On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Anthony <wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
No, massive amounts of information about people
doing ordinary
things like editing articles about Homer Simpson is kind of the opposite
of intelligence; it IS the haystack, not the needle.
And yet, PRISM is exactly about collecting the full haystack. And it makes
sense, if you ignore the privacy implications: Collect everything in your
multi-zetabyte storage device, even if you aren't going to analyze it right
away.
And we give every needle a distinct and descriptive name.
And yeah, editing articles about Homer Simpson is one
thing. Editing
articles about the Tea Party, on the other hand...
Or DeCSS, or AACS, ..
Or 2012 Benghazi attack, Efforts to impeach Barack Obama, Drone
attacks in Pakistan, ..
Or PRISM (surveillance program), Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, ..
It would be good *if* the WMF can provide assurances to editors that
they havent received any national security letters or other 'trawling'
requests from any U.S. agency.
If the WMF has received zero such requests, can the WMF say that?
There wouldn't be any gag order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter says that the
gag orders were struck down, pending appeal. That means we may have
to wait a while..
--
John Vandenberg