Groklaw Legal Site Shuts Over Fears of NSA Email Snooping
August 20th, 2013Via: Guardian:
The award-winning legal analysis site Groklaw is shutting because its founder says that “there is no way” to continue to run it without using secure email – and that the threat of NSA spying means that could be compromised.
“There is now no shield from forced exposure,” writes the site’s founder, Pamela Jones, an American paralegal who has run the site from its start in 2003, in a farewell message on the site.
Jones cites the revelations that the US National Security Agency (NSA) can capture any email, and can store encrypted email for up to five years, as having prompted her decision to shutter the site: “the simple truth is, no matter how good the motives might be for collecting and screening everything we say to one another, and no matter how “clean” we all are ourselves from the standpont of the screeners, I don’t know how to function in such an atmosphere. I don’t know how to do Groklaw like this,” she writes.
What did Pookie write a while ago? Fuck the NSA? Yes. I agree, With a ____!
I just learned all my personal identifying information was hacked from my employers website. This has been a shock to me. For sure. So I understand Grocklaw’s decision.
I’ve known for years that beginning with Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness, and that the female huxster that used to work for that went to Facebook that everything is tracked and monitored. But when it hits you personally, well, I feel like all of sudden I should shut my keyboard down.
I’m not going to stop posting on Cryptogon and sending emails even though I know that some pimply faced, fat assed pizza eater that doesn’t have anything better to do with their lives other than read other peoples emails. And that the NSA is using billions of taxpayer dollars to support this whole freaking enterprise.
What, we are going to learn that Osama bin Laden has been dead since 2007? We already knew that you dumb fucks. Get with reality.
All these revolving door people like Chertoff who now sells the machines to radiate people at airports, or Hayden who now also makes money off of scaring people into being in a terror state. You time is so over.
This is the dawning of the age of AWARENESS, and people will not tolerate being treated like SHEEPLE for much longer methinks.
Yes, Pookie, fuck the NSA! and the CIA! and all these other creeps who get their rocks off on the spooking, snooping and spying on people so that they are frightened and don’t want to give voice to their purpose, cause or business on the Internet anymore. I protest this bullshit.
So sincerely.
So sorry for all the incomplete sentences.