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by andreyf 11y ago
Not literally all communication in the global sense that Tor refers to. For a trivial example, the wifi signal between my computer and my router is not monitored. Your references seem to talk about major exchanges all over the globe. Practi
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by andreyf 11y ago
Thanks for the correction, I'm not sure why I decided to upper case the R :) To clarify what I think you meant to refer me to, the Tor client actually chooses the three nodes in the path of a circuit, doesn't use two nodes on the
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by andreyf 11y ago
Thanks for finding all of those sources. That is indeed a vast network of intercepts, however it's not necessarily "global" in the sense that they monitor all communication. If one could choose their Tor link to include enoug
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by andreyf 11y ago
The NSA isn't really global, though. For example, if enough ToR traffic were routed via Asia or South America, I imagine they would not be able to perform much traffic analysis on it.
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by andreyf 11y ago
I think he means state-owned in the sense that the IC can easily watch the traffic going to and leaving the exit node, and with many exit nodes leveraging this into a passive attack on the network. If this is true, if ToR is to stick to a g
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by andreyf 11y ago
So ToR is like a shitty free VPN? Who can one be hiding from that a cheap VPN to a jurisdiction of your choice won't solve much better?
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by andreyf 11y ago
Institutional investors give VC's money part of which their investees then put into real estate leases anyway. Cutting out the hassle for the startup that should be focusing on product seems efficient in more than one way.
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by andreyf 11y ago
How do you tell if an RFC is a standard? TLS says "proposed standard" published 7 years ago: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246
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by andreyf 11y ago
Hah, thanks for clarifying, I had a suspicion, but still wanted to write out the argument in case there was some truth to the sarcasm. It's hard to talk without going down into specifics. Different people got into power in different co
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by andreyf 11y ago
At least in theory, in a democratic society, "the government" should only do things that we've decided to allow. In the US, these decisions are made by representatives we've elected. As far as I know, the USG doesn'
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by andreyf 11y ago
...must be managed according to the rules for human subjects research I think applying the directive for human subjects research does not imply the humans involved are "human subjects" in the way nuremberg uses the term, because
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by andreyf 11y ago
Avoiding the experiment would make an attack more effective and hence more likely to take place. It's not identical to the simple philosophical construction, but it's not wholly unlike it, either.
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by andreyf 11y ago
> the military assessed the risk [of including] a single additional strain of "harmless" bacteria to the many that live in a city This does not seem as if it should have a very high risk... > Just like the NSA concluded that
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by andreyf 11y ago
They wouldn't use the actual Bitcoin blockchain, I think, as they have nothing to gain from the pseudo-anonymity and have better ways to prevent bad actors than proof of work. Instead they'd use what they call a "distributed
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by andreyf 11y ago
> it was a violation of the Nuremberg code How so? The article is a bit biased in calling humans the subjects of the test, where it doesn't sound to me like an objective definition of the word supports that framing in the least. A s
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by andreyf 11y ago
"rationale to this decision that I do not know or understand" I imagine the rationale went like this: We have intelligence that the soviets are developing weapons with deadly bacteria X with delivery mechanisms {Y, Z, ...}. We bel
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by andreyf 11y ago
What law did they break, exactly? The experiment wasn't on humans - the position of the CDC is that humans were unaffected, and the data gathered was about how harmless bacteria spread through a densely populated city, to better protec
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by andreyf 11y ago
> Shouldn't the campaign involve avoid insecure files in insecure format from unknown or unverified sources? That's an interesting question. I think answering in the affirmative is infeasible. Slightly smarter user behavior is
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by andreyf 11y ago
Signed to order? I would be pretty surprised if there were organizational approval and justification for someone spying on an ex-lover. If you're talking about people violating organizational rules and abusing the tools provided to the
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by andreyf 11y ago
Certainly not gods, but immensely powerful organizations with varying moral frameworks and political interests all acting without the convenience of a global system of legal and moral guidance that you and I operate in. Have you ever had to
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by andreyf 11y ago
I do that too sometimes, but I wouldn't equate someone not doing it to "my grandma sending me the local path to a file".
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by andreyf 11y ago
I think we very much judge people on whether their actions are reasonable, even at the extremes of when a person takes another's life. Having different legal standards for what a CIA agent operating in Pakistan can do and a civilian wo
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by andreyf 11y ago
I'm talking about what is, not what should be in some perfect world we have no practical way of achieving. Intelligence agencies are above the law not because they offer tips to each other, but because they have the resources and pract
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by andreyf 11y ago
No, what I'm describing is a free market inside of a single state protected by a single an intelligence community. You'll have to be a little more specific about the IP scenario - where are they hypothetically getting the IP? Is i
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by andreyf 11y ago
Yes, I have, and I've clearly reached a very different understanding. Is there some point you're trying to make, aside from an ad hominem? What would you say are the chances that a prosecutor brings a case against an American for
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by andreyf 11y ago
Yes, he could order the NSA to do it in the same sense that he could order her assassinated by the CIA. I don't think anyone would fulfill those orders, though.
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by andreyf 11y ago
And rightfully so! I think forcibly kidnapping someone on the streets of Italy is different than an allied intelligence agencies dropping each other tips about leakers.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Ah, a request and a complaint! How did it go, do you think? "Dear Chancellor, Snowden said the Americans spied on our paper and told you our source in your organization. Could you provide us with some more evidence so that we can make
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by andreyf 11y ago
Well, there can be a free market within a state and enforced by the state. Not free in the anarchy "do anything you want" sense, but in the sense that people are free to enter into contracts and make decisions within a framework w
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by andreyf 11y ago
Well, I guess it depends on the country, but I don't imagine a US president could order the NSA to spy on an German ex-lover just because he's curious what she's up to.

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