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@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-14 (UTC)

[Abulpost] A Short History of Top Books: On March 10th, I announced a new thing I was doing, the “Top Re… http://www.abulsme.com/?p=12798 08:15
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon’s Corner: Party Like It’s 2007: In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner Sam and Ivan ta… http://www.abulsme.com/?p=12808 20:14

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-13 (UTC)

Ivan has a blog! -> Reading – Apple, Google and Innovation (Ivan Bou) http://imbou.wordpress.com/2013/06/13/apple-google-and-innovation/ вЂ¦ 02:50
Reading – iOS 7 specs versus Android 4.2, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10 (Jessica Dolcourt) http://m.cnet.com/news/ios-7-specs-versus-android-42-windows-phone-blackberry-10/57588300 вЂ¦ 05:23
RT @DanAmira Re: idea that the gov might kill Snowden — there have been a lot of NSA whistleblowers/leakers over the years, and they’re all still alive ??:??
Reading – All Leaks Are Illegal, But Some Leaks Are More Illegal Than Others (Conor Friedersdorf) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ConorFriedersdorf/~3/9VNd8kTimYk/story01.htm вЂ¦ 12:55
Reading – Edward Snowden and the selective targeting of leaks (Jack Shafer) http://blogs.reuters.com/jackshafer/2013/06/11/edward-snowden-and-the-selective-targeting-of-leaks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fblogs%2FJackShafer+%28Jack+Shafer%29 вЂ¦ 12:59
RT @dangillmor If Snowden becomes the story (as the surveillance-staters would prefer), his self-outing will have proved to be huge tactical error. ??:??
Reading – Apple Reportedly Trying 4.7- and 5.7-Inch Screens On iPhones Next Year (Etherington) http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/vhG_KvrFi04/ вЂ¦ 13:09
RT @declanm @dangillmor Not necessarily self-outing. Cops reportedly showed up at his home Wed morning. Guardian published at ~1pm local time Wed, ??:??
Damn it. The tool I use for the daily tweet digest for my blog was still using old twitter APIs which are now deprecated. 13:47
I’ll have to backfill the last couple days of digest by hand later. 13:48
No more tweets from me until I have a new tweet 2 blog archiving solution. Bye twitter! (Hopefully not 4 long but who knows? Maybe forever.) 13:49
.@imbou says: @abulsme WTF? You finally get me to do this and now you are leaving me?!?!?! 16:52
RT @BYUfan: .@abulsme Noo! You’ve become one of my best filters for good news articles. 16:53
.@imbou @BYUfan Be not afraid! I emailed the developer of the tool I use and he said it will probably be fixed this weekend. 16:54
.@imbou @BYUfan If that actually happens, I will probably be tweeting regularly again next week. 16:56
.@imbou @BYUfan Until it is automated again though, I will be mostly silent, since I will have to generate my daily digests manually. 16:57
Oh yeah… Please welcome my Curmudgeon’s Corner cohost Ivan Bou to Twitter as @imbou! He finally caved! 16:58
.@BYUfan Awww… Shucks! Glad to be useful. :-) 17:00
RT @imbou: @abulsme Bah humbug! 19:26

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-12 (UTC)

