I wonder if Lemmy users are also on a watch list.

  • AgreeableLandscapeOP
    3·
    5 years ago

    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.

    • k_o_tM
      3·
      5 years ago

      You don’t really think NSA is actually trying to find actual extremists, do you?

    • DessalinesA
      3·
      5 years ago

      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.

      • AgreeableLandscapeOP
        1·
        5 years ago

        “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.

    • AgreeableLandscapeOP
      2·
      5 years ago

      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.

        • AgreeableLandscapeOP
          1·
          5 years ago

          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.

            • AgreeableLandscapeOP
              1·
              5 years ago

              I want intelligence agents to keep their hands out of open source projects. There is a fundamental conflict of interest between the two.

    • nutomicA
      2·
      5 years ago

      I dont konw how you managed to post this in the wrong thread the same second I created the thread :o

        • nutomicA
          2·
          5 years ago

          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.

            • nutomicA
              1·
              5 years ago

              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.

          • DessalinesA
            2·
            5 years ago

            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.

            • nutomicA
              1·
              5 years ago

              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.