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by cdooh 13y ago
I have to agree that in his actions the public benefit by far outwieghs the "security" risk. In a country where people have been blocked from travelling for mentioning "bomb" and "airport" in the same tweet it&
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by cdooh 13y ago
Please. This is not about can we trust them because someone leaked, any civic-minded person would have done what he did if they had big enough balls. Are we trying to say that out of the thousands of employees the NSA has no one else but th
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by cdooh 13y ago
I'm not American but from where I sit this guy represents bravery of the highest order and the tenacity(sp?) of the American spirit. I'd be extremely proud to associated with him. He represents what we -the rest of the world- most
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by cdooh 13y ago
Laws that are interpreted in secret can only be subject to massive abuse. The problem isn't the survellance its the lack of public oversight
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by cdooh 13y ago
Cheers, I'll be sure to keep that in mind next time
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by cdooh 13y ago
Anyone esle read this title and think Atlantis ?
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by cdooh 13y ago
It's important to remember that we still have a functioning democracy. If you -- Hacker News reader -- decided to run for congress tomorrow, you might not win, but you won't be killed, sabotaged, or secretly blocked. Well the IRS may just
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by cdooh 13y ago
would you prefer this link instead? http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...
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by cdooh 13y ago
I wonder how the Obama administration will repond to this other than the usual "Terrorism is bad and you need to trust us that we do all this for your own safety"
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The NSA story reinforces why an entity like WikiLeaks is important(gigaom.com)
683 points by cdooh 13y ago|65 comments
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by cdooh 13y ago
http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-dat...
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by cdooh 13y ago
Two days, two major reveals, wouldn't be suprised if tomorrow I wake up to find out that they've been switching on the microphones and cameras on webcams and cellphones.
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by cdooh 13y ago
not unsubstantiated: http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-dat...
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by cdooh 13y ago
I've read somewhere that it's voluntary edit: read it here http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-dat...
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by cdooh 13y ago
America is democracy, you can bring about change with your votes. Unless of course you also have the same problem we have in Africa;democracies paralysed by idiots with votes
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by cdooh 13y ago
Ah, when you look at it critically the death of 3000 people, 9/11, has lead to 2 never ending wars, the curtailling of people rights all over the world as states rushed to implement broad anti-terror laws to please the US and funnily enough
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by cdooh 13y ago
National Security - destroyer of civil and personal liberties everywhere
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by cdooh 13y ago
This is so cool!! I wonder how far off it is to commercial deployment and what licensing plans they may have.
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by cdooh 13y ago
But every bit of power counts with smartphones.
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by cdooh 13y ago
Does DRM usually just mess with people who actually paid for the content? I mean make it inconvient for them to access their content else where?
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by cdooh 13y ago
Thanks!! I'll check then out. Do they start basic enough though?
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by cdooh 13y ago
I'm a third year computer science student from Maseno unversity, I'm really interested in learning about AI and unfortunately we'll only be learning more about machine learning and so on next academic year. We've done a basic unit called In
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by cdooh 13y ago
It wasn't in the news, atleast that I saw. It wasn't a headlining on TV
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by cdooh 13y ago
Aljezera has had this story in their line-up for a couple f days now, not sure what they said about it because I wasn't overly concerned. Nothing on BBC though. So atleast one international news organisation is getting the word out.
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by cdooh 13y ago
We weren't talking small parts but influence the board/seat on the board parts:)
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by cdooh 13y ago
Whether he founded it or just funded it the basic premise of what he says is true: We can't expect science and technology to advance if we rely on companies whose very business model depends on the status quo remaining as it is.
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by cdooh 13y ago
Proving what my dad is always telling me "The stock market is essentially gambling. If you're going to buy stock do it to own the company not to speculate"
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by cdooh 14y ago
I'd rather have a public entity than a private entity with poor oversight
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by cdooh 14y ago
While the TSA is messed up and all that, Americans shouldn't be too quick to turn to private companies. Private companies would be profit focused, this means that any way to minimise costs will be taken which may compromise security. I give
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by cdooh 14y ago
A little disappointing but not entirely unexpected considering. What's sad is an industry that fails to realise they have a supply problem and will never win that war

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