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by asperous 13y ago
The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect. The words italicized are qualifiers- that is they reduce the scope of the statement. It is uncertain tha
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by asperous 13y ago
In another thread some Google employees were saying that it's unlikely that Google has a secret backdoor system, since keeping products of any size online requires a lot of collaboration amongst the different teams, and the infrastruct
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by asperous 13y ago
From the article > “Anything that gives people more transparency and control is good for the industry,” says Meyer, who says it’s fine with him that most Ghostery users opt not to share data with Evidon . Meyer points out that those who
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by asperous 13y ago
The NSA would say that it "substantively affected the public by protecting them" . In fact, that would be interesting case if the NSA claimed to agree with you. Perhaps that is this case's intention. You see if the NSA claim
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by asperous 13y ago
The Constitution has built-in provisions for future modifications, i.e. the Fourth amendment .
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by asperous 13y ago
That Twitter status has a lot of qualifiers
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by asperous 13y ago
I agree, the publicity now may be bad, but the focus is mostly on the government anyway. I have no doubt that the companies would prefer transparency and keeping the data to themselves (Google has been pushing for that all along), but perha
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by asperous 13y ago
Actual sources: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/713590-fisa-business... https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/713592-nsa-internet-... They're pretty much just defending that it&#x27
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by asperous 13y ago
Luckily it's not a rumor any more, Look at the article's url!
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by asperous 13y ago
That's the first thing I thought as well!!
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by asperous 13y ago
I hope not, that'd be such a waste
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by asperous 13y ago
People forget this, but even though git was developed for programming version control, there isn't a lot that makes it useful strictly for programming only. Git is a powerful version control and collaboration system for any plain tex
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by asperous 13y ago
Well even ignoring the PRISM part and Google and all that, look on the slide again: "Collection of communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past" We already know about Room_641A[1] [1]: http://en.
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by asperous 13y ago
That actually is kinda suspicious he picked the one piece of information that was on the Facebook page. I changed my stance and now more agree with wutbrodo that it doesn't really matter if he's an engineer or not. Just pretend he
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by asperous 13y ago
>"It's not worth my time to prove it, or risk my Job. I work in Studio A, 40th ave in Redmond, Wa. The thai place in the studio cafeteria has double punch wednesdays. Go ahead and call them and verify if you want."
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by asperous 13y ago
If the defendant is the one who wants the phone records, can't his laywer call the phone company on his behalf and obtain them?
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by asperous 13y ago
If you notice, many of the papers were passed to him as he read, so it's possible one of his advisers had many prepared answers or simply wrote them down as the senator asked him questions.
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by asperous 13y ago
I honestly cringed at "Cyber-warriors"
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by asperous 13y ago
From watching the C-SPAN video that was on the front page of HN, I take from it that different senators and congressman have different levels of understanding. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Lousiana), for example, had pretty much no idea what wa
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by asperous 13y ago
Without releasing the decision there is no real proof I don't think.
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by asperous 13y ago
He also dodged the question "can you get Google contacts?" by rambling off. And then he apologized and said he was afraid he'd reveal something important and that he'd answer the question in a private non-public meeting.
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by asperous 13y ago
I believe, if it continues as it is currently, the numbers are government requests, and how many users effected. There is no check or distinguishment in whether the government and the user's country match. They also publish non-us gove
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by asperous 13y ago
One of the biggest criticisms of democracy is that it would be too slow of a process, when, for example someone runs a plain into a business building and kills lots of people. So the founders of America created something called setting the
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by asperous 13y ago
> "clearly you can't depend on Americans to keep their own government in check, no matter how good the US Constitution is." The Government has been taking away our rights for years, the general public seems to expect the g
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by asperous 13y ago
(Published on Nov 13, 2012)
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by asperous 13y ago
It's because of automatic compilation and the fact that programmers today can't handle register management. It's because of integrated circuits and the fact that programmers today can't handle voltage management.
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by asperous 13y ago
I dislike how the focus is on Snowden now, and not on fixing the problem.
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by asperous 13y ago
> "Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a reference implementation of the Flask security architecture for flexible mandatory access control." http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/faqs.shtml
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by asperous 13y ago
The good news is, if we make this a big deal and companies start to feel the pressure, we'll have millions of lobbying dollars on our side.
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by asperous 13y ago
Is it Ironic? If we are trying to send them a message I don't mind if they listen in on it.

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