"There is now no shield from forced exposure. Nothing in that parenthetical thought list is terrorism-related, but no one can feel protected enough from forced exposure any more to say anything the least bit like that to anyone in an email, particularly from the U.S. out or to the U.S. in, but really anywhere.
You don't expect a stranger to read your private communications to a friend. And once you know they can, what is there to say? Constricted and distracted. That's it exactly. That's how I feel. So. There we are. The foundation of Groklaw is over. I can't do Groklaw without your input. I was never exaggerating about that when we won awards. It really was a collaborative effort, and there is now no private way, evidently, to collaborate."
And 'they' want to appear as if it were otherwise and that they actually care about us?
I don't know, but the US Patent & Trademark Office (which btw has nothing to do with administering copyright) says 'we really want to hear from you' and the Department of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force wrote a 122-page paper (PDF) on the subject, so they must really mean it, right? But I couldn't find the address to which to send my comments, so maybe that was an oversight on their part."
On another front of sorts...
An anonymous reader writes with revelations that the UK government has been pressuring the Guardian over its publication of the Snowden leaks for a while, and that it ultimately ended with GHCQ officials smashing drives of data to pieces.
From the article: "The mood toughened just over a month ago, when I received a phone call from the centre of government telling me: 'You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back.' ... one of the more bizarre moments in the Guardian's long history occurred — with two GCHQ security experts overseeing the destruction of hard drives in the Guardian's basement just to make sure there was nothing in the mangled bits of metal which could possibly be of any interest to passing Chinese agents.
'We can call off the black helicopters,' joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro." The paper had repeatedly pointed out how pointless destroying the data was: copies exist, and all reporting on the Snowden leaks is already being edited and published from locations other than the UK.
The David Mirand Detention And Reaction
U.S. had advance notice of Britain’s plan to detain reporter Glenn Greenwald’s partner
One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a message to recipients of Snowden's materials
Feather collecting?
A man split open a feather pillow outside when the wind was blowing hard. The feathers scattered all over the place. A small clump of feathers got stuck on a branch of a tree. Someone got them and disposed of them and walked away satisfied that they had cleaned up all of the feathers...
Did they?
And the wind blew on...
Following the nine-hour-long detention by British authorities of Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, Anonymous hacks UK and Chinese government websites, posts personal information of US government officials and their families as "vital anti-terror surveillance information."
This is interesting...
BP is suing the US government to be allowed to explore for oil with US federal money again.
"What I wish the TSA did"
TIL that there is a completely unique English dialect spoken only on Tangier Island, Virginia. It is said to be almost the same as when the island was settled in 1686 and can be unintelligible even to native English speakers.
Smoking Room - Anti-smoking Installation
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