10Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

My Purpose for this Site

Asterisk, domestic surveillance, Google, Internet, Linux, Microsoft, Postfix, Virtual Web Servers
I've decided to host my own servers and to do all the setup and maintenance myself for hosting this site and other services.  I've been working up to this for years with most of that time just having thoughts in passing about it.  In the past couple months I put together the infrastructure.  The servers, the software, the security, the maintenance tools the development tools, the backup tools and such to get it running.  I also put together a plan to hold it together. I decided to do it because I can.  I decided to do it to test my knowledge.  I decided to do it to integrate it into much of what I already have. (more…)
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09Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Snowden Docs Show GCHQ, MI5 To Be All Haystack, No Needle

domestic surveillance, Snowden
From the article: "Collect it all," they said. "You can't find needles without haystacks," they proclaimed. "The more you know," they rainbowed. All well and good, except the NSA, GCHQ, et al. appear to have far more in common with the protagonists of "Hoarding: Buried Alive" than with effective, finely-tuned terrorism-fighting machines. Snowden Docs Show GCHQ, MI5 To Be All Haystack, No Needle
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09Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Did Google Manipulate Search for Hillary?

Election, Google, Hillary Clinton, Manipulation
From the site: While researching for a wrap-up on the June 7 Presidential Primaries, we discovered evidence that Google may be manipulating autocomplete recommendations in favor of Hillary Clinton. If true, this would mean that Google Searches aren’t objectively reflecting what the majority of Internet searches are actually looking for, possibly violating Google’s algorithm. According to a research paper cited in this video, that kind of search result manipulation has the potential to substantially influence the outcome of actual elections. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFxFRqNmXKg
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09Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Oklahoma Police Can Seize Your Entire Bank Account on a Traffic Stop Without Any Charges

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From the article: The one state that has gone complete anti-democratic is Oklahoma. It is wise not to travel in that state at all. Oklahoma should be on a no-fly zone. Now, Oklahoma police can outright seize everything you have from debit cards to bank accounts on a traffic stop without any criminal charges being filed. If some policeman thinks you’re doing something illegal, your life is over. Without money, you cannot hire a lawyer and they can just rob everything you have on a whim. Oklahoma Police Can Seize Your Entire Bank Account on a Traffic Stop Without Any Charges
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09Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

The FBI is on the cusp of obtaining three extremely dangerous new powers

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James Comey has been at the forefront of a dangerously excessive amount of requests for new powers for the FBI.  He's the one that tried to get Congress to outlaw encryption, to force backdoors into encryption and other privacy guaranteeing technologies.  He's the man who tried to get Apple to write software to break their own device's security.  He's been heavily lobbying in an effort to grant the FBI more warrantless powers.  He's not the man that we want in this position because every effort he makes he chips away at the constitutional protections. https://privacysos.org/blog/fbi-wants-lot-power-spy-us-trust/
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