Reading – Edward Snowden: saving us from the United Stasi of America (Daniel Ellsberg) http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/10/edward-snowden-united-stasi-america вЂ¦ 01:51
RT @gerrycanavan Because if there’s anything the NSA stands for it’s trust, cooperation, respect for institutions and deference to common procedures #freedom ??:??
Yesterday twitter turned off RSS, which I used to power my Top Books thing http://www.abulsme.com/topbooks/ Prob don’t have time to do API. Oh well! 19:40
Reading – What Is PRISM, Exactly? Ctd (Dish Reader) http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/06/11/what-is-prism-exactly-ctd/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter вЂ¦ 20:21
Reading – Generating the nuclear codes and more (Marc Ambinder) http://theweek.com/article/index/245537/generating-the-nuclear-codes-and-more вЂ¦ 20:25
RT @attackerman Jeff Merkley, supported by 8 Dem & Rep senators, is dropping a bill to declassify govt interpretations of surveillance law. Story soon. ??:??
Reading – A.C.L.U. Files Lawsuit Seeking to Stop the Collection of Domestic Phone Logs (Charlie Savage) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/us/aclu-files-suit-over-phone-surveillance-program.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0 вЂ¦ 21:00
Reading – Did James Clapper Lie to Congress? (Jonathan H. Adler) http://is.gd/OtnrbV 21:34
Reading – Google’s Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP (Kim Zetter) http://is.gd/UXgPrs 21:36
Authorized to != Able to -> Reading: Investigators looking at how Snowden gained access @ NSA (Finn/Miller/Nakashima) http://is.gd/wNJP00 21:50
Reading – There Is No Mistaking How Glenn Greenwald Feels About The NSA (David Bauder) http://is.gd/SOoBri 21:54
Oh Yeah! -> Watching – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Official Teaser Trailer [HD] (WarnerBrosPictures) http://is.gd/8DCfNj 22:44
Reading – Spies Without Borders I: Using Domestic Networks to Spy on the World (Isreal/Rodriguez) 22:48
Reading – How OS X Mavericks will save you power and boost performance (Peter Cohen) http://is.gd/9T8Q2Z 22:49
Reading – Snowden saw what I saw: surveillance criminally subverting the constitution (Thomas Drake) http://is.gd/ieeKIW 22:56
Reading – Only Child Myths: Lauren Sandler, Author Of ‘One And Only’ On Her Surprising Discoveries (Farah L. Miller) http://is.gd/4Cwm3M 22:59
Really? RT @BretEastonEllis: Actual modeling photo of Edward Snowden from the early 2000s… pic.twitter.com/5uvHxFERtq 23:23
Reading – Why Apple Inc. Can’t Be Forgiven For IOS 7 (Mike Schuster) http://is.gd/25mgUd 23:39

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-11 (UTC)

Just finished recording this week’s Curmudgeon’s Corner. Longest one ever. But only cause we cheated. You’ll understand when you listen. :-) 02:56
As usual, it will be released later in the week depending on when I have time to put it out. 02:56
Reading – How Glenn Greenwald Began Communicating With NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden (Michael Calderone) http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3416978?utm_hp_ref=tw вЂ¦ 03:15
RT @_ColinS_: The new Mac Pro is as powerful as the world’s best supercomputer was in 2000. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_supercomputing вЂ¦ 13:37
Watching – John Oliver On NSA: ‘I Bet The Amish Are Feeling Pretty F**king Smug Right Now’ (Daily Show) http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/john-oliver-on-nsa-programs-i-bet-amish вЂ¦ 13:43
Reading – The Snowden Prism (Josh Marshall) http://is.gd/eM1K0n 20:43
Uh, interesting, but… -> Reading – Fixing the Digital Economy (Jaron Lanier) http://is.gd/rOeAYl 22:05
Reading – Sunless Earth (Randall Monroe) http://is.gd/zYoA16 22:11
Reading – El Candigato Morris: Fed up with “rat” politicians, Mexican town proposes cat for mayor (Xeni Jardin) http://is.gd/gpnPen 22:14
Reading – James Bamford, the NSA’s Chief Chronicler (Alexander Nazaryan) http://is.gd/9lORbj 22:27
Reading – Using Metadata to find Paul Revere (Kieran Healy) http://is.gd/cF9zuz 22:42
Reading – What to Make of a Climate-Change Plateau (Justin Gillis) http://is.gd/JqFScq 22:46
Reading – Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ (Daniel J. Solove) http://is.gd/XgB5Wi 23:09

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-10 (UTC)

