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by csandreasen 11y ago
"Cursory" was perhaps the wrong word. In any case, taking down your company's network for forensic investigation is extremely costly - it's not something you'd do unless there was evidence of an intrusion. It woul
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by csandreasen 11y ago
But it doesn't absolve the attacker of any responsibility for damages caused, either.
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by csandreasen 11y ago
But he was never charged, so there was no prosecutor involved. EDIT: Now that I'm looking a little further into the case... He was apparently raided by the FBI two weeks prior to the suicide during an investigation in the TJX hack. Du
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by csandreasen 11y ago
So, Jonathan James was indicted and accepted a plea bargain in 2000 for 6 months house arrest and two years of probation. He then committed suicide 8 years later. How can you rationally come to the conclusion that his death is the prosecu
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by csandreasen 11y ago
From another article[1]: > By entering through a router in Dulles, Va., and installing a back door for access, he intercepted DTRA e-mail, 19 user names and passwords of employees, including 10 on military computers. If the security issu
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I'm sorry, which one of those contributors has a vested interest in extension of Section 215?
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> that in practice amounted to absolutely nothing, because the NSA kept doing what it wanted pretty much all the time. Did you read the article I linked to? If so, how does your statement mesh with the fact that, based on the order issu
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by csandreasen 11y ago
No, according to the article, it was issued by the Ecuadorian consul in London, who issued the document because he felt it was an emergency and he couldn't get in contact with the Ecuadorian president. The Ecuadorian president clarifie
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by csandreasen 11y ago
The comment was: > He only had to take asylum in Russia because the US revoked his passport and prevented him from going anywhere else. That implies that it's the fault of the US government that he is currently in Russia (I think it
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> The difference is that police and military have very well-defined protocols for oversight, carried out mostly in the open, with multiple authorities being involved and clear chains of responsibility. So does the NSA through both the FI
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Yes, it could be done, just like the police could go door-to-door shooting everyone they see. They have guns, after all. The military could take over the White House if a presidential candidate is elected that the Joint Chiefs of Sta
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> We really don't know how "legitimate" those descriptions of people hacking equipment in transit were. That's actually a perfect example of what I was talking about. When Greenwald initially published the short blu
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by csandreasen 11y ago
This is a myth that keeps getting repeated. The US government didn't revoke his passport leaving him stranded in Russia, they revoked his passport the day before he left Hong Kong [1]. He traveled to Russia on what turned out to be an
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by csandreasen 11y ago
It doesn't seem to be a very popular opinion on HN/Reddit/etc. I've noticed a couple other people besides myself, although casting it as hero/villain is a bit of a simplification - I think what he did was reckless
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by csandreasen 11y ago
If you're looking for keys to remap, these are prime candidates: s: synonym for cl <cr> (enter): synonym for j _: acts like ^ when given without a count, acts like <count>jk^ when given with a count <bs> (ba
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I've had the exact opposite experience (i.e. getting downvotes for saying something in defense of the government). I think political threads tend to lean in one direction pretty quickly. I usually check HN after getting home from wor
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> For one Protect America Act addresses changes in technology that neither FISA nor AUMF directly address. No, you're right; I'll concede that. Both PAA and FAA modify law established through the PATRIOT Act, but neither touch
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I'm sorry, but Jim Sensenbrenner has no room to complain. After the Section 215 warrantless wiretapping program was first revealed back in 2006, he voted for the Protect America Act[1] to legalize it. Then he helped renew it in 2008
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I actually found the Javascript 'this' keyword more understandable after working with Python. >>> class foo(): ... def test(this, x): ... print this, x ... >>> x = foo() >>> x <
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I'm curious if the author actually reached out to ask the opinion of the people he cites, or just pick and chose quotes to support his premise. The author cited the Grugq twice in the article; the Grugq's response to the article
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> And yes, one of NSA's mandates is to secure U.S. communications: No, their mandates is to secure military and national security systems. From your own link, their responsibilities with respect to information assurance are (emphas
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> there would have to be some process the result of which is the ability to decrypt any encrypted disk. Fiddling with the internals doesn't change the nature of it. Yes, that process is called allowing authorized users to access th
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> doesn't that mean that all new device manufacturers need to make everything difficult for law enforcement by default or else lose their ability to decide otherwise later? I would ask why they're specifically designing their d
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by csandreasen 11y ago
When I was typing the '#' I was thinking 'comment', not 'root shell'; in retrospect I can see how it might have been confusing, especially when my example used 'sudo'.
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> Yes he did[0]. These are Snowden's actual words on the subject[1]: "What did you report?" Williams asked. "What was the response?" "So," Snowden said, "I reported that there were -- real problem
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Cool idea. For those systems where you don't have the option of adding a 3rd party tool, it's probably worth knowing some of the standard bash shortcuts. The easy to remember ones are: !^ - the first argument from the previo
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> The so called "due process" is a joke. Whistleblowers are often ignored, harassed, lose their job, or even jailed in some cases. The US Department of Labor says otherwise: http://www.whistleblowers.gov/whistl
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I feel like we're just going back and forth with the exact same points - when the warrant used to produce something, but no longer does it poses an issue for law enforcement. In this case, it's not the suspect that made that choi
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> The vulnerability is not in how many keys you need to open a lock, the vulnerability is in requiring the same keys to open all locks. And why would you use the same keys to open all locks? Here's a quick off-the-top of my head so
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> All of the schemes that purport to do so involve a systemic risk that the master key is lost Look up 'secret sharing schemes' and 'threshold cryptosystems'. The idea that any scheme allowing law enforcement to decr

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