_ Facebook
_ The Dream Police
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_ Google _ Facebook _ The Dream Police
That doesn't work. Here's why: Google + Facebook data are 100% accessible by the NSA, which is a choice on the original list. And, Cheap Trick sucks, so The Dream Police is disqualified.
Damn it (Score:5, Insightful)
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Don't worry about it. They are all very deserving.
Re:Damn it (Score:5, Informative)
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Try to think of it as a headcount.
Mrs. Grundy (Score:3)
A link for those who don't know who Mrs. Grundy [wikipedia.org] is.
Cheers,
Dave
Ik mis de Mossad (Score:3)
Ik mis de Mossad (slashdot y u no unicode)
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Re:Ik mis de Mossad (Score:5, Funny)
They are too effective. They hacked slashdot and removed the option. Your post will soon disappear.
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False pretext? (Score:2)
Missing Option (Score:2)
Missing option (and most likely).
All of them.
GRU (Score:2)
would be a compliment.
I voted "other"... (Score:3)
Monaco.
"You know who..." (Score:4, Insightful)
CowboyNeal
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Possible options:
Cowboy Neil already spies on me.
Cowboy Neil spies on the NSA for me.
Cowboy Neil shields me from the NSA.
Cowboy Neil configured TOR for me.
Bhutanese Police (Score:2)
E) All of the above (Score:2)
You don't get to pick which state agencies are spying on you. The reality is that it's probably all of the above plus a bunch of other ones that aren't listed.
Going along with some of the comments - you do maybe have a choice in some of the other entities that are spying on you (Google, MSFT, Facebook, etc.) The question is whether you want to avoid all useful Internet services in the interest of your own privacy. Bottom line - if you're accessing something, someone is recording that access and probably
The correct answer is Russia. (Score:2)
And in that vector, Putin has been more beneficial and friendly to the average American in the last few years than the sitting government of the US.
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So you chose the turd sandwich over the giant douche. Congrats.
1984 Times (Score:2)
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That's not irony, its a coincidence.
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For their own self-preservation ... (Score:2)
... I would advise any agency against spying on me. The best possible outcome for them is losing a few agents to terminal boredom.
Missing choice (Score:2)
I prefer G.C.I. (Score:2)
The Guild of Calamitous Intent.
Whose attention is worth the most? (Score:3)
Who would be spying on me? (Score:2)
Who gains anything from spying on me? Foreign agencies don't have any cause to - I'm not employed in anything remotely resembling defense or espionage, and I've done nothing that would flag me as an enemy of any state (besides make snarky comments about most of them).
So that leaves my own government. I don't have access to anything even marginally classified, not even the newspaper job postings. So I'm not likely to be an enemy spy. I've not made any preparations to do anything against the US government, be
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As for tax payers money its win win win, the political leaders get warnings about the press/sources, the contractors get paid to help watch you, the gov agencies get huge new budgets and domestic powers.
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If they kept it within reasonable limits, that would be fine.
I fail to understand how violating people's rights would ever be fine or reasonable. I just can't agree with that.
Stupid poll (Score:2)
The fact that /. would consider conducting such a poll is to me at least in part a reflection of the strikingly apathetic attitude that most people seem to have towards the outrageous conduct of the various national security agencies nowadays. Before 1989 it was something that only those living out their wretched lives in countries like East Germany had to endure, but that was because they lived in a police state. Yet, when it is revealed that our own "democratically elected" governments are now doing the
NSA least likely to broadcast my data (Score:2)
Uh, I'll take the nerds (Score:2)
Spetssvyaz is the Russian communications security agency (part of FSO).
Why is CSE (Canada) so high? (Score:5, Funny)
Just curious, but why is the Canadian option so high? (I'm a Canadian).
Does our reputation for being polite make people think our spying is also polite? Like, maybe you get a note indicating you're being spied on, along with a poutine and a tim horton's coffee?
Or does everyone just think/know that our intelligence agencies are rather harmless...
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Or does everyone just think/know that our intelligence agencies are rather harmless...
Probably less about your intelligence agencies (or perceptions thereof) and more about your specops boys (or perceptions thereof). If one doesn't set foot in either USA or Canadian territory, one seems a lot more likely to be assassinated by the US than Canada. (Though the recent feats of Furlong [wikipedia.org] and Perry [wikipedia.org] make this a dubious assumption -- Canadians may not do as much killing as Americans, but some of them are certainly very, very good at it.)
That said, if I were doing something that made me think any natio
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Because the Canadians were the only ones good enough to find the President's analyst [wikipedia.org].
CSIS (Score:2)
https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ [csis-scrs.gc.ca] [csis-scrs.gc.ca]
CSIS is the actual spy agency. Not sure exactly what CSE is, which is a bit unnerving.
On one hand, it seems they didn't come into existence until 2001, under the anti-terrorism act. Great. Who knew about that.
On the other reading their bio, it doesn't seem so bad. Crypto, signals collection (which everyone does anyway), consults other government to secure systems against intrusion (which is a good thing), advises government on this sort of stuff for decision mak
USA (Score:5, Funny)
The USA, because they are bound by laws and the constitution. Since they must follow the Bill of Rights, you know they aren't going to spy on you or act on any intelligence (false positive or otherwise) without proper due process.
Other countries' intelligence agencies, on the other hand, will swoop you up in the dead of night from a foreign country and send you off to a prison camp where you will be tortured, or their law enforcement agencies could coerce you into admitting to a crime you didn't commit by threatening to send you off to that prison camp, all in the name of fighting terrorism when really some stooge just wants to check the box next to "case closed." According to my high school social studies teacher, the good ol' USA would never commit such atrocities.