Reading – Has the United States become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum? (Timothy B. Lee) http://t.co/AwQqcSZvXB 00:07:43
RT @dangillmor: A newspaper story that has absolutely, positively earned the word "Exclusive" — http://t.co/50p0qyjieI 00:35:11
RT @mattapuzzo: Two important debates – whether it works and whether it's right – need to be separated. Surveillance can work and be wrong.вЂ¦ 01:01:06
RT @natsecHeather: @jamespoulos @oknox those who think leaking=whistle blowing=reform need to study their history some more before they repвЂ¦ 01:49:28
Reading – Enter The Leaker (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/9u9caW7mZP 01:52:40
Reading – Less Than Three Months (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/jlAzawlDiJ 03:26:35
Reading – BBC asks James Bond star to be its new Doctor Who (Richard Eden) http://t.co/phUQLWuY9p 08:02:04
Reading – If the NSA Trusted Edward Snowden With Our Data, Why Should We Trust the NSA? (Farhad Manjoo) http://t.co/nMpCEEB5Uf 15:04:18
Reading – Code name вЂVerax’: Snowden, in exchanges with Post reporter, made clear he knew risks (Barton Gellman) http://t.co/AffgDjWwIJ 15:14:05
RT @BresPolitico: Snowden is a "leaker," not "whistleblower." Like it or not, what Snowden has exposed so far is not illegal. "WhistlebloweвЂ¦ 15:38:24
Reading – Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb Dumb (Daily Dish) http://t.co/a5h8fmrMR5 15:42:09
Forget Snowden/NSAвЂ¦. It is WWDC time! 16:55:33
Watching on Twit Live by the way. http://t.co/I8pLmBVSxo 17:16:04
At least until my first work meeting of the day in 10 minutesвЂ¦. Then I have to work for awhile. Shoulda just taken the morning off. :-) 17:18:37
Sea Lion? Ha! 17:22:36
Mavericks. Hmm. 17:23:24
Out of my meeting. What did I miss? :-) 18:13:45
Quick shot of Woz in the audience! Go Woz! :-) 18:14:34
Time for the iOS 7 preview… 18:17:10
RT @SarcasticRover: "OSX Curiosity" would have been better. (It killed the cats) 18:18:50
Here we goвЂ¦ what is it gonna be like? 18:19:47
RT @nichcarlson: It's sad that they never let Jony Ive out of that white room 18:20:38
Whoa. Yeah. Pretty different. 18:21:41
Background moves based on how you move the phone? OK. 18:23:14
Yeah. Not sure about it. Will have to try it. Mostly will just be the shock of the new and different. 18:25:01
RT @wilw: Watched a little #WWDC on a break. Excited for iOS users to have some of the things we've had on Android for years. 18:32:15
Twit folks also talking a lot about how this adds a lot of things from Android. 18:33:24
Better multitasking could be OK. As long as it is good and doesn't kill battery. 18:35:48
Looks like some nice enhancements to Safari. 18:37:42
Nice swiping between the multi-tasked apps. Like that. 18:40:03
Still lots of talk about how a lot of this stuff was done before either in Android or in Apps. Often the case with Apple stuff. 18:44:31
Take the best of what is done elsewhere, tweak and make more accessible. 18:44:47
New Siri interface. :-) New voice too. But can it understand me better? 18:47:16
All kinds of car integration. Just got a car though, so not for me. 18:49:59
Apps by age range useful with little kids I guess. Although Alex's favorite game right now (Trainz Driver) is not designed for kids. 18:50:42
Here comes iRadioвЂ¦ iTunes Radio. In 2013 CC prediction show, I predicted they would do this, but it would flop. We'll seeвЂ¦ :-) 18:52:25
RT @StevenLevy: ITunes Radio looks good, but why isn't there a station based on your genius preferences? 18:54:17
RT @macrumorslive: "Designed by Apple in California. This is our signature." Cook exits, keynote over. 19:03:10
Is that Matt W? RT @KevinGoldsmith: I thought that whole Cylinder thing was a joke? I guess not: http://t.co/6PCo7KtRC1 19:08:11
RT @ashleymayer: Good move by Apple not to feature Prism as its "one more thing." 19:09:04
Looks like a prop from Star Wars RT @tim: Mac Pro under the hood http://t.co/67QJ9mtLGy 19:14:36
