MisterWebz

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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Which means we shouldn't care about people in India getting arrested because they're gay?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
It's easy positive publicity. Same reason why AT&T "took a stand" against the anti-gay propaganda law. Same reason why some politicians are calling for a boycott against the Olympics. In fact, I'd wager it's the
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
> that's because it was decided that a titrating drip of stories would keep the narrative alive in the media and, not coincidentally, better serve the interests of the publications releasing the stories. It takes time to read the cl
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
The Europeans care just as much or even less than the Americans. They're being told that there are no privacy protections in place for foreigners, yet, as far as I'm aware, there has been no significant decrease in Facebook or Goo
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
> we will only use this information for security purposes as opposed to commercial purposes. They obviously wouldn't lie, would they? And I guess abuse also never happens. I thought the point of this was to implement mechanisms that
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
It's obvious he's not really taking this seriously. These are empty promises with only one goal, and that's restoring the public's trust without hampering the NSA's abilities too much (if at all). EDIT: After having
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Not saying that there was foul play involved, but don't you think that if a "professional" was hired to kill him, he'd be more than aware of the various things left in the crime scene and on the body that could point to
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Don't be silly. They obviously use World of Warcraft.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
I've been thinking about this as well. A lot of people seem to think that the plan is to, at first, block porn under the guise of protecting the children and then move on to full blown censorship. If that is true, then who are the peop
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
I hadn't thought of that. I wonder how it'll affect the Transatlantic Trade deal or the TPP.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6944628 > Jesus, what a tool you are. How very civil and gracious.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
How do we incentivize people to fight back against every single law that could potentially harm privacy or force censorship? The people making these laws have every bit of incentive to do so, while the regular people have limited willpower,
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
"She had accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleged serious security breaches and cover-ups and that intelligence had been deliberately suppressed, endangering national security." htt
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
IIRC, they were/are pulling tons of data with just a single FISA request. While the system you described is certainly much better than having a backdoor installed, I'm not sure whether that'll protect your data from being &qu
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
That's a really good mindset to have. However, saying that what the NSA is doing is expected really doesn't explain anything.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Has there ever been an NSA thread where you didn't take the opportunity to tell us why whatever the NSA has been doing is completely normal and expected?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Almost every website that loads jQuery from Google breaks down when I refuse to connect to Google's CDN. Does anyone know how I can load jQuery locally?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
> Fundamental extremists do exist and want to destroy Americans at any cost (including their lives). Why wouldn't we surveil their cell phones, email and IM accounts? They should. Ever heard of the practice of getting a warrant befo
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
So if the system catches things like this all the time, how come they only stopped 54 (no wait, that's the old figure, the new figure is 1 or 2) terror plots?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6422824
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
So how's the turnout? Couldn't really figure it out from the livestream.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
> I think this shows a fundamental truth about humans which is that they'll kill without losing too much sleep. I don't think you can deduce that from the AMA. It could just as well be a PR campaign and wouldn't necessaril
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
You don't have to be paranoid to realize that information given to a third party can be abused or leaked to other parties. I'd like to believe that most of us are already past the whole "trusting an organization" thing a
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
He's been trying to downplay the importance of the leaks since it first started, so what did you expect.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
You didn't expect NSA comments in a thread about NSA comments? The fact is, a lot of stuff we talk about is being influenced by the NSA, in a very negative way. The solution isn't to ignore it and go back to talking about the cool
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
There were people in that other iPhone thread claiming that the discussion about the privacy issues of the fingerprint scanner were irrelevant to the discussion and that they'd much rather not talk about it because they were so sick of
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
There's nothing "conspiracy" about the NSA being able to access anyone's data on Yahoo's servers without needing a warrant. It's actually expected at this point. What they're trying to achieve by making a
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Does "Peeping while you're sleeping" sound like something the NSA would have authorized?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
What's up with all the technical issues and outages lately? Has there been an increase or is it because we're paying more attention to it?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
We need to concentrate our efforts. We can't just go out into the streets and complain about a myriad of issues. An organization like EFF is too broad. We need groups that each focus on one issue only.

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