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I am assuming that whole post should have been modded up +5 Funny, but for those that don't get the sarcasm it represents I would like to add my two cents to the mix.
Let alone the fact that the good old US of A violates the Bill of Rights, the Geneva Convention and a whole slew of international and sensible treaties on Human rights and rights in general faster than you'd be able to say porridge, I must also point out the sheer arrogance of many US citizens when they indeed trumpet their nation as the birthp
What no Google, Yahoo, Procter and Gamble ? (Score:2)
I am much much more worried about what companies know about me than I ever will be about the government.
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Well, I hate to say this, but while corporations are just greedy entities that seem only care about expansion and profit, not in that order, governments actually should be somewhat ideological in nature.
As such I'd rather have particular governments spy on me. At the moment, I could deal with the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Swiss, Dutch, possibly maybe the German, Belgian, French and Finnish governments spying on me. As for the rest, I am not so sure.
Conceptually speaking I do endorse governments before cor
Dirac Angestun Gesept: (Score:2)
Bhutin Urhava was next. The list is long.
Three of these are essentially the same.... (Score:2)
If you are being spied upon by CSEC or GCHQ, you are being spied by the NSA - and the Aussies and the Kiwis - and vice versa.
Reading about ECHELON left as an exercise for the reader.
French touch (Score:2)
Missing option (Score:2)
No one is interested in spying on me you insensitive clod!
Surprise and ruthless efficiency... (Score:2)
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
...laura
Missing option (Score:2)
All of the above.
My Ex... (Score:2)
... because he's not that smart.
It doesn't matter (Score:2)
With a few exceptions they're all collecting data about everyone they can and some are sharing it with the others.
CSE not CSIS? (Score:2)
WTF is CSE?
I thought the Canadian Spy Agency was CSIS?
https://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/ [csis-scrs.gc.ca]
I guess Canada spy agency is so super secretive that no one even knows their name! Not even slashdot, whom we all know are held to such a high standard of journalism and research. Unless this is some joke that is whooshing over me right now in regards to CSE....
In a fun related note, I had a friend in college that had his voice mail say; "Hi you've reached CSIS, we are currently not available, but if you leave your shoe size,
China (Score:2)
They are the least likely to share information with my own government. They also have no interest in anything that I do.
I really do not care who spies on me as long as they have no power or influence over me.
Either none of the above or something irrelevant (Score:3)
[ ] None of the above.
Failing that, oh I don't know, maybe Ghana or Bhutan or some other country that will never have an impact on my life
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Unless I'm a suspect for a specific crime and you obtain a warrant, go take a flying leap you bastards.
This is probably just my selfishness talking, but in that situation I'd especially not like to be spied on.
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Google Plus (Score:5, Insightful)
I see that Google+ by your userid.
You've made your choice to be spied on by Google.
Re:Google Plus (Score:4, Insightful)
And by extension, every government of each country in which they operate.
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agreed, I voted "other agency", by which I mean Google. Although they're not my most preferred spy organization, just the most powerful and prevalent.
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I voted NSA, mainly because I'm located in a country far, far away from the USA and my shit is utterly uninteresting.
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That only applies if the government has the same opinions about things that you do, and if it isn't corrupt; both of those are foolish assumptions to make, I think. Oh, and you'd better hope that they don't misinterpret a joke or something; they'll make your life hell, as they did to a few people already.
Re:I guess (Score:4, Funny)
I hate the choices in this poll.
Me too. Where is the extraterrestrial option? This has the added benefit that if they are spying on me, they probably aren't kidnapping and probing me. I hate when that happens. Spying is much better. [puts tinfoil hat back on]
Re:I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the option "The one that lets me have an interface to their amazing backup service."
Voted Russia, for much the same reason. (Score:2)
Because they probably don't care what I did, being a foreign national that doesn't even live there and all that.
I voted Russia for the same reason. I consider a distant foreign land to be far less of a threat to me than the country that I live in and am within easy reach of or all of its close allies who would gladly end-run around the Fourth Amendment for them. It's not like the agencies violating our civil rights care anything for them, so there's no real advantage in them being from nominally "free" states.
China & Russia are relatively hostile to the US spy agencies, so there's little chance of information s
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Don't you remember the Boston Marathon bombers? Putin went on-and-on about how Russia was trying to tell the U.S. about those characters.
Two important things to take away from that:
1) Russia and the US don't share information well.
2) The only reason Russia cared is because as radicalizing Chenyans, they were a threat to Russia's security. I'm not and probably never will be.
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I voted "Canada" - but on second thought, their government is so much in bed with the US government, that being spied on by the CSE is tantamount to being spied on by the NSA.
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The majority of the Canadian government is NOT "...in bed with the US government..."
Don't know which country you're from...
In fact the governing party was elected under one of the smallest minority governments in Canadian history. (since, they had been re-elected as a SMALL majority government due mainly to voter apathy)
Then you not only contradict yourself, but fail to realize that the minority came about as a result of first past the post vote splitting and electoral fraud.
2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal [wikipedia.org]
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Sorry majority.
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NO! Don't let them Immanentize the Eschaton!
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
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Why not Luxemburg? Liechtenstein? Andorra? Monaco? Tonga?
Personally I wouldn't mind being spied on intensively by Ancilla Tilia, but that just makes me sound sexist and / or desperate. Plus she's not into that kind of thing.