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by blcknight 13y ago
You just described more or less the behavior of how a nym.alias.net address worked back in the day, which had the added benefit of not even knowing who you were, because you chained as many remailers together as you wanted.
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by blcknight 13y ago
No. That really looks like another anon.penet.fi. If that is the case, then if 101 (let's call 101 Alice) or 77 (let's call 77 Bob) are using providers that are in bed with the NSA, the NSA can easily still grab the metadata from
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by blcknight 13y ago
Seems like you're kind of putting words into PJ's mouth. Her reason at the beginning is exactly because e-mail is not secure: "The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we&
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by blcknight 13y ago
Total overreaction. E-mail is not insecure now because the NSA is scooping up all the traffic or making backroom deals with e-mail providers. It is, and always was, sent over the wire in plaintext. You're writing postcards. Read Phi
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by blcknight 13y ago
Correct! The machines still take dirty pictures of you -- they just provide an abstraction layer and a human ostensibly doesn't view the raw image. They removed one of the two types of machines, only because the backscatter scanner vendor
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by blcknight 13y ago
"Forcing me to take vacation when I'd rather have more salary, is wrong." You have a weird idea of what's "wrong." What's wrong is American companies that have created this environment where employees feel guilty to stay home when they have
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by blcknight 13y ago
American Expat in Germany here...My salary would absolutely be higher in the U.S. In Germany I get 6 weeks of vacation. I make more than enough money to live comfortably, though. I definitely prefer a liveable salary and time to spend th
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by blcknight 13y ago
The way you end up with URL's like http://www.tsa.gov/TSA-Pre✓™ is a CMS system that replaces spaces with dashes in the title to make the URL. No skill required.