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by ds9 13y ago
In addition to those effects, there is more spending, which indirectly boosts the economy. At first glance one might think, the recipient now has more to spend, but that amount is taken from others, so it's a break-even. But in fact, t
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Mostly I agree except for the statement "Privacy advocates are beginning to sound like copyright advocates, demanding that the universe continue providing for them in the manner to which they have grown accustomed". Some copyright
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So according to you, if people can still communicate secretly by meeting in person and whispering in a forest or such, then it's no impairment of their rights to destroy their ability to do the equivalent with electronics. Kinda like B
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abalone : "The problem here is Lavabit was specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals ... And this is why the government resorted to threatening to seize the keys and trying to impersonate the service." Som
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We all recognize the importance of fire safety, but there is no excuse for the design of smoke and CO detectors to be so painfully obnoxious. If it motivates homeowners to disable them, it is a bad design, isn't this obvious? When one
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by ds9 13y ago
This situation exemplifies a type of conundrum: conditions or goals X and Y are incompatible; they cannot coexist. Persons A and B observe this fact, and A concludes "Therefore X must be sacrificed to protect Y" and B concludes &q
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by ds9 13y ago
That would be the dystopian outcome if the sites and browsers together diverged from open standards and started forcing DRM on everyone. What this standard actually specifies however, is only that the browser will respond to a certain tag b
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by ds9 13y ago
The device intercepts a copy of the whole datastream and then sorts thru it. This is sufficient to monitor all the users if the connection is unencrypted, or if the Feds can MITM it with help from a CA. If PFS or a private cert setup is in
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In the particular case where the business subject to the orders is trying to provide privacy or secure communications services, the secret orders to enable spying on all the users also violates the 5th amendment. In such a case, the order c
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The user is vulnerable, not only to "malware" but also to the phone vendor (and anyone the vendor enables, notably government). The degree of control one can attain over a phone or tablet is much less than on a general-purpose PC
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"I'd like to see how this seriously loaded ($90MM) guy progresses through the justice system" It won't help him if the US can seize the money - they do so whenever possible, to prevent defendants from affording a compete
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Different issue. It is definitely best practice to use a long passphrase to protect every secret key, this is off topic. What I meant was, you connect to the SSH server and authenticate cryptographically (use passphrase locally when prompte
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Not just "scanning emails for the purposes of advertising", but scanning the emails of people who are not Google customers and have never agreed to Google terms. That is the only point in contention.
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In case anyone ever wonders why "disable password logins" is commonly used as a synonym for "use keys", it's because of the config file and the way SSH for Linux works. If you enable both passwords and keys, then e
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Proposed changes to WHOIS system called 'extremely disquieting'(csoonline.com)
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I think what stygianguest meant was that values worthy of respect are not specific in their applicability according to the nationality of the agent. For example, if a Russian spy in the NSA revealed some documents, or if a US spy in Pakista
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by ds9 13y ago
Group "A" snipes a soldier in Iraq. Group "B" fires a rocket in Afghanistan. Group "C" spreads anti-US propaganda in ME. Some of these claim to be "al quaeda", others are labeled as such by generals o
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by ds9 13y ago
How about, various groups acting independently for their own various reasons, and some of them sometimes claiming the name, and others having it attributed to them?
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Is there any way to be sure that "al quaeda" is anything more than an imaginary bogey-man trumped up by the State department as a pretext for wars? I mean, clearly there are various parties doing bombings, etc. in the middle east,
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by ds9 13y ago
I wish I could mod up because fennecfoxen has succinctly stated the crucial point. We really don't even need the NSA shut down, or for it to stop the mass surveillance, in order to have secure and confidential communications. Mass wire
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by ds9 13y ago
The WoT concept is flawed but it is the lesser evil. Also it is not the critic's place to dictate what standard of assurance anyone else should accept. All schemes to verify identification of an entity with a key are probabilistic and
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by ds9 13y ago
The USG actually started on its electronic surveillance career in the 1860s, when Lincoln approved routing all the telegraph connections thru the office of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton [1]. The first electronic (?) MITM, maybe. 1. http:&
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by ds9 13y ago
This is very close to reality. Looking at tech news today, just after this story, my next tab was a report on businessinsider.com [1] that Google is now making bonuses partly dependent on the success of Google's social netowrk effort -
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by ds9 13y ago
Affirming both your experience and the parent poster's. The worst place I worked, in terms of these factors, had cubicles with an open side behind the employee, all kinds of employees side by side, and a high-traffic aisle on the ope
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by ds9 13y ago
Well said. I think part of the problem is that the people who specify the office conditions just have no idea of what conditions are best for productivity of software developers or engineers, or the importance of factors like noise, or eve
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The modern equivalent, of course, is big monitors and maybe more than one. It would also be nice to have some height on them - whoever decided that the computer industry must conform to Hollywood entertainment standards has a lot to answer
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He seems a little crazy, actually. From the sketchy description it might be some new protocol on top of TCP/IP. One must be wary of such ideas, because the idea of "security" might be control by a central authority and forced
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That actually has been the law in the US (not sure whether it still is). There was a case where someone lived next door to a dealer, and customers were frequently knocking on this person's door mistakenly. One time it was an undercover
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by ds9 13y ago
OK, there could be an argument that knowingly linking to infringing files is outside of freedom of expresssion. But the article says nothing about a knowledge criterion. It says "owners of sites found to be making money [directly or
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by ds9 13y ago
You're a little too harsh in saying "tolerated". Opinion polls have shown for decades that a majority favor a system more like those of Canada or Europe - here it's called "single payer". But the interests of t

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