Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Friday, March 21, 2014

Spooks Poaching Your Emails

There's been a few developments.

First off, Google now claims that emails sent through its service, Gmail, are now encrypted for the entire routing.

Yeah, well. Nothing in Google's announcement would seem to indicate that they haven't given the decryption keys to the NSA, or that the NSA hasn't stolen them. And the NSA is claiming that the tech giants all were fully cooperating with the NSA's rummaging through their system, at least until Snowden blew the whistle on them. Google, Yahoo and all the rest have since been exhibiting a Captain Renault-level of outrage at NSA snooping.

Yahoo has not been pleased about the Brits rooting around through their system whenever some detective at Scotland Yard feels like it. So they're moving their operations to Ireland, where it takes a court order for such things. Needless to say, Inspector Lastrade and his chums aren't terribly happy about that.

1 comment:

Nangleator said...

Apparently, the NSA feels like gmail users aren't likely to share their world-domination plans over email, currently. I'm sure they ordered Google to offer this microscopic illusion of safety.