Spiegal Online apparently did a full release of images from each of the two document leaks--far more complete than the Wikipedia pages.

Scroll down for the images and "straight from the horse's mouth" descriptions of capabilities.

http://leaksource.wordpress.co...

Example---"NIGHTSTAND: Portable system that wirelessly installs Microsoft Windows exploits from a distance of up to eight miles" (I have a feeling it's been updated for Win7/8 by now)

http://leaksource.files.wordpr...

And....the guys developing and putting to use these capabilities.

http://leaksource.wordpress.co...

Make sure to check out the links at the bottom of that last page.

"BTW, that same database the cops used to stalk other cops? Also used to stalk political candidates."

And that is just the databases that the cops are allowed to use.

Did anyone pay attention to the full contents of the latest Snowden document release, aside from the Angry Birds articles that The Guardian and The New York Times focused on? There was significantly more important information in the latest leak. Mind-blowing, really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

THINK about these capabilities. When you start taking into account such things as RF/Pulsed communication technologies built into the electrical grid, and combine them with the technologies listed in the latest leak, the true extent of surveillance is far more than most people would imagine possible.

http://www.landisgyr.com/webfo...

Now you know why Google recently purchased Nest--sensing technology that can be tied directly into existing Landis-Gyr communications.

This isn't future tech, it's already out there and has been for awhile.

"...and then having to dig through your memory to try to remember who they are (failing miserably) while acting like you know exactly who they are."

I'd rather trust my own memory then out-source it.

For fuck sake people, are you listening to yourselves? This is a corporation literally trying to turn people into mobile data gathering devices. You are either deluding yourself about your own level of intelligence, or suffer from a serious lack of morality, if you think any of this is acceptable. Every person on this planet values privacy to some degree--What, exactly, do we really get in exchange for the loss of this privacy? Knowledge we could get by simply asking that person?

THINK, PEOPLE. If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood.

Not picking sides, but there is an awful lot of bullshit in this thread--from both sides of the table.

On another note, anyone notice that almost all of the many train derailments that have occurred since the first Snowden leak have happened directly on top of rail switches?

http://noscript.net/

"The oxygen in the CO2 is atmospheric oxygen, not fossil oxygen. I'd just as soon not get rid of it."

Excellent point. I concur. Some way to crack the elements apart would be required, but even then the loss of carbon might not be a good idea, nor would it be retrievable.

But, there still remains the question of this happening spontaneously, without benefit of a space-elevator. Is it possible this process of limnic eruption could occur on a global scale (rather than a lake)? Perhaps a closer look at the evidence from Ceres would help answer that question.

"... we already do this on a smaller scale, only it is used to prevent a catastrophic spontaneous degassing (is this a possible outcome of us enriching the atmosphere with CO2?!?"

Perhaps the recent eruptions of water on Ceres are a result of the same limnic eruption phenomenon seen at Lake Nyos. To be honest, this is somewhat worrying--could this same process occur, here on Earth, if we push the CO2 saturation level too high? A sudden degassing of the atmosphere, into space? Has this happened before, in the Earth's history?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Steps 1 and 2 got me thinking of a possible solution (as they outline a potential problem as well!) to our CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere.

If one combines the idea of a "Space-elevator" with a thin-walled tube reaching from a base-station/pumping station all the way out of the atmosphere, degassing would take place. The base of the tube would extend into the earth, surrounded by a sleeve that is keep full of atmospheric CO2 and open to the atmosphere at ground level. As CO2 is heavier than other atmospheric gasses, this sleeve would prevent a mixture of gasses from being drawn into the "elevator".

Before you dismiss the idea offhand, let me point out that we already do this on a smaller scale, only it is used to prevent a catastrophic spontaneous degassing (is this a possible outcome of us enriching the atmosphere with CO2?!?). See linked article on degassing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

The diagram provided in the article is a suitable representation of what I just described, the low pressure area being space, and the high pressure area being the sleeve located at the base station/anchor.

Food for thought.

"I wonder how desperate for attention one must be to confess a security breach just to be in some news."

Do you really think that was the goal? Advertising a security breach? It isn't really anything novel these days--everyone is doing it. We've become bored with the very idea.

More than likely, they are simply trying to determine who is using which account. They release this sort of announcement to get users to simply interact in any way, be that changing your password or even trying to do so. This way, they can tell which accounts are active, and by whom. A complete data refresh keeps the data valuable.

""Honey? Your dad's on the phone again..."

Maybe in a few years I'll be able to download George Carlin, fire him up on my iPeople, and chew the fat for awhile.

