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50. It's a time bomb waiting to be misused

Mon Nov 23, 2015, 01:52 PM

Nov 2015

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17073-2004Aug19.html

U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy said yesterday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government's secret "no-fly" list.

It's a powerful tool that anyone with bad intentions can "accidentally" misuse.

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"We have not heard such blatant, shameless lying from intelligence and military officials...... [View all] marmar Nov 2015 OP

so says shameless liar Glenn Greenwald LOL uhnope Nov 2015 #1

Please identify one lie in this piece. marmar Nov 2015 #2

lol. I didn't say that and you know it. uhnope Nov 2015 #3

As I suspected. The usual word salad bullshit. marmar Nov 2015 #4

No surprise that "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right" is incomprehensible to the Greenwald cult uhnope Nov 2015 #5

Sarah Palin called. She'd like you to return her incoherent babble. marmar Nov 2015 #7

I refutiate that. Enthusiast Nov 2015 #15

yr English teacher called. She'd like you to not tell anybody that you attended her class uhnope Nov 2015 #42

No, I can't comprehend incoherent babble. marmar Nov 2015 #43

So you're saying wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #17

an effective propagandist mixes truth with BS & that's GG to a T uhnope Nov 2015 #24

what part is the BS I ask again? n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #28

yet you can't wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #33

If someone asked you to listen to David Duke speak for 15 minutes because it's "the truth", would u? uhnope Nov 2015 #36

yes I might. wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #38

sorry, then it's a lost cause uhnope Nov 2015 #40

Ironic since you not only read stormfront but post their links here. Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #45

with that smearing lie of yours, you've just totally discredited yourself uhnope Nov 2015 #48

lulz. Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #53

after you finished reading the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, uhnope Nov 2015 #55

LOL my friend. Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #56

Don't hold your breath zeemike Nov 2015 #6

lol. I love it when authoritarians smear others as authoritarians. uhnope Nov 2015 #8

And I love the "I'm rubber you're glue" response. zeemike Nov 2015 #9

Excuse me, but I don't know enough about Scientology to get that Jack Rabbit Nov 2015 #12

I'm not bothering to watch it. Why don't you summarize GG's main points and then we'll discuss? uhnope Nov 2015 #26

Point out the lies so we can discuss your opinion? Otherwise Greenwald is 100% correct. We remember sabrina 1 Nov 2015 #21

Sorry, I'm not wasting 16 minutes of my time listening to Greenwald blather on and on uhnope Nov 2015 #25

Well if you don't know what he said, any comment you make about it isn't going to be very sabrina 1 Nov 2015 #27

you are missing the point. & you don't seem to know what he said either uhnope Nov 2015 #34

so you claim that GG is mixing BS with truth... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #35

brush up on yr reading skills uhnope Nov 2015 #37

my reading is fine.... wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #39

lol. that means you can't. you can't even say what GG's points are uhnope Nov 2015 #41

The Global Establishment Will Use Paris As A Cudgel To Justify Further Illegal Surveillance cantbeserious Nov 2015 #10

precisely! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #54

Sleeper Cell, on Showtime Babel_17 Nov 2015 #11

Sounds like not a good thing at all. What is your snagglepuss Nov 2015 #13

I defer to the independent experts Babel_17 Nov 2015 #14

Look up Phil Zimmermann and PGP cprise Nov 2015 #19

Free speech issue as in people of influence, who know how the system works, ... Babel_17 Nov 2015 #23

No. Encryption is a way that people communicate. cprise Nov 2015 #29

I see Babel_17 Nov 2015 #30

I remember such a case cprise Nov 2015 #31

Here's the gist of it Babel_17 Nov 2015 #32

More bullshit excuses for collecting information that is none of their fucking business to get GoneFishin Nov 2015 #16

precisely! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2015 #18

interesting conspiracy theory uhnope Nov 2015 #44

Can you give me an example of when it wasn't? GoneFishin Nov 2015 #47

lol uhnope Nov 2015 #49

It's a time bomb waiting to be misused Babel_17 Nov 2015 #50

There have been reported cases of operators using it to spy on their exes. GoneFishin Nov 2015 #51

Links related to this 90-percent Nov 2015 #20

He has embarrassed authoritarians. GoneFishin Nov 2015 #52

Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History Babel_17 Nov 2015 #22

it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be sh Jesus Malverde Nov 2015 #46