Okay, so it’s all over the technology news sites, but maybe you don’t read them:
Even Boing Boing
In essence, someone got hold of the source code for one of the NSA’s snoop and scoop programs, and the source code itself clearly states that vanilla sites like Linux Journal are “extremist.” Is this some kind of satire? Well, the NSA shitheads are not normal people. You can’t take them seriously, except they do like to send the armed goons for some of the most frivolous reasons.
I tried using Windows 7 again for a couple of months, but it kept using more and more power to do things I didn’t want it to do, meanwhile failing to do things I did want. I finally got tired of the excess heat coming off my system and took it back to Debian Wheezy. That was a few weeks ago. It’s not as if I believe the NSA can’t plant their software on my system; they can, though not nearly so easily as with Windows. However, my concern was not keeping them out so much as the excess power use and having some control over what my system does.
So that makes me an extremist. You can’t make this stuff up.
Do you think we should tell the NSA that Tor is a standard package you can install from the official Debian software collection?
