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by generj 13y ago
I guess hoping for a dramatic dismantling of Bluffdale and Clapper's arrest on perjury charges was always unrealistic. In reality, we've already started to win. Jewel v. NSA, rather than being dismissed under executive privilege a
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Canadian spies met with energy firms, documents reveal(theguardian.com)
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by generj 13y ago
Lastpass Corporate is fantastic.
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by generj 13y ago
It's a matter of international and domestic perception, not actual reality. Internationally Putin is seen as having struck a blow against American imperialism. It's clear Obama wasn't anticipating Russia to helpfully offer a
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by generj 13y ago
I don't know - our escalating tensions with Russia - not to mention our recent diplomatic defeat with Syria (causing Russia to come out smelling like roses) - might cause the US to abortively try some limited action. Of course, Putin w
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by generj 13y ago
Yes! But so long as it is merely a means to an end, we don't call them tech companies. UPS is a shipping/logistics solutions company, even though they have massive Databases. GM is a car company, even if they write lots of CAD&#x2
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by generj 13y ago
Is operating an encrypted email service a conspiracy? You are doubtlessly right, though still fun to think about. The law is (thankfully) not like code, and you can't always make a clever hack around the letter of it. When lawyers can,
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by generj 13y ago
You are of course correct. winces
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by generj 13y ago
I think the court documents have two pages per page. But still very much illegible. He could have been "helpful" and provided ancillary information along with the keys.
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by generj 13y ago
I think it was to avoid being too obviously non-compliant. Delivering the information this way could be construed as merely avoiding paper-costs while using formats the hide-bound government officers would be most familiar with (paper). It&
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by generj 13y ago
I'd be very surprised if this isn't the landmark case establishing demands for SSL certificates as being too general. Just like Jewel v. NSA was always destined to be a landmark case, and now will be, after the executive privile
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by generj 13y ago
Yeah, because in the time frame this was going down, it would have been a totally unreasonable assumption that someone matching those particular crimes described Edward Snowden. Of course they knew who they were looking for - it was necessa
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by generj 13y ago
I guess the government could argue RICO at that point against the lawyer, but I think that still wouldn't abridge lawyer-client confidentiality. Maybe it would. Then the lawyer couldn't delete the systems like Lavabit did because
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by generj 13y ago
You can see how he did it on the court documents (it's attachment A on page 145-150). He might have done some less efficient encoding, like Base-16.
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by generj 13y ago
Amen. I'll admit to glancing woefully at my purse-strings, then tightening them the last time I saw Lavabit's defense fund. Between the EFF, ACLU, and other organizations I have suddenly have found great cause to donate to, I didn
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by generj 13y ago
Isn't that the point of 1984? The protagonist is unable to make a physical record, and so must trust his brain retain any proof of the government's wrongdoing. However, the brain is a poor vessel for this - it can be manipulated a
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by generj 13y ago
What if the messages were only ever internal to the system? Or even constructed such that the lawyer was central to all communication. So client A contacts the lawyer to advise client B of X. The lawyer dutifully complies (perhaps in an aut
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by generj 13y ago
Oh come on, it's clearly a reference to a rather funny joke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDu5D_IXbc That said, I agree that throwaway users can have very valid opinions, and furthermore agree that warrants are freq
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by generj 13y ago
AdBlock -> detected by PageFair AdBlock -> detects PageFair and destroys it Seems easy enough.
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by generj 13y ago
As do a lot of other people. The HTTP DNT process at the W3C was supposed to fix this, but it got derailed by the DAA (the Digital Advertising Alliance). You can manually stop this tracking with AdChoices. Click on that weird little blue ic
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by generj 13y ago
I quite like the idea of projectwonderful. It seems to be very heavily used on webcomic sites I frequent, and I haven't seen a bad ad yet. I also like the idea of purchasing time on a site, rather than using targeted ads. Meanwhile, th
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by generj 13y ago
"meteoric growth" sounds about right for most startups, since they fail. http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/meteoric.html
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by generj 13y ago
That's an rather interesting idea. If you could get Cory Doctorow to write "The Day the Password Died" from your prompt, I'd be very happy. Synopsis: an evil government steals the private thoughts and passwords of its ci
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by generj 13y ago
♫ Bowie's in Spaaace ♫
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by generj 13y ago
I certainly expect them to have knowledge of what it was like for their peers.
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by generj 13y ago
I'm also only a few years out of high school, and it absolutely doesn't reflect my experience. I know stuff like this wasn't blatantly going on in my (fairly affluent) school - everyone knew when a big party occurred. Weed? A
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by generj 13y ago
I like her argument that we should seek the "neutrality of the network, guided only by technical and ethical criteria, rendering it inadmissