> For instance, the Church of Scientology, U.S. Navy, and the Washington State Military Department told Prism that they are no longer working with the network.
That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.
giancarlostoro 27 minutes ago [-]
4chan validated in their protests against Scientology was not in my bingo card.
marcosdumay 6 minutes ago [-]
At this point I'm waiting for the aliens appearance in the Epstein files.
QuercusMax 27 minutes ago [-]
Scientologists being involved with intelligence agencies doesn't surprise me even a bit, it makes a lot of sense as a CIA cutout.
Any belief system or club that validates sociopathy as a "higher" state of evolution or enlightenment will worm it's way into intelligence agencies.
coliveira 20 minutes ago [-]
Scientology is essentially a scheme to get private/incriminating information from very important people. Why the surprise?
sysguest 9 minutes ago [-]
damn I wonder how many scientology believers in intel actually believe in scientology...
I mean, it shows how much intel agencies can "screen for high intelligence individuals" ?
colechristensen 12 minutes ago [-]
Scientology is what happens when a science fiction writer acts out a dystopian plot in real life instead of writing a novel.
Read Stranger in a Strange Land, read about Hubbard and Heinlein's friendship, and look at the timeline of when Scientology started and Stranger in a Strange Land was published.
What in the decomposed-dissident gang-stalked tarnation is this?
bigbuppo 27 minutes ago [-]
So what you're saying is that everyone that works at Amazon and Facebook are now at grave risk because the bad guys now think they're informants?
erxam 18 minutes ago [-]
You've got the good guys and the bad guys mixed up. No Meta "engineer" knows what morals or ethics even are, much less actually apply them in real life.
srameshc 9 minutes ago [-]
I love this comment, I just couldn't ever frame it so well :)
GolfPopper 20 minutes ago [-]
Not any more than the average citizen of East Germany.
kgwxd 17 minutes ago [-]
It's bad guys all the way down.
shermantanktop 25 minutes ago [-]
Looks like a nothingburger? It's unfunded. An email describes a protest without giving a framing that the site would prefer. Then it turns out that nobody knows what it does, but it might do something bad.
I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.
Shalomboy 20 minutes ago [-]
My take away from the article was that this likely isn't the only public-private intelligence network propped up by local PDs; that was pretty alarming to me.
erxam 17 minutes ago [-]
I think this is a good point: this is what they're letting us on.
nikhilpareek13 6 minutes ago [-]
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acidhousemcnab 15 minutes ago [-]
There were a lot of articles describing Snowdon / Manning and Wikileaks releases as exactly "nothing burgers", in those journals of note that people read to tell them what to think about matters - but I'm not sure what a "nothing burger" means - pulverised cattle flesh flattened into an oval, that doesn't exist?
LoganDark 18 minutes ago [-]
Do you mean unfounded?
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kittikitti 20 minutes ago [-]
As an American, I genuinely trust my data with China more than I do with the United States.
markus_zhang 31 minutes ago [-]
Ah the new dark pool. Does anyone remember those from the trading? I still remember ARCA (good rebate back in the day), ECN (very fluid and very cheap), and a few dark pools that I used to get out of a trade quickly.
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That first one took me by surprise. What a random hodgepodge of organizations.
I mean, it shows how much intel agencies can "screen for high intelligence individuals" ?
Read Stranger in a Strange Land, read about Hubbard and Heinlein's friendship, and look at the timeline of when Scientology started and Stranger in a Strange Land was published.
I'm all for transparency and accountability but my assumption is that the bad things being done by LEO and intelligence are far worse than this.