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by declan 13y ago
Yep, part of the 2002 law creating the Department of Homeland Security. (I still forget on occasion myself.)
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by declan 13y ago
DHS typically takes the lead on money laundering investigations. To unpack the acronyms: that would be HSI, part of ICE, which in turn is part of DHS.
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by declan 13y ago
Actually DHS takes the lead on money laundering investigations. That would be ICE, part of DHS. And remember that the Secret Service is also part of DHS. But DHS/ICE/HSI's mandate is so broad it's difficult to know what they're targeting he
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by declan 13y ago
A Department of Homeland Security representative confirmed the investigation a few minutes ago and told me this: "In order not to compromise this ongoing investigation being conducted by ICE Homeland Security Investigations Baltimore, we ca
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DHS confirms investigation that led to Dwolla cutting off transfers to Mt. Gox(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
What personal data did he "steal" and "release?" My memory may be wrong, but I recall Auernheimer downloaded about ~115K email addresses from a non-password protected portion of AT&T's web site and provided them to Gawker. This may be m
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Boston judge limits access to Aaron Swartz court records(news.cnet.com)
1 points by declan 13y ago|0 comments
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Apple deluged by police demands to decrypt iPhones, court docs show(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
I like your division into Type 1 and Type 2 criticisms. I think you're right about the fellowship demonstrating that university is another option (at least for some people). When I asked Peter about his 20 under 20 program, here's what he t
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Democratic senator demands DOJ, FBI seek warrants to read e-mail(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
I remember writing about Hushmail for Wired over 13 years ago ( http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2000/03/34610?curren... ). Don't you think technology has advanced a tiny bit since then? I'm thinking of Ajax, CSS, XHTML, XMLHttpReque
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by declan 13y ago
Don't you mean: "Google would never add encryption for stored messages to unpaid Gmail accounts." Why would it necessarily be an "atrocious" business decision to charge extra for encrypted accounts? Google's happy to charge when the marke
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by declan 13y ago
This point has been debated for quite a while: entire conferences have been held on this topic! Perhaps 20 years ago you would have found plenty of people who agree with you. But the emerging legal consensus, in academia, in Congress, and i
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by declan 13y ago
Yep. SSL is now viewed as a good best practice for data in transit, to the point that Apple was criticized for not enabling it for the App Store ( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57573334-37/ ). But the real issue, as you indicate, is sto
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DOJ: We don't need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats(news.cnet.com)
179 points by declan 13y ago|134 comments
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Internet tax bill targets apps, music, movies, all downloads(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 13y ago
Twitter essentially created a Hippocratic Oath for patent usage (that is, for its employees who are developers concerned about unethical offensive use of software patents): https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-innovators-patent-... T
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U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance(news.cnet.com)
11 points by declan 14y ago|1 comments
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by declan 14y ago
Please don't interject facts into this discussion! This is Hacker News, where we should just say what we THINK might be correct, or should be correct, without having any actual knowledge of the subject. That's what real hackers do, right? B
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by declan 14y ago
The short answer is that because you didn't resolve this in advance, the split is whatever you two agree is reasonable. The longer answer is that this is why it's good to have equity splits, vesting, and IP assignments in writing, typically
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CISPA permits police to do warrantless database searches(news.cnet.com)
6 points by declan 14y ago|0 comments
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CISPA vote means companies can't offer legally-binding privacy promises(news.cnet.com)
1 points by declan 14y ago|0 comments
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by declan 14y ago
Unfortunately this high school civics version of the U.S. criminal justice system is not accurate. "Mens rea" comes from the traditional common law, which is now increasingly divorced from actual federal criminal statutory law. An increasin
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IRS chief: We'll rewrite our e-mail search policy(news.cnet.com)
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by declan 14y ago
I suspect you may not know the way tenure works, especially at a public institution.
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by declan 14y ago
Could this be where pleasant political theory meets cold hard reality?
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by declan 14y ago
ebbv: You're right that you can't learn everything about legislation by reading it in isolation. You generally need to read it side-by-side with the law it's amending. You need to read any amendments, and the rejected amendments. You need t
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by declan 14y ago
I disagree: I think ebbv's analogy is fair, and talking about CISPA (designed to encourage .com->.gov/.mil data flows) as akin to the Patriot Act (designed to increase .com->.gov data flows) and FISA (designed to regulate .com->
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by declan 14y ago
This is a continuation of our disagreement above, I know, but if you have an entity that has advanced problematic proposals multiple times when it comes to regulating technology -- and at times demonstrated a near-complete lack of understan
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by declan 14y ago
tptacek: Two points. First, if an employee has a history of writing bad code, you may scrutinize their efforts more closely in the future. Same with Congress. I was making a historical point for context that based on rdl's mention below. Se

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