Posts by mark taslov
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Steak and Lamb Chops.7.12pm:Key “If you want steak for dinner tonight, go and buy steak. If you want a National Government, party vote National."
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Left with little doubt as to her persuasion, that link came as a surprise, I can respect the transparency. A much needed context for her descriptions of Key as being credible or having integrity.
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to Russell Brown,
And speaking of asking the next questions: this letter to the Prime Minister from security specialist Daniel Ayers.
Essential reading. This dwarfs anything yet presented by the NZMSM.
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to matthew,
“To the best of my knowledge, I hope New Zealanders will accept my word on it. Look Matthew at the end of the day what we’ve got here is Kim Dotcom and his foreign political friends coming into town and telling Kiwis what they ought to think four days out from our election. On Saturday New Zealanders are going to the polls to vote, and very very very few of them are going to vote on the sort of nonsense that these guys were parroting on Monday night."
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to Jack Harrison,
The law is a lame duck on this, as Idiot Savant mentioned earlier:
Note that the PM can limit IGIS’s access to information
So if the GCSB or their Minister don’t want the watchdog to bark, they can blind it.
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to matthew,
It’s a worthy question, but as Not the Messiah said:
His history here wouldn’t lead you to trust him one little bit.
Anyone convinced of the authenticity of Snowden’s XKeystroke evidence knows what’s up. It’d be easier for the population to trash Wiahope than get polished John to wittingly incriminate himself. But if I may answer in his stead:
"We don’t go through the intelligence capability that we have, but what we do do is we abide by the law."
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to Not The Messiah,
We all know John is more than economical with the truth or maybe he is just a liar. You pick.
Or sophistry in plain site , listening back to that, the Stuff.co.nz transcription.is fudgy.
The GCSB [Government Communications Security Bureau] does not have access to any information through XKeyscore unless, or any other database, unless they (GCSB?/programs?/databases?) basically comply with the New Zealand law. And the New Zealand law forbids that unless there is a warrant to do so."
Teflon clean. Waste of eardrums. As long as the country’s entertained and that meant something to someone. Bring on the leaders debate….
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to izogi,
All that matters is that the GCSB is complying with the law.
All that matters is that there is mass surveillance, any old fool can break the law as we’ve already seen with the Kim Dot Com case. John Key knew nothing of that incursion.
Snowden’s clear:
I routinely came across the communications of New Zealanders in my work with a mass surveillance tool we share with GCSB, called “XKEYSCORE.” It allows total, granular access to the database of communications collected in the course of mass surveillance. It is not limited to or even used largely for the purposes of cybersecurity, as has been claimed, but is instead used primarily for reading individuals’ private email, text messages, and internet traffic. I know this because it was my full-time job in Hawaii, where I worked every day in an NSA facility with a top secret clearance.
All that John Key now appears to be offering as a buffer between GCSB staff and the shared mass surveillance of XKEYSCORE is the ideal that the users won’t tick the NZ box to look at the collected data i.e break the law. vis a vis Kim Dot Com.
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Flipping those negatives:
“What I can say is the GCSB [Government Communications Security Bureau] *have* access to any information through XKeyscore or any other database, *if* they basically comply with the New Zealand law, and the New Zealand law *doesn’t* forbid that – *if* there is a warrant to do so.”
Thanks a lot Izogi:
The wikipedia page isn’t quite accurate, I don’t think. S5 of the Act says it’s on recommendation “of the Prime Minister following consultation with the Intelligence and Security Committee”,
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
i.e. "over-stayer"/"Obese German"/"Kim the Kraut".