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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Pedantic reply is pedantic. The point I am trying to make is that Snowden took this story to a few local, bona-fide, 100% US-owned/operated/associated well-known media outlets and they passed. He went to a UK-associated news outle
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
He may be a US citizen, but he writes for the Guardian which is a UK newspaper. He is a foreign journalist.
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This is a sad day for America. It's a sad day because a citizen of our nation decided he needed to go to a foreign journalist instead of one of our own to break this story. It's a sad day because that same citizen felt like he wou
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I think the take-away from this article is that the political/legal environment is part of implementation detail you need to consider when considering a "private" communication mechanism. No crypto-system is truly secure unle
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It's called spread-spectrum. The two types are frequency hopping and direct-sequence. GPS uses direct sequence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum
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And who were these Nazis? Were they Germans who acted on behalf of their party and political ideology? You can argue all you like about how much worse the USA is than Europe but my mother lived in Germany during that time. Complain all yo
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I'm sorry, but you are displaying a remarkable level of naiveté about how the world works. I'm not excusing the NSA, but the reason why the USA is exceptional is precisely BECAUSE things like this are an aberration and not accepte
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
The real danger here is that once you've developed the habit of berating people who screw up, you'll continue to do it when it's not really called for. I'm no shrinking violet. I got a good ass-chewing from time to time
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Not exactly: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:11:13AM -0500, Robert Lee wrote: > This is unfortunate. I do hope they are not going out of business. We've gone through a major crisis, but are still here... just. To say any more in public
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I'm not going to respond to a sock puppet account created an hour ago to specifically down vote my posts.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
For many years, I've been considering purchasing one of these: http://www.entropykey.co.uk/ I honestly don't know why we're using anything other than provable randomness using discrete entropy sources in this
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Germany's human rights record is decidedly mixed. (Source: my mother)
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"I believe the cure has been worse than the disease, and that the severity of the disease has been, and continues to be, overstated." I don't agree with you. Specifically, the threat of radicalized Islam is real and present.
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Yes. We made a choice. What I think you're ignoring is a prolonged, persistent, and increasing series of attacks against US persons and territories. 9/11 was just one of a series of attacks against us. Every previous attack w
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And you're wrong about the quote sourcing.
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I'm sorry but I don't agree. Non-state terrorism is an evolving and emergent threat that's been amplified by the interconnected global world we live in. 9/11 spawned two wars and countless societal changes. The geopoliti
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I agree with your sentiment. It's worthwhile to note that people have often stated that the Constitution is not a "suicide pact". We are free (as a people) do what needs to be done to preserve our union. Whatever your polit
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I knew Sal Culosi. He was a nice enough guy that used to hang out at Fast Eddies Sports Bar in Fairfax, VA. I saw him there often just tending a beer and minding his own business. If you can believe it, he was an optometrist at a Wal-Mart
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NSA IG report on email and Internet data collection under Stellar Wind(guardian.co.uk)
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WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI(wired.com)
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I wouldn't call it speculation. If Snowden didn't understand that he's too valuable a target for any country with a halfway functioning intelligence service, he's naiveté must be completely unbounded. Intelligence servi
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
There is a great and current book describing our current posture. Check out "Dirty Wars" for a wonderful intro to our secret wars all over the world. JSOC is operating in many, many countries where we do not have active wars goi
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Litvinenko was pretty public IIRC. Still dead. Still radioactive.
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Hey, remember when a US warship shot down an Iranian Civilian Airliner? Ooopsie! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
You took the words right out of my mouth. Remember that the Russians killed Litvinenko in the middle of Mayfair, London, UK. The Israelis killed Mahmoud Hamshari in Paris. Remember that these were all nuclear nations. I'll leave the re
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Uh, someone should learn the difference between "clandestine" and "covert". The USA is most definitely capable of undertaking operations in "denied areas." edit: typo.
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Or didn't and lived in Japan.
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LOL. The Underground Railroad had a destination. And IIRC, they ended up fighting a war over that particular political disagreement.
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Exactly how would this work? WikiArmy?
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What's really sad is that this guy is going to learn really fast that he's now in a sphere where the rules simply don't apply. He's put himself in play and he's going to learn very quickly that he has few friends wh

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