Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
In other words, Schneier's not disputing the facts, but suggesting we ascribe different value to them. I've seen arguments like the president's called "true lies." A technical truth that obscures the larger more
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by Amadou 13y ago
There was also the case of the prisoners smuggling cell phones into prison via pigeons. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29980598/ns/world_news-weird_news/...
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is 2013 and the 4th most popular add-on to Firefox is NoScript. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=us... Essentially all of the browser exploits over the last decade have had javascr
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by Amadou 13y ago
This is what TorrentFreak had to say about it: http://torrentfreak.com/twitter-bug-requires-users-to-torren... TL;DR is Twitter uses bittorrent internally, this is probably just an error in letting an internal configuration
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by Amadou 13y ago
"Mr. President, no one is saying you broke any laws, we're just saying it's a little bit weird you didn't have to." –John Oliver of the Daily Show on the NSA spying scandal
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by Amadou 13y ago
the FSF is absolutist If that were true they would have never created the LGPL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_Licen...
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by Amadou 13y ago
Have you blocked javascript? I believe you have identified the cause. Switching javascript off and on between queries makes the define: operator stop working and then return to working. I block cookies and don't log into google in
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by Amadou 13y ago
Or just someone skilled enough to place fake dna in his body such that the person taking the sample is fooled into taking it from the fake dna. Yes, this really happened - at least once that we know of: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by Amadou 13y ago
Your examples are just word games. The intent of a warrant is oversight, all of those examples require oversight, some more so than others, but all of them require some sort of accountability.
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by Amadou 13y ago
There are a myriad of things that are legal for the government to do that are illegal for a common citizen. There's no irony in that. If the government does not require a warrant to do something, then it should be legal for anyone to
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by Amadou 13y ago
This article validates one my key beefs with "big data" - databases (like chexsystems in the article) remove slack from the system. Humans need slack and only humans can provide slack. In the short term that may seem like a good
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by Amadou 13y ago
Part of that is due to having a hardware mouse cursor. Basically all the interrupt handler has to do is load the new coordinates into some registers on the video co-processor and co-processor takes care of all of the work of blitting the m
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by Amadou 13y ago
That sort of cynicism is probably the chief enabler of such corruption. As with any other human endeavor, government will never be perfect, but that isn't a reason to give up on holding government to high standards. It is reasonable t
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by Amadou 13y ago
Israel, and the USA, make a big deal about being representative democracies and champions of human rights. Anytime their deeds don't match their words, criticism is warranted. The Saudis and other monarchy/dictatorships in the m
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not so sure about that. Bars have machines to scan your drivers licence and verify if its real, so why can't other companies do the same thing. No, those machines don't work that way. They just check for integrity in t
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm surprised the article missed the single biggest problem with requesting copies of "identity documents" - the company you send them to has no way to verify them! In his example they wanted copies of utility bills and a dri
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by Amadou 13y ago
I use NoScript because essentially every browser exploit in the last decade has had javascript as a necessary component. Running the minimum amount of javascript protects against even zero-day attacks. I say web developers who put their co
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by Amadou 13y ago
Depends on the fine print. The fine print on such things often has a disclaimer along the lines of "not responsible for errors."
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by Amadou 13y ago
It looks great with javascript disabled, maybe the font in the examples was a mite small. I turned on javascritp and it looked a lot like a man-page.
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by Amadou 13y ago
FYI, MTV has spun off a weekly reality show based on Catfish. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it may be their highest rated show currently airing. It is now about midway into a second season.
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you can come up with a backdoor that requires the non-obvious interaction of multiple parts of the kernel (or parts of the kernel and certain user-space actions) then it would be reasonable to break up the necessary changes and slip each
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by Amadou 13y ago
Anonymous has no leaders and lulzsec isn't Anonymous. I think it is more accurate to say that Anonymous has a fluidity of leadership and followers. It is a bunch of factions that dynamically organize as members see fit.
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by Amadou 13y ago
IF he was serious he would be burning CDs/DVDs instead of using a read-write USB stick. It is tedious, but blank media is cheap and there is precedent (that I'm sure Bruce is aware of): The DoD's own (classified) SIPRNet wa
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by Amadou 13y ago
You make the false assumption that people in different divisions of a very large company I'm assuming that people within a company are more likely to know each other and know what areas they work on versus simply "working at goo
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by Amadou 13y ago
For this to be a worry, every person up both branches of a very large hierarchical organization tree--all the way up to where a Google Ventures employee and a Gmail developer both report to the same person--would have to agree to it. That
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by Amadou 13y ago
Practically all news reporting does a terrible job of covering complex fields. Ask a doctor what they think of a medical story, or scientist about a story on their field of study. It is always the same - terrible. A lot of that is because
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by Amadou 13y ago
Given that Google has a VC arm, I am stunned every time I run into a VC who uses gmail and other google-hosted services as part of their business. They are handing their competition an enormous chunk of their business proprietary informati
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by Amadou 13y ago
To attribute that mindset to every IT department rather than some group of individuals is beyond cynical. Would you say the same thing about all developers? All engineers? A statement like that speaks volumes about the writer and nothing
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by Amadou 13y ago
Maybe I've just been lucky? That about sums it up. making the process easier could obviate their job, so I suspect they like the way it is now. Wow.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Sure, the computer knows the PCI-ID's of everything on the PCI-family of buses. Same for usb. But you presume that the person downloading the drivers is doing it from the same computer. If it needs a driver for its network interface,

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