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Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012
my uncle works at the gign this is the what the isis text message encryption looks like

akb = allah ackbar
imd = infidels must die
kai = kill all infidels
hugtg? = have u got the grenades
loi = lots of infidels

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les fleurs du mall
Jun 30, 2014

by LadyAmbien

s0m3 guy posted:

my uncle works at the gign this is the what the isis text message encryption looks like

akb = allah ackbar
imd = infidels must die
kai = kill all infidels
hugtg? = have u got the grenades
loi = lots of infidels

impossible for the US government to crack

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

fakiebeanplant posted:

this happened in 2012. Assuming the ~300 polio cases in 2014 is constant across the last 4 or so years, the cost of this CIA initiative is 1500. (keep in mind this is w/ heavy assumptions, including every case is counted as a death)

Sept 11th killed 2,996 people

quantitatively speaking, it was fairer than you'd like to believe

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/150225-polio-pakistan-vaccination-virus-health/

quote:

But the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that spring and the subsequent fallout in Pakistan and the surrounding region—which included targeted assassinations of polio vaccination teams—allowed the virus to fight back. Almost four years later, polio remains a significant threat in Pakistan, which reported 327 new cases in 2014, 60 percent of the world total. This month, gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan and another four-member team was kidnapped and murdered in the Balochistan region, near the Afghan border.

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
what kind of retard assassinates a medical team then doesn't sell the vaccinations at a premium?

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
pakistanis fighting the good fight against autism

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

nomadologique posted:

pakistanis fighting the good fight against autism

Pakistan to have a high speed rail system before california?

down n out
Sep 16, 2008

Nap Ghost
Woodward and Bernstein are considered investigative heroes for exposing political surveillance back in the 70's, Snowden is a national traitor for exposing mass surveillance in 2013. Oh how the tides have turned....

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

down n out posted:

Woodward and Bernstein are considered investigative heroes for exposing political surveillance back in the 70's, Snowden is a national traitor for exposing mass surveillance in 2015. Oh how the tides have turned....

Was pretty hilarious seeing the character assassination campaign against Snowden and also how the Obama administration got the lamestream media to repeat its talking points.

Eddy-Baby
Mar 8, 2006

₤₤LOADSA MONAY₤₤

fakiebeanplant posted:

Assuming the ~300 polio cases in 2014 is constant across the last 4 or so years, the cost of this CIA initiative is 1500

Sept 11th killed 2,996 people

quantitatively speaking, it was fairer than you'd like to believe

tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

etalian posted:

But the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that spring and the subsequent fallout in Pakistan and the surrounding region—which included targeted assassinations of polio vaccination teams—allowed the virus to fight back. Almost four years later, polio remains a significant threat in Pakistan, which reported 327 new cases in 2014, 60 percent of the world total. This month, gunmen attacked a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan and another four-member team was kidnapped and murdered in the Balochistan region, near the Afghan border.

Are you blaming the CIA for violence perpetrated by the very same rebel groups they aim to dismantle?

Those loving Trojans made it so hard for us to trust horses...

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

fakiebeanplant posted:

Are you blaming the CIA for violence perpetrated by the very same rebel groups they aim to dismantle?

Those loving Trojans made it so hard for us to trust horses...

well multiple western aid groups were pretty much outraged the CIA decided to use the doctor cover story since it made their jobs even more dangerous.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

down n out posted:

Woodward and Bernstein are considered investigative heroes for exposing political surveillance back in the 70's, Snowden is a national traitor for exposing mass surveillance in 2013. Oh how the tides have turned....

If you look at his work history he basically went shopping from job to job looking for something valuable to steal and then sell to a foreign power. Also how he actually didn't release very much at all to the public until it became clear that the Chinese and the Russians weren't too interested in buying what he had. It's a bit different from Woodward/Bernstein.

e: to put it more bluntly, if any other government had bought his poo poo, you'd never have known what exactly he stole

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Flesh Forge posted:

If you look at his work history he basically went shopping from job to job looking for something valuable to steal and then sell to a foreign power. Also how he actually didn't release very much at all to the public until it became clear that the Chinese and the Russians weren't too interested in buying what he had. It's a bit different from Woodward/Bernstein.

e: to put it more bluntly, if any other government had bought his poo poo, you'd never have known what exactly he stole

lmao the old administration talking point, Snowden did it all since he thought it would make himself rich.

down n out
Sep 16, 2008

Nap Ghost

Flesh Forge posted:

If you look at his work history he basically went shopping from job to job looking for something valuable to steal and then sell to a foreign power. Also how he actually didn't release very much at all to the public until it became clear that the Chinese and the Russians weren't too interested in buying what he had. It's a bit different from Woodward/Bernstein.

e: to put it more bluntly, if any other government had bought his poo poo, you'd never have known what exactly he stole

Bullshit.

