Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: A call from Curia, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Do Curia carry out mobile and online polling by chance?
I don't think so.
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Speaker: Things I have learned running RockEnrol, in reply to izogi,
Several commenters have argued that this is not polititally neutral. The most the EC has done is to state that someone in the office saw it, they thought it was a cool clip (for other reason) and they can’t control the presentation of TVNZ’s content.
Wow. Given how hard the Commission came down on RockEnrol, that's very poor. The EC has not covered itself in glory in this election campaign.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to giovanni tiso,
dancing on the line of acceptability
That’s still one of my favourite songs of the 80s.
But the video! Man, those haircuts ...
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Gaz Tayler,
Nice one. Gaz. That was just the first comment I was after. You have a good day too.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Another day in the sheltered workshop coming up Paul?
Fuck you. I've banned this, your third account here and that comment says to me that I should have done so much sooner. Don't come back.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
But before I go, I really should thank you all.
I’ve genuinely never had so much fun in a long time.
And that’s all due to the remarkable attention I’ve received.And like most trolls, that’s what you were after. I did persist, but I don’t think you were really here in good faith.
My workmates really loved the impact I kept making. They couldn’t believe what an orgy of pure intellectual snobbery I provoked.
I rest my case.
Stick to the sports commentary, mate. I'm tired of paying attention to you.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Dave Marks,
I think he’s pretty much admitted that GCSB use information from XKEYSCORE, but is maintaining that the NZ information therein was legally obtained (i.e international traffic only)
I'm not sure. But my international traffic includes:
- All my email
- My Facebook messages
- My Twitter DMs
- A lot of my web browsing. Including my use of my own website,
- Etc.We just need to know more than we're currently told.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
Another load of shoot the messenger tripe. You don’t like the conclusions Fran O’Sullivan comes to so you lash out at her personally.
Fran isn’t deranged, nor is she really stupid nor is she a liar…all of which you suggest she is.
And nor did Fran agree to run a story edited by the Nats under her own name.No, none of that, but in that column she’s gone completely tribal in election week in a way (Snowden using “stolen National Security Agency files”) that betrays her own good work every time she has reported on the basis of leaked documents.
Rather than dish out defamatory abuse, I suggest you go into a darkened room and chant a million times ” Maybe Fran got it right, maybe Fran got it right… etc etc etc.
No, she didn’t. That column is an absurd mish-mash of mistakes, omissions and non-sequitirs. Fran can be great, but that column is, frankly, terrible. There’s simply no excuse for quoting Key’s “no middle ground” opening gambit and not noting his progressive equivocations since.
That exercise might just bring you to your senses in some self-hypnotic kind of a way..
Stop it. I know you’re not the only doing the ad-hominem baiting, but you are the only one on your third pseudonym in two weeks. Do not push it.
Everyone else also, please don’t turn into Kiwiblog comments. You can rebut someone’s argument without personally attacking them.
I’ve had a very busy day and I may run out of patience soon.
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It's worthwhile recalling that a great deal of relevant reporting has been done in the past, and not just by Glenn Greenwald.
David Fisher reported this from DC-based author Tim Shorrock last year:
A high-tech United States surveillance tool which sweeps up all communications without a warrant was sent to New Zealand for testing on the public, according to an espionage expert.
The tool was called ThinThread and it worked by automatically intercepting phone, email and internet information.
ThinThread was highly valued by those who created it because it could handle massive amounts of intercepted information. It then used snippets of data to automatically build a detailed picture of targets, their contacts and their habits for the spy organisation using it.
Those organisations were likely to include the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) after Washington, DC-based author Tim Shorrock revealed ThinThread was sent to New Zealand for testing in 2000-2001.
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to RBentley,
I couldn’t find this on the Herald website. Can you provide a link?
The link is the headline.
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