Project Megaphone: Fight Surveillance With 9 Lines of Code

https://rally.stopwatching.us/fight-surveillance-with-9-lines-of-code/

by sethbannon • 13 years ago

41 26 13 years ago

rally.stopwatching.us

sashaeslami• 13 years ago

hells yeah.

by_Seeing2• 13 years ago

nuff said.

by_Seeing2• 13 years ago

At least the government is open again so they can see the rally.

aaronem6• 13 years ago

"...sound and fury. Signifying nothing."

bendoernberg4• 13 years ago

What're you getting at? The full quote is "It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing."

unimpressive2• 13 years ago

I'm assuming something akin to what I posted some months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5921688

chris_mahan2• 13 years ago

and if someone cracks into the cloudfront account and modifies the js... not good...

sinak5• 13 years ago

Same applies anytime you use external javascript, no? Or in fact, anytime you use AWS to host your site?

sinak5• 13 years ago

That being said, I can totally understand why you might not want to add third party code to your site.

In that case, I think the best route is to take the html and add it to your site yourself. You can actually even host the js locally if you want. The call to our geoip server just returns json, so shouldn't be a threat: http://geoip.taskforce.is/

But if you want to host that part as well, it's open source too: https://github.com/tfrce/node-geoip-web

chris_mahan2• 13 years ago

True, and this is why I am not hosting at AWS, and why I don't use third party javascript. (I have a few remnant adwords js blocks in some of my pages, but I am taking them out when I come across them.)

DanBC• 13 years ago

Are the Facebook and G+ buttons some form of satire?

EDIT: Mass surveillance by any government is bad. Surveillance by NSA or GCHQ is bad. But the abuse of privacy coming from spammers and marketers and the walled garden of whatever social network are all far more harmful to the Internet than whatever GCHQ or NSA are doing.

bendoernberg4• 13 years ago

Different people have different philosophies. Some people have stopped using FB and G+ because they know their actions will be monitored. I choose to share these links because I don't want to censor myself out of fear of surveillance. Both approaches are totally valid, and everyone can choose to share on social media, or not.

sinak5• 13 years ago

And the site uses https://github.com/tfrce/share-server so no user information/IP address/browser headers are shared with any third parties unless you click the buttons.

Zigurd• 13 years ago

...the abuse of privacy coming from spammers and marketers and the walled garden of whatever social network are all far more harmful..."

I'll take having a targeted ad for Sony cameras follow me from site to site over being a drone target.

_bfhp• 13 years ago

I feel like the people who would want to go to this rally would already have loc services disabled..

sinak5• 13 years ago

It's geoip, so you don't need to have location services enabled to take part. And it's disabled on mobile.

Project Megaphone: Fight Surveillance With 9 Lines of Code

Related Stories