All written bios point that he was an expert in US foreign counter-intelligence with a focus in computer-espionage. He was a stud in his field and worked for years in both CIA/NSA.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

down n out posted:

Bullshit.

All written bios point that he was an expert in US foreign counter-intelligence with a focus in computer-espionage. He was a stud in his field and worked for years in both CIA/NSA.

I didn't say he was dumb or bad at his job.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

etalian posted:

lmao the old administration talking point, Snowden did it all since he thought it would make himself rich.

Yeah that's why he gave all of his info to the press immediately upon getting out of the US

oh wait that's not what he did

Nathilus
Apr 4, 2002

I alone can see through the media bias.

I'm also stupid on a scale that can only be measured in Reddits.
I dont blame snowden i blame that same dumbshit spooks that are alwaus doing poo poo that gets america at large hosed over, and who once again could or would not do their jobs.

Exactly how many cia ops have to blow up in our faces before we realize these people are worse than useless and need to be hung from doorknobs on their underpants?

tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

down n out posted:

Bullshit.

All written bios point that he was an expert in US foreign counter-intelligence with a focus in computer-espionage. He was a stud in his field and worked for years in both CIA/NSA.

total stud uses elevated permissions to access answer key for NSA entrance exam.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/

I get how this is condemning for NSA, but just exactly how does this make him a computer stud?

quote:

"Snowden’s managers decided that he was the most qualified candidate to build a new web front-end for one of its projects, despite his contractor status. As his coworker tells it, he was given full administrator privileges, with virtually unlimited access to NSA data. “Big mistake in hindsight,” says Snowden’s former colleague. “But if you had a guy who could do things nobody else could, and the only problem was that his badge was green instead of blue, what would you do?”"

Ahh yes front-end development; the groundbreaking technical discipline for badass super hackers.

E: just to avoid further derailment, society is founded on the concept of contract. Snowden voided a contract because he deemed certain clandestine operations problematic, and decided the US should provide a virtual safe space for child porn and drug trafficking. I get the net neutrality argument for the Arab Spring in Egypt etc, but I can't imagine a single good reason to use Tor in god's own USA beyond circumventing law enforcement.

E2:

quote:

Snowden kept a copy of the constitution on his desk to cite when arguing against NSA activities he thought might violate it.
this is common among civil servants across all the federal agencies. the operative difference is that they don't use it to justify leaking sensitive information and state secrets to the entire world, regardless of how inert they deem those secrets to be.

tomatoes and shit fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Nov 23, 2015

Bluh
Dec 28, 2012

fakiebeanplant posted:

I have a BS Computer Science and I can't be bothered to figure out gpg.

This is where you lost all credibility.

nomadologique
Mar 9, 2011

DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO
guys ever notice how fakiebeanplant only shows up in snowden threds... :tinfoil:

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

nomadologique posted:

guys ever notice how fakiebeanplant only shows up in snowden threds... :tinfoil:

NSA nerd mad that a lowly computer janitor outwitted them all?

Virginia Slams
Nov 17, 2012
NSA says: "ppl died because you won't let us spy on you why wouldn't you want us to spy on you ??? Waaaah waaaaaaaaah! " *shits pants*

Rahu
Feb 14, 2009


let me just check my figures real quick here
Grimey Drawer

fakiebeanplant posted:

total stud uses elevated permissions to access answer key for NSA entrance exam.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/12/16/an-nsa-coworker-remembers-the-real-edward-snowden-a-genius-among-geniuses/

I get how this is condemning for NSA, but just exactly how does this make him a computer stud?


Ahh yes front-end development; the groundbreaking technical discipline for badass super hackers.

E: just to avoid further derailment, society is founded on the concept of contract. Snowden voided a contract because he deemed certain clandestine operations problematic, and decided the US should provide a virtual safe space for child porn and drug trafficking. I get the net neutrality argument for the Arab Spring in Egypt etc, but I can't imagine a single good reason to use Tor in god's own USA beyond circumventing law enforcement.