OK, time to get some food, then get back to work. It will be fun to try this Apple stuff in the fall. 19:29:07
Reading – Mass Surveillance in America: A Timeline of Loosening Laws and Practices (Currier/Elliott/Meyer) http://t.co/9eyhR1FEgi 22:18:32
Best unintentional defense of gridlock I've ever heard -> Reading – The Quiet Closing of Washington (Robert Reich) http://t.co/jGWTvd0ho0 22:36:33
If more conservative states r getting more conservative policies, & more liberal states r getting more liberal policies, seems good 2 me! 22:38:19
Uniformity is overrated. If the views of the population are different, policies SHOULD be different. See what works, people vote with feet. 22:41:24
Reading – A Child's Guide to Why NSA Surveillance is Bad (Peter Van Buren) http://t.co/rQkL2PMO9s 22:42:54
And yes, I know some people CAN'T vote with their feet. And that there are also some universal rights that should not be subject to a vote. 22:44:16
Reading – Obama Administration Declassifies Details On вЂњPRISM,вЂќ Blasts вЂњRecklessвЂќ Media And Leakers (Zeke J Miller) http://t.co/6hsb7WD7qc 22:49:44
Reading – Analyzing Yahoo's PRISM non-denial (Christopher Soghoian) http://t.co/y8Dy2YPqzN 22:51:22
RT @Romay1963: Is the alternative to a National Surveillance State – weekly suicide bombings on American soil? I dunno. But that's the realвЂ¦ 23:13:11
.@Romay1963 We would have to lose almost 1000 people a week to terrorism for it to be as big a problem asвЂ¦ the flu. It isn't worth it. in reply to Romay1963 23:14:51
.@Romay1963 .@Romay1963 To be more precise, the flu plus pneumonia. (Source: http://t.co/2Gyp3ZUFKm ) in reply to Romay1963 23:16:53
.@Romay1963 To be more precise, the flu plus pneumonia. (Source: http://t.co/2Gyp3ZUFKm ) in reply to abulsme 23:18:42
Damn it, I'm going to stop trying to fix that last tweet. Did it wrong like 8 times. :-) 23:19:20
RT @Romay1963: @abulsme Tend to agree. Time for a real convo. 10 yrs too late, I'd say. 23:19:44
.@Romay1963 Indeed. Need policy to be driven by rational analysis, not fear. in reply to Romay1963 23:20:20
RT @conor64: Question for Americans: to protect against real threat of terrorism in Paris, does French gov't have right to spy on your commвЂ¦ 23:25:47
RT @MaggieJordanACN: @abulsme 100 people a week not worth it. At what number should I care? 23:26:18
.@maggiejordanacn The point is not caring/not caring. Of course you should care. But degree of response should be proportionate to problem. in reply to abulsme 23:27:02
.@MaggieJordanACN Resp to terror threat has been disproportionate. Like an allergic reaction. Does more damage than what it tries to solve. in reply to MaggieJordanACN 23:28:52
RT @MaggieJordanACN: @abulsme are we still talking body count? 23:30:26
.@MaggieJordanACN There is some evidence of this even in body count. But most certainly when other factors also included as well. in reply to MaggieJordanACN 23:31:27
MT @F_WRLCK: @abulsme @MaggieJordanACN http://t.co/yzMDO2fmEY Should be the starting point regarding where we spend on health and safety. 23:32:57
.@F_WRLCK @maggiejordanacn Completely agreed. in reply to F_WRLCK 23:33:18
.@F_WRLCK @maggiejordanacn Would also add data on non-fatal injuries and quality of life impacts, etc though. Not just deaths. in reply to F_WRLCK 23:34:14
.@F_WRLCK @maggiejordanacn But in any case, use real data to make decisions, not just act based on emotion and hunches. in reply to F_WRLCK 23:34:45
RT @MaggieJordanACN: @abulsme I do not see where the surveillance has caused any damage. If it saves lives, prevents damage, it's worth it. 23:36:50
.@MaggieJordanACN I had switched to talking broader reax to terror. But even surveillance net neg if non-trivial value to privacy. in reply to MaggieJordanACN 23:39:02
.@MaggieJordanACN Especially if you consider not just anything currently done, but also possible future abuses enabled by the precedent. in reply to MaggieJordanACN 23:39:53

