Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Obvious joke is obvious.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
EXACTLY. By providing ready access to a stream of digital data and metadata about yourself, you're making their job easier. Even if you use crypto, the mere fact that you use crypto is interesting enough to draw attention. The point is
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
It's not anti-crypto. It's PRO-tradecraft. Introducing technology into a system can WEAKEN your security. Knowing that is almost 90% of the battle.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
The Soviets used to have a custom of taking long walks in the park when they wanted to have a private conversation. It had the notable benefit of avoiding the hidden listening devices in their places of work/rest/play.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
No. It's UNDERSTAND YOUR ADVERSARY. If I'm trying to protect myself from hackers, I choose one route. From my ISP, another. From FB/Google, another. And from my government or your government, yet another. What's missi
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Uh huh. What if I have a deal with Intel and your TRESOR code compiled into the kernel is easily profiled by the microcode and the key is itself silently transmitted/stored by the CPU? Same with your USB stick. Go read up on how the C
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Uh HUH. Assuming Twitter has my real name that is. LOL.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I hate to break it to you, but this is not going to keep you safe from a state-level adversary. I could drone on about this for pages and pages, but the sad fact is that if you are a target, it doesn't matter that you are using a &quot
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
I think ALL of those leaks should have been prosecuted. I feel like impeachment would have been a fine option.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Look it up. If you install $15M of fiber in/around town, you can bet your bottom dollar that the local taxing authority considers that real property and will tax you on it at appropriate rates. In TX, colo providers have had to send b
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
YUP. The short answer is: it's much easier to build in a greenfield environment where there is a "helpful" local government, ready access to rights-of-way, and underserved population, easy construction costs, access to labor,
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
There is a big difference between the typical strategic leaking by wonkish types in DC and releasing classified information to the media. The first will get you fired. The second will get you prison and/or death. As someone who has fri
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Seeking further evidence of wrongdoing? LOL. At what point did he morph from whistleblower to investigative journalist? Even an investigative journalist isn't allowed to do what he did to gather information. Can you imagine a world
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
LOL. How about China/Russia spying on US? What I find so hilarious about all of this is that China and Russia have been SO AGGRESSIVE in their use of technological capability to effect a spying apparatus in the USA and on our assets a
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Uh...no. To borrow your logic, show me a solid example of the USG using this vast surveillance network to oppress civil rights en masse. The USG has been able to suppress individual civil rights without any of this stuff. All of the eviden
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Dude, I'm lot listening to any congressmen at all. I'm going with my gut on this one. I've got some pretty well-known friends who have written volumes about the NSA. They are happy to see these disclosures. I'm happy
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
It's the attempting (and succeeding) to gain access to other documents outside his compartment that undermines his claims.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
THIS. Like I've said in other comments on Snowden: he had an agenda. This wasn't just simply a case of a guy who was involved in something he couldn't stomach any longer; he went in with the intention of gaining access to mat
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NSA employee implicated in Snowden probe resigned, memo says(washingtonpost.com)
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
>Still not the company's fault for the individual's lack of responsibility. No. If they know, or more importantly from a legal liability standpoint SHOULD have known, then it's on them. We haven't seen the test case
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Just to drive home my point: Here's the pricing for a put option on AAPL to sell the stock at $450. Expiration 16-Jan-2015 (roughly one year from now): 40.11 Down 3.09(7.15%) Jan 27 http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL160
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Your almost zero might have fewer zeros than my almost zero. But my point still stands: it's trivial to create a synthetic short position that's dollar neutral.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
No sir. You are wrong. "Going short" a security has a very specific meaning in the equities market. Same with "going long". And buying puts is NOT the same thing. You've completely forgotten about the concept of
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
BOOM. The price of that uncertainty is what you capture in the options pricing model. aka. "premium" Two scenarios: (Short-selling) AAPL: Sell 10 lots (1000 shares) short -> now you OWE someone 1000 shares but have the cash i
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
What part didn't make sense? If you're not familiar with "the greeks" as they relate to tradable securities, then why worry about hedging at all? Just buy and hold.
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
And that's exactly it. The commenter doesn't understand the wildly different processes or effects of going those two different routes. For one thing, a put (or call) option doesn't even trade on the same markets (usually), h
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Of course not, but it's trivial to create a synthetic short position with an almost zero cash balance. Not EXACTLY zero, but close enough. e.g. short a low beta stock, hedge that position, short the higher beta stock, and hedge that p
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
That's not how shorting works. You short the stock and NOW YOU HAVE THE MONEY but you OWE the stock to whomever you borrowed it from. If the stock goes up, you lose. If it goes down, you use the cash you have to buy it back and keep
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
If this sounds crazy, keep in mind that getting a drivers license in Germany isn't a one-day affair with minimal testing standards like it is in the US. Getting a German driving license is somewhat laborious but the upside is that Ger
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by Nrsolis 13y ago
Snowden did a lot of things but I'd stop short of saying that the NSA has stifled American civil liberties in any meaningful sense. What we have seen is the potential for abuse, but not any evidence of that actual abuse. I'm a pra

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