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EFF Files FOIA Suit Over U.S. Marshals’ Cell-Tracking Spy Planes(eff.org)
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EFF Files Petitions to Protect Your Rights to Tinker, Repair, and Remix(eff.org)
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by declan 12y ago
This is well-known, I think, in economic circles. If you want another, arguably more accurate measure based on the government's previous (pre-1995) methodology, check out Shadowstats.com: http://www.shadowstats.com/alte
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by declan 12y ago
On a related note, I submitted this article with an HTTPS URL and HN parsed it as a blank page (but http obviously worked). You can see that blank page here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8982899 My guess is that HN
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19.5% of HTTPS sites trigger browser warnings because of SHA-1 certificates(elie.net)
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by declan 12y ago
I could just as easily write: "It's worth remembering that one disadvantage left-side politics have is that they are defending the status quo, and mounting such a defense is trench warfare, not a campaign that captures the hearts
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EFF Wins Battle Over Secret Legal Opinions on Government Spying(eff.org)
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by declan 12y ago
Because the correspondence comes: (a) in the form of a valid court order hand-delivered to and served on your CEO at his home at 6am by two very grim federal agents who don't really like getting up this early, or (b) if you're rep
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by declan 12y ago
This could happen in the U.S. as well. Our esteemed politicians and federal police have proposed a new law with exactly the same approach. I disclosed some of these efforts in this 2012 article: "The FBI general counsel's office
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by declan 12y ago
>Blackberry is asking for recognition that they can not compete in their own industry. If Blackberry merely wanted "recognition that they can not compete," they could put out a press release. Anytime you write a letter to Congr
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by declan 12y ago
Apple develops iMessage, and gives it away for free on iOS, as a way to make its own platforms more attractive. Let's say this hypothetical "API neutrality" proposal were to go through -- note the actual letter from Blackberr
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by declan 12y ago
Well, his actual letter doesn't mention the phrase "API," so reading such a request into it seems like a stretch: http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/01/blackberry-net-neutralit...
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by declan 12y ago
I did read the letter and his position is extreme: the BBC captured it accurately. Anytime you write a letter to Congress that includes the phrase "must be mandated" -- as Blackberry's CEO did -- it's abundantly clear yo
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by declan 12y ago
Exactly right. I noticed this many times when living in DC. There's even a study that puts numbers on the ROI for politician-purchasing: "In a recent study, researchers Raquel Alexander and Susan Scholz calculated the total amoun
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by declan 12y ago
As a fellow driving enthusiast, I agree. When shopping for my last car, the manufacturer's outgoing model had a sport exhaust setting but did not pipe exhaust noise into the cabin. The incoming model did. (Note this is an actual mechan
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by declan 12y ago
I didn't say "someone needs to be fired" -- that's a paraphrase of what I typed, not a quote. My point is a broader one: When you have committees and subcommittees and working groups and HHS IT people and CMS IT people a
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by declan 12y ago
I love the idea of a real-world map/reduce job. :) But before spending any time on this, please make sure it's the right PDF. It does mention Healthcare.gov, but only a few times, and I'm no expert on HHS organizational struc
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by declan 12y ago
An additional problem, as I see it, is that the Obama administration made unambiguous assurances that no PII was being collected as part of Healthcare.gov's use of web measurement tools. Here's the excerpt from the privacy policy:
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by declan 12y ago
> rush of getting the site out and stabilized. I agree that there's no evidence, at least not yet, of malicious intent. But remember that the "rush of getting the site out" took place back in 2012-2013, with a launch in 2
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by declan 12y ago
This might work: "U.S. judges propose updating warrants for Tor, remote searches: p338 (2014)" It captures that the source of these recommendations is a judicial conference of federal judges, not the FBI, and that it's dated
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by declan 12y ago
Yep, as <slapshot> says, the HN headline is in error and should be changed. At the very least the word "automatic" should be deleted. It incorrectly implies lack of discretion on the part of the magistrate judge. Now, perhap
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by declan 12y ago
It's a print-world legacy style. It is, to a first approximation, when that issue of the New Yorker will be replaced on the newsstands by the next one.
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by declan 12y ago
There's a reason I linked to the general page of the bill (in addition to making it clear Biden introduced it in the Senate). That's because Thomas generates temporary URLs; yours no longer works.
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by declan 12y ago
To see the full quote, click on the loc.gov linked URL to Biden's bill, then "text of legislation," then "printer friendly." You'll see this text: "It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic
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Biden: Encryption should “permit the government to obtain the plain text” (1991)(thomas.loc.gov)
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by declan 12y ago
Briefly: There has been plenty of misreporting about PRISM. I tried to correct some of that in 2013 here: http://www.cnet.com/news/no-evidence-of-nsas-direct-access-t... (Note the Washington Post backed away from their
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by declan 12y ago
<ipsin>: Thanks for your kind words! I've felt the urge to restart/resume the Politech mailing list a few times in the last few years but haven't been able to dedicate the time such an effort deserves. Also it works bet
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by declan 12y ago
There are too many questions here crossing too many areas of the law to answer in an HN comment; some of the language you're using includes legal terms of art where the meaning is not necessarily intuitive. A blog post would be more su
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by declan 12y ago
This is the big one. The late Peter Junger, who brought this case, was a principled civil libertarian and law professor who deserves to be remembered for dealing the final blow to the federal government's anti-encryption regime. He was
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by declan 12y ago
Nope. I think the opposite, in fact. But it's late in the SF area, and it's time for me to go to sleep. Happy to resume this in the morning.

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