E2:

this is common among civil servants across all the federal agencies. the operative difference is that they don't use it to justify leaking sensitive information and state secrets to the entire world, regardless of how inert they deem those secrets to be.

Maybe if the NSA wasn't illegally and unconstitutionally spying on everyone he wouldn't have done it? v:shobon:v

Also if the director of national intelligence didn't lie to congress about the existence of such programs.

Just my opinion though.

Flesh Forge
Jan 31, 2011

LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DOG

Rahu posted:

Maybe if the NSA wasn't illegally and unconstitutionally spying on everyone he wouldn't have done it? v:shobon:v

No he probably would have found something else to steal

tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

etalian posted:

NSA nerd mad that a lowly computer janitor outwitted them all?

local man outwits coworkers by stealing and distributing files from work

Trash Trick
Apr 17, 2014

fakiebeanplant posted:

I have a BS Computer Science and I can't be bothered to figure out gpg.

It's basically as user friendly as itunes, lol.

tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

a cop posted:

It's basically as user friendly as itunes, lol.

i meant the CLI

tried to make a hashbang.sh account and it tells me some gpg dependency is missing. try to brew install gpg and something else goes wrong

quote:

-n * Checking for gpg...
not found!

Trash Trick
Apr 17, 2014

Oh ok.

slave to my cravings
Mar 1, 2007

Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.
Try the faq section it probably has an answer there

tomatoes and shit
Sep 17, 2015

funzo2226 posted:

Try the faq section it probably has an answer there

ya know its funny you mention because i tried that and they recommended i commandeer the snowden thread

Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012
gamefaqs nsa cryptoweb subforums

Booty Pageant
Apr 20, 2012
nb: not to be confused with gamefaqs luelinks eti spinoff

Immortan
Jun 6, 2015

by Shine
Snowden is a hero.

Glenn Greenlulz is a narcissistic piece of poo poo.

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Immortan posted:

Snowden is a hero.

Glenn Greenlulz is a narcissistic piece of poo poo.

I like how Glenn Greenwald sent his boyfriend to the UK as a data courier.

Baba Ganoush
Oct 12, 2014
Dinosaur Gum
Tutanota is a good encrypted email service. If you get one we can send password protected emails to each other.

The pass will be : imgay

etalian
Mar 20, 2006

Baba Ganoush posted:

Tutanota is a good encrypted email service. If you get one we can send password protected emails to each other.

The pass will be : imgay

my pw is yokoritaisdreamwaifu

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

fakiebeanplant posted:

ahh yes. the suicidal sociopaths in ISIS are meticulously documenting which communications occur over which channels in order to reverse engineer the oppositions' surveillance techniques.

(not saying you're wrong, but you're generously implying that ISIS is equally invested in STEM R&D as they are in facilitating the apocalypse)

and yea i agree; the ideal situation in most scenarios often involves time travel. glad to hear the solution is somewhere in the middle ™

you don't think they (and every other criminal organization) doesn't know what is safe to use and what isn't and not to use some poo poo again once it is compromised? there's no investment in STEM R&D dude they're using MMO chat clients and encryption apps written by Russians to talk to each other.

Hammerite
Mar 9, 2007

And you don't remember what I said here, either, but it was pompous and stupid.
Jade Ear Joe

fakiebeanplant posted:

this happened in 2012. Assuming the ~300 polio cases in 2014 is constant across the last 4 or so years, the cost of this CIA initiative is 1500. (keep in mind this is w/ heavy assumptions, including every case is counted as a death)

Sept 11th killed 2,996 people

quantitatively speaking, it was fairer than you'd like to believe

lmao

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all

fakiebeanplant posted:

local man outwits coworkers by stealing and distributing files from work

When your job is intelligence and surveillance, this is actually a big deal, though. It is literally someone's job to make sure that doesn't happen.

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Die Sexmonster!
Nov 30, 2005

fakiebeanplant posted:

Imagine being a super-driven and somewhat bright employee trying to view porn at work undetected. Having access to gigabytes of technical documentation regarding how your employer looks for network abuse would probably be somewhat useful in evading detection.

no you stupid piece of poo poo snowden assisted literally 0 people in viewing porn at work. Way to completely miss the loving point

(also everyone has smartphones now grandpa)

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