MisterWebz

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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Pretty sure I've read somewhere in the HBGary email leaks about a company that bought and developed exploits and sold them to the government.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
It's a community where people regularly talk about ways to limit the NSA's power and who are actively encouraging people to use encryption to weaken their data mining capabilities. Do you think that doesn't raise any red flag
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
It's really scary that we're at a point where not using social media can reveal something about you. If they somehow manage to get an IP address associated with the shadow profile, they can use XKeyScore to see which websites yo
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
A lot of people here fervently complaining about eOS again. The most important thing is that there's finally a linux distro with a team behind it that really cares about design. I think it's a huge step forward, and when eOS gains
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
And then there's the NYTimes outage from a few days ago.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
And you would be earning a fraction, say $120 per month That's impossible, because around here the minimum wage for an adult working a full time job is around 10x that figure.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
If that's true, then we should be seeing similar outages affecting other services too.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
In some countries, you don't even have the OPTION to take out a loan to go to school. That's because in some countries you won't be paying more than 5k to go to a decent college.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Recently, security researchers say the group has also started to engage in more sophisticated attacks, including using Trojans and and targeting Voice over IP (VOIP) services. Those attacks and this week’s Socialflow and Outbrain compromis
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
There are german politicians that propose to take extreme measures such as banning US companies if they don't comply with stricter regulation. And you'll see there's a lot of other stuff going on in Europe. Of course you won&
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is that they're apparently firing 90% of their sys admins. Their internal workings are definitely being affected.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
The Obama administration was also planning to release a previously classified legal analysis explaining why the government believes it is lawful under a provision of the Patriot Act known as Section 215 for the N.S.A. to collect and store
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
That's ridiculous. You think they would self-inflict this huge PR nightmare upon themselves? They were doing perfectly fine before the leaks, getting cooperation from major tech companies and other countries and their reach was constan
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
By engaging in a line of comments that is so far from reality Just because it's far from your reality doesn't mean it's the same for everyone else. People are constantly bombarded with articles about the US engaging in pote
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
You can increase the quality of HN threads by replying to such "paranoid" comments with a counter-argument instead of complaining.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
It's exactly this kind of sacrifice more people need to make if they want to see some real change.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Please do. If there's anything I can do to help, reply to this comment as I don't have any contact info on my profile.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
I'll try and see if that works, thanks.
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Ask HN: How to stop requests to ajax.Googleapis.com and load jQuery locally?
4 points by MisterWebz 13y ago|2 comments
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
First they came for the terrorists, then they came after the drug dealers... You're right though, it is a ridiculous premise. There's no profit to be made from genocide.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Same here. However, it's still not showing local resources that are not being loaded because the path or the name of the script or stylesheet is wrong.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
There's nothing I've said that warrants the downvotes. Maybe you're getting downvoted because you're complaining about downvotes and not actually contributing anything to the dicussion?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
I think I pinpointed the exact moment HN's decline started. It was when my inane, rage induced comments about the NSA were getting upvoted. Let's not ban politics, let's just drastically lower the amount of noise in political
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
On the other hand, why wouldn't they try to protect themselves by trying to defund the NSA programs by proposing a new bill? There's public outrage which they can use for their own benefit and they could easily frame this as defen
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
Set up an IRC channel?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
The ability to intercept the communications of anyone on the internet without a warrant is relatively restrained? Do you even have a source for your claims? How exactly are you comparing the two?
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
The number of times the Dutch police have legally tapped telephone and internet lines may vastly exceed that of others such as the U.S. because the U.S. (thinks it) doesn't need a warrant and as such it's not being logged as a wir
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
The NSA could probably identify anyone on the internet given enough time and resources. I think the point of this is to make mass surveillance difficult, so they'll only target people flagged as suspicious instead of everyone.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere Switches to https automatically when visiting Wikipedia, even if you're not logged in.
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by MisterWebz 13y ago
And the NSA will successfully catch the people who have stolen nuclear weapons by collecting worldwide unencrypted internet traffic?

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