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by frenger 13y ago
> The students are getting around software that lets school district officials know where the iPads are, and what the students are doing with them at all times. This software also lets the district block certain sites, such as social med
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by frenger 13y ago
the page takes user input & displays it in the background for the next visitor.
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by frenger 13y ago
How bad is the NL in general? I have family there, always thought it was a pretty free-minded country
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by frenger 13y ago
Precisely: many if not most websites have Google Analytics JS, so you're being tracked around the web (ghost profile) even without a google account.
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by frenger 13y ago
Do carrier-pigeons count as a third-party? > It's not an "oh well" attitude. > I don't care if the NSA reads them.. Indeed. However, I've used Royal Mail (postal service in UK) all my life without thinking tha
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by frenger 13y ago
Brazil? haha. Iceland or Germany for sure. Finland, Eastern Europe, maybe? Simply out of USA/UK jurisdiction would be good, as they're now demonstrably the worst in the West (at least it would certainly seem so based on recent new
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by frenger 13y ago
Sick of this nihilist attitude. > the USA just did a bad job hiding the fact that you had none. Er, no - the USA are the main ones wholesale intercepting everyone's shit - I'm not a US citizen and I don't like it in princi
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by frenger 13y ago
Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.
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by frenger 13y ago
It was marked as "never fix", though.
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by frenger 13y ago
Further discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6393878 (from an earlier post, doh)
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by frenger 13y ago
Lengthy but worth a listen. Testimony from Jaques Follorou (Le Monde), Jacob Appelbaum, Alan Rusbridger (The Guardian), Carlos Coelho MEP, Gerhard Schmid ex-MEP & Duncan Campbell. There's a key speech here: https://www.y
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NSA Hearing: European Parliament 5 Sept 2013 (full)(youtube.com)
3 points by frenger 13y ago|2 comments
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by frenger 13y ago
"BTW, Just read that O2 UK are blocking VPN traffic....." Where does it say that? I can't find it
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by frenger 13y ago
Truecrypt is open source. Can anyone find the backdoor?
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by frenger 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - native British freelance developer (also, relocating to Amsterdam). Seeking remote or on-site work. ##About I'm an experienced iOS Developer and have just released my tenth app, an app for social-music startup Songdrop w
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by frenger 13y ago
"And, in the face of not knowing, why default to an explanation other than what has been given to us?" gut feeling based on existing evidence and experience.
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by frenger 13y ago
Perhaps, but they were caught pretty fast already, to be honest. The insinuation is that somehow this technology would have prevented the attacks in the first place, which is highly improbable.
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by frenger 13y ago
Well, we know they archive Facebook content so go figure
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by frenger 13y ago
> "While this sort of technology may have benefits for law enforcement (recall that the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were identified with help from camera footage), it also invites abuse." 1. Yes /without/
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by frenger 13y ago
Won't syncing an encrypted file store result in a lot of sync churning each time you modify a file inside, because deltas won't work?
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by frenger 13y ago
Why do they want to do all this? I don't get it. It's so plainly wrong, what's their MO behind the scenes? Surely it's not just all a thinly-veiled pulling up of the draw bridge between 'us' and 'them&#x27
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by frenger 13y ago
That's one hell of a goddamn tip. As someone who recently closed their Google account, this will come in handy. Thanks.
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by frenger 13y ago
maybe not forever - sounds like he wants to relaunch it eventually. Good luck to you.
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by frenger 13y ago
Well, this is my 10th day - we shall see. I have my fingers triple crossed (ouch) but I'm not holding my breath.
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by frenger 13y ago
> look at the quality of their API documentations twitch maybe it's a personality clash, but I can't stand Google's documentation style, it's not well explained or laid out.
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by frenger 13y ago
> The problem is that people foolishly assume that the plaintext packets they send online are private by default The NSA are trying to decrypt encrypted messages too though, tapping VPNs etc. It's not like they're just surveill
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by frenger 13y ago
Has Snowden given you any reason to think that he'd do that? The guy must be principled as shit to have done what he's done in the first place.
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by frenger 13y ago
What do the recent leaks have to do with Putin? What relevance is there in what you're saying? Sometimes it's not a binary 'good guys vs bad guys'.
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by frenger 13y ago
Yeah you're right, he's an irreconcilable traitor. Though I mean, it's a bit of an assumptive jump from whistleblower to turncloak spy, but I'm totally with you. Although.. he did give the data to journalists, and not to
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by frenger 13y ago
I wonder how big a jump it would be to have some mandated service running on every machine, to sidestep increased encrypted Internet traffic? Still seems unlikely but I've been so surprised by the level of apathy by most to this that I

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