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-09 (UTC)

Reading – Tech frets public outcry: Is my email still private? (Friess/Meyers ) http://t.co/qwNs04oJUB 00:01:30
RT @ggreenwald: Note how in the colored NSA map, there is more system surveillance directed at US (yellow) than at …Russia (green) http:вЂ¦ 00:39:53
Countercase -> Reading – We are shocked, shockedвЂ¦ (David Simon) http://t.co/k64K3txByh 00:52:45
Reading – Is this proof the Virgin Queen was an imposter in drag? (Christopher Stevens) http://t.co/SloHxbGLQB 01:21:05
RT @dangillmor: Cloud computing is only (relatively) safe if everything you put there is encrypted and you are the only one with the key. PвЂ¦ 02:06:05
Reading – NSA's Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do (James Ball) http://t.co/xySF1bIxQ7 02:11:12
RT @mattapuzzo: That's my read on this so one far @S_Dockery: @mattapuzzo Guardian has been doing alot more upselling than they need to. 02:37:57
Reading – Yahoo says claims of sweeping surveillance 'categorically false' (Adi Robertson) http://t.co/29jzTFGsmc 02:41:03
RT @mattyglesias: Folks, it’s right there in the name. BOUNDLESS INFORMANT is a narrowly tailored program with no risk of spiraling out of вЂ¦ 03:24:05
Important -> NSA Bombshell Story Falling Apart Under Scrutiny; Key Facts Turning Out to Be Inaccurate (Bob Cesca) http://t.co/ODjGKvrn8H 03:32:12
RT @attackerman: I remember trying to get people to pay attention to this story in 2011. http://t.co/LjKWyLclyd 04:04:41
Yup! -> Reading – We Asked For This (John Biggs) http://t.co/LsDEqvpNS8 04:08:03
RT @kirstenpowers10: I'm a little confused as to why NSA data mining is what sends liberals over the edge; not the blowing up of innocent pвЂ¦ 04:23:37
RT @normative: If this is all really no big deal, someone with direct knowledge sure took a baffling risk. 06:17:02
Good -> Reading – A Child's Guide to Why NSA Surveillance is Bad (Peter Van Buren) http://t.co/87hpQcncOb 06:33:00
Reading – The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism (Ed Bott) http://t.co/XzZlao84dE 15:10:39
Reading – Not Buying It (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/uWlXcQfqgd 15:13:31
Reading – Madiba, I let you go (Marelise Van Der Merwe) http://t.co/0lKlyLoiij 15:21:02
Reading – Is He Trolling Us? (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/uotb6FcqZV 15:28:59
RT @bergerrichard: Both PRISM/Boundless Informant document dumps come from training slides. Doesn't reflect well on expertise of source. 18:02:06
Wow > Reading: Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance (Greenwald/MacAskill/Poitras) http://t.co/ALGze0lK7P 19:12:07
RT @AkiPeritz: It's 3:08am in Beijing. A lot of bleary-eyed MSS officials are currently heading to the office because their pagers just wenвЂ¦ 19:13:03
RT @JECarter4: He didn't have access to that intel. RT @ZekeJMiller: FWIW, the US and Hong Kong have a bilateral extradition treaty http://вЂ¦ 19:13:17
RT @TheStalwart: RT @ZekeJMiller: RT @DukeStJournal: "Xi, we have a last minute thing…" – Barack Obama. 19:14:36
RT @owillis: edward snowden protests american civil liberties by escaping to china. where this happens. h/t @DCPlod http://t.co/cJ3XI0UDXn 19:15:29
RT @mattyglesias: Edward Snowden’s view that Hong Kong has вЂњa spirited commitment to free speechвЂќ raises some doubts about the quality of вЂ¦ 19:16:23
If he was going to flee to a country with extradition treaties and tell everyone, he should have just had a press conference in Hawaii. 19:19:16
Dude will be arrested within hours. He’ll be getting the Manning treatment by morning. Unless of course China wants to вЂњtalkвЂќ fist. 19:21:47
RT @bennyjohnson: So perfect: RT @ZekeJMiller: For Edward Snowden: http://t.co/m3WNKjgN6n 19:52:34
RT @Aaron_RS: For the people to trust the government with such power the government must trust the people and explain the need. 20:07:19
RT @davidfrum: Whenever I think of a place free from intrusive state surveillance, I think of China. 20:14:15
RT @BlogsofWar: RT @SocialCompany: I figure that there's a race between the CIA and Chinese State Security to see who can get NSA leaker SnвЂ¦ 20:15:31
RT @BuzzFeedBen: Kim Dotcom case a glimpse of a messy int'l extradition fight http://t.co/FdTEyvKkZk via @michaelroston 20:16:29
RT @JeffreyGoldberg: How is it possible that low/mid-level Intel community employees like Snowden and Manning have access to… everything? 20:17:29
!! MT @dangillmor: In other news Google buys Waze, keeps it out of hands of Facebook and Apple http://t.co/JvD1HAIOpS 20:47:17
Reading – Google set to acquire Waze for $1.3b (Golan/Hoffman) http://t.co/Txkvn1oCt1 20:55:44
Reading – Wow. Just Wow (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/njivYnfVCN 21:06:55
RT @SalTesta14: Apply to work for the NSA! Email your resume to literally anyone, and we'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. 21:21:34
Reading – WWDC 2013 Expectations (John Gruber) http://t.co/tbyXzRiFjq 21:25:43
RT @owillis: wait, he said he's willing to accept the consequences of his actions… then skipped town to hong kong? 21:34:21
Explores why Hong Kong -> Reading – What's the Deal with Hong Kong? (Josh Matshall) http://t.co/DWQHlpxrPw 21:39:45
Yes! -> Reading – Counterterrorism Measures Should Be Put Through The OIRA Benefit-Cost Analysis (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/kUJohABDzI 21:44:34
RT @BYUfan: @abulsme bad link 21:45:42
.@BYUfan will try again shortly then. :-/ in reply to BYUfan 21:45:56
Again -> Reading – What’s the Deal with Hong Kong? (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/McpwMz9DMw 21:48:55
At the zoo now. :-) 21:57:53
RT @Aelkus: Of course, as @joshuafoust notes, this is likely to lead to more secrecy, stovepiping, and compartments. 22:28:35
Reading – It's Time For Apple To Start Treating Us Like Adults (Frederic Lardinois) http://t.co/8Z4qvcGOTQ 22:45:56
RT @johnmcquaid: We can only imagine the scale of the freakouts occurring now at the NSA and Booz Allen Hamilton. 22:51:14
RT @RQDammit: @abulsme sooooo….what's ur take on dis secret "we only lookin at call duration & numbers, not da contents" thing? 23:02:20
.@RQDammit On the Verizon thing, probably true but irrelevant. Meta data just as important as content. And of course Prism whole diff thing. in reply to RQDammit 23:03:21
Reading – вЂYou Will Never Be Safe’ (Rod Dreher) http://t.co/D1vUhbKhtP 23:07:09
RT @dandrezner: @JeffreyGoldberg because one of the post-9/11 concerns was that intelligence was too compartmentalized & we needed a "netwoвЂ¦ 23:41:36

