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by andreyf 11y ago
I'm not sure what sardonic means without a smile, but I am very much trying to avoid opinions in leu of explanations of reality as I understand it.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Not in the sense that intelligence agencies follow every law of every place they operate (does anyone think they do?), but in a more practical sense - there is no legal mechanism for enforcing rules on the IC externally, and while it's
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by andreyf 11y ago
I meant it makes sense legally or practically - it's not unheard of that allied intelligence communities cooperate to spy on each other's citizenry. I don't think we lose as a Democracy just from the spying alone, but rather
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by andreyf 11y ago
> Whenever there is one of those types of articles there is always several people claiming that whatever NSA is doing is exactly what they should be doing, and at any point its what everyone else is doing too. It's not that what int
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by andreyf 11y ago
Well, German intelligence can't spy on Der Spiegel legally, so getting tips from a friendly intelligence agency as to who is leaking info to the press seems to make a lot of sense.
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by andreyf 11y ago
> Reminds me of my grandmother sending me a picture by sending the c:/ link in the email. Not really... there is no consistent clear way to tell if a web page is meant for your account only or public. For example, if someone @tweets
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by andreyf 11y ago
Good question. I don't know if we should, although I've heard similar things said about requests to non-FISA judges, as well. It makes sense to me that if investigators' careers involve learning to cross their t's and do
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by andreyf 11y ago
> How much did encryption help Lavabit? The court forced them to hand over the encryption keys anyway. Lavabit has a pretty bad system because it did not take the law into account at all and was run by someone that does not seem to under
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by andreyf 11y ago
You're right, he's not very good at the rhetoric [1]. That doesn't mean anything logically. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory
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by andreyf 11y ago
That's a straw man argument. Andrew said that the reason the court doesn't decline a lot of requests warrants is because the cases that are not "airtight" never make it to the court. I think this is a fair response to th
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by andreyf 11y ago
I'd be curious how that's distributed. Also, people lie on polls, for the similar reasons as they do if you ask them "are you racist?"
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by andreyf 11y ago
Good points. "Few hearts and minds" is more accurate. > Some argue that desegregation alienated more hearts and minds than it helped, but I've yet to see any evidence. It's a question that isn't easy to answer em
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by andreyf 11y ago
Legally, you are right. Morally and practically, I'm not so sure. Few hearts and minds are changed as a result of the supreme court's rulings, just the code powering the justice system. Convincing 5 of the top judges is easy compa
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by andreyf 11y ago
Are you in post WWII Germany? The justifications for Apple's or Europe's limits on speech are wholly unaffected by any one person's feeling comfortable with it. That reasoning aside, I think that ignoring or changing parts of
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by andreyf 11y ago
The page has enough details to deduce it, I think. My understanding is that the Facebook app will download all of the local ads in the area your phone reports you as being in tied to the beacon ids. Your phone will then display the ads of t
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by andreyf 11y ago
There's no way to implement that on iOS, afaik. While the app is running, it can scan for nearby beacons and send that info to Facebook to pull down notifications. Push notifications would have to originate on Facebook's end, thou
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by andreyf 11y ago
Funny - I came to the comments with this exact same quote in my clipboard. I don't think it's child abuse, though, as both the parents and children are part of this world view which uses socially accepted norms for success as thei
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by andreyf 11y ago
Google image search says Best guess for this image: cat bed furniture https://goo.gl/vXwSaj
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by andreyf 11y ago
So get your IT guys to install it for you? Seems like a reasonable request...
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by andreyf 11y ago
Or you could archive it on an air gapped network and delete it from all systems connected to the internet. Seems like a relatively simple procedure that I imagine is in use all the time with sensitive data...
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by andreyf 11y ago
Source? I'd also heard the "AWS was Amazon's extra capacity since they only use it all on black Friday" story.
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by andreyf 11y ago
None of that sounds unsurmountable or inherent to microservice architectures. What's hard about starting five JVMs? Why did it take "a while" to register with Hazelcast? Why would you expect to initially come up with bad serv
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by andreyf 11y ago
Gumption? They're just calling out sloppy work. Either you don't need secret cover companies, or they shouldn't be uncoverable via public data.
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by andreyf 11y ago
I'm not saying all criminals do, but enough might, especially if there is a drastic difference in punishment / rehabilitation.
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by andreyf 11y ago
Could it be a prisoner's dilemma of sorts between states? If one state introduces prisons along the lines of those described in the article, then criminals will flock to that state because it'll be known as the one that has nice p
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by andreyf 11y ago
put a couple of spaces in front of it *like this*
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by andreyf 11y ago
Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. Th
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by andreyf 11y ago
Looks like e-cigarette packaging to me!
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by andreyf 11y ago
This way is even better, as it queues up the SYN packets until HAProxy is ready, leading to no faster responses than waiting 1s until the client retries with another SYN: http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/04/tru
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by andreyf 11y ago
Missing the context... What code was there before? Was it a reverse engineering of the API whatsapp binaries use? Is there any legal basis for demanding someone remove that?

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