They fixed Obamacare's website and they probably have even more incentives to fix the spying applications (if they are broken)... catching "terrorists" might be a low priority goal on their list which would explain why the reporters say that the NSA surveillance played little role in foiling terror plots.
Grab a live DVD, but how do you make sure that the hash used to verify the ISO is what it should be? transfer it offline? because if you are trying to avoid being spied on by the government, I don't think CAs/TLS can be used
When a country wants to spy on it's own citizen, they apparently think that it's acceptable to ask for that data from another country as opposed to being illegal when getting the data directly. USA <-> Germany being an example
you don't need to be guilty of anything for being victim of civil forfeiture.. they create a lawsuit against your property and property is considered guilty until proven innocent, unlike people.
not related to your comment, but: I can't reply to most comments in this thread, I can't post a top level comment and I can't down-vote any comments... I guess my account has been flagged somehow... I can do all these things in other posts.
hopefully they let you change that "magic" word (alexa seems too common)... and more importantly, I hope that it doesn't send any data online unless that word was recognized locally with a very low false positive rate
The digital copies definitely should be cheaper when you consider the cost of producing and shipping CDs... which is why I download them from Youtube since apparently artists get paid this way (thank you youtube-dl)
I think it is connected since it is all the same network traffic... they do false advertising on bandwidth, which is like the first hidden charge (using small prints, maybe) & and then try to do a second hidden charge for every bit by charging clients first and servers later (Netflix for example)...
If they sell you a 100Mbit/s line with unlimited data, it should be illegal to charge you again if you use all that potential... either directly or indirectly.