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SOURCE: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/item/37516-nsa-tags-tor-users-and/
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NSA tags Tor users and privacy activists as ‘extremists’ – report
04.07.2014 09:48
Leaked code from the US National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly shows that users of online privacy services, such as Tor or other Linux-based systems for anonymity, have been labelled ‘extremists’ by the organisation.
Obtained by German researchers and journalists, the code known as XKeyscore is used to monitor web searches and traffic and was found to have words that would trigger a response by any of these tools and subject a person to investigation and monitoring, according to Wired.
The software the NSA uses is also designed to go deeper into a person’s computer from just the basic tracking of internet use but to also examines emails between the user and Tor to try to obtain any information it can on its encryption.
In use since the 1990s, Tor user numbers have increased tenfold in the space of a year, after former CIA contractor Edward Snowden began to reveal the work of the NSA. Tor has also been used in countries where internet censorship has been enforced.
Understandably, the legal authority of the NSA to track people using anonymous software in this capacity is being brought into question.
Speaking to Wired, Kurt Opsahl, deputy general counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has said there has been serious concerns raised over how this far-reaching software was passed by the US court as part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and called on the US government’s hypocrisy.
“One hand of the government is promoting tools for human rights advocates and political dissidents to be able to communicate and is championing that activity.
“Another branch of the government is determining that that activity is suspicious and requires tracking. This may intimidate people from using these very important tools and have a chilling effect that could undermine the free expression of ideas throughout the world.”
Biggest threats to the internet
This latest NSA news has coincided with the release of a new report, which asked 1,400 experts and academics involved in internet security what they thought were the biggest threats to the future of the internet in 2025.
According to The Washington Post, the vast majority of this study did not point to cyber-criminals or terrorists, but rather big corporations and governments as the most likely instigators of any future online user.
It is of their opinion that corporate espionage and interference, as well as government’s disruption of services in countries where political opposition is growing, could lead to a situation where the internet is ‘balkanised’.
One of the participants in the study, PJ Rey, a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Maryland, gave this response on what he sees for the internet’s future: “It is very possible we will see the principle of net neutrality undermined.”
“In a political paradigm where money equals political speech, so much hinges on how much ISPs and content providers are willing and able to spend on defending their competing interests. Unfortunately, the interests of everyday users count for very little.”
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Statutes only regulate PUBLIC rights and public statuses. The PRIVATE bonding is not subject to and cannot be injured by any statute. No statute is therefore required. This is covered in:
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PETTIFOGGING SHYSTER.
“This combination of epithets, every lawyer and citizen knows, belongs to none but unscrupulous practitioners who disgrace their profession by doing mean work, and resort to sharp practice to do it” Bailey v. Kalamazoo Pub. Co., 40 Mich. 250.
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US Marshals step in, thwart efforts to learn about cell tracking devices
After an ordinary stingray records request, the feds drive the files 320 miles.
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The reason they do that is because they don’t know how to do legal research or are too lazy to do it. The above curricula teaches that to you for free so idiots like the ones you point out spreading false information don’t multiply and discredit the freedom community. Everything one reads on the internet should be fact checked for that reason, just as you did. One should START their research with legal research tools rather than relying on the internet FIRST.
It also wouldn’t surprise us if more than a few of those “IDIOTS” are government moles engaged in a slander and disinformation campaign to protect their own CRIMINAL activities from people who are serious about trying to hold them accountable using the courts. That disinformation is described in:
Foundations of Freedom, Video 4: Willful Government Deception and Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvnTL_Z5ascGood luck.
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The case cites you point out are incorrect on the cite. Therefore, the article is TRASH.
The injured party doesn’t have to be the only witness. A witness testifies to facts pertinent to the existence of an injury but doesn’t have to be the injured party.
A better place for more accurate cites on corpus delecti is:
http://marcstevens.net/?s=corpus+delecti&.x=0&.y=0It looks like you are a newbie. You are suggested to follow the following to come up to speed. We are not equipped to reproduce the wonderful curricula contained therein in these forums and it is a waste of our time to do so:
Path to Freedom, Form #09.015
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Welcome to our forums.
Please explain for everyone:
1. What cites specifically were incorrect with supporting evidence.
2. Why you think each cite does not support the position indicated in the article based on your own analysis and supporting evidence.
Otherwise, you have not presented a case or controversy that a court could rule on and these forums are a mock court when it comes to legal issues. We aren’t a free legal reference service and we can’t and won’t reward people for refusing to do their own homework before presenting a legal issue to these forums. Freedom is not a spectator sport.
“A person dependent on somebody else for everything from potatoes to opinions may declare that he is a free [SOVEREIGN] man, and his government may issue a certificate granting him his freedom, but he will not be free. … How can he be free if he can do nothing for himself? … Men are free precisely to the extent that they are equal to their own needs. The most able [and the most contented with the lowest needs per 1 Tim. 6:6] are the most free.”
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That is the norm for those who do not know the Word but bow to the dominion of their senses, emotions, and fear. They lick the hands of those who would enslave them for a chance to be left alone and only too late realize that any attempt to appease evil does not profit anyone.
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“Either be totally free or be the most expensive slave in the history of the world.”
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Amen to that, Mr. Bing. For a great book on jurisdiction, see:
Commentaries on the Jurisdiction of Courts
Timothy Brown
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You can’t post questions in that format. You used personal pronouns and specifically used the forbidden “advice” word. It’s a valid question but you must repost a new topic that conforms with our policies for asking questions:
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