etherael

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by etherael 13y ago
> It's a serious mistake trying to turn this into the usual one party versus the other thing. That depends what you mean by "mistake". Historically speaking, obfuscating the real issues by slinging mud at the other guy and
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by etherael 13y ago
I wasn't familiar with the acronym but I've noticed a rise in that sentiment over the years.
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by etherael 13y ago
SWM?
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by etherael 13y ago
That's why I seek to clarify, I know I don't know what's in your head. All I can know is what I see. For the record, there is no doubt in my mind that rayiner is a hell of a lot more of a statist than you.
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by etherael 13y ago
When you say "that's not an accident" do you mean to imply you'd have ethical objections to it? As you are one of the three most common defenders of the state that I have noticed on this site, that would be very surprisi
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by etherael 13y ago
Link broken for me also, I thought the non existence thereof might be a subtle joke. Apparently not; https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/images_insert/Genera...
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by etherael 13y ago
I feel quite ashamed to admit this now, but when I was much younger and had less scruples, I had a consulting role with an elite private school in a well to do suburb of Melbourne in Australia that had chronic problems with students accessi
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by etherael 13y ago
Right, lobby the Mafia for better percentages for the Dons, because running an extortion racket is a tough gig and wiseguys don't get no respect.
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by etherael 13y ago
I read about him asking Greenwald to setup PGP some time ago and him not actually communicating with him until that happened. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/edward-snowden-glen... So, reading betwee
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by etherael 13y ago
This divides the world neatly into two camps, those with the desire to participate in government, and those who do not, whilst simultaneously ascribing an unquestioned halo on those in the first group and jumping straight to the assumption
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by etherael 13y ago
> NSA shouldn't pressure people to comply with gag orders, but that doesn't excuse Nacchio I agree with you, I just think what the state did was worse. Not only that but that kind of behaviour is par for the course for them rat
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by etherael 13y ago
In my humble opinion, the least morally questionable action to take in this scenario would have been to ignore the gag order, explain in public why the business was being lost, and take the rational sale option because of it. Even this opti
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by etherael 13y ago
I'm completely aware the legally subservient option is to "take the financial hit". You're not think it through carefully, I just don't see that as a particularly relevant or salient point, the law is just an arbitr
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by etherael 13y ago
At a guess he took a gamble, he made 3 million in salary in 2000, so the amount he sold was not trivial, even for him, he may have thought the government would not attempt to prosecute him, he may have thought if it came to trial the court
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by etherael 13y ago
Lawyers have this habit that they share with coders, when they are consulted as to why the system is behaving in a certain way, they treat it in an exercise in debugging legislature, and tracing the path of execution of case through the leg
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by etherael 13y ago
> Joseph Nacchio sold millions of dollars of Qwest stock after gaining access to information about weak future sales "Gaining access to information about weak future sales" = He was threatened directly by the NSA that they woul
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NSA PRISM and the attempts to justify it(etherael.blogspot.com)
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by etherael 13y ago
Better yet, if I recall correctly, inflicting this malaise upon malignant actors that engage in this kind of bad faith behaviour was one of the stated side effect objectives of wikileaks, by forcing their targets to close ranks and become l
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by etherael 13y ago
I have an 8gb truecrypt file on dropbox, pretty much regardless of what they're compelled to do, it's secure. That's the model I think should be standard for cloud ops. However, you do bring up an interesting point, it is ind
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by etherael 13y ago
From here on in this is the only privacy model I will consider trustworthy for a cloud service; You have the encryption key, the data on our servers is completely useless without that encryption key. We are physically unable to be compelle
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by etherael 13y ago
Ok, so the justifications for the ends under discussion is accepted because "That's the way things are, ergo that's the way the majority of people have decided that they ought to be by participation". They live in countr
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by etherael 13y ago
> But recent scientific research tells us this much: if you think one of the theories above is plausible, you probably feel the same way about the others, even though they contradict one another Believing a thing is plausible doesn'
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by etherael 13y ago
Are you a voluntaryist / ancap with hopes for the implications of the underpinnings of the system via cryptographic protocols by any chance? Your ideas sound very familiar.
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by etherael 13y ago
> We recognize abortion as a right in contemporary American culture because women cannot have equality in a soul-crushing corporate workplace without it Completely regardless of any pro life or pro choice bias, I don't really unders
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by etherael 13y ago
Are you disputing that incidences of theft are frequently rationalised by the perpetrator on the basis that the victim deserves it?
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by etherael 13y ago
Consider if the world had never had a revolution the current state we would be in. I don't buy that's a better picture.
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by etherael 13y ago
> or any contractor or lobbyist the government is persuaded to share this data with Or anyone the government is "persuaded" where persuaded may well include security breaches by hostile parties of indeterminate origin... Actual
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by etherael 13y ago
Another data point, I have used a ton of cloud services from US companies in the past with an attitude of not really being comfortable with it based on a belief that something like what was discovered was probably happening but it was just
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by etherael 13y ago
A) Prohibition does not work. Not for alcohol, not for plants, not for drugs, and sure as hell not for long binary sequences. The most aggressive possible pursuit of cryptography will achieve just one thing; now it's steganographic to
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by etherael 13y ago
No, because "electable" may as well be shorthand for "will behave in the same fashion as the last two puppet stooges" End the game, not the players.

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