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by dan_bk 12y ago
My question mark is: Would you outsource all this sensitive data about your business like this? (Personally, I'd be too scared to do it.)
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How the NSA Could Bug Your Powered-Off iPhone, and How to Stop Them(wired.com)
3 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
That argument doesn't work, b/c: You can always "create jobs" by lowering the salary. As others have noted, it simply results in people becoming dependent on social benefits (and this bill ends up being footed by the tax
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> A councillor who supported the push said the vote "sends a message heard around the world". Probably the most important aspect here. Don't get ripped off.
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Seattle votes for $15 minimum wage(bbc.com)
53 points by dan_bk 12y ago|111 comments
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Quantifying Privacy: A Week of Location Data May Be an ‘Unreasonable Search’(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> So I guess we should start preparing for the Civil War. Preparations which then will be used to reinforce the "justification" of mass surveillance by the gov't.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Sometimes, it all falls onto one man I suppose you're looking for this type of system [0]. Switzerland is a proud and well-known defender of it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy
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by dan_bk 12y ago
They don't release their data to the public because this would cancel the asymmetry that they are aiming to increase. Asymmetry in information or money is the definition of power.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> “We would not be doing our job if we didn’t seek ways to continuously improve the precision of signals intelligence activities [...]” said Vanee M. Vines, the agency spokeswoman. Which leads directly to the annihilation of any form of
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> With drones, the cost of air surveillance drops to a whole other level. A level that almost allows for mass surveillance. If you remember, a few months ago, the reports of the surveillance planes being able to cover a whole city (by ju
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Quantum phenomenon shown in $15m D-Wave computer(bbc.com)
5 points by dan_bk 12y ago|1 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
55% - that's frighteningly low, for a developed country.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Sounds like what happened to LavaBit (some sort of gov't pressure).
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John Kerry tells fugitive Edward Snowden to 'man up'(bbc.com)
1 points by dan_bk 12y ago|1 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> Looking at these, it's clear why native is beating the web right now in mobile. Another point: Extreme amounts of money (commercial interests) are pushing closed ecosystems.
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Citizens of the EU, remember to vote today(bbc.com)
3 points by dan_bk 12y ago|0 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> I dropped Google Analytics, Google CDN, and Google Web Fonts. This is for ATIA Web Space. But moreover, I dropped Google Search as the-go-to search engine. Need alternatives to each of those? https://prism-break.org/en&
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Get a government that cares about their people (mental health care for everybody who needs it & a solid social security net) and these kind of stories should become very rare.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> So what now? On the political level, the meta problem causing most of other problems is money. Take money out of politics. No political advertising allowed, no "donations", no lobbying. 1 official website (or print brochure)
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> there must be something really wrong with US He's talking about declining math levels in schools, right?
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> secured by policy, not by technology I'd say the goal can only be to maximize both, because no single factor will ever give you the best solution. And their strategic positioning certainly also benefits from this move.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Well, it remains legal to download music and movies in Switzerland (PirateBay & Co), so there's that.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
And I fail to see how that damage can ever be undone. This sort of trust is lost only once.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
If such watered down "solutions" are what we get for just about the most arcane form of surveillance (phone calls), then what are the "solutions" for electronic surveillance (where the real surveillance happens) going to
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WikiLeaks to reveal 2nd country where NSA is recording all mobile phone calls(scmp.com)
6 points by dan_bk 12y ago|1 comments
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by dan_bk 12y ago
> as the uproar in Switzerland would be huge. Maybe, but Switzerland is a very small country and it's not even part of the EU, which makes it easier for the US gov't to do whatever they want in that country. So, while they woul
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Could come in handy with the attack on their banks.
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by dan_bk 12y ago
Start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures...
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by dan_bk 12y ago
I like jokes, but our children will have nothing to laugh if we don't stop what's going on.

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