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by Amadou 13y ago
Police dash-cams reduce the potential for abuse of authority because they make a permanent record of the actions of the police (as well as anyone else on camera) while ANPR systems increase the potential for abuse of authority because they
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by Amadou 13y ago
The biggest collections of plate-scan data are private. It started with repo-men who pay to be part of nationwide networks where they all drive around scanning every visible plate in exchange for getting hits on plates they are looking for
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by Amadou 13y ago
Fruit of the poisonous tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisoned_tree
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by Amadou 13y ago
Except that Snowden almost certainly did not spend much time sleeping in the actual airport. But poetic license and all that... Here is one of many stories about the Novotel: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/trapped-tran
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by Amadou 13y ago
I seem to recall a recent study that suggested paying some people explicitly for their open-source work (versus scratching-an-itch) had the effect of discouraging contributions from everyone else. Unfortunately my google-fu is too weak rig
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by Amadou 13y ago
I am thinking the ultimate technical solution would be a tiny computer that acts like a usb and hdmi/dvi hub. Plug it in between the monitor/keyboard and the employer provided computer. It waits passively for a magic keycombo whi
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Public Libraries Bypassing Ebook Publishers to Become Publishers Themselves(governing.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
> There are protocols on the clearing of desks at the end of the day, with particularly sensitive documents being locked in special cupboards FWIW, this sort of thing is standard in every classified facility in the US. It would be mes
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by Amadou 13y ago
I thought it was pretty poor reporting for the article not to mention that what Toyota donated was industrial engineering expertise. In college we called the guys in the IE program "imaginary engineers" but in real life the discip
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by Amadou 13y ago
Hastings died in a fiery one-car crash one recent morning in Los Angeles. FWIW, My personal worldview is very much aligned with Taibbi's but I can never get more than a handful of paragraphs into anything he writes because the invectiv
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by Amadou 13y ago
Even bigger props to them for handling graceful degradation gracefully. Without javascript it loads super quick and it looks pretty good - some of the images are poorly sized and placed, but the article text is still well formatted and read
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by Amadou 13y ago
Don't assume that contractors start at the bottom. I've got personal experience doing DoD contracting and the entire reason I was there was because I was a systems expert. Even if they had not given me root access, I could have
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by Amadou 13y ago
> That's true for the vast majority of law enforcement though. I think you've completely missed the point. The impression that a layman will take from Chambliss's statement is that it is technically impossible for the NSA
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by Amadou 13y ago
Not everyone is susceptible to allergic reactions. Without modern medicine, the people who are susceptible tend to die relatively quickly. Seems like the analogy leads to the decline of the united states and the rise of some other country
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by Amadou 13y ago
What Chambliss said in that quote does not contradict Greenwald's claim. When Chambliss uses the word "capability" he means legal capability. Greenwald is arguing that the enforcement of that requirement is trivial - equiva
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by Amadou 13y ago
Ugh, that's literally a case of, "think of the children." If what they did was illegal in the country they did it in, then they should be punished there - making it straightforward to extradite them back for trial would be re
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by Amadou 13y ago
Ok, so that stuff about putting the chips under a microscope probably meant they were just extracting the secret keys. Suggesting that there is just a small number of master keys across the entire line of cars instead of a unique set of k
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't understand the part about the info being available on the net for years already. I'm sure the reporters garbled that since they probably have zero domain knowledge, but it sure implied that anyone with criminal intent pro
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by Amadou 13y ago
That is my understanding of what happened after the repeal of alcohol prohibition in the USA. The original prohibition created a significant amount of criminal infrastructure and faced with alcohol no longer being insanely profitable they
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by Amadou 13y ago
While that is all true, it is still worth noting that worst case they still cared enough to be disingenuous about their voting records. If they believed that they could just get away with sweeping it under the rug, they would not even have
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by Amadou 13y ago
FWIW, I think the WAPO-PEW phrasing is slightly biased in favor of the NSA. I think the following would be more accurate and thus more closer to neutral (italics indicate changes): "Q: As you may know, it has been reported that the Na
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's the great thing about software, especially Free software - all it takes is a handful of us to make systems where strong security is transparent and enabled by default and it will proliferate to all the regular people.
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by Amadou 13y ago
The claims are that no one looks at it unless they are specifically chasing down a lead - c.f. their redefinition of "collecT" from "acquire" to "look it up in the database of acquired data." Presumably they w
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by Amadou 13y ago
Remember this wasn't to defund the NSA, just to defund the programs that spy on us citizens.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Is it me, or does anyone else think that the really surreal thing here is not that Anna Chapman "proposed" to Snowden on twitter but that Chapman is even on twitter in the first place?
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Sounds like those people are holders of institutional memory. The bigger companies get, the more they forget about the value of institutional memory - treating everybody like a cog in a wheel. Individual managers know the value of such pe
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by Amadou 13y ago
Tell your friend to figure out how to bring his own internet into work. Turn his phone into a usb-hotspot and plug it into his work computer or bring in his own laptop / mini-pc (size of a raspberry pi, there are plenty of options) an
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by Amadou 13y ago
I agree the wiki page is more informative. I'm just posting to say that I peeled off that retardo javascript-required page blocker with the "element hiding helper" add-on to the ad-block plus add-on. I dunno what I was missi
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by Amadou 13y ago
That article does not say what you think it does. It is 50% of new lead pollution, not exposure. According to the reporting of the original lead::crime theory, most of current lead exposure is due to lead dust that was created during the
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by Amadou 13y ago
You misunderstand. I meant the federal law was an after-the-fact-recognition of what many states had already done. Kind of like the way DOMA (defense of marriage act) was struck down by SCOTUS only after a bunch of states started recogniz

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