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by NullCharacter 10y ago
You can extend this logic indefinitely. From the Futurama episode I Dated A Robot: > All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex.
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
Completely agree with you. I fly tons for work, and was just fine until I got into my mid-late twenties when I started to have horrible anxiety. And like you, I don't necessarily fear death, but I definitely don't want to see deat
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
Thank god for the military, America's backdoor to the middle class. Best decision I've ever made.
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
Kinda not within the spirit of the exercise don't you think.
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
Totally agree with you. I struggle to write a bio for companies I work for, can't imagine dedicating an entire website just to memorialize myself.
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
He asked a general question regarding authorities to OGC. What's the bar of "availing" himself to a channel? If he sent an email to OGC asking how their weekend was, he would have technically "consulted with OGC", w
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
> If he was under duress he probably didn't have time to filter through the documents. Even if he had a bit of time, it's difficult to know what would be relevant as events unfolded after the release. The dude planned this for
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
My point is how do you pardon someone for whistleblowing when literally 99.99% of what they took from a classified space has nothing to do with what they were supposedly blowing the whistle on?
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
If you're going to leak 1.5 million documents and flee to China on the grounds of being a whistleblower after following proper channels, wouldn't you want to display some , any sort of proof that you indeed did attempt to follo
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
> Is patently false. He did attempt to use those channels and was ignored [1] - at least once as confirmed by the NSA itself, and many other times according to him, which the NSA disputes. The same article you link says Snowden "tri
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
> WRONG - He has stated many times that he did approach all manner of "Oversight" people who basically told him to shut up. What happened to Tomas Drake and the others who tired the insider approach - nothing ever came of it. T
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
IIRC, in this case the FBI served up a "diagnostic" executable to users. Since they're using Tor browser, in general, simply enabling Javascript won't do anything to de-anonymize the user (unless the Feds had a TBB 0-day
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
I'd totally move to Transylvania. Wonder if I can still work remotely from there... I mean they're only 11 hours ahead of PST.
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
Other guy in the video was Chris Hadnagy who literally wrote the book on social engineering. Cool dude, too. Great class if you ever get the chance to take it at Black Hat.
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
I love how headlines like this are supposed to incite anger and fear. The article mentioned nothing about manipulating "social media" (like reddit or HN as the headline would lead you to believe), in fact it mentions that none of
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
I'll weigh in; work (remotely) for a startup in the Bay Area, around 100k salary with .5% equity. I'm hoping to have more equity granted to me in the form of options in the coming months as the company turns a profit. Otherwise, l
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by NullCharacter 10y ago
Firetrucks carry water.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I can almost guarantee the people against ALPR are most likely the same people who have no problem throwing a camera in somebody's face in your local Starbucks or something, and then when asked to stop recording, they say "but bro
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
As someone in the computer science/cyber security field who didn't go to college, I tend to agree with this article in a few ways. Having no college degree has really hindered me in terms of landing interviews, but once I'm
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
But the point is a botnet could, instead of mining bitcoins for example, stream content of which the rights are owned by the botnet operator.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
If you had bought this picture for $2 later to find out it's worth $5,000,000, would you feel an obligation to share some of the proceeds with the shop from which it was purchased?
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I used quotes because I don't know if it's actually possible to assassinate the character of a government organization, in the sense that I'm not sure if a government organization has a character to be assassinated per se. Ge
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Using your same logic here, you could claim that those documents are forgeries to begin with, leaked to "assassinate" the "character" of the NSA. You can't have it both ways. Either you're skeptical of the docu
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I realize Snowden personally didn't leak the documents (unless you qualify handing the trove to journalists as "leaking" which some might). This is why I used the word "abscond" as well as "leak". Fact is
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
So is Snowden still a whistleblower? Honest question, not trying to be snide. If you abscond with 1,000 legitimate mission-oriented documents for every 1 document you leak that pertains to something you think an agency shouldn't be doi
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
A signals intelligence agency conducting intelligence operations on foreign signals? Stop the presses!
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I was a huge fan of /war-is-boring (and could name a bunch of authors), but they moved to their own dedicated site with crappy liveleak-esque ads. C'est la vie.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
In the words of XCKD: The important thing is you've found a way to feel superior. Good for you!
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Haha wow. Schneier fan, are we? Did I touch a nerve? The hilarious thing is you don't even know who I am or what I do. You have no fucking clue. How dare someone think critically. Not on your watch.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I definitely never claimed to be anything more than someone who thinks making bullshit assumptions based on other bullshit assumptions is, well, bullshit.

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