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Comment as predicted 20 years ago on Halfbakery! (Score 1) 69

by studboy on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:29AM (#59078900) Attached to: A Wearable Robotic Tail Could Improve Your Balance

The site Halfbakery lets people send in ideas, often ridiculous ideas, on which everyone comments and votes. "Tales For All" is one of the top two ideas ever submitted -- it has so many advantages!

https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Tails_20For_20All

Submission + - Six Years After Ed Snowden Went Public, How Much Has Changed? (counterpunch.org) 1

Submitted by Nicola Hahn on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:53AM

Nicola Hahn writes: In June of 2013 an intelligence specialist named Edward Snowden released a set of classified documents to journalists in Hong Kong. Ushering in a series of revelations that put mass surveillance and state sponsored hacking center stage. Snowden’s initial disclosures were soon joined by others, like the ANT Catalogue, the Equation Group tools, and the Vault 7 leaks.

In the wake of these developments a number of high-ranking officials scrambled to justify clandestine programs. Executives likewise recalibrated their stance toward the government and lawmakers worked to defend our civil liberties. Yet despite the tumult of the post-Snowden era and the debates that ensued, has it actually changed anything? Or did society merely offer a collective shrug to the looming threat of pervasive monitoring, surrendering to the convenience of mobile devices? One observer who has warily followed the aftermath of the Snowden affair believes that most people followed the latter path and that it does not bode well for civilization.

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