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-08 (UTC)

I think we just passed our home visit inspection for me adopting Amy! Woo! 02:58:16
RT @chrislhayes: Here' something to chew on: the gov't has the capability of basically turning any cell phone on remotely and using it as aвЂ¦ 03:22:48
Explains corp denials -> Reading – Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program (Claire Cain Miller) http://t.co/uZlF7vLo38 03:42:38
On the corp side, the existence of systems to process legal requests is not surprising or outrageous. 03:46:10
The question is if govt is abusing the process to request overly broad or indiscriminate in their requests. 03:48:39
Highly targeted requests related to a specific investigation is probably OK (although the FISA Process with gag orders and such sucks). 03:49:30
The thing that would be more problematic would be just massive scale data requests for the purpose of wide scale data mining. 03:51:44
Of course the companies themselves do that kind of large scale data retention for their own later data mining, which has its own issues. 03:53:10
But govt doing it has a whole different, and perhaps more serious, set of implications. 03:53:48
Reading – Obama Calls Surveillance Programs Legal and Limited (Baker/Sanger) http://t.co/oa6L3QfwQl 04:00:24
Unless rules for these things are defined by public legislation, not secret policy that can be changed at will by the pres, still no good. 04:01:43
Reading – ACLU Considering Legal Options In Wake Of NSA Revelations (Eric Lach) http://t.co/LmzUUB34YN 04:54:56
Reading – Doublespeak Denials Of PRISM Hid The Truth About Participation (Josh Constine) http://t.co/pd1UIpWBsd 06:43:13
Picture getting muddier -> Reading – No evidence of NSA's 'direct access' to tech companies (Declan McCullagh) http://t.co/BeCqy2cGkD 06:51:54
Reading – Solving the mystery of PRISM (Marc Ambinder) http://t.co/19LZFKBgPF 06:56:54
Reading – Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks (Greenwald/MacAskill) http://t.co/3a8cc8Iop9 15:57:44
Reading – What If China Hacks the NSA's Massive Data Trove? (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/EitLRTcyDX 16:00:32
RT @declanm: Google+ chief architect Yonathan Zunger flatly denies, in detail, participation in #PRISM. And takes on the #NSA. https://t.coвЂ¦ 17:34:20
Reading – Is a democratic surveillance state possible? (Mike Konczal) http://t.co/QtUYCRsQQd 17:39:14
Reading: Justice Department Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion Finding Unconstitutional Surveillance (David Corn) http://t.co/q4aHvyaK7t 17:48:16
Reading – What is PRISM? Part 2 (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/nSoTNY1SCx 17:55:15
RT @wikileaks: WaPo should stop speaking about its source, how long it had data etc. This isn't amateur hour. Source needs to get to EcuadoвЂ¦ 17:57:20
Reading – TV white spaces forum paves the way for wireless broadband across Africa (Darren Murph) http://t.co/OZDt9anEpF 18:00:51
RT @fmanjoo: "making it easier for the government to get the information is not, which is why Twitter could decline to do so." http://t.co/вЂ¦ 18:04:46
Reading: We Misunderstood Barack: He only wanted the Domestic Surveillance to be Made Legal not to End It (Juan Cole) http://t.co/8niQh8gfOY 18:08:22
Reading – The PRISM spin war has begun (Elias Groll) http://t.co/HlfvfA53gO 18:12:49
Reading – вЂI Cannot Figure Out Why This Was Classified to Begin With’ (James Fallows) http://t.co/mWp0NlDdIf 22:16:32
Reading – Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data (Greenwald/MacAskill) http://t.co/BmJmAiWWAn 22:24:16
Reading – Public Documents Contradict Claim Email Spying Foiled Terror Plot (Ben Smith) http://t.co/vTsfhpN4eT 22:38:27

