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[terrisus]

Of course they do.

Seriously, that should be pretty obvious to anyone.

 

[Escape Goat]

I'll just send you some of my nudes, buddy.

I would also like to apply. Im highly qualified. I graduated magna cum loudly from Ball State.

 

[Tamanon]

Huh? The NSA has literally already admitted this sort of thing happens. They even have a joking name for it (LOVEINT).

Snowden is just editorializing on why it's bad, and how it's unavoidable given that all the data is automatically collected.

I have no doubt it happens, just how odd it is to characterize as "routine" without any sort of measuring of it. It's just a strange "revelation" from Snowden.

 

[terrisus]

Please tell me that the UK is out of reach of the NSA.

The only person I want perverting over my naked body would be my future waifu... once I find her.

Solution:

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

I have no doubt it happens, just how odd it is to characterize as "routine" without any sort of measuring of it. It's just a strange "revelation" from Snowden.

Every Friday at my job, someone brings in bagels, cream cheese, and fruit for the office at breakfast time. I'd describe that activity as routine. What did you want him to do, document and describe in detail every lewd joke ever shared over months/years?

 

[terrisus]

Every Friday at my job, someone brings in bagels, cream cheese, and fruit for the office at breakfast time.

I was expecting "nude photos" to be part of that list.

 

[FStop7]

Of course they do, same as the TSA agents who were passing around images from the naked body scanners. Our privacy's in shreds and nobody cares.

 

[Tabby]

But guys this is for our safety!
'Murica!

 

[Elfforkusu]

Obama officially campaigned on the premise that govt whistle-blowers will be rewarded, not punished. I believe it's bigger than him, but he could still pardon him if he felt like it.

He also campaigned on government transparency and 4th amendment rights.

It's pretty clear where he actually stands on this stuff by now.

 

[Dead Prince]

they need to stop putting my dick pic under the microscope

 

[QuicheFontaine]

Huh? The NSA has literally already admitted this sort of thing happens. They even have a joking name for it (LOVEINT).

Snowden is just editorializing on why it's bad, and how it's unavoidable given that all the data is automatically collected.

Like the McDonalds slogan.

"I'm LOVEINT"

 

[YoungHav]

This traitor deserves the guillotine!

 

[Buddha Beam]

Great. Now they now how small my dick is. I guess I'm not running for office after all.

 

[Escape Goat]

Great. Now they now how small my dick is. I guess I'm not running for office after all.

Anthony Weiner has a big dick and he still lost. It seems dick size isn't a voting issue for people.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

hey, if you don't want your nudes out there then dont take nudes and send them out. just assume that anything that hits the internet is unfortunately being seen by someone else.

 

[Neo C.]

I really should get a job on a spy agency. Everyday one hour serious work, and seven hour browsing people's Dropbox. I wonder how fast I would fill a 4TB HDD.

 

[terrisus]

they need to stop putting my dick pic under the microscope

How else do you expect them to actually be able to see it?

Spoiler

Kidding :þ

 

[industrian]

Please tell me that the UK is out of reach of the NSA.

The only person I want perverting over my naked body would be my future waifu... once I find her.

I'm sure that GCHQ dudes are jerking it to pictures of you as we speak.

 

[ChryZ]

Please tell me that the UK is out of reach of the NSA.

The only person I want perverting over my naked body would be my future waifu... once I find her.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26367781

 

[Cyan]

Of course they do.

Yeah, this is utterly unsurprising.

 

[vas_a_morir]

He also campaigned on government transparency and 4th amendment rights.

It's pretty clear where he actually stands on this stuff by now.

I voted for the guy twice, but I think I learned that the system is bigger than any man. To quote Bill Hicks, on the first day they take the new president into his theater and show him the Kennedy assassination from an angle that nobody has ever seen before and say 'any questions, Mr. President?' to which he replies 'Just what my agenda is going to be.'

 

[enewtabie]

Putin is somewhere debating if they should return this guy to the US. Seems like it would be a good time.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

I voted for the guy twice, but I think I learned that the system is bigger than any man. To quote Bill Hicks, on the first day they take the new president into his theater and show him the Kennedy assassination from an angle that nobody has ever seen before and say 'any questions, Mr. President?' to which he replies 'Just what my agenda is going to be.'

Is there any way a presidential candidate could run on a platform of defanging the NSA? Isn't its funding and oversight controlled by Congress?

 

[BladeoftheImmortal]

time to apply for a job.

 

[Dali]

This is despicable. Despicable! To think there's some pencil neck desk jockey passing around the picks of me goatse-ing my poop shoot...

Despicable!

 

[Stinkles]

He must be bottoming out on stuff he got to talk about.

On the contrary. This is more outrageous to the average Joe than the Merkel stuff. And please god let the two aspects remain unconnected.

 

[Fatal Futanari]

Kek, its true amongst other stuff *wink wink*

 

[ChryZ]

Must be nice being so above the law.

 

[Tamanon]

Is there any way a presidential candidate could run on a platform of defanging the NSA? Isn't its funding and oversight controlled by Congress?

