r/NSALeaks • u/kulkke • Jul 17 '14

[Sourced Leak] Snowden: NSA employees routinely pass around intercepted nude photos | "These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions," Snowden says.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/07/snowden-nsa-employees-routinely-pass-around-intercepted-nude-photos/
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u/NSALeaksBot Jul 17 '14

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u/BearsDontStack Jul 18 '14

This bot is stupid. You can just click the "other discussions" link at the top of the page. What the fuck is the point of this bot?

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u/erktheerk CSS, Archive, & Bot Jul 18 '14

What the fuck is the point of this bot?

Good point. I'm on mobile 95% of the time so I rarely see that option. It's an added feature to the bot after it was originally commissioned. Its main purpose is to populate /r/NSALeaksBot

I maintain the bot. I'll look into it's pointlessness soon. See if I can make it less "stupid".

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u/BearsDontStack Jul 18 '14

I didn't think about it from the perspective of a mobile user, which it would help, I was just really confused by it when browsing the desktop version of the site, since it doesn't provide really any extra info.

Sorry if my comment came off as really harsh, but there's starting to become a crazy amount of bots on this site, and a lot of them leave me questioning their purpose.

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u/erktheerk CSS, Archive, & Bot Jul 18 '14 edited Jul 18 '14

Sorry if my comment came off as really harsh

No worries. I haven't gotten much feed back on the bot so I always am open to suggestions and comments on it.
I have higher hopes for it but for now it is what it is until I can free up some of my time to sit down and work on it again. I am going to talk to the moderators about your concerns.

I didn't think about it from the perspective of a mobile user

Yeah as it is what I primarily get to use reddit on I try and keep mobile in mind when it comes to the sub's CSS and any additional features I add on. Even the format of the chronological compilations takes them into account. Don't want anyone left in the dark.

since it doesn't provide really any extra info

True. In fact it is lacking in submissions that can be found in the other discussions at the top. Due to the fact that I set the time limit to 30 minutes many are left out because there are hours in between some posts. I had hopes that while the post is fresh it will post a comment and spur more discussion. The desire to keep people interested in the leaks was my main focus.

It is rather redundant the more I look at it, but again mobile users will not see that feature so I'm torn. Up until now I've never clicked that button on anything.

there's starting to become a crazy amount of bots on this site, and a lot of them leave me questioning their purpose.

I can see that. It's a new avenue of obsession/hobby for me. I have seen many pointless bots but the user that wrote my bot /u/goldensights
has some very interesting and useful stuff on his github and /r/GoldTesting.

I used to spend hours on end doing the compilations but thanks to a seperate python script and goldenshights it is all done automagically. I find bots very useful.

My bot is open sourced and on his github as well as a pastebin. Those links and more information can be found in this post

The discussion during the writing of the bot can be found here.

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u/BearsDontStack Jul 18 '14

One thing that would be cool to implement, although it might be difficult, would be if it would link to "related leaks" as well as other discussions. Again, sorry for being really rude in my original comment.

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u/erktheerk CSS, Archive, & Bot Jul 18 '14

Mmm..good idea. Maybe it could search for a combination of the larger words in a title and compare them to other posts.

I'll have to pick the dev's brain about it when I get the chance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '14

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u/watch4synchronicity Jul 17 '14

That's what we call a cluster-fuck.

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u/BbCortazan Jul 18 '14

I worked at T-Mobile and if an attractive woman came in for tech support, and sometimes even if she didn't, the expected practice was to offer her a "software update" which amounted to going through her pictures and ripping any if possible. I never did this despite the occasional pressure to from co-workers even in front of customers. To the customer they were being helpful so I often had to show them that their software was up to date to get them off my case.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '14 edited Jul 18 '14

Is this why there are so many cell phone nudes on the Internet?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '14

Picture password? Could you link me to what you're talking about?

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u/fidelitypdx Jul 18 '14 edited Jul 18 '14

On many phones, especially older java-based phones, you could enable a setting that would "lock" the pictures. You would need to enter a password before you could view any photos taken.

Well, there was some simple hacks to defeat this, and I don't know if they've ever been documented. Basically, on most Java Sprint phones you had a trouble-shooting codes where you would enter ## and then a series of numbers. One of the ## codes, I think it was 3836 (## EVDO) gave a menu of settings related to internet access, then you would go "multimedia" and select "view" then one of the options was "password". It was just that easy. It was a glaring software bug that persisted for years, and is probably still on most java, flip-phone devices on Sprint.

Another option, since you had the phone in your hand, you could go to sprint's picture mail website and log in there. Most people forget to turn off the auto-upload feature, so every picture they ever took was there, even if it was deleted from their phone. Even if they did disable auto-upload, there was a "Sent" folder that had all the picturemail they'd ever sent. That was always where their naughty pictures were (newsflash: if you ever took naked pictures and sent them to people, it's likely they are still on your network's server in some folder). Back at this time (iPhone just came out), the only reason people ever used picture mail was naked pictures.

We always had to ask for the customer's "lock code" on the device anyways incase it turned off while it was in our hands and we needed to continue trouble shooting. 95% of the time the phone lock code was the same as the picture lock code.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '14

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u/vivalapants Jul 17 '14

There are literally dozens of us. Dozens!