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by caskance 11y ago
We're not talking about asking him to sift through data on hundreds of programs. He had the resources to leak information about the one or two programs that actually went so far over the line that it made him worried rather than everyt
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by caskance 11y ago
In the long term, it would have meant that people like me who think there is a legitimate reason for nation states to have intelligence agencies could support him with clear consciences.
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by caskance 11y ago
I trust the math behind RSA in general, but I also trust Digicert specifically in the sense that DigiCert Global Root CA is in my Trusted Root Certification Authorities store whereas, say, Hellenic Academic and Research Institutions RootCA
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by caskance 11y ago
Occam's razor suggests that the reason is because lower-effort comments take less time to write.
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by caskance 11y ago
They would no longer need to ask for cooperation. Personally, I'd call that less safe. At least in theory, the NSA could allow a compliant US business to be secure. If the NSA could not get data from a foreign business the easy way, I&
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by caskance 11y ago
Spock also said "Insufficient facts always invite danger”.
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by caskance 11y ago
It depends on what you are trusting them to do. The NSA's not going to spy on you less just because you're not in the US. If anything, they'd spy on you more.
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by caskance 11y ago
The reality is that they could always choose to do that and not tell you, no matter what they had promised.
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by caskance 11y ago
If they're serious about putting your phone in a headset to use it as a VR display, that wouldn't be a bad idea.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's got the blue checkmark. Have they ever gotten that wrong?
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by caskance 11y ago
The opposite of war is peace, not freedom. They're very different and usually opposed.
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by caskance 11y ago
You really don't see how some people might legitimately think spying on foreign intelligence agencies is a key part of the NSA's job? Or that disclosing details of that process is actually leaking classified information that shoul
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by caskance 11y ago
That's what it means to be a traitor, isn't it? If someone lives an otherwise law-abiding life, and commits ONE crime, would you not call him a criminal as long as his total contribution was net positive?
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by caskance 11y ago
And the idea that engendering a deep hatred of the US in many corners of the world or seeding anarchic instability does not improve the US's position is likewise not remotely proven. The whole point of representative democracy is that
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by caskance 11y ago
If he didn't have the time to do it responsibly, he didn't have the time to do it at all.
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by caskance 11y ago
He didn't have any right to make the decision to trust those journalists. Giving them access to all his documents was the problem. There was enough the NSA did that was OBVIOUSLY wrong that he could have stayed well clear of the things
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by caskance 11y ago
Trust means something different in every context. I don't trust my wife the same way I trust Digicert, but I "trust" both. This is what it means for nations to trust each other.
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by caskance 11y ago
Agree that American citizens are not legitimate targets in and of themselves, but they will routinely communicate with people other than American citizens and those communications mean that citizens will be spied on. That's globalizati
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by caskance 11y ago
If you're just Joe Public doing Amazon deliveries, you can also break the speed limit or park illegally in order to make your deliveries. How is that any different from not being properly insured? It's the courier's responsib
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by caskance 11y ago
Why shouldn't they do that? I am pushing cost for ingredients, kitchen maintenance, insurance, etc to a restaurant when I eat out, and that's great. That's what they specialize in. Have drivers handle the driving side, and di
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by caskance 11y ago
The owner taking their tips is punishing the driver. It's not my responsibility to insulate the driver from that. I am paying a surcharge for delivery. That's reasonable. If the driver doesn't get the cut of that he feels h
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by caskance 11y ago
It's what racists say to pretend they're not racist.
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by caskance 11y ago
Do they not pay well? The rates in the Flex page look reasonable to me.
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by caskance 11y ago
How is that relevant? Secret laws are still laws. Just ask the NSA.
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by caskance 11y ago
The implication that it was ever the other way around is baseless. US and India share a primary language. US and China really don't.
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by caskance 11y ago
It's done great for them up to this point. How many companies wish they were in a position where they had operations in 7 countries to shut down?
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Those sound a lot easier to fix than releasing IP into public domain.
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by caskance 11y ago
Sounds like the ideal situation for everyone.
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by caskance 11y ago
GPL is cancer, but in a good way.
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by caskance 11y ago
Maybe that was part of the marketing this author bought, just not explicitly listed in the article. If you can buy all those other things, why not reddit upvotes too?

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