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Oakland launches new program using Big Data to bolster police surveillance(sdt.bz)
1 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
I don't know about other people, but since Snowden's revelations about the companies that partner with the NSA, all of them are dead to me. And that includes: Google, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, Yahoo, Paltalk, and the rest of them
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
If you're looking for a decentralized & encrypted communication platform (messaging, chat, file tranfer, etc.) to get behind, head over to http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ and consider developing plugins for any
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Many in G.O.P. Offer Theory: Default Wouldn’t Be That Bad(nytimes.com)
1 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|2 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
I don't understand why China (and Japan) did get into this so lightheartedly. I mean, the devaluation strategy applied by the US has been obvious for so long now. I'm actually surprised to not see some kind of "bank run"
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> in an effort to appease the authorities. That is really naive.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Is this about re-inventing the wheel again? http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ does encrypted p2p for "email"/chat/VOIP/file sharing/forums/etc.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> someone who thinks HTML5 is the best way to build apps, because it really isn't. > I just like seeing Android having a great competitor that is open source and not driven by a huge company like Samsung You're basically loo
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> We know that the NSA receives advance warning from Microsoft of vulnerabilities that will soon be patched This alone should get anybody who knows it off that OS. Seriously.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Exactly. And it sucks donkey balls.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Link to the project's site: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Does anybody know of any European politicians who think Snowden did the right thing? Because I don't and it makes me think that Europe's leaders just as corrupt as US leaders.
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Swiss university launches Human Brain Project(bigstory.ap.org)
3 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|1 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> "Ultimately, every society lives from the backbone from a strong middle class," said Seitzberg. "If you get just a top level, a small amount of very rich people and a very large piece of very poor people, it leads to soc
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As the digital revolution kills jobs, social unrest will rise(computerworld.com)
4 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|2 comments
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Australia prepared briefing on US spying program before Snowden revelations(abc.net.au)
2 points by frank_boyd 13y ago|0 comments
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
The trick is to let nobody snoop on your texts.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> [...] crowdfund private security services, with the aim of compensating for an understaffed police department in the city with the highest robbery rate in America. Why?! Why should security become the responsibility of private people
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
And if you look at some numbers, you'll get in which industry that wealth transfer happens most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> why should anyone need to give the keys to their instant messaging castle to Google? Equivalent to cc'ing the NSA.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
https://heml.is/ currently looks like the best concept of a solution to the problem - if they keep their promise: > Will it be Open Source? > We have all intentions of opening up the source as much as possible for scr
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> You're wrong that the interests of the state are significantly misaligned from the interests of the people You should read the news more often: Government shutdown for no valid reason, Wall Street corruption going unpunished and o
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Of course not. The only thing that potentially could get the user in trouble would be the specific and illegal usage of it, i.e. the selling of illegal substances.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
RetroShare accepts plugins, so could that be an option? It's open-source, decentralized, public key encrypted communication and very easy to install and use: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> SR1 was shut down due to a forum post that was linked to an anonymous PHP question on Stack Overflow. That's their public version of the story. Thanks to Snowden, we know today that they use "parallel construction", so w
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
You're implying that you would make less money by trading in your US location for more security. That means that you believe not enough users care enough about their privacy to accept that (really light) trade-off.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
It's UP
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
> our primary servers are located in the US Why would you do that, especially when you're not even a US company?
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Not as a remedy, but as a critical and most of all mandatory piece of the puzzle.
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by frank_boyd 13y ago
Democracy fundamentally relies on freedom of expression: being able to discuss problems, to organize protests, to resolve issues (like corrupt politicians). If you conduct mass surveillance (as does the NSA, the brits and apparently many ot

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