Peter Dunne will tell you to your face that what he is experiencing with the abuse to his privacy has nothing to do with the GCSB Bill. Well, a willing Seller would say that wouldn’t they?
What dirty deal Dunne has cut in return for his sole vote that will pass this Bill should be the subject of some Journalism this week, (I suggest they start by asking who is currently paying for all of Dunne’s staff), but beyond Dunne’s dirty deal, his sophistry can not be allowed to pass minus comment because the recent example of the shear contempt this Government has treated the media in regards to their privacy is a mere glimpse of the brave new world of hell the GCSB Bill will allow for.
The manner in which the NZDF combined an organized smear attack with a disinformation campaign alongside metadata surveillance of investigative Journalist Jon Stephenson should be leading every news bulletin. After a decade of manipulating a compliant mainstream media into believing a sanitized version of what our troops are really doing in Afghanistan, the NZDF have shown the total disregard they really feel towards being held accountable with a manuel that identifies investigative journalists as the enemy. Add the news that the SIS have the same type of mindset and you can see how easily our Government intelligence agencies start seeing anyone dissenting to their views as the enemy.
Look at the disgusting manner in which Andrea Vance has had her privacy repeatedly breached and the media spin the Government has generated to hide the extent of it. The Government have tried to claim that the leak was accidental – we now know that’s a lie. The Henry Inquiry specifically asked for the contents of Vance’s emails and it was only when they couldn’t open the records that they were handed back.
Finally, consider what has been revealed in the weekend with the extraordinary over reaction to cameraman Bradley Ambrose’s accidental recording of Key and Banks at the Epsom Tea Party meeting. The Police simply took his text messages and communications without so much a pause for the convention of a Journalist’s protections…
Police seized the text messages of a photo-journalist involved in the “teapot tape” saga, including exchanges with his family, his lawyer and Herald on Sunday journalists.
Auckland University associate law professor Bill Hodge describes the police actions as “mind-boggling”.
…so consider. If the Authorities are showing this level of contempt for privacy of a group like Journalists who have some power within society, how on earth will those very same authorities treat us, the citizens who have far less power.
When Peter Dunne claims his complaints about his privacy breach has nothing to do with voting for a law that will breach all of our privacy, he is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Dunne needs to pretend the situation he is facing won’t be replicated on mass for all of us through his vote because he is desperate, and he must pretend the two are not connected to avoid being painted as the country’s worst political hypocrite.
It matters because the NZ public have much to fear because of his political hypocrisy.
In order for the government to do this they must make us fear an ‘other.’ John Key has already tried to play the Al-Qaeda card hinting that some in NZ have been trained as operatives by Islamic fundamentalists. If this does not work (and so far it seems not to have) then it’ll be something else, perhaps thieving beneficiaries.
DPMC can’t open .pst files because they run Groupwise huh?
Well look what can be found in about a minute with google: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11598.html
It took approx 2 days to (Tuesday 21 May to Thursday 23 May) for them to reply saying they couldn’t read pst files. Was this how long it took to come up with a semi-plausible ass-cover that would protect the guilty if this information was to ever come out?
I reckon Peter Dunne is using two orifices rather than just one
And we can trust the NZDF and the Minister because …..??
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9001761/Defence-quick-to-notice-tweet
Hummm….
Today I installed a firefox extension. The name of the extension is “Dark side of the prism” and purports to be able to alert users on the possibility that the NSA is monitoring websites they are visiting.
I didn’t think much of it and went about my merry way roaming the net. Amongst my first visits after I installed the plug in was the daily blog and to my surprise the Pink Floyd song “The dark side of the moon” the alert for NSA monitoring started to play!
I closed the page and went to the Standard blog where again the song started to play.
I again closed the page and this time I opened the Kiwiblog page and the Whaleoil page both pages opened without any problems and no dark side of the moon!
The Daily Blog and The Standard are two “left” wing blogs. The Standard is the third biggest blog in New Zealand for those of you who don’t know it and the Daily Blog is a blog run by prominent activist and journalist Martyn Bradbury to which a whole slew of left wing journalists and writers contribute.
Kiwiblog and Whaleoil are the two biggest blogs in New Zealand and both are closely aligned with the National party and aligned with the right wing.
Which begs the question: Are the Standard and the Daily blog monitored by the NSA and if so why?
um..!..you posted this ‘dark prism’ story on the standard..
..and the feedback there is that this is not what it claims to be..
..and in a similar vein..
..this search-engine claims to be ‘safe’/untracked/untrackable..
https://www.startpage.com/
phillip ure..
Um… It concerns both the Daily blog and the Standard.
One person over at the Standard said it wasn’t what it seemed but his rebuke left something to be desired such as the suggestion that there was a list of sites publicly known to be subjected to monitoring through the Prism project. This simply isn’t true and the post on the subject only showed the names of Big corporations known to be cooperative with the project not individual sites being monitored.
So if it is all the same to you I will still hold on to the fact that the only two sites out of the four Kiwi political sites to have the alert go of from the add on where the two left wing sites and not the two right wing sites aligned with National.
Note also that I clearly state that the add on purports to be able to tell if a site is monitored by NSA and not that it works flawlessly or that it is a fail safe way of telling if you are being spied on.
It also activated the alert when accessing sites such as the Max Keiser site and the Global research site but not Stuff.co.nz or the scoop site.
https://github.com/jblinder/DarkSideOfThePrism
Look at the code, all does is play music if the site is one of the following:
var prismSitez = [“google.com”, “gmail.com”, “facebook.com”, “bing.com”, “yahoo.com”, “aol.com”,”apple.com”,”skype.com”, “microsoft.com”, “youtube.com”,”hotmail.com”];
Its probably playing when you visit the daily blog because the page includes some content from google, ditto for the standard. In other words, its just a joke addon, don’t take it seriously.
How did you think it worked? Somehow tapping into the NSA and monitoring their monitoring systems?
Actually, to clarify:
The content that is triggering the music is being voluntarily included in this site and others to provide things like login-with-your-facebook-account or advertisements.
This means that google (or potentially any other website that is providing content to a page you are visiting) is capable of registering your visit to this website. If you were logged into your gmail or facebook (or whoever) this information could be linked to your account there.
I think the gist of this dark side of the prism add-on is that the above companies are known to provide information to the NSA, so any information you provide to these companies is basically up for grabs.
People wanting more visibility and control over what external content is loaded when they visit websites should look at running the NoScript add-on for Firefox or Notscripts for Chrome.
For those who argue they “have nothing to hide”, I urge them to read this recent Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-the-wrong-way-to-think-about-surveillance/
We have everything to fear.
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