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by csandreasen 13y ago
I think this is less a story of the NSA/GCHQ getting caught with their pants down than it is Google and Yahoo getting caught. According to yesterday's leaks, Google and Yahoo were (and continue to in Yahoo's case) sending cu
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by csandreasen 13y ago
I get the feeling I'm going to take a karma hit for this, but here goes... By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans. Th
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by csandreasen 13y ago
It's VERY lengthy, but the entire House Intelligence Committee hearing was public and the video is available on C-SPAN's website. http://www.c-span.org/Events/Intel-Officials-Discuss-Propose...
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by csandreasen 13y ago
True or not, it's an interesting attack vector. Makes me wonder (again, assuming this is real) if it was designed that way or perhaps the manufacturer was compromised/firmware modified (although why would an iron need firmware?).
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by csandreasen 13y ago
I have the same comic posted over my desk. I've wondered in the past why the author didn't bother including the cases of 6 hours/day or 1 day/week saved, although I'll admit I have yet to accomplish anything that im
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by csandreasen 13y ago
The opinion is rather dense and I don't expect everyone will take the time to read it. In the interest of promoting discussion, here's what Ars Technica said: "The government’s response (PDF), filed on September 30th, is a h
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by csandreasen 13y ago
There are whole bunch of things you can do to mitigate the risk, and whole bunch of other variables regarding the network environment that you're setting it up in. The network behind that NAT might be compromised, and depending on the
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by csandreasen 13y ago
> 1. When you set up your computer, connect it to the Internet as little as possible. It's impossible to completely avoid connecting the computer to the Internet, but try to configure it all at once and as anonymously as possible. T
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by csandreasen 13y ago
There is no secret court involved in this case. The initial case was overseen by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and is currently in appeals at the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals [1]. The Foreign Intelligence Surv
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by csandreasen 13y ago
Link to the complete 22-minute interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moGtQFvsVU
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by csandreasen 13y ago
I didn't see mention anywhere in the article regarding why the police releases the mugshots - I'm told by people working in legal professions that it's actually a means of ensuring that the police aren't overstepping the
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by csandreasen 13y ago
My apologies for not getting back to you two days ago when I originally said I would - a close family member was in car accident and that took precedence over commenting on HN. That said, here's the response I promised: You bring up a
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by csandreasen 13y ago
The commenter you cite certainly doesn't articulate it very well - his comment is pretty knee-jerk with a healthy dose of fear mongering. There is a reasonable argument buried in there, though (I think). From a civil liberties point
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by csandreasen 13y ago
The NSA is not a law-enforcement agency. Unless we find credible evidence otherwise, I'm going to continue operating under the assumption that there is no click-here-to-send-this-person-to-jail button at the NSA. To be handed a jail
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by csandreasen 13y ago
I agree - securing one's privacy is an incredibly important problem. That said, none of the leaks show any technology that wasn't publicly known beforehand (e.g.: packet sniffing, man-in-the-middle attacks, stored personal record
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by csandreasen 13y ago
In another context jonnybgood might instead be called a "skeptic" or perhaps even "capable of applying critical thinking skills" rather than dismissed as a "shill". Instead of mocking him for not paying attent
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by csandreasen 13y ago
What I'm quoting is not an operations manual, it's the executive summary of the 1st quarter 2012 intelligence oversight report from NSA's internal oversight and compliance section. According to that document, NSA considers it
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by csandreasen 13y ago
No, they're not allowed to target foreigners inside the US. Spies inside the US fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI. See page of the leaked incidents report [1] on page 6 where it talks about the types of incidents, specifically:
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by csandreasen 13y ago
Not necessarily - it could also mean 2,776 database searches returning just over an average 20 communications per violation. (Correct me if my math is wrong) (2,776 violations per year) / (.00001156666667 violations per search) = 240,
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by csandreasen 13y ago
Wouldn't any algorithmic queries ultimately also be initiated by a human? Unless we're dealing Skynet, some human or group of humans would have had to come up with the question time consuming enough to require automated analysis,
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by csandreasen 13y ago
From the article: "According to the documents leaked by Edward Snowden, on one occasion when the Americans were breaking into UN communications, they discovered the Chinese had tried to do the same."
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by csandreasen 13y ago
To begin with, this article makes its argument that the NSA is involved with the Kim Dotcom situation based on two flawed arguments: 1) The use of the term "selectors" implies the use of PRISM because PRISM uses the term "sel
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by csandreasen 15y ago
If it's just the choice of language that's the issue, try wmii. The default config is written in Bourne shell, but all of the actual interaction between the config and the wm is done through a plan9-style api, so you can configure it in an
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by csandreasen 16y ago
This brings to mind the X session management protocol ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_session_manager ) that never seemed to be used be in modern Linux applications. Issues that others brought up regarding memory consumption could be addr