Posts by Matt Bryant

Re: Mr Young Re: @Matt Bryant

"You make me glad I don't have a superiority complex you trolling twat". Another eloquent and fact-packed addition to the thread there! Not. I would hazard a guess that even developing any form of complex would be a stretch of your mental capabilities.

Re: AC Re: Gagged, bagged and all but toe-tagged. @Matt Bwyant

".....Looks like it's YOU who is undertaking a series of "choreographed appearances"....." Losen up the tinfoil hat, chum. You really need to realize that not everyone that disagrees with your spoonfed views is working for The Man.

Re: John McCallum Re: nothing to see here, move along

"....this doccument is classified secret,it's a recipe book FFS." The popular tale is that a ship's officers are sitting down for dinner when the youngest dares to ask the Captain: "Is it true the chef's recipe book is top secret, sir?"

The Captain considers the youth for amoment before disdainfully informing him: "Yes, because if Johnnie Foreigner knew what we eat he could devise a poison that would match the flavours of our food."

To which some wit quietly whispered: "Well, we could always sentence Johnnie Foreigner to eat an unpoisoned portion a day as punishment."

Re: Pat 4 Re: USA has a problem

And pencils can be used to stab people, so let's assume EVERYONE will stab ANYONE they meet with ANY writing implement, and make owning one a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, right? Your childish bleating is too tragic for words.

Re: MD Rackham Re: There is middle ground too

".....The Greenwald piece is based on actual documents....." Apart from Greenwald's rather limited tech credentials, there is the fact this is The Guardian, a paper not exactly covered in previous IT glory. Apart from their previous history of mindlessly voicing the opinions of the technically challenged (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/18/stephen_frytard/), their reporters seem to be virtually clueless about anything Internet related. Their reporter on the original Dickileaks story had to ask A$$nut how to install PGP and couldn't work out how to unzip a 7z compressed file! A$$nut himself didn't come across as a seasoned PGP user in that episode either, despite his claims to being a 'leet hax0r (https://p10.secure.hostingprod.com/@spyblog.org.uk/ssl/wikileak/2011/09/why-didnt-julian-assange-use-pgp-properly-when-handing-over-cablescsv-file-to-da.html?amp).

Mike VandeVelde Re: mb;dr

"seriously, i would take 10 extra edons for one less matt bryant....." I'd be quite happy with just one of the sheeple that can actually formulate a coherent argument for what they hold so religeously dear, without them falling back on tired reflex and shrieking "Fascist!" when they cannot keep up.

Re: AC Re: And the others?

"..... leading up to the high point of the torture and so on, a good portion or the majority of the private contractors were Israeli, at Abu Ghraib in particular....." Yeah, I call probable anti-Jewish propaganda on that one, probably courtesy of one of their Arab neighbours. If you wish to prove otherwise then please do supply some form of verifiable proof or risk being exposed as just a gullible bigot.

Re: aawelj Re: Presumed guilty then

"Why the thumbs down for this?...." Many of the voters on here simply upvote or downvote due to their socio-political beliefs - you may post something that is a demonstrable fact, or even a good argument, but if it conflicts with what they WANT to belief, they will deny the logic and simply downvote. You can spot the pattern by the posts where they cannot refute your point or post an intelligent argument to counter it, but simply hit the downvote as it is easier than thinking for themselves.

Re: Zombie Womble

"If I have nothing to hide then why are they spying on me?" So where is the evidence they are spying on you? There is a big difference between collecting data and then actually turning it into actionable intelligence material, and they are not wasting their limited time and resources reading everything simply because they can't. It is more than likely that any communications that you have made that got swept into the pot have NEVER been looked at because you don't fall under one of the search terms.

Re: Don Jefe Re: I have to wonder...

"....But you can't fix persecution by your own government...." So where is this persecution you insist is happening? It doesn't exist outside of your childish and naive fantasy world.

Re: Werner McClueless Re: asdf Wake up call

".....Giving the government blanket powers to suppress opposition, which is what this is all about...." So, once again, the completely groundless insistance that these tools are being used to "oppress" - if that is so then it should be easy for you to show some evidence of this oppression, but you can't, because it only exists in your paranoid delusions. Come on, where's the evidence if you insist it is happening? I predict a long line of posts shrieking and bleating and zero proof to back up your childish and idiotic prattle.

