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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Encryption done in the browser? Why would you take that risk and not encrypt in a client using GPG?
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> “This is not traffic you would encounter outside of Google's internal network,” said one of the experts. The slide shows data in a format that is “only used on and between Google machines. So, the NSA had physical access to data o
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
If an administration can get away with launching illegal wars that are also based on plain lies, then this is will most probably be treated as a non-event.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
I read it in another Guardian article at the time, but: http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/pri... slide #3: "Collection directly from the servers of these US Service Provi
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
I remember that report (one of the earlier ones) that said that Google hosts hardware provided by the NSA. So his outrage is even more hypocritical than the EU's leaders'. Also, if he was really "outraged", he'd ban
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OS X Mavericks forces iOS calendar, contact syncing into iCloud(themolly.com)
1 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
If you think things through: 1. We were all born with the same rights. 2. Therefor, we should all have (and keep) the same rights. 3. Yet, we don't have all the same wealth (money=rights) - FAR from it. How come we accept that people
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Great! That should keep Ubuntu/Mark Shuttleworth honest, in the mobile space.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> really make me wonder how much faith we can put in the reviews on Elance Pretty much the same faith we can put in LinkedIn recommendations, I suppose.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> [...] Dianne Feinstein. > She said that if Mr Snowden had been a true whistleblower, he could have reported privately to her committee, but had chosen not to. How can they say such BS with a straight face?
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'No clemency' for Edward Snowden - Congress committees(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|1 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> salted hashes would defeat this attack though. Seriously. A huge company like Adobe behaving like a beginner in programming? WTF.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
They definitely have excessive cash to spend.
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US ends food stamp benefits as Congress debates more cuts(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|1 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> How would not using their products resolve the issue with the NSA? One point would be: Google might feel a change in their bottom line and might actually start thinking about banding together with the other tech giants to be able to ac
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
FYI, RetroShare has a solid and solidly growing community. Of course, if you want to talk about "taken the world by storm" as in "Microsoft Windows 95": You're right, no encryption software has ever taken the world
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Obama Orders NSA To Stop Spying On The World Bank, IMF(businessinsider.com)
1 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Sounds like another reinvention of the wheel, the "email" part of http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Curious to see who will continue to still use their products...
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> they can force companies to participate in these mass-surveillance programs, or throw them in jail Or those companies could band together and give the NSA the collective finger.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
The hypocrisy elephant in the room: "NEVER FORGET" but "NEVER REMEMBER" (that 9/11 was the result of the US (CIA) recruiting and playing Osama bin Laden).
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Skype is also among the NSA partner companies.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
When the current cycle is complete. It takes time, but it will happen, it always does. Just maybe not in our lifetimes anymore.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
And suddenly: "There's so much space...! For cool side-projects!"
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Reduce working week to 30 hours, say economists(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|1 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> Nature is unfair. And some people really want it to stay that way. I read somewhere that we were all born with the same rights. It's still a joke, a few centuries after someone had understood that: Money equals power. Power equals
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> Another economical fallacy. What I meant is: this money is not used to promote consumption (which it were in the hands of poor people). It's consumption (of services or products) that creates jobs. Jobs get created because the
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Amazon provides infrastructure for ("security") government agencies (NSA included, if remember correctly). But given Snowden's work, we'd be foolish to assume the collaboration is limited to this fact.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
As a matter of fact, society has not a single valid reason to allow concentration of excessive wealth on some kind of restricted group or "elite" (as, by the way, also promoted erroneously by the idea of the "American Dream
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
The real issue is not government officials, but the People. Governments can spy on each other as much as they want, they have the consultants, experts and money to protect themselves accordingly. The citizen, on the other hand is often very

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