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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Definitely agree. In terms of raw "national security" net gain, it's likely it would be more useful if kept secret and used offensively than if it was revealed and patched. Vulnerabilities are dime a dozen. Patching one zero
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I don't really think he was going the thought experiment route. He seems to genuinely believe what he writes. For example: "The NSA was most likely able to penetrate Hacking Team's network and steal the same data. The agency
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
> But just so I can understand what you're saying, why do you think it's a big assumption? Are you serious? Because there's no proof or mention of it anywhere. You're making an assumption based on literally nothing mo
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Schneier apparently doesn't even know what the NSA stands for (National Security Administration ?) and yet seems it's safe to assume that they had infiltrated Hacking Team, and then proceeds to make a whole bunch of judgements an
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
So the key to reducing job burnout is... not having a job?
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
To be fair, responding to a warrant for stored information and installing a backdoor in your software are two pretty different matzah balls. If the servers in question were on US soil, Microsoft would comply with the warrant in about a seco
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
It's a little more guileful than that, and it definitely is a flaw with WhatsApp not validating their file types/formats.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
So you're walking down the street in an upscale neighborhood wearing your Sunday best and.... you get these three charges levied on you? Feel like there are details missing to this story.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
What was the charge, out of curiosity?
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Do you know what "moving the goalposts" is? I assume you do seeing how you like to casually quote Shakespeare in your HN comments. You said (quite cynically): > The only purpose of ads is to forcefully track, distract, and expl
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Hey look at that, I found one from 1704 (bottom right). http://i.imgur.com/PbmXyhf.jpg And that's just from the Americas.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
That's a pretty small-minded viewpoint. Surely you don't actually think that's the "only purpose" of all ads everywhere.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Seems like it's a matter of perspective and, like most things, not as black-and-white as "good guys vs. bad guys".
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Close. "Here are five random words". I'm not clever.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
My first thought as well. Every time I forget and go to that site from my phone, I die a little.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
> Why do people spend so much time and money on something like that? Probably because it makes them feel unique and special. It's a badge they can wear that sets them apart. Nobody really advertises that they're getting a Histo
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Really slick. To translate the idea behind compiler backdoors to JS minifier backdoors is pretty clever.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Why should he be the one to decide if the leaking of over a million highly classified documents is a "risk worth taking" to inform Americans of the phone metadata program? Doesn't that seem just odd to you? If I wanted to blo
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
That's great and all, but what about the other one million+ documents he absconded with not related to the phone metadata record collection? At what point does he cease being a whistle blower?
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Awesome resources. Loving the Linux videos so far. Great instructor.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I would stick with having zencaster.com redirect to zencastr.com, and keep your current name/trademark. I think this is a fair compromise and probably your best bet. For what it's worth, I prefer Zencastr over Zencaster.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
That base16 colorscheme... it's so pretty. Also am I crazy or was this posted here a few weeks back as well?
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
It is to a pragmatic person like me, but I suspect it's not to you.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
If you think the Chinese/Russian intelligence services haven't managed to get their hands on the entirety of what Snowden took I think you underestimate their prowess. A few Western journalists in their flats and offices does not
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
For what it's worth, when you said "Civil liberties groups and charities... and allied politicians" I thought you were referring to domestic organizations/persons. Shrug.
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Oh you mean an intelligence agency whose mission is foreign intelligence is gathering intelligence on foreign entities?
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
And neither is Snowden. After you grab a million files constituting nearly half a terabyte of top secret data and abscond with it to China (and then Russia), despite what your very best intentions may be, I don't think the title "
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
[citation needed]
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
Good question. Every time there's a font vulnerability, it gets asked, and for good reason. I like this answer the best: http://seenonslash.com/node/3658 Interesting quote on their mindset at the time: "Due t
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by NullCharacter 11y ago
I agree with you. The presence of the names on the site transcends "metadata" at that point. As for your request, straight from the horses mouth (the hackers): "We will release.... all the customers' secret sexual fantas

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