Re: Johnnie Thicko Re: The Matt Bryant "defense"

"....So why bother in the first place? MI5 in the UK stated they had 2000 jihadist "suspects" that might do something at sometime in the future. That's 0.003% of a population of 66 million....." Gosh, Johnnie, do you really think they found all those 2000 potential targets individually? Of course not. When they found one, they went back through his communications and found the material that led to the others, and then they looked at who they talked to and that led them to more nutters. Along the way they will have discarded conversations the targets had with non-target types, such as calls to their insurance companies, as unlikely to provide any new leads. The exact same system of investigation is used by police looking for organised crime gangs - when you find one suspected crim, you watch them and see if he leads you to more suspects, and then you watch and gather evidence on them and see if they lead you to more. You really don't have a clue how anything works outside of your tinfoil dispenser, do you?

".....Because this collecting of data is a waste of money on an epic scale......" Evdiently not, given AQ's poor record of achieving attacks in the UK. But then the UK services cut their teeth in comms interception years ago with the IRA. Besides, if you don't collect the data and hold it for at least a short time, when you do find a new lead you won't have any previous records to go through to look for patterns of communication that would lead to more suspects. So the collection is valid, it's just you can't see that past your blinkers.

".....But who lives their life in such acute fear of everything?...." Did you even read ANY of the article? The searches are very specific and narrow, they are not searching for "everything". Please go get a clue.

Re: AC Re: asdf Wake up call

"..... Even with the primitive (by today's standards) phoneme programs and underpowered (by today's standards) computers available in 1980...." Yeah, except I posted on another thread all about that capability back in the Eighties weeks ago. Welcome to the party, you're only about a month-plus behind the conversation.

".....Do you really think technology has been standing still for the past 33 years ?...." But we're not just talking about unencrypted landlines anymore, which was pretty much all the spooks had to worry about in the Eighties. Email was pretty rare and the World Wide Web wasn't even around yet, and mobile phones were still in their infancy. Faecesbook probably wasn't even a glimmer in Zuckerberg's infant eye. So to pretend that the "listening" tech has moved forward but the data pool hasn't also explosively grown exponentially is simply stupid.

Re: Pat Volk Re: Bring back the 50's.

".....Between the NSA, FBI, and Stasi, I'd rather be followed by the Stasi....." Yes, but realistically, what are the chances of that any of the said agencies would be even the slightest bit interested in you? Yeah, about zero. Welcome back to reality.

Re: Potty Re: Don't forget the rest.

".... I get sniffy about how the Brits treat us - as just one example - but at least the Brits understand us. We can built a bridge with that understanding....." Sorry to burst your bubble, Potty, but it's just us Brits have a few centuries more practice than the Yanks at hiding our intentions from you colonials.

Re: asdf Re: Wake up call

".....Ok I will when you quit trying to make it." Could someone please think of a really simple way to explain to the sheeple that is not a matter of how much data they can grab (courtesy of Google et al, which people have thoughtlessly been giving their data to for years), but how much they can process. They simply don't have the resources or analysts to trawl through everything in the hope of finding random tinfoil-wearers. Once again, just like PRISM, without the very specific search queries it's would be like trying to find a dozen needles in a mile-high haystack. Don't worry, your paranoid rantings simply don't make you important enough to bother with, they have much, much bigger fish to fry.

Re: Destroyed All Braincell's

"....COOKIES IN THE KITCHEN!" I would suggest you should be more concerned with all cookies out there on the Web.

Re: S4qFBxkFFg Re: LOL @ the sheeple!

".....Maybe the Arab Spring would have happened anyway....." Sorry, where you maybe waiting on Dickileaks to give you their abridged version of Middle Eastern history, as edited and approved by A$$nut? The Arab Spring has been happening for decades, the real final trigger was the lack of support given by the superpowers to prop up their dictators of choice. For decades, dictators in the area have had the US or USSR and the Cold War to help them oppress their people. The USSR no longer exists, the Russians now having very limited active input into the Middle East compared to before the Berlin Wall came down (the one exception being Syria, where they are actively keeping Assad in power). Other factors like the rise in food prices in the 2007-2008 period could have been countered by a bit of superpower interference. In Tunisia itself, protests had been accelerating since Ghafsa in 2008. Without the need to balance the Soviet threat, the US backed off on their own dictators, with Obambi making truly silly and popularist statements like the hogwash he spouted in his famous Cairo speech in 2009, which effectively gave groups like the Muslim Brotherhood the green-light to take on the dictators like Hosni Mubarek. Without the support of the West, and with China and the Russians unwilling to step in openly, the field was clear for the Islamists to push for "democracy". And all this happened long before Manning leaked anything, so the claim that Dickileaks started the Arab Spring is just something A$$nut manufactured to boost his ego and feed the sheeple.

Re: BlueGreen Re: LOL @ the sheeple!

".....And providing more of your "facts"? ....." And yet you cannot counter them, again. Yet again. Instead, we get more of the typical shrieking and bleating from a true member of The Faithful, completely void of any form of reasoned argument. Not really a surprise.

