Amadou

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811.
by Amadou 13y ago
The problem here is that government intelligence services exist to serve the people. If the people do not wish for their government to spy on them, it needs to stop. This isn't about making bits uncopyable, this is about keeping our e
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding your point of view, it seems to have no unifying principle. But if I take your last sentence as what you really believe then the obvious response is that once governments can be relied on to not ab
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by Amadou 13y ago
The C250 definitely has an option that can sort of steer just by application of the brakes on individual wheels like you described. Their marketing name for it is "active lane keeping assist." http://www4.mercedes-benz
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by Amadou 13y ago
The problem with cycling is that powering up is the least efficient part of the cycle. So a fridge (or an air conditioner for that matter) that cycles frequently is spending more time running in its least efficient mode. I'm not a fri
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by Amadou 13y ago
If you leave your phone on and put it in a faraday cage, the battery will drain at the maximum rate as the phone goes into "find a tower" mode which is basically to broadcast at maximum power over and over trying to make contact w
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by Amadou 13y ago
A couple of years back a friend and I tried the same thing with my stainless steel colored LG fridge. It totally blocked the signals on our phones. He had a blackberry and I had an el cheapo LG smartphone.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I have to strongly disagree. Wikileaks has released minutiae about other countries as well. It isn't only about showing up hypocrisy from the US, it is about lifting the veil of secrecy that all governments misuse whether it is hidi
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by Amadou 13y ago
Get it up to a couple of hundred and we'll talk. But if you think you can do that simply through process rather than physical design, we won't talk - process can not address the problem of turnkey tyranny.
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by Amadou 13y ago
You are missing the limits that simple practicality has on each scenario. There is an enormous difference between a military coup and the kind of risks the NSA databases create. A military coup requires tens if not hundreds of thousands o
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by Amadou 13y ago
Not that kind of pole. As far as anyone has said publicly she was not a stripper. She was part of a dance troupe while living in Hawaii and the about page on her blog she described herself as “a world-traveling, pole-dancing super hero.”
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by Amadou 13y ago
Electing bad guys (which itself is kind of a ambiguous term - what metrics and who gets to choose the metrics?) is a risk of democracy. It's kind of like seedless watermelon - if you want rich, succulent aka "good" watermelon
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by Amadou 13y ago
Still they deserve credit for coming around. Better that they do that then stick to a wrong position. Criticize them when they do the wrong thing, but not when they do the right thing.
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by Amadou 13y ago
If it's not one thing, it's another. No matter what Snowden did, they would come up with some excuse to trivialize his disclosures. This one is particularly egregious because it can be turned right back around on the US governmen
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by Amadou 13y ago
How much SSL traffic is offloaded to dedicated hardware on the server side nowadays? How many different companies are there in that space? How many of them have secret agreements with the NSA (or their respective state intelligence agenci
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by Amadou 13y ago
Often the rich are happy to have the police not enforce the law and to do it with private security instead. Private security reports directly to their employers, the police have more public accountability. Also reduced property taxes mean
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't think it is all that ridiculous. Prosecutors have tremendous amounts of discretion regarding who they prosecute and what for. They aren't just "doing their jobs" they are explicitly targeting Snowden. The fac
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by Amadou 13y ago
I don't think it is available on a c250 sedan like hastings was apparently driving, but Mercedes (and other manufacturers) have systems that do control steering that could conceivably be remotely hijacked. All of the self-parking sys
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by Amadou 13y ago
Correction for anyone likely to be disappointed as I was - raw footage of the fire after the crash. The guy with the video camera gets there and interviews an eye witness after the car is already burning. What is amazing to me is just how
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by Amadou 13y ago
You are correct: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/dec/8/congress-deal...
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by Amadou 13y ago
There are a couple of plausible scenarios - (1) the NSA was running surveillance on all political challengers, (2) Obama was running against Alan Keyes who had ties to the state department and served on the staff of the National Security Co
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by Amadou 13y ago
Only if it pushes developers to make the tools dead-simple to use. If it is harder to use than facebook, 99% of the population will not bother.
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by Amadou 13y ago
How hard would it be for the NSA to "partner" with the SSL accelerator manufacturers to add functionality that sends copies of all the ECDHE negotiated keys to the NSA so that they can decrypt most of the encrypted traffic that th
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by Amadou 13y ago
I am speaking from experience on non-NSA programs. It goes without saying that their entire operational network is firewalled with an air-gap. If a user needs to have internet (or other extranet) access from the same desk as their operatio
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by Amadou 13y ago
That's an over-simplification that obscures the important issues. What matters is in what way their interests diverge - espionage and whistle-blowing are of no more interest to a contract employer than to the government itself because
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by Amadou 13y ago
Most systems will not have any sort of external media - no floppy drives, no removable hard disks, no cd burners. USB ports will be filled with epoxy and any peripherals will also be physically secured to their ports. Wherever possible dri
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by Amadou 13y ago
Frankly, who Snowden's employer was on paper is irrelevant. There is nothing about being a government employee that makes one more loyal or trustworthy or any other characteristic. Everybody goes through the same vetting process by t
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by Amadou 13y ago
I read the transcript to this interview a few days ago, before Snowden did his recent Q&A session. In that session he seemed to directly address the charge of being a traitor, he said: "Second, let's be clear: I did not reve
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not too surprised to read this story. Ghostery seems to have redone their UI recently and it looks like one of those form-over-function redesigns that happen when a company comes into some money, decides to spend it on looking pre
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think it is entirely plausible that a sysadmin would know exactly what logs the auditors inspect and that he would know the things like how often the logs were deleted as well as exactly what information is (and is not) captured in the lo
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by Amadou 13y ago
Part of the problem is that it so many of the tools available have tracking embedded in them. The mozilla guy who posted about how this came to be hit on it - they used a service for email that tracked by default and made it difficult, if

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