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by declan 12y ago
Also the officers can presumably stick it in a $19 RF-shielded pouch to avoid a remote wipe by a confederate of the arrestee.
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by declan 12y ago
Different area of the law. Deals with search incident to arrest. Unrelated to NSA litigation or surveillance authority.
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by declan 12y ago
Yep. Also the "munitions" line became false something like 17 years ago when encryption export controls moved from State to Commerce.
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by declan 12y ago
Not sure why the above comment was downvoted -- it seems to make a sensible point. (Though I don't know if I'd agree with "actively discouraged.") If I were Microsoft, I'd give significant $$$ to folks who have crea
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by declan 12y ago
The original question was: "If you traveled back in time to 1975 equipped with a modern laptop loaded with a development environment of your choice, what's the first thing you'd do?" There's a big difference between
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by declan 12y ago
> Am I the only one that finds Assange to be just an absolute self-centered ass? Can the same not be said about virtually every prominent politician or bureaucrat around the world? I spent a decade in DC and can think of precious few cas
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by declan 12y ago
Yep, but (a) that was 40 years ago, not within the last 30. and (b) that was Congress, not the courts, and (c) as you say, the effects were not as lasting as many observers thought.
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by declan 12y ago
That Lawfare post is talking about the same case I mentioned, Clapper. It was posted in 2012, half a year before the Supreme Court held in February 2013 that plaintiffs did not have standing to sue the NSA. If anything, that Lawfare post pu
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by declan 12y ago
If you're a permanent resident (a "green card" holder) you can do something more effective than merely filling out a web form or phoning a congresscritter's aides. You can donate money to help the pro-privacy politicos (
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by declan 12y ago
Quite right. When was the last time a government official was imprisoned and lost his or her pension for engaging in unconstitutional surveillance? Sure, a rank-and-file cop stalking an ex-girlfriend by looking up her whereabouts in a law e
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by declan 12y ago
> if it would be more effective if the pro-privacy and civil rights demographic would organize on a more permanent basis to call representatives rather than on an issue-by-issue basis. EFF, and to a lesser extent the ACLU, has been doing
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by declan 12y ago
>You are ignoring a few decades of history in which successful court challenges have curtailed some NSA excesses Can you list these "successful court challenges" that have taken place in open court in the last generation? Say,
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by declan 12y ago
Ryan, congrats as well! Looking forward to reading your post about how the sale happened, etc.
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by declan 12y ago
My first computer was an Apple IIe with the DuoDisk drive, supplemented soon afterward with a then-blazing-fast 1200 bps modem. The Apple-branded one that hung, kinda bizarrely, from the wall. Add an Apple mouse (I recall the hardware took
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by declan 12y ago
Like <mrfusion>, I did my own research, had my own spreadsheet of comps for the area, wrote my own personal offer letter to the seller, hired my own inspectors, and so on. The buyer's agent incorrectly said I didn't need to
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by declan 12y ago
>I'm considering building a house too. I get the feeling it would be financially better to start smaller, and then incrementally add to the house as we accrue the necessary capital to do it. I don't know anything about your per
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by declan 12y ago
These are fair points. I've met Patrick in person and used to follow patrick.net a while ago (>4 years ago), but the discussion threads appear to have gone downhill a bit. But as someone else pointed out, there are some FAQs there t
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by declan 12y ago
Folks here should check out http://patrick.net/ , run by a SF bay area programmer, for an opposing view on the necessity and desirability of Realtors(tm). In terms of the MLS, at least in California, which has the largest on
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by declan 12y ago
> There's no exercise at all: They'd get pilloried for it in the very same media Unfortunately you only get a C+ on this exercise. :) The short answer is that portions of the Espionage Act likely violate the First Amendment&#x2
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by declan 12y ago
Interesting. I like the idea of currently/today's/yesterday's news. The scores, though, are rather buggy. On the home page right now a Forbes article about Apple's headphone jack is listed twice in the top right wit
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by declan 12y ago
There's a difference between a full-featured multi-screen native-feeling app implemented in a webview with Phonegap and a wrapper around an existing web site. You can do a lot of interesting things in a webview and come, for some purpo
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by declan 12y ago
I posted a five-part response on Twitter to Marc A, which he just retweeted (it doesn't mean he agrees with me, of course, but at least is a signal that he read it): https://twitter.com/declanm/ I think @pmarca is
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by declan 12y ago
> act to make the question of suing the NYT, WaPo, etc. not as easy as you make it sound No, not "suing" the NYT, WashPost, etc. The Espionage Act is armed with felony criminal sanctions. The nuclear option would be for FedGov
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by declan 12y ago
Marc Andreessen is a smart fellow who doesn't mind saying controversial things; I often find myself agreeing with him. But I wonder here if he saying something controversial for the sake of the controversy. I especially wonder if Marc
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by declan 12y ago
If you're able to completely "solve for" the threat model of NSA/FBI/GCHQ/CIA/etc. having a serious and persistent interest in you, and knowing where you sleep at night, my hat's off to you. Few peopl
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by declan 12y ago
This is great news. Kudos to the ACLU. And I'm happy to say it came about as a result of a note I posted on Twitter in January: https://twitter.com/declanm/status/429292173083688960 https://twitter
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by declan 12y ago
You're right. In retrospect I was a little too suspicious, and <1345>'s subsequent comment was perfectly fair.
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by declan 12y ago
It would be useful to have someone from Google elaborate on the summary they posted today. But I do recall that at least one of Prof. Boneh's postdocs mentioned in the original 2009 SJCL whitepaper is now at Google working on encryptio
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by declan 12y ago
It's possible, but from my conversations with Google engineers in the past I'd guess (with no inside knowledge) that it was the result of a serious security evaluation of existing code. Especially post-Snowden, Google is taking th
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by declan 12y ago
Google's posting today addresses this point, I think: https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/ "When we started work on End-To-End, there was no JavaScript crypto library that met our needs, so we built our

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