".....Whereas most others are interested in discovering some underlying aspect of reality...." Oh, that did make me laugh! The Crazyhorse chopper attacks on July 12th 2007 had been previously reported in the press, indeed it was the US local command that announced the news that two Reuters journos had got caught up in the attack on the very day it happened, so the claim that the US tried to hide it all away is simply male bovine manure. Reuters had a very public and noisy go at the US for killing their journos, neatly avoiding the question of why their journos were working with active "militia", were not wearing their Press vests, and had not notified the US that they would be in the area, and were on such friendly terms with said "militia" that they accompanied them to film attacks on US personnel. The events were even covered in another journo's book, Dave Finkel's "The Good Soldiers", long before the "Collateral Murder" edit made its appearance. So it seems your "interest in discovering some underlying aspect of reality" simply means you knew SFA about the copious and varied sources of information already out there, you just waited for Dickileaks to spoonfed you a highly edited and misleading point of view and want to claim that makes you "informed". Truly sad.

".....From you who wants more electronic state surveillance because it makes you feel more secure?...." Having travelled the World, especially the Middle East, I'd have to answer yes. You very obviously speak from a position of zero experience and knowledge, and your "thinking" amounts to nothing more than parroting whatever someone else tells you is "cool".

".....Because you have real trouble distinguishing what's morally right from what's legally prescribed?...." That's hilarious when your only criteria for "moral" seems to be what you hear thirdhand from some wannabe Net celebrity 2.0. Enjoy your naive ignorance, just don't be surprised when others point at you and laugh.

Re: AC Re: LOL @ the sheeple!

".....Are you suggesting Assange (tm) is complicit in the crime?

You have a reference for some evidence that might support this assertion?" In court it was shown that Manning had been in communication with A$$nut for a considerable period during which the material was collected (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/manning-assange-laptop/). It seems neither A$$nut or Manning were as good at covering their tracks as their egos thought they were. So it does look like Manning did not just collect it all and then, on a whim, drop it on Dickileaks, as claimed by the sheeple, A$$nut was in on it from the start. And when A$$nut gets his turn in court, it will be very hard for him to avoid the charge of aiding the enemy given his documented comments on not redacting the identities of informers. Enjoy!

Re: Destroyed All Braincells Re: Matt in: "Hastings alive minutes before he died!"

"Matt, you need to work on your logic....." My logic is simple - look at the available evidence before leaping to unsupported allegations. You seem to just like leaping a lot.

"......Yes. That's more or a less the point, see?....." No, it is a direct observation of the witnesses - he was driving too fast. He was not driving too fast with the windows down screaming for help, he was not trying to call anyone to say his car had gone nuts, he was simply driving too fast for quite a period before he crashed.

"......“I’ve seen military vehicles explode, but never quite like that......" Which is typical conspiracy junkie bleating from wannabe Terry Hopkins. Apart from the differences in design between military vehicles and the average Mercedes, military vehicles blow up usually due to explosions blowing them up. And then we have to ask was Terry Hopkins actually anywhere near the accident and actually witness to the "explosion"? No, he was not. Does he have any engineering training, any training in crash investigation, or even any training as a fireman dealing with car accidents? No, he does not. He's just another "expert" feeding the conspiracy junkies what they want to hear.

And then look at the scene, North Highland Avenue - a flat and straight four-lane highway with a few palm trees off on the verge. Not exactly the first choice for a cyberhacking "accident", it would seem to require a lot of skill to somehow make the Mercedes swerve off at exactly the right spot in exactly the right way to hit a tree, otherwise all they would have done was possibly give Hastings a scraped nose from the airbag. No, if you wanted to be sure, you'd wait until you had the chance to accellerate him to at least 60mph and into a wall headon. Plenty of chances for that in the city. Or wait until he was out of the city and on a road with a drop to the side, then make his car speed out over the edge. Much surer than chancing a hit with a palm tree. Oh sorry - much surer if you think LOGICALLY.

Re: Murder through obscurity

".....How do you think Michael Hastings was murdered?....." Yeah, 'cos all those eye-witness reports of Hastings driving way too fast and out-of-control also speak of a CIA guy hanging off the open bonnet with a laptop plugged into the Mercedes' diagnostics port. Not.

Re: Destroyed All Braincells Re: Snowden connection...

"......Also, it's "anarchisms", as you don't wanna use a genitive......" Actually, it's correctly termed "incredibly obtuse gullibility, based on envy, dressed up as a political ideal", but maybe you'll understand that when you get older and a bit of Worldly experience.

