I wonder if Lemmy users are also on a watch list.
Related: Linux Journal has now ended publication. It didn’t mention anything about the NSA or government being part of the reason, but it’s a possibility.
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure labeling something as mundane as Linux enthusiasts as extremist, most of whom are entirely innocent, is not a good way of tracking down actual extremists. You’re excessively expanding your search surface which will add a lot more noise than targets and actually make each search more difficult and time consuming. But who knows what their actual intentions are.
You don’t really think NSA is actually trying to find actual extremists, do you?
I forget what that software was called, xkeyscore or something, where they can see your entire digital footprint in a centralized place. I don’t think they’re using it to solve murderers or anything, just find people who could potentially embarrass the US in the same way manning or snowden did.
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.” – George Orwell, 1984
I will keep posting this quote because it is one of the most relevant things I’ve ever read.
oh shit
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I’m 95% sure SELinux has undiscovered spyware. It’s a front to get NSA code into libre projects. Are they still updating/maintaining it? If so it’s even harder to prove that it’s not malicious because any one commit could have obfuscated spyware.
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We would need to audit the entire code base initially and then every commit afterward.
Also, any account on GitHub or elsewhere could be a double agent from any country’s intelligence agency that wants to insert obfuscated spying code or a backdoor. All the security flaws found in software and hardware could just be honest mistakes, but they could also be intentionally placed there. It’s a terrifying prospect but it’s true.
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I want intelligence agents to keep their hands out of open source projects. There is a fundamental conflict of interest between the two.
I dont konw how you managed to post this in the wrong thread the same second I created the thread :o
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What the hell, I saw your response over in this thread. Should have taken a screenshot, it looked like a normal top level reply. /u/dessalines this looks like some weird race condition on the frontend.
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What happened? That thread is empty.
I know. I created the thread, and right after it finished loading and i saw it for the first time, it had that comment that I replied to.
Hrm…
We have to come up with a way to replicate it. It probably has to do with the fact that new comments have multiple websocket sends: once to the user directly, and once to the post. I thought I had this filtered correctly but it might need some tweaking.
I’m almost certain it has something to do with the timing, probably because the thread and the comment were created in the same second or such.
