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by devx 13y ago
> - Re-training the (I assume) 100,000+ users? Whatever it was, it was well worth it since in the future everyone will use open source software. What's the alternative? Keep paying more for Office software every year, while riskin
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder if Windows Phone will soon have TPM 2.0, too: http://investmentwatchblog.com/leaked-german-government-warn...
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German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA(investmentwatchblog.com)
139 points by devx 13y ago|45 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Intel will be in a lot of trouble soon (within 2-3 years). Forget the Core line chips. That's irrelevant. It will remain a cash cow for the next few years, but a rapidly shrinking cash cow nonetheless. They'll move upmarket with t
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by devx 13y ago
This article seems very pro-government's side of the story.
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by devx 13y ago
With 90 percent of it redacted? Hopefully it won't be. Also, if we finally have proof for such extensive unconstitutionality - can we start impeaching members of the government already, starting from the high-est level and down? Oh,
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by devx 13y ago
> 2. Communication and publication can’t be censored. Wikileaks, the Arab Spring, and Snowden’s revelations all depend on governments being unable to prevent mass dissemination of information. I'm a little scared that if things are
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by devx 13y ago
They got caught spying illegally. Solution: try to make it legal.
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by devx 13y ago
So what it's a different organization? The army is not Ku Klux Klan or the mafia, is it?
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WikiLeaks: Govts attacks on media ‘signalling rise of fascism in UK, US'(rt.com)
10 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
He's not going to do that. He knows it's unconstitutional. What you're saying is kind of like saying: "Look, torture works , and we're doing it anyway - therefore let's just do it with medical oversight to ens
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Stuxnet Leaks Came From Administration Itself(techdirt.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
They should be sued for this. The only reason the request for so much data is "unreasonable", is because the very collection of it is so unreasonable. If they went through the trouble of collecting so much of it, then they bette
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by devx 13y ago
Why even bother with S/MIME? How long until the government corrupts the certificate for it if Mailpipe becomes as important to them as Lavabit was, in the future? And I hope their PGP implementation is really user-friendly. This soun
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by devx 13y ago
I agree it's primarily a political fight, but I think we should work on both. But it's true that with absolute government power where they can justify anything, and with so many partner countries willing to play along with them -
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by devx 13y ago
"A Home Office spokesperson said: "The government and the police have a duty to protect the public and our national security." It's starting to really piss me off how these governments think they can do anything as long
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Still wondering why we need a stateless media entity like WikiLeaks?(gigaom.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Can Micro-USB support USB 3.0 speeds?
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by devx 13y ago
The Internet makes it much harder to abuse the people and government powers. Go figure.
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by devx 13y ago
Even with what they admitted I think it was said they search more than Google. If this 10x story is true, then it makes it all the more true.
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by devx 13y ago
Retroshare kind of works like that, and it keeps the messages within your trusted network of friends. I think they have some articles about it here: https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/ Bitmessage is also similar but sends
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by devx 13y ago
Or you do send them, because it costs so little, and the hyperloop will be mainly self-powered, instead of having them wait half an hour for others to take the ride with them.
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Who Will Take The Privacy Seppuku Pledge?(techdirt.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Doesn't anyone else think having the company with 90 percent market share in PCs charge for access their OS this way, is a little insane? How did the anti-trust committee miss this one a decade ago?
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by devx 13y ago
Leaking is also the future of investigative journalism. Investigative journalism already relies heavily on leaking, but I'm talking about "user-generated" leaking or Leaking 2.0 (as in Web 2.0). Even if the print media dies,
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Major Improvements Newer Linux Kernels Could Bring to Android 5.0(techdomino.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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Lies, Damned Lies, And The NSA(techcrunch.com)
8 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I'm kind of surprised they didn't do that already. So they were holding our data in plaintext before? Now that should be the news here. As for the author talking about PRISM, it makes no sense here, because this wouldn't af
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by devx 13y ago
What happened to that software-based LTE station thing for PC's of his?
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Intelligence Agencies Running Mass Number of Propaganda Accounts on Social Media(politicalblindspot.com)
5 points by devx 13y ago|1 comments

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