Of course, it still is a mystery why US-CERT/ICS-CERT and the European CERTs don't mention any of the company names. The names would certainly be helpful if they wanted to alert asset owners that they may be compromised.

It's no mystery at all.

and huh .... wait. They could get that stuff on anyone, couldn't they. They could get that on me.

I think the most effective campaign to raise true awareness of the dangers of the organs of state security would be highway billboards that merely say:

The NSA knows what you did.

Finally someone pays attention to us Linux folk!

And Microsoft's appointee to the board is Mr. M. Bracex Tinguish.

My Chromecast displays very pretty nature photos as a screensaver when on but not in use - and they sure aren't local images. It also doesn't appear to shut off after a certain period either (at least an hour or so). Time to check my data usage next time I have it in standby.

I read about this and I wish them well, especially when the membranes start to clog-up with real-ocean dirt and bacteria move in to build a cozy biofilm community.

Just be sure you don't install the Lockheed fluid package into your Girling brakes app; it will lock-up. Literally.

The head prick was quoted as saying: "Collect it all." Setting aside the obvious immorality and illegality of their actions (and ignoring all the apologists and their fig leafs), just focus on the stupidity of this approach. What good is having the worlds' best spooks looking for wheat if they are buried under metric tons of chaff?

Unless, of course, the real reason was to golden parachute into cushy, six-figure per month consulting gigs to supplement their Federal retirement packages.

This is the same 'high and mighty' group that decided their votes were far more important than actually counting the fucking votes for Gore.

...in time of War or public danger...

The Endless War on Terrorism was deliberately created to short-circuit all other rights.
There is no winning; the grand experiment of freedom and representational democracy is over.

When was the last time the federal government - let alone the independent organs of state security - paid attention to the rulings of mere judges? Even the US Marshal service now ignore them (Stingray).

They always return to their true nature.

It is left to the reader to define who 'they' are.

In the very near future 'coming out' won't be the declaration of your sexual orientation, but the refusal to knuckle under to the fascist pricks of the Spook-Industrial complex via an NSL.

Yes, it will be hard, yes, it may even be prison time but this is the whole point of repressive intimidation tactics: the hope of the power-mad that individuals stay cowed and powerless, not unified and unbowed in the face of true oppression - that actual freedom isn't free.

Can you imagine if a project of TrueCrypt's successor got an NSL and _every_ person even remotely connected to the project all appeared together in the live-streamed press conference exposing and denouncing FedGov... they're gonna prosecute all of them? All together? In a show trial, perhaps? Cockroaches hate exposure to the light.

1st in Death By Volcano: Iceland.

These guys really do make more with less and I have no trouble believing that the equipment Lerner was using was painfully obsolete and used until it died.

Guess who keeps cutting the IRS budget? The same Grover Norquist / Koch Whore pricks that are now screaming 'conspiracy'.

The real conspiracy is this: every dollar cut from the IRS budget results in SEVEN dollars robbed from the public coffers by scumbag thieves.