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US, without a hint of irony, warns US travelers about privacy threats in Sochi(privacysos.org)
6 points by f_salmon 13y ago|1 comments
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'Kill switch' for smartphones in proposed California bill(fresnobee.com)
2 points by f_salmon 13y ago|1 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> But the reason privacy is bad is asymmetry. Asymmetry is used to dominate others. Asymmetry is generated via wealth imbalance (rich dominate poor) and now also via information imbalance (government/banks/tech companies domina
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by f_salmon 13y ago
If organizations such as the NSA continue to be allowed to exist, then you are certainly right. But as long as you live in a democracy, you have the "obligation" to elect the people who will represent your will, that is your respo
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by f_salmon 13y ago
The major problem with mass surveillance is asymmetry: Whenever governments get additional power to track what citizens do (and ultimately think ), citizens need to gain an additional degree of transparency regarding its government [0], so
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by f_salmon 13y ago
And they still dominate because money still dominates what we do. We run after the money (= have power over the others), not after what creates sense in our lives. This is probably the most central value and problem in our culture. When tha
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Please stop the background requests to tons of 3rd party servers. It's such an unhealthy trend. (Now that we know that everybody and their mother tracks and profiles us all the time.)
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> Linux should be a part of School Education The concept of "open source" should be part of school education. We don't need thousands of proprietary version of the same thing. That's a HUGE waste of resources on liter
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Wrong. When I say "you cannot judge", I mean "moral" judgment. Which is not to be confused with "sanctions" (like a criminal must sometimes be separated from society to protect the latter, via a prison sentence
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by f_salmon 13y ago
- Deploy systems with this technology - Teach others to take advantage of it Here you go: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ An all-in-one communication solution that is: - encrypted (public key, as we're supposed to
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> you're assuming zero randomness in the universe No, actually not. The current state of research in quantum physics makes it look like there is randomness. But the thing about randomness is: Nobody has any control over it. So again
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by f_salmon 13y ago
And there's a major logical error in it: > At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again. This implies that you have some sort of control between t
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Thanks, but neither is the case (my username is not green anymore, and you could see my post => not banned).
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Ask HN: Why are upvotes not applied?
1 points by f_salmon 13y ago|3 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Certainly an idea that should be discussed in the mass media. (I'm not counting on US mass media, though, for some time to come.) In other words, it can be summed up as 1 way to make democracy more direct. (The problem is, Washington w
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Exactly money must be taken out of politics, i.e.: No more lobbying (= legalized corruption). But how are you going to do that when rich people are already in power and are using their financial dominance to protect their monopoly of power?
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Making the world a better place => Awesome people!
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Being open-source is a very important point. But any communication system that is built for the future must at least be (public-key) encrypted. Then you, make it 100% decentralized and you're ready for our time where unlimited mass sur
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> I guess we really shouldn't be surprised at this point Yes, we shouldn't stop at being surprised. We should put our actions where our surprise/shock is and do something about it. For example: leave your mobile phone perm
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Federal consumer bureau data-mining hundreds of millions of credit card accounts(washingtonexaminer.com)
1 points by f_salmon 13y ago|0 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
If first World countries can do 1 evil, it's suppressing/eliminating education for the oppressed and/or poor. (So they have no chance for future equality and can continue to be dominated by us.)
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> An earlier GCHQ operation [...] to identify users and target them with propaganda I like how the UK gov thinks of "democracy". > However, the prime minister has previously said that: "I'm satisfied that the work
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Snowden leaks: GCHQ 'spied on Facebook and YouTube'(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by f_salmon 13y ago|2 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Link to the exclusive interview: http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/ard-sondersendung/edwar...
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by f_salmon 13y ago
While investigating a hosting company known for sheltering child porn last year the FBI incidentally seized the entire e-mail database of a popular anonymous webmail service called TorMail. Now the FBI is tapping that vast trove of e-mail
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NSA 'engaged in industrial espionage' – Snowden(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by f_salmon 13y ago|1 comments
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by f_salmon 13y ago
> I don't really understand the objective of those like Kurzweil. I suppose AI will one day be able to explain this to us?
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by f_salmon 13y ago
Also called "a self-fulfilling prophecy"; you make something happen by the simple statement "it will happen". It's also a smart move for your career: You can create your own job and attract lots of funding for your
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by f_salmon 13y ago
I'm very surprised by your comment. I'm using it on Ubuntu, my family is still on Macs but uses it too. Everybody without the slightest issue. Install was as easy as any other program (Ubuntu and Mac). True, the UI could be more p
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by f_salmon 13y ago
And there's http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ - 100% decentralized/p2p (no central server) - (public key) encrypted - open-source - does: file sharing, "emailing", chat, VoIP, forums, etc.

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