Re: [projectvrm] The NSA hits close to ... no, directly at: home

[Johannes Ernst < >]

I'm not sure that would meet my definition of "benign", because now we have to ask the same question just one level removed.

What benign purposes could what you/Doctorow suggest possibly have?

On Jul 3, 2014, at 16:01, Sean Bohan < "> > wrote:

With something like this, I normally start with "what will cost the most money and have the least value" and work my way backwards :)

from the BoingBoing article:

"One expert suggested that the NSA's intention here was to separate the sheep from the goats -- to split the entire population of the Internet into "people who have the technical know-how to be private" and "people who don't" and then capture all the communications from the first group.

http://boingboing.net/2014/07/03/if-you-read-boing-boing-the-n.html

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Johannes Ernst < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

That Linux Journal selector is baffling ... (even if it was accidentally too broad and only intended to be about Tails/Tor-related articles.)

I've been pondering what purpose tracking people reading that article could possibly have. What might you possibly want to accomplish when you go "gee, wasn't it great we tracked who read those articles in Linux Journal"?

None of the answers I can think of are reassuring. Anybody have a benign theory? I wouldn't mind hearing one at this point.

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