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by computer 13y ago
You should look closer at what this type of orders actually compel a service to do. In the lavabit case, my theory is that it went as follows: - The FBI compels lavabit through a FISA warrant/NSA to produce Snowden's emails/d
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by computer 13y ago
If you believe that, then donate and make the group of people who have legally donated to the legal defense too large to harass.
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by computer 13y ago
To quote myself from below because I find this issue so important to highlight: So what if they can see that you donated to this pro-constitutional defense fund? If you want to make a surveillance state less effective, you should generate _
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by computer 13y ago
They could have shut down that method. (Server-side webmail access) You _always_ have a choice.
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by computer 13y ago
I think you should also consider the risk of getting bored when you do everything yourself. If the stuff really helps, you might not want to risk stopping because it's too much work.
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by computer 13y ago
No. If you want to make a surveillance state less effective, you should generate _more_ noise, not less. When fascism is at risk of taking over, you don't just roll over and take it quietly because you fear they'll annoy you at th
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by computer 13y ago
It is important to remind people that they _always_ have a choice, and that there will be support for those that make the right choice. So donate.
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Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007)(wired.com)
127 points by computer 13y ago|46 comments
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by computer 13y ago
Background: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
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by computer 13y ago
The goal is not necessarily security (I have nothing to hide (I still do hide as much as possible))-- the goal is political change. That's the only real way out of this mess. By not using US companies, you incentivize those to lobby fo
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by computer 13y ago
Actually, I don't think so, if he was a paying user. Everything on-disk was encrypted for paying users, and since lavabit had to shut down completely to not "be complicit in a crime against the American public", I assume that
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by computer 13y ago
It wouldn't be resilient to interception of mail going to and coming from lavabit however, since email is essentially a plaintext public protocol.
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by computer 13y ago
That's a nightmare. However, I do feel strongly that lavabit made the only right choice. The US government is entirely to blame.
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by computer 13y ago
And that's why it's all the more important that Tor ships only very-secure-by-default software, including disabling javascript by default, even when that will confuse some new users. I believe this issue has caused the Tor people
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by computer 13y ago
Disabling javascript would have prevented the exploit. The Tor browser bundle contains NoScript, but has it set to allow javascript by default. I think this is because it makes it more accessible to non-technical users. Before this issue th
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by computer 13y ago
That [title] is a weird thing to take as main message from that advisory. The Firefox exploit that was used would have worked on Linux just as well; it was simply only targeted at Windows this time. I agree that switching away from Windows
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by computer 13y ago
With WebRTC any website can make all of its users P2P streaming servers. Without those users knowing it...
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by computer 13y ago
Here's an annotated version of the code: http://pastebin.mozilla.org/2777139 It includes a hexdump of the shell code, showing it's building an HTTP request to somewhere. So it's likely identifying Tor users t
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by computer 13y ago
Then ask it when the user does something notification-inducing. If he doesn't want notifications, he can choose not to give it.
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SourceForge to add Ask toolbar to installer downloads(sourceforge.net)
3 points by computer 13y ago|0 comments
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by computer 13y ago
The raw slides are included in the article. You should consider looking at them.
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by computer 13y ago
Internal relays would never result in complaints though, since it only connects to other Tor nodes?
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by computer 13y ago
My French is not good enough to see if this is only for exit nodes, or also for internal relays? Running Tor relays is one of the reasons I use their servers...
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P vs NP: A list of conclusive mathematical proofs(win.tue.nl)
1 points by computer 13y ago|0 comments
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by computer 13y ago
Is there a specific problem with people with Indian-sounding names answering questions, or is this just casual racism?
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by computer 13y ago
As far as I know that's the expected behaviour. I also saw it in practice, although I did not study the exact distribution in much detail. The reason for this behaviour would be that you would normally use this for load balancing. You
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by computer 13y ago
Off-topic, but a fun way to take this to the next level: if you have your own domain, you can set mx records with the same priority at different services to randomly scatter your incoming mail. You can then pull them in with pop3 with your
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by computer 13y ago
For whatever I self-host, I use open source software I trust (and sometimes contribute to). For other services, I either encrypt as much as possible (i.e. encrypted storage, OTR for chat, PGP for email) and accept that anything non-encrypte
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by computer 13y ago
I too have switched my personal things and most of our company away from the US. I have helped my friends move to non-US chat services and/or use OTR. I will spend my money on secure (from snooping and the operator) encrypted services
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by computer 13y ago
> The probability that a certain person be "unethical" is independent of any other characteristic of that person. So it's innate and completely random? Social environment growing up doesn't matter? Wealth, social clas

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