I miss George.

"Countly -- LIBYA!!....serious wtf here. All contact info is for Libyan addresses.
https://count.ly/products/feat..."

It appears that even Countly--apparently based in Libya--has it's connections to San Francisco in the form of angel investor Philipp Moehring.

https://angel.co/countly

I say apparently, because I suspect that this might be a case of domain usage to hide the actual country doing the collecting of data, a situation made possible by "reserved" domains and the secondary domain market. Simply put, Countly may have nothing to do with Libya at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

Yes.

This is another indication of how eager the tech industry is to get in on the same monetization model that Rovio was just implicated in with the Snowden documents--data for dollars.

Rovio was just the tip of the iceberg. Everyone is trying to get involved in a "goldrush" of funds that have infused the industry with a serious lack of morality.

As I pointed out in a couple of posts recently ( http://yro.slashdot.org/commen... ), it is the mobile analytics market that the NSA is targeting for their data on as many people as possible. Those analytics providers are doing what the NSA cannot do themselves legally--gather data. Analytics providers do the gathering, and the NSA either steals or buys the data. It's as simple as that folks.

The really dirty secret is that pretty much every company out there with an internet presence and a mobile presence (an app) is complicit in this gathering of data, and they all know it. Both The New York Times and The Guardian use the exact same analytics firm that Rovio uses in their mobile game "Angry Birds", yet they are the ones that published articles based on Edward Snowden documents outlining NSA activity that targeted mobile analytics. Hypocrites.

Just to give you an idea of just how big this iceberg is, dig deep in the following webpages--they outline, by connections, a web of investors and customers that are perpetrating a global auction of our privacy.

Amazon -- Seattle, Wa.
https://developer.amazon.com/s...

Jaspersoft -- San Francisco, CA.
https://www.jaspersoft.com/mob...

Google -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.google.com/analytic...

Flurry -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.flurry.com/flurry-a...

Localytics -- Boston, MA.
http://www.localytics.com/

Countly -- LIBYA!!....serious wtf here. All contact info is for Libyan addresses.
https://count.ly/products/feat...

Konitgent -- San Francisco, CA.
http://www.kontagent.com/compa...

Webtrends -- Portland, OR.
http://webtrends.com/solutions...

Bango -- London, UK
http://bango.com/corporate/

Apsalar -- San Francisco, CA.
https://apsalar.com/

Piwik -- London, UK
http://piwik.org/what-is-piwik...

Mobilytics (Mobivity) -- Chandler, AZ.
http://www.mobilytics.net/

Adobe -- San Jose, CA.
http://www.adobe.com/solutions...

Openwave Mobility -- Redwood City, CA.
http://owmobility.com/about-us

Mixpanel -- San Francisco, CA.
https://mixpanel.com/

Urban Airship -- San Francisco/London
http://urbanairship.com/produc...

Cognizant -- Teaneck, NJ.
http://www.cognizant.com/enter...

Amethon -- Sydney, AU
http://www.amethon.com/

The ring to rule them all, if you believe the developers..
Segment.io -- San Francisco, CA.
https://segment.io/mobile

For the inner workings, see linked Whitepaper. A good list of other miscreants is included on that page, in addition to the ones I list here...
http://www.mmaglobal.com/white...

Seems San Francisco is the epicenter of all of this activity, if office locations are an indicator.

Apparently, The Guardian uses Flurry as well.

http://www.theguardian.com/hel...

"Please visit audiencescience.com/privacy.asp, quantcast.com/privacy and flurry.com/privacy-policy.html for the privacy policy of our online behavioural targeting technology providers."(again, my emphasis)

A quick look at the Propublica privacy policy shows that they use Google, for what that's worth.

I think someone at Rovio is pissed...

At the bottom of this page at the Rovio website...

http://www.rovio.com/en/news/b... ...are four links to further information regarding privacy policies and FAQs, including a link to The New York Times privacy policy page...WTF?

http://www.nytimes.com/content...

If you'll scroll down the section titled "Analytics Technologies", you'll see that The New York Times uses Flurry to track their users, just like Rovio does.

"We use Localytics and Flurry to track and report on the usage and browsing patterns on some of our mobile applications." (my emphasis)

In light of the fact that The New York Times were one of the three media outlets that initially released the Snowden documents regarding Rovio tracking users of "Angry Birds" for the NSA, the irony of their articles only now becomes apparent.

I'm guessing Rovio added that link to the NYT privacy statement fairly recently (like, yesterday), but I don't have a cache of that page to know for sure.

But, yeah...Pot, meet Kettle.