And as for all the people trying to imply this was the NSA or CIA that killed him, are you seriously damaged or what? Look at his age group - too young for most natural causes unless some form of chemical stimulant was involved, but exactly the type of social group likely to be using stimulants. I suspect that, when the almost inevitable history of drug-abuse follows, and the coroner's report indicates a cocaine overdose or similar, you'll no doubt insist it was the CIA forcing him to snort coke for years in preparation for having him snort on line too much at a "convenient" time. LOL.

Re: Vimes Re: Vimes LMAO! @Matt Bryant

"You're forgetting that the UK has been forced to change RIPA once before by the EU ....." LOL, and what changed that in any way stopped GCHQ carrying on as it and the Government wanted? Section 8 is still there. You have fallen for the political windrow dressing and failed to see that the "changes" stopped little if anything.

".....In particular I wonder if some ways in which RIPA is being used to conduct unquestioned surveillance....being threatened in the EU by Germans......" What, you think the Germans and Fwench haven't been fed little tidbits of information every now and again? You forget, there has been NATO-wide and EU-wide anti-terror plans, plus anti-drugsmuggling, anti-paedophile and anti-econutter programs, all including intelligence sharing, for years. Merkel and co are merely doing a little political posturing for their voters, but behind the scenes it will be business as usual.

Re: Vimes Re: Vimes Vimes Intractable Pothead Johnnie Thicko Let's not forget @ Matt

"....If you really think that a website that can be edited by anybody is anywhere near reliable for that sort of thing...." Once again, you are trying to avoid the fact that a website you denigrate as "unreliable" is actually much better informed than you are. If you want to pretend Wikipedia is so untrustworthy, please demonstrate which parts of the long-established posts on the NSA, GCHQ, Frenchelon, Echelon, or FISC are favtually incorrect? you can't because you know nothing on the subject. Stop denying your ignorance, just admit it and try reading up on the subject, THEN forming an independent opinion rather than mindlessly parroting one that you have been told is "cool".

Re: Vimes Re: Matt Bryant unmasked as an internet predator "I am a wolf".....

"...I'm not the one supporting the idea of using the law to allow unsupervised spying of millions, so I don't think that I'm the one that has to offer any arguments....." But that is the whole problem you face - you present no reason for anyone to accept your side of the discussion. You have insisted that you and the other sheeple are the only ones with insight, only to be shown to actually know nothing about the topic, despite the wealth of information already out there. Then you insist what GHCQ and the NSA did and are doing is illegal, only for that to be proven wrong. You still insist there is some vast conspiracy to harm you and the equally vacuous, yet when challenged you cannot show ant evidence of harm. Instead, you retreat into childish attempts at insults, and not even humourous ones. You are just a big dollop of fail.

Re: Matt Bryant unmasked as an internet predator "I am a wolf" he screams.* @John Smith 19

".... Matt Bryant reminds me of HamsterWheel...." I would have to say you and a lot of your fellow sheeple posters remind me of this (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYL5H46QnQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgAYL5H46QnQ) with your determination to be so righteous. But, once again, you cannot offer any argument or insight, only a rather poor attempt to link me with another bit of sheeple bleating. Loosen up the tinfoil, there's a good chap.

Re: Vimes Re: Vimes Intractable Pothead Johnnie Thicko Let's not forget @ Matt

".....It's a bit difficult to win this sort of argument when the very information you say is readily available tends only - until recently - to exist on conspiracy websites, so I won't even bother trying....." Wikipedia is not a conspiracy theorists' website, not by the longest stretch. And since you are so dismissive of Wikipedia, what does it say that you do not even know what has been available on there for years? Would you like a spade to help you keep digging?

Re: Johnnie Thicko Re: Matt Bryant unmasked as an internet predator "I am a wolf"....

Once again, another post where you cannot add any insight or argument to the topic of the thread. Yawn, TBH.

Re: Still Boring Bernie Re: Boring Bernie Destroyed All Braincells Please....

"I wasn't so much declaring victory as predicting your response. I think I won that one....." No, you insisted I would merely post insults in response to your childish attempts, whereas I not only posted arguments but also summarized both your failings and the misfortunes of the sheeple in general. So, you still have not won anything, and your desperate attempts to avoid the issues just show you are not going to.

".....Now, I am going to ignore you sidestepping the very, very many points, with supporting citations....." What points with what citations? You claimed Judge Robertson said the FISC was a rubber stamping body, I proved otherwise. Please do show how Robertson praising the courts independence and the number of warrants it refused somehow does not destroy your point?

".........they're not. Of the 11, 10 are republicans, appointed by an unelected republican senior. That's about as far from independant as you can get....." But Robertson points out the WERE independent and DID refuse warrants. All you have proven is your mindless assumption that Republican = mindless drone and that your are failing again.