Sipsey Street Irregulars: Latest from the Digital Stasi. New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Latest from the Digital Stasi. New documents show how the NSA infers relationships based on mobile location data

Everyone who carries a cellphone generates a trail of electronic breadcrumbs that records everywhere they go. Those breadcrumbs reveal a wealth of information about who we are, where we live, who our friends are and much more. And as we reported last week, the National Security Agency is collecting location information in bulk — 5 billion records per day worldwide — and using sophisticated algorithms to assist with U.S. intelligence-gathering operations.

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Anonymous said...: The documents make reference to a number of authorities under which this collection occurs, including Executive Order 12333, which is the president’s guidance for espionage under his own sole authority overseas. Courts have no jurisdiction and Congress does little oversight of this kind of intelligence collection. One of the challenges is that very little is known about the intelligence community uses this presidential authority. Because it is solely an executive document, the president may rewrite it at will.:"unquote

And therein lies the legal underpinning for the coming Totalitarianism-R-Us. How an "executive order" can be reconciled with the "separation of branches" whereby the Executive was prohibited from enacting "law" by the Constitution, is beyond comprehension. ESPECIALLY, if an executive order is "UN-reviewable" by any court. In my universe, this is precisely the definition of a TYRANT and SHOULD be the legal basis for which a democratic society DISSOLVES said government.

Btw..Dear NSA.. suck my dick.; December 12, 2013 at 1:54 PM
Anonymous said...: Great. And how does all this benefit the average American?; December 12, 2013 at 2:27 PM
Anonymous said...: The great 'benefit' is that none of us have to worry about due process ever again!

III; December 12, 2013 at 3:07 PM
The Old Coach said...: I knew it was a good idea to hang onto my antediluvian Tracfone. No GPS in that sucker.; December 12, 2013 at 7:08 PM
Anonymous said...: Legal underpinnings my bushy tushy.

There is no legality for any of this, except what "their" judges, "their" media and "their" political operatives and politicians, proclaim there to be.

I give you justice Roberts and "Obama Care" as just one of thousands of examples of unconstitutional "law" made constitutional by outright lies and deliberate fabrication to purpose and result.

Some might call it treason, and they would be correct.; December 13, 2013 at 10:16 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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