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-07 (UTC)

Reading – The NSA Violates The Batman Standard (Oliver Willis) http://t.co/bPhwmOkjiF 12:31:06
Reading – President Obama Doesn't Welcome Debate, He Actively Thwarts It (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/8vZvhw9t4L 12:35:28
Reading – These programs might well have been legal. That’s almost worse. (Klein/Soltas) http://t.co/NTu3Ot6jEE 12:45:45
Reading – Is This Who Runs Prism? (Josh Marshall) http://t.co/IbheFCqUTP 12:48:03
Reading – Welcome to the Bush-Obama White House: They’re Spying on Us (Ron Fournier) http://t.co/rm2Ftrj0qT 13:06:09
The argument for -> Minimization and the вЂњCollection FirstвЂќ Surveillance Model (Stewart Baker) http://t.co/kvSiY25ATS 13:12:27
Reading – The US Government is mad at Bradley Manning for doing to it what it is Doing to All of us (Juan Cole) http://t.co/CbupTip2Vi 13:24:18
Reading – Verizon and the N.S.A.: The Problem with Metadata (Jane Mayer) http://t.co/UDqghgeFCY 13:31:08
Reading – Young Americans More Likely to See Being Gay as a "Choice" (Eli Sanders) http://t.co/JuIRGGEcvw 13:33:45
Reading – Admit It, Rep. Sensenbrenner: You Were Wrong About the Patriot Act (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/0TNSrodDSl 13:40:45
Reading – Three unoriginal thoughts on the NSA revelations (Daniel W. Drezner) http://t.co/6gEZDgB2zE 13:45:52
More justification -> Why the NSA Needs Your Phone CallsвЂ¦ (Stewart Baker) http://t.co/AhnRxz461k 13:50:35
[Abulpost] Congressional Velocity (June 2013 Update): In our annual predictions show for 2013 one of the… http://t.co/Hz8b0f1E8j 14:17:40
Reading – What We Don't Know About Spying on Citizens: Scarier Than What We Know (Bruce Schneier) http://t.co/tl7PXlXlXo 15:01:18
Reading – Is Prism Going To Harm US High-Tech Exports? (Matthew Yglesias) http://t.co/YS3nBUtuQ3 15:10:00
Reading – The FBI May Have Your Emails (The Dish) http://t.co/IqdMrXcT86 15:16:32
BINGO! -> Reading – All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama (Conor Friedersdorf) http://t.co/lZQJjp4ZQt 15:23:40
Also remember the international precedents. If it is OK for us to do it, how can we say it is wrong for any other country to do it? 15:25:29
And even with the existing programs, are we really OK with the notion that ALL non-Americans should have no privacy expectations at all? 15:26:35
Also note that 2 deg of separation from about 1M people on various watch lists probably gets most US citizens despite вЂњprotectionsвЂќ. Sigh! 15:28:28
RT @intelwire: Regardless of your view on the NSA program, defending it with "it doesn't collect content" shows you don't have a good graspвЂ¦ 15:33:26
Watching – Ask Fareed Zakaria Anything: Stay Out Of Syria (The Dish) http://t.co/2Drigkm0yr 15:39:38
Corps too of course -> Reading – Schneier: Internet is a surveillance state (Bruce Schneier) http://t.co/keO4MzcsCu 15:47:12
.@conor64 on a roll -> Reading – Secrecy Undermines the Ability of Congress to Function (Friedersdorf) http://t.co/mxJOsg3mvy 15:52:36
Reading – Why Does a Terry Standard Apply to Querying the NSA Call Records Database? (Orin Kerr) http://t.co/VkgXGXpg3N 16:16:24
RT @mikeyang: I don't think there are enough engineers at Google willing to work on Prism as it is alleged to be. Let alone go through cleaвЂ¦ 16:18:19
Tech Speculation -> Reading – Prism and NSA Spying: why I don't (entirely) believe it. (Michael Brunton-Spall) http://t.co/QYeoSHb9Pn 16:28:18
Uh huh MT @BostonGlobe: "When you look at the details, I think we've struck the right balance." -President Obama on NSA data mining program. 16:29:20
Um… RT @gerrycanavan: uh oh RT @lrozen: RT Obama: If ppl dont trust Congress, judges or exec branch, then we are going 2have some problems 16:29:39
Actually @BarackObama, that’s the whole point of rules and checks and balances. You can’t base a system on trust and good intentions. 16:32:19
You need to assume people will have bad intent sometimes, and other times people with good intent will overreach. 16:33:13
Systematic protections have to be strong enough to restrain bad guys if they get in power, and prevent the good guys from overreaching too. 16:33:55
Sometimes (often) the good guys should be restricted a lot more than they want to be, because the same rules will apply to the bad guys. 16:36:22
This is not a design flaw to be worked around or eliminated. It is a critical aspect of a good society. 16:36:56
I have no doubt that massive surveillance and data mining helps thwart attacks and more. That isn’t the question. It isn’t worth it. 16:40:05
Ha! MT @ggreenwald Awesome! So they'll be no leak investigation then? RT @mattyglesias Obama welcomes debate on secret surveillance programs 18:03:13
RT @owenthomas: I don't understand why the government doesn't just offer a premium tier of citizenship with no monitoring. 18:07:07
RT @emmagkeller: Obama passes the buck to us the American people, saying we voted for the Members of Congress who have oversight. 18:09:19
RT @Chris_Moody: Obama consistently appears perplexed as to why Americans are generally suspicious of their government's motives. 18:16:07
Reading – Congress all but silent on surveillance of Internet records (Aaron Blake) http://t.co/jXQbua6Bat 18:19:04
Reading – UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation (Nick Hopkins) http://t.co/Z8RhKYOTss 18:21:13
[Abulpost] Curmudgeon's Corner: That Kind of Smell: In the latest Curmudgeon's Corner Sam and Ivan talk… http://t.co/D3Hb5Z9CfT 18:25:41
Reading – Despite Naming Coincidence, Palantir Says It’s Not Part Of PRISM Program (Alexia Tsotsis) http://t.co/QLJ6OEQKrP 18:27:01
No, not surprised. Sigh. -> Reading – Obama is Bad on Civil Liberties But That Shouldn't Surprise Anyone (Kevin Drum) http://t.co/6OQXxdlU5p 18:29:40
RT @studentactivism: I do a double-take every time someone suggests that because something the govt does is legal, it means it's not scandaвЂ¦ 18:30:34
MT @DennisDMZ: Obama just announced he's replacing "Hail to the Chief" with "Every Breath You Take" by the Police…the band that is. 22:40:38
Reading – Was President Obama the leaker? (Ezra Klein) http://t.co/SsYy0SthuH 23:25:14
Reading – In Which Mr Gallup Eats Some Crow Pie (Andrew Sullivan) http://t.co/Ul7E4udBcH 23:30:31