Well, they probably couldn't be a current congressman, at least any that actually voted it into what it is. Rand Paul might be able to, but he hasn't done anything beyond an occasional speech either.

Maybe a governor could, but I don't think it's really a huge issue for most of America, at least not an election issue. Too busy caring about non-existent gun control, alien drug gang members invading our homes, birth control and the imaginary budget crisis.

 

[CDX]

Sadly, not surprising. Or unexpected.

I also expect some non-governmental civilian employees of Facebook, and ANY cloud based storage company to basically be doing the same thing.

 

[Yoda]

Yup, now he's officially just being an attention whore. The credible revelations stopped months ago.

Would you like to back that accusation up with some evidence?

 

[hoos30]

He must be bottoming out on stuff he got to talk about.

This. Plus his benefactor Russia is not looking too good lately.

 

[jimi_dini]

Yeah, this is utterly unsurprising.

You have to look at it from a higher perspective.

When it's that easy for everyone involved to get such data and even do with it as the individuals please, it also has to be easy to get confidential industrial information and sell it to the highest bidder.

EDIT: oh the update is nice

In an e-mail sent to Ars, NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines wrote: "NSA is a professional foreign-intelligence organization with a highly trained workforce, including brave and dedicated men and women from our armed forces.

It doesn't look as if that's the truth, Vanee. I would be embarassed, if I had your job.

 

[terrisus]

You have to look at it from a higher perspective.

When it's that easy for everyone involved to get such data and even do with it as the individuals please, it also has to be easy to get confidential industrial information and sell it to the highest bidder.

---->

Yeah, this is utterly unsurprising.

 

[riotous]

My mortal enemy from high school ended up pretty high up in the FBI last I heard; now nobody knows where he works. Potentially CIA.

I've always assumed for years he probably snooped on my email.

 

[SliceSabre]

He must not have a whole lot of stuff left to leak, cause this seems like bottom of the barrel stuff.

 

[Mariolee]

celebrity sexts

:O

Who do you think leaks the photos?

 

[Mariolee]

I have no doubt it happens, just how odd it is to characterize as "routine" without any sort of measuring of it. It's just a strange "revelation" from Snowden.

I don't believe it's so much a revelation as much as it is an editorial on why this shit sucks and how we can't let the govt get away with it.

 

[linsivvi]

He must be bottoming out on stuff he got to talk about.

This is bottoming how?

 

[Siegcram]

How is this possibly surprising?
Disregarding any and all privacy is literally in their job description.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Also, the NSA knows what pizza toppings you like!

 

[terrisus]

This is bottoming how?

Well, I mean, they are nude pictures.
I'm sure that's somewhere in there.

 

[Hypemaster]

imagine all the child porn they've intercepted from teens sexting.

somebody should charge them with possession of child porn.

Yeah when I went to visit the FBI base in a certain program we were told how some of their employees had to screen through hundreds of hours of child pornography for their investigations. Some can't handle it and quit.

 

[Zombine]

They must be fairly acquainted with my D. I'm sure I have a fan or two there and I'm cool with that.

 

[jimi_dini]

He must not have a whole lot of stuff left to leak, cause this seems like bottom of the barrel stuff.

For the average Joe NSA employees passing around nude photos of his teenage daughter and his wife is way more important than NSA spying on that Merkel-thing, especially true for prude US.

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That some people are able to do so, sure. That almost everyone is able to do that without any authorization is not. You could have guessed that, but now there is confirmation.

I'm working at a hospital and we have actual access control for stuff like that. For example when a patient has photos attached to his/her file, access is only possible from the ward, where the patient is currently located. As soon as the patient is moved, the ward loses all access over that data. Doctor accounts have access for all patients, but access will get logged for patients, who are currently not treated by their department and the doctor even has to enter a reason why he/she needs access. And this log gets checked.

Which means NSA is truly incompetent in that regard. Another point why they should get closed down.

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Please tell me that the UK is out of reach of the NSA.

The only person I want perverting over my naked body would be my future waifu... once I find her.

Well, err, one easy way to avoid that is to not take naked pictures of yourself, or at the very least don't put them on a network connected device? It is a huge breach of privacy but it helps if you don't give them the ammo in the first place

 

[Chesskid1]

this reminds me of a steven seagull movie.

when i was like 5 i remember watch it.

in the movie, they had satellite photography that could zoom in really close on anywhere in the world, so they zoomed in on a topless girl on the beach.

i remember this vividly, because of tits.

 

[Nicktendo86]

This is bottoming how?

It literally is.

Spoiler

hur hur made a bottom joke

 

[Siegcram]

this reminds me of a steven seagull movie.

when i was like 5 i remember watch it.

in the movie, they had satellite photography that could zoom in really close on anywhere in the world, so they zoomed in on a topless girl on the beach.

i remember this vividly, because of tits.

Ah, good ol' Steven Seagull.

 

[Loakum]

NSA (Noticing Sexy Asses)