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1. 91.▲
   The Debian OpenSSL Bug: Backdoor or Security Accident?(freedom-to-tinker.com)

   3 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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   Is the NSA keeping your encrypted traffic forever?(freedom-to-tinker.com)

   1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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   Groklaw Shuts Down, Citing NSA Eavesdropping(freedom-to-tinker.com)

   1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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   Regulating Bitcoin(freedom-to-tinker.com)

   2 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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   by deepblueocean 13y ago

   It's hard to talk about great C&Ds without mentioning Chilling Effects, http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi , a repository/database of many C&Ds and copyright claims, which receives copies automatical
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   by deepblueocean 13y ago

   I believe that the staffers of many elected representatives typically count the number of constituents who were agitated enough even to send a form letter. Think of it like a poll. Would you make the claim that politicians are willing to wr
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   US Navy ends dependence on capitalised communications(bbc.co.uk)

   5 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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   The Economics of Bitcoin Mining or, Bitcoin in the Presence of Adversaries(weis2013.econinfosec.org)

   1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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   by deepblueocean 13y ago

   I've always been convinced that the name is a cruel joke played on American computer scientists by their French counterparts.
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    How Consensus Drives Bitcoin(freedom-to-tinker.com)

    3 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    Indictment of Liberty Reserve, Accused of Laundering $6 Billion(justice.gov)

    2 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    I was always under the impression that the core Hangouts protocol _was_ the Wave protocol, in which case it's _already_ an open standard. What would be awfully nice is if Google (which is a category mistake - what I really mean is "the Hang
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    CALEA II: Risks of wiretap modifications to endpoints(freedom-to-tinker.com)

    2 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    Concerns Arise on U.S. Effort to Allow Internet ‘Wiretaps’(nytimes.com)

    4 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    CALEA II: Risks of Wiretap Modifications to Endpoints(cdt.org)

    2 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    After seeing "off the record" chats synced across browser sessions a few times, I became convinced that Google was storing the chat session on its servers at least temporarily. I can't help but wonder if this is just a way to remind people
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    Not only do these exist, there are significant institutional practices that exist to facilitate the sharing of detection signatures between companies and between companies and various governments. It's good to prevent the re-sharing of chil
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    Craigslist v. PadMapper: Dear Craig: Voluntarily Dismiss with Prejudice(freedom-to-tinker.com)

    1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    A good starting place to think about the CALEA system (besides, as other comments mention, looking at CALEA itself) is this paper from Matt Blaze and his students: http://www.crypto.com/blog/calea_weaknesses/ Also interesting is Steve Bel
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    Nearly all the anti-Google groups that complain to competition authorities in any country are funded (at least in part, generally almost entirely) by Microsoft. The strategy seems to be "if we faced huge costs dealing with regulatory oversi
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    I find this confusing. It's awesome, that's for sure. But it seems like lifting all the fuel needed to do a soft landing is inherently a tradeoff for less payload capacity. What is the benefit, then? Is it just so much cheaper to be able to
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    This is a common misconception, I think. If you try to model the protocol economically, it's pretty clear that it's a majority of currency holders (what the core developers call an "economic majority"), not a majority of miners that matters
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    Wow. This has been going on for an hour now. It's such a simple fix, especially since one would assume that they already have a valid cert somewhere (or that Akamai does). Yet they've had an hour of SSL downtime. Does anyone know if Bing
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    If your congressperson voted for the bill, you can express your dissatisfaction, which counts for something. This kind of thing is not the sort of issue your congressperson likely understands or even thinks about for very long - they just d
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    I found this slightly more readable: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/113-2013/h117 Call your congressperson. They do care what you think, at least a little bit, especially if you take the time to call or write their office thoughtfu
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    Software Defined Networking Academy(sdnacademy.com)

    1 points by deepblueocean 13y ago|0 comments
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    by deepblueocean 13y ago

    This reminds me very much of the TCP Evil Bit [1]. That is, it seems like the issue of whether anybody would actually set this is essential to the question of whether or not it would work. One could even imagine that governments would want
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    by deepblueocean 14y ago

    His point of view is certainly worth listening to, but Dan should know better than anyone that the fact that even he can't break something is still not an argument for (or even a suggestion of) its security.
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    by deepblueocean 14y ago

    Nah. It's bad. Here's a simple argument that covers just one part of the bill. CISPA would give a safe harbor from other privacy rules to companies that share information with the government as long as that information is about "cyber threa
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    by deepblueocean 14y ago

    So who is TechNet? It's not really fair to cherry-pick from their members when writing a story like this. So let's take a look: http://www.technet.org/leaders/member-companies/ A headline "Tech group representing AT&T, Palantir backs