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-06 (UTC)

Reading – 22 Maps That Show The Deepest Linguistic Conflicts In America (Walter Hickey) http://t.co/GFhFKD7v5q 17:50:11
Reading – U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program (Gellman/Poitras) http://t.co/0FpXda8Ej3 22:29:20
Reading – NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily (Glenn Greenwald) http://t.co/5i3hxFVPw9 22:42:17
Reading – NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal (Greenwald/MacAskill) http://t.co/oKcQvrpV77 23:20:15
This week's surveillance revelations are unsurprising, but still very sad. Any marginal security from this is not worth it. Not even close. 23:21:48
The thing to always remember: Even if you trust the current leaders to wield vast powers, what about the next guys? Or the ones after that? 23:28:42
You should never set up a system that allows people (anybody!) to wield powers you wouldn't want your worst enemies to wield. 23:29:32
Because if a system exists, if the powers exist, you can be sure that sooner or later, people you violently disagree with will use them. 23:30:28
Thus the reason for explicit limits on power, and strong checks and balances to prevent abuse. 23:34:46
Too bad when people get scared, limits get lifted, and the people who are supposed to check and balance justвЂ¦ don't. 23:35:30

@abulsme tweets from 2013-06-05 (UTC)

Alex is pretty sure that when he grows up, he wants to be a dog. A dog JUST like Roscoe! 01:46:07
[Abulpost] Amy Graduates from Seattle Children's Chorus: Taken 2013-06-01 http://t.co/fTm7PdYCva 08:58:27
Reading – World War II’s Strangest Battle: When Americans and Germans Fought Together (Andrew Roberts) http://t.co/srXiGfyZRU 20:17:19
Just got notice well our $ went to live now -> Watching – Rachel's Wish has given 37,770 people clean drinking water
http://t.co/k6lvRyoU0a 21:38:44
Reading – Forget the Charm, Keep the Offensive: Obama's Aggressive New Strategy (David A. Graham) http://t.co/zCjayD7BcP 22:18:12

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