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by dan_bk 13y ago
Does Linode automatically check for, detect and replace faulty hardware? Or is this something you have to explicitly ask them to carry out?
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> I'm sure that in situations where they're confident they're the only ones with the knowledge, they'll still hold off on releasing anything. How can they be sure? They simply can't. And this means they're p
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by dan_bk 13y ago
The logic is really not that hard: Open source software benefits the entire society/humanity. Therefor, it (or at least the most critical components, such as OpenSSL) should be funded by all governments in an internationally coordinate
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by dan_bk 13y ago
The thing is, corporate operating systems such as Windows and iOS can certainly not be trusted more than open-source code. I'd say even less. So Debian being owned would be really bad.
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> blind mass-surveillance is a thing of the past. Don't forget the fact that the NSA is everywhere, can intercept and store everything and is above the law (or at least: above the law as it should be (or be interpreted)). Germany st
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by dan_bk 13y ago
I would never trust any of the "data-hoovering" companies to actually really delete all of your data, even if they say so. (And in the case of Skype, it's terribly obvious that they want to prevent you from deleting data. In
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by dan_bk 13y ago
"We could have been more sceptical of NSA's intentions," RSA Chief Technologist Sam Curry told Reuters. "We trusted them because they are charged with security for the U.S. government and U.S. critical infrastructure.&q
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Turkey hijacks servers in social media crackdown(bbc.com)
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Attempt to cut off illegal websites' advertising revenue(bbc.com)
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'A' for Angela Merkel: GCHQ and NSA Targeted Private German Companies(spiegel.de)
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by dan_bk 13y ago
So basically it can be summed up as local client software that uses external storage?
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> * Are there any similar attempts we can contribute to or borrow ideas from instead of implementing something on our own? RetroShare could be used as a platform for this, given that it's: - 100% Decentralized - Public key encrypted
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> these journalists argue that these revelations are unjustified, even treasonous, because this is the type of spying the NSA should be doing No, the NSA should NOT be doing this. It's not done to prevent any attacks on the US, it&#
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by dan_bk 13y ago
What you need is a standing desk that adopts to YOU, not the other way round. Here's the one I have been using for approx. 2 years now and I can tell you I will NEVER go back to a sitting-only desk: http://www.ergotron.com&#
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> NSA workers not only succeeded in accessing the email archive, but also the secret source code of individual Huwaei products. Software source code is the holy grail of computer companies. We need to open-source everything (soft/ha
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by dan_bk 13y ago
Every new big player means "more eyes" on the code. And bugs get rooted out quicker. In the case of proprietary software, every new big player means "more social lock in effect".
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by dan_bk 13y ago
Simply disgusting.
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> As soon as you do anything they deem suspicious they might find you downloaded strange foot fetish porn At least long term, it's more like: As soon as you are a political opponent ... (Thinking back, General Petraeus' fata
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> We can and must demand free verifiably-secure hardware and software I agree 100%. Open source software + hardware + FIRMWARE must be part of any long-term solution. "Long-term" because short-term, governments won't let
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> There you go! Track all the phone users, and anyone who doesn't have one, and is therefore untracked, is probably a terrorist! This is how I would scare people if I were paid by the NSA.
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by dan_bk 13y ago
There is really only 1 solution to this: Put your mobile phone permanently in flight mode and go back to relying on landlines/email. The alternative choice to this is accepting the fact that "GCHQ now wants to turn the mobile web
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MISSING MH370: 'Plane flew low to avoid radar'(nst.com.my)
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by dan_bk 13y ago
The fact that inequal distribution of wealth is still a reality we accept in our time is really mind-boggling. Even more so given the fact that it's 1 of the main reasons for a likely future collapse of our civilization. (We still don&
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by dan_bk 13y ago
We're totally anti-surveillance, and that's why we let a bunch of companies track you around the Web, here's the list of requests (potentially tracking you) made behind your back: optimizely.com googleapis.com amazonaws.com h
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by dan_bk 13y ago
> In the US, however, it’s like being in the 70’s in Denmark. In a country, where the NSA supposedly reads all my email, knows how much money I make, what I ate for breakfast and what color underwear I prefer, I cannot report electronica
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Inside the Pentagon’s $59 Billion ‘Black Budget’(thedailybeast.com)
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