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by agd 10y ago
From the outside it's very difficult to know what's going on here. Maybe Appelbaum is a jerk. Maybe he's carried out sexual harrassment/rape. I don't know. But these things are not proven by a clearly orchestrated c
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by agd 10y ago
I think the thing to be clear about it that this is not some high and mighty ethical challenge to Gawker or in defence of privacy (cough cough Palentir). This is petty revenge writ large by a billionaire. If it was about principle why was h
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Lionhead: The inside story(eurogamer.net)
8 points by agd 10y ago|0 comments
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Dyson could become next Tesla with its electric car, says expert(theguardian.com)
3 points by agd 10y ago|1 comments
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by agd 10y ago
How far to respect the source's wishes regarding controls on the material is a tricky area. In this case, the source was happy with releasing large amounts of raw data. In the NSA leaks, Snowden wasn't, and he imposed a condition
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by agd 10y ago
The things missing for me are: 1. partial application (bind is typed as 'any') 2. sum type destructuring 3. issues with recursive type definitions But the Typescript team add new features very quickly so I wouldn't be surpris
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by agd 10y ago
GCHQ/government would claim people aren't spied on until an analyst looks at their data. They have normalised 'collect it all' and created a mental distinction between that and mass surveillance. Obviously running analys
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by agd 11y ago
The logic is that our national security is partly dependent on our economic success. This is the problem with vague definitions, you can extend national security to cover anything really.
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by agd 11y ago
The FBI doesn't owe Apple. It owes the public - many of whom own an Apple product.
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by agd 11y ago
How easy is it to be part of society without a phone? The way people communicate, organize, meet, is all via these devices. Yes, whether to have these devices is technically a choice, but when the social cost of choosing not to have one is
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JOHN MCAFEE: The NSA's back door has given every US secret to our enemies(businessinsider.com)
5 points by agd 11y ago|0 comments
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by agd 11y ago
Snowden was clear in his instructions that he didn't want a data dump as some of the info was legitimately secret. Cryptome don't seem to accept this position. The question is do we say to whistleblowers 'it's all or not
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by agd 11y ago
Big data analysis + mass surveillance is a frightening prospect. Of course you can train software to look for 'terrorists', but you could also train it to look for: - whistleblowers - minority groups (e.g. gay people, particular r
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Watch this spacetime: gravitational wave discovery expected(theguardian.com)
3 points by agd 11y ago|1 comments
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by agd 11y ago
> I think here the questioning was more of a "placing under arrest" (there was something about how the questioning is mandatory before officially declaring someone a suspect). The point is that after questioning, they have to m
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by agd 11y ago
I think the key issue is that the Swedish prosecutor (until recently) made no effort to question him in the embassy. Given how badly the US wants Assange, and how we know they treat people like him, it is completely understandable that he w
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NSA Hacker Chief Explains How to Keep Him Out of Your System(wired.com)
10 points by agd 11y ago|1 comments
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New development could lead to more effective incandescent lightbulbs(bbc.co.uk)
27 points by agd 11y ago|25 comments
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Alton Towers to open virtual reality rollercoaster(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by agd 11y ago|0 comments
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by agd 11y ago
Widespread facial recognition is going to add a whole new slew of data for GCHQ/NSA to data mine. Not to mention advertisers tracking exactly where you walk in shopping malls and shops. From my understanding, UK law requires that you b
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Google, NASA: Our quantum computer is 100M times faster than a normal PC(arstechnica.co.uk)
11 points by agd 11y ago|0 comments
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by agd 11y ago
Available in the UK.
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by agd 11y ago
Many British people (including myself) would disagree with your assessment of the role of MI5. Personally, I don't think they are there to carry out mass surveillance.
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by agd 11y ago
This is behind the belief that so called 'black boxes' will be mandatory. i.e. state required man in the middle attacks on all your https content.
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by agd 11y ago
If you're in the UK, you should donate to the Open Rights Group (UK equivalent to the EFF). https://www.openrightsgroup.org/
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by agd 11y ago
Intelligence agencies are full of smart people. They know that secrets this big can't be kept indefinitely. Once the cat's out of the bag, then the panopticon comes into effect. They have factored in the effect on free speech int
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by agd 11y ago
It's not quite as simple as that. Mass surveillance alone harms free speech because it affects people's behaviour. If you know everything you say and do is recorded, you tend to say and do a lot less than you would otherwise.
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by agd 11y ago
Real government spending per capita has been falling. Real government spending is falling. There have been real cuts of 20%+ in many government departments over the last 5 years. The welfare budget has just been slashed (hitting the working
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by agd 11y ago
Hey. - The demo will be running during the kickstarter so for the next 3 weeks. - There is no max number of participants (well unless the server gets overloaded) - Your email is automatically deleted once the demo ends.
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by agd 11y ago
Creator here, a bit more info: - the demo is played in real-time (so emails are sent and received throughout the day) - each character in the game has their own email address and PGP key pair - you can play using PGP but it's completel

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