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571.
by devx 13y ago
I wish Obama's Nobel Peace Prize would be retracted. He never deserved it, and he deserves it now less than ever. It would send a strong message that you can't just bullshit your way into the presidential office of the world'
572.
by devx 13y ago
Not to mention many of the ones he calls "libertarians", probably never were actual libertarians, but were just paying lip service to it, or were libertarians, and became corrupted down the road, and instead of caring about every
573.
by devx 13y ago
They should hire him in the Android team.
574.
by devx 13y ago
I think Tox.im uses NaCl, too, but it's for PC only right now (it's new).
575.
by devx 13y ago
The right thing would be to convince Assad to offer a truce, step down, and allow a democratic election to happen. He'd have to be given protection, too, otherwise he'd never agree to stop, because he'd fear too much for his
576.
by devx 13y ago
You know where there is a lot money to be saved - much more than from food stamps and whatnot? The "defense"/war budget and the home police state. You could save literally hundreds of billions of dollars - every year - an
577.
by devx 13y ago
Miranda didn't wipe his hard drive after meeting with Laura Poitras because...?! It might've been safer to use Retroshare or Bittorent Sync or some other means of encrypted file sharing (with the files encrypted themselves, too).
578.
by devx 13y ago
Then don't do stupid stuff. This is what pisses me off about Obama's policy regarding stuff like this, and deciding to protect the people doing the wrong stuff, and prosecuting the people who expose them instead. I don't know
579.
by devx 13y ago
Probably more than I'd believe a politician directly.
580.
by devx 13y ago
I think volatility is more of a short-term/medium term problem, due to the fact that each new Bitcoin user can have a pretty large impact on the value of the Bitcoin, and it's still early days. But I also think deflation may prese
581.
by devx 13y ago
That's Retroshare. It's also the only one as far as I know that has P2P "e-mail", too (besides Bitmessage, which is still quite new and unproven).
582.
by devx 13y ago
But this is what we're talking about here. Those "orders" give them almost unrestricted access to everything they want - for mass spying . All thanks to the so called general "warrants" from FISA. Does that make yo
583.
by devx 13y ago
Jitsi also uses ZRTP for audio and video on the desktop, and there's RedPhone on Android and Silent Eyes (Silent Circle) for both Android and iOS. There are probably a few others, too. I'm not sure if it can be used with WebRTC cl
584.
by devx 13y ago
NSA is on a power trip. They've changed even the relevance of the word "relevant", in their justification for spying on everyone. They'll be using any justification to further their goals, no matter how crazy it sounds.
585.
by devx 13y ago
I'm not sure I would go as far as saying it's impossible to have private communications on the Internet. It's impossible right now for the masses , because they've decided they can trust these 3rd parties. So we n
586.
by devx 13y ago
They didn't really backtrack. Maybe on some kind of semantic definition of "direct access", but not on the whole thing. They even wrote later from new leaks, how Microsoft was having a "team play" with the NSA to gi
587.
by devx 13y ago
I'm sure it was very tough for them, but this is why I wanted the tech companies to be allied against mass surveillance or censorship in all countries (if they thought getting revealed to the public would cause them to lose customers
588.
by devx 13y ago
Well it's obviously both . Why are they fighting against it now and not before? Because they fear losing customers. So how do they win or keep the customers? With "PR battles" such as these. I'm sure they want to win
589.
by devx 13y ago
I hope these companies aren't delusional enough to think that even if they win this one, and are allowed to say how many NSL's they receive, they would score some kind of "big win" with us, the public. This will barely r
590.
by devx 13y ago
"Consolidated Cryptologic Program has 35,000 employees working to defeat enemy crypto." Yeah, "enemies" such as Miranda.
591.
by devx 13y ago
I'm disappointed in how Greenwald planned the whole thing. Did he really not expect this to happen - especially in UK? Why didn't he have Miranda delete the files as soon as he gave them to Laura Poitras or whatever he did with th
592.
by devx 13y ago
I don't think it even got a ruling from a Federal Court yet, because the feds kept playing legal games, and got away with dismissing the cases. But I think it's been declared unconstitutional at least 3 times by normal Courts. ht
593.
by devx 13y ago
I've seen phones claim "4 weeks of standby" in the early 2000's too. They don't actually last that long. The test is most likely done on some "absolute minimum usage". But it can probably last you about a
594.
by devx 13y ago
Browser vendors (which seem to coincide with many of these tech companies involved) can also use certificate pinning: http://tack.io/ Or we can all start to use something like this (both projects are from Moxie Marlinspike)
595.
by devx 13y ago
If only, but I just don't see companies like Google, Microsoft or Facebook implementing end-to-end encryption like OTR, ZRTP and PGP for their services, and even if they do, I'm not even sure I'd trust them not to implement a
596.
by devx 13y ago
That's why the government is paying the companies to access the data. So it's much easier for companies to just comply with the order. The carrot and the stick.
597.
by devx 13y ago
I find it a little absurd that this even needs to be said. As long as we're still humans, we'll always want private communications . Always. Even if US and all of the world's "democracies" turn into totalitarian su
598.
by devx 13y ago
It seems OpenBTS only works for 2G. Hopefully Bellard will open source his LTE base station software in a few years, to accelerate the rise of such networks all over the world: http://bellard.org/lte/
599.
by devx 13y ago
Well, if it makes you feel any better, the iPhone will feel forever ruined for the post's author, since it's doesn't hit that "perfect" 3.5" screen size for one-handed use anymore.
600.
by devx 13y ago
I think he's the same guy who tried to raise money on IndieGoGo for it. He didn't achieve the goal, but he did it anyway: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/community-cell-phone/

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