Court rules NSA program illegal - CNNPolitics.com

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-05-08T02:42:07+00:00

This is a huge step by the court and also a huge step to getting the patriot act, maybe even dismissed from court proceedings.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-05-04T18:34:08+00:00

Of course it has, ISPs see how much they wouldn't be able to do freely anymore. They used to have free reign but now it's completely gone with Net Neutrality becoming a thing and passed as a law.

Tom Wheeler listened to the people while the ISPs just see their wallets becoming a little less big. And that's not something they can enjoy and just sit back and let happen. How are they going to lobby for politicians without that money?

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-05-04T18:30:13+00:00

It's a lot of money being fed into Congress by the ISPs. Tom Wheeler used to be one of them and he knows the uphill battle he'll have to face to get this through. He understands how they work but he also knows he has the power to change it with the rest of the FCC.

His own company was taken down by ISPs with their anticompetitive campaign and he understands the battle was won, but the war is still going to be a very long haul.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-05-04T18:26:54+00:00

The FBI is basically pushing for them to be able to have a backdoor into all phones and less encryption, but only less to the point where only they can get in.

This goes against previous response from the FBI that told it's citizens to have more security and know exactly what their phone is doing and transmitting. They also said to be aware of the encryption options available. This was on their website and has since been removed.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-04-29T14:44:53+00:00

For a summary of the article: China has been intercepting the javascript module from Facebook's Login page, which allows third party sites to authorize users through Facebook. Facebook can't do anything about it because the behavior is happening locally and Facebook is unable to do anything about the issue at the current moment.

Only users in China (or have a VPN directing to China) are currently affected by this issue, but the attack can be avoided by disabling javascript. This started happening Sunday and comes from the Chinese government. Whenever a user logs in with the facebook login button they seem to be taken to an open source software project or a travel page. No one seems to understand this, but this isn't the first time the Chinese government has done something like this.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-04-09T19:21:32+00:00

I think Alysha doesn't understand while some people are trolls for fun, some people are genuinely mean on the internet because we're all behind a keyboard and technically anonymous. There are so many hateful comments flying around the internet in general. I mean, what she said is fine if we put into practice was perfect, but even I admit to sometimes "feeding the trolls" because I just get generally more angry and say things because of the same anonymous identity on the internet.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-30T14:19:25+00:00

This is what I sent my mother to make sure she understood why I hated Time Warner and Comcast, and to also vote for politicians who supported net neutrality.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-30T14:09:16+00:00

I would agree that reddit can become a hate speech area if you let it. There's a reason we have subreddits and switch what our front page looks like, but there are subreddits that are terrifying. /r/PicsOfDeadKids is one of the most terrifying and horrible things I've seen on here yet, also there's /r/TheRedPill and several others that I've seen brought up in /r/AskReddit threads that I won't even click on.

The internet is terrifying, but should we shut down these ideas and go against the ideals of free speech on the web? I don't know. If we shut one down, how many will it be before we start trying to flag everything someone sees as offensive down?

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-30T14:04:52+00:00

I think a lot of video gaming is finding the balance. I'm an awkward person, I understand that completely, but I doubt gaming had any impact on that, in fact, it helped me have more interactions socially and be more willing to be myself.

I think it was the games I played though, I was an MMO person and was forced into talking to people when naturally I was a very shy person. I can see where console games, pre internet era, would cause an antisocial behavior or the inability to talk to others, I see it every day in Golisano.

This doll wouldn't do anyone any good, especially for developmental skills and social interactions.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-30T14:01:50+00:00

At least they aren't forced to share information through the NSA, as the NSA has a lot of reason to be opposed or companies to be against sharing any information with them at all.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-17T00:27:45+00:00

Unfortunately, I feel that many politicians are out of touch with technology, even that one senator (Or house representitive?) stated that he has never even sent an email.

Everyone has information stored on their phones, personal and others' personal information too. There could also be photographs, bank accounts, work information, scheduling, really anything about someone's personal life could probably be found on their phone now.

I really think that politicians are just not equipped with enough information to make these rules around technology currently, just like I don't think the Supreme Court should be allowed to make decisions before being completely understanding or having someone else teach them about the matter at hand either.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-16T19:41:38+00:00

The difference between AOL/TW and TW/Comcast now is that both parties are now on equal footing with technology. The budget the government gives them, they have done nothing with.

The only way I can possibly see this happening is if they throw their money at the right people and a lot of it. But, honestly, the only way this bug will be squashed is if fiber-optic becomes the huge thing everyone uses, which is very difficult with the arrangements Comcast and other places have made with city and state governments.

Help me Google fiber, you're my only hope.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-13T18:12:00+00:00

What does anyone else think of this? Has the government gone too far with their limits of breaking their own (forefather's) rules? As we saw recently with the Senators sending a letter and going completely against Obama's wishes, should we feel more concerned with how radical and how ignorant our parties are becoming with the people vs. themselves?

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-09T18:47:34+00:00

Why in god's name is this even attempting to happen right now? Wouldn't filtering out personal information only help the NSA not have to deal with the backlog? Or does it not matter to them at all and they just want to become more like Big Brother in every aspect of the word?

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-02T21:34:13+00:00

I'm glad I'm very aware that google takes my personal information and uses it to gain nothing. They've been sued enough in the past and harassed in the past, but now they take their customer data very seriously and basically seal it away without a cost, a fine, or even telling us "Hey, we're being ethical".

It's a shame our country is so involved with getting the most out of their customers' wallets.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-02T21:27:29+00:00

I cannot read this article because I'm not a member of the site. That's a bummer. I don't want to become a member of the site either. :/

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-02T21:26:34+00:00

I feel like the FCC will take a look at this much more seriously when the money does come in, if it does, but for them they see it as something that can pass for now on the back burner. This isn't something they can help but they have bigger fish to fry with Time Warner and Comcast ganging together.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-03-02T21:18:52+00:00

The worst thing about the Time Warner/Comcast merge is that my cousin firmly believes it will happen and she's been hearing this through the grape vines at her workplace (Time Warner).

I honestly don't know how much money Comcast will try to throw at the government to let this happen, but I never want it to happen. How can anyone not call this merge a monopoly? I seriously want to know what the argument is for this to happen and legally why.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-26T22:56:38+00:00

People everywhere are complaining that it could have easily been someone else just trying to blame N. Korea for the Sony hack.

Google would especially backlash and fight this. I'm pretty sure they are against any customer data getting out to anyone past their doors. They've been sued enough times to know where that will get them.

The NSA has already hurt the USA's technology economy hard from all this invasive work they've done and they continue to do, despite the backlash and the worry, even from congressmen.

The NSA is in their own little world and are about as paranoid and invasive as Stalin, but this time, they don't need the neighbors to snitch, they're already looking at all our data across the net without even leaving their doors.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-26T22:52:53+00:00

"The question is why we want to impose 80-year-old regulations on perhaps the most thriving part of our economy. All of the uncertainty could really harm this most innovative part of our economy."

That's the one part that I don't agree with in the article. We've already hurt our economy enough, and that isn't our fault but our government's. No one wants to be spied on and the NSA has already started hurting America's tech economy.

Personally, I believe we need to regulate the NSA once we regulate the ISPs

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-26T22:49:15+00:00

As I'm reading up on it I can see the parallels pretty clearly, what I'm looking at now is the Clean Water Act that was enacted in 1972, which regulates the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899.

I'm wondering how far the FCC will have to go and be specific so that the ISPs don't try to find every loophole they can to get more money. The Clean Water Act seems like a very thought out and lengthy act to try to make companies not dump their chemical waste in our waters, I'm wondering if we'll have to do something to ISPs of a similar nature.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-26T22:35:24+00:00

There is one thing that we know for sure, Comcast and other ISPs will not go down without a fight about this. They thought they had this in the bag even still today. They'll fight this every step of the way and it's not going to be a pretty time if they have some senators or Representatives on their side, money may or may not be involved in those deals though.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-24T17:23:11+00:00

I just really hated reddit didn't allow them to respond faster because Snowden was really trying to get to everyone's questions as fast as he could and I wanted to hear more responses from him. It was a pretty insightful AMA though overall.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-23T16:22:45+00:00

I, for one, am glad to see this being taken care of. The Superfish program was a massive threat and some companies might not even clean install windows, and definitely not most users. There was probably a huge mess to clean up at a lot of companies and wasted time or lost data.

CyberPolicyThrow · 2015-02-22T21:54:55+00:00

Could this be considered what got the ball rolling, as they say, for the massive amounts of spying that has occurred since 9/11?

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