Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
This still puts you at greater risk of exposure than creating a Gmail account through an anonymizing proxy. I note that you've specifically gone to the most extreme case of the state looking to track you rather than some other privat
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by Amadou 13y ago
I doubt he's reading this - but for you, sure... His claim is that there aren't any viable anonymous payment systems for the web but that advertising is semi anonymous, so that's better. (1) There are ways to make anonymous p
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by Amadou 13y ago
Can't. I so disbelieve in his argument that I won't sign up for G+. Besides, as Upton Sinclair was fond of saying, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.&
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by Amadou 13y ago
Also, what kind of spy uses gmail? Sheesh. The kind that is trying to maintain cover as a non-spy so uses the same email services as everybody else.
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by Amadou 13y ago
OK. I had laugh-snort reading the discussion on that page - at one point the original author, Mike Hearn, tries to argue that ad-based services are actually a good thing for privacy. Does Kool-Aid have a google flavor now?
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by Amadou 13y ago
Are you being sarcastic? For months Google's only public response was to lobby the government for permission to release stats(?) to prove that they complied with the law - nary a word of criticism for the law itself. So now that Google
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by Amadou 13y ago
The other half of that equation is that the requirements for a security clearance tend to filter out the people who are mentally predisposed to question authority. It is a very rare person who can see all the things wrong with the various W
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by Amadou 13y ago
This isn't an issue that's particular to police. It is particular to police in that they are entrusted with greater responsibility than pretty much any other organization in the country. Their standards of accountability need t
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by Amadou 13y ago
I actually have a friend who became an NYPD officer (!!!) at some point last decade. Ask him if he's got any crazy stories about stupid shit other cops have done. Then ask him why he hasn't reported them for doing it. That&#x27
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by Amadou 13y ago
Hopefully the legal system will dish out some justice for him. For him with dollars and for the rest of society by putting everyone else involved in the unemployment line, if not prison.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I think she streisanded the book, this "controversy" is the first I had heard of it myself. But now I've seen her review mentioned in three different online news sources in the last 24 hours.
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NIST to Review Crypto Guidance Methods: Agency Seeks to Rebuild Trust (govinfosecurity.com)
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by Amadou 13y ago
He lost 60 pounds by monitoring his carb intake. The thing about diets is that everybody has got one that worked for them. It seems to me that the one thing all of these different diets have in common is that they require the person to mo
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by Amadou 13y ago
I nominate the name "NSA-Mail" -- No Spying Allowed Mail. It's descriptive and co-opting the enemy's own name is the kind of thing people who want to stick it to the NSA can really appreciate.
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by Amadou 13y ago
OK, thanks for confirming that this discussion is completely over your head. I won't be responding any further.
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by Amadou 13y ago
I am confused, do you mean that in the general case? That I should do that experiment right now and because wireshark won't show anything on my systems, that means whatever is going on with his systems is made up?
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by Amadou 13y ago
Your assumption does not follow from what I wrote, in fact it is practically the reverse since my point was that any industry is vulnerable. It isn't just "dorks" who give even marginally attractive women special treatment
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by Amadou 13y ago
There was a comment in the story that I think is misleading - Attractive women can open locked doors in the male-dominated IT industry. Attractive women can do that in any industry, it doesn't need to be male dominated. Men are s
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by Amadou 13y ago
Even well-trained police officers with decades of range practice screw up from time to time. And those officers are basically mythical creatures. The average cop spends very little time at the range. For example, in Florida it is typica
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by Amadou 13y ago
So, you are saying this is a gray area? (somebody had to say it)
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by Amadou 13y ago
They say it is easy for the wearer to remove, but hard for someone else to take them off. Still it seems to rely on a sort of low-grade combination lock which is going to take some amount of focus and manual dexterity. The first question
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by Amadou 13y ago
One big contributor to the problem is the ESIGN Act - passed in 2000 it legitimized electronic signatures but failed to define them in any technical sense. Instead the law defines them as any "electronic sound, symbol, or process atta
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by Amadou 13y ago
But it's spewing packets out on an interface that it doesn't actually need to communicate. I mean...really? Because bridging an air-gap firewall is the holy grail of network penetration. You can't discover the guy on the o
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by Amadou 13y ago
So why does he have to trash everyone else's priorities then? Given that his charity is the 800lb gorilla in the world of charities I think his attitude is pretty damaging. That's more of a problem with the concentration of so
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by Amadou 13y ago
Your conflating "serial bus" with serial transmission suggests that you don't even have the vocabulary necessary to participate in an informed discussion on the topic. Because of that I am kind of at a loss for where exactly
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by Amadou 13y ago
Beeps on the speakers or listening on the mic doesn't involve packets to begin with! All communication is analog at the lowest level, all common forms of network transmission are serial at the lowest level -- your analysis is all arg
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by Amadou 13y ago
if the only reason that this topic was even introduced was because he saw packet counts increasing? He saw packet counts increasing and it stopped when he disabled the audio hardware. Then there is all the other circumstantial evidence
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by Amadou 13y ago
unless it can just decode raw bits and somehow shuffle them to the network layer of one of the existing adapters you're going to need quite a bit of code to handle that part of it as well. I think he claimed that packet counts increa
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by Amadou 13y ago
It is a classic design failure mode - form over function. It may even be the most common category of design failure out there.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Yes, let the government own the monopoly on the "pipes" and let private enterprise compete on the type of "water" that flows down the pipes. We will never have meaningful competition for pipes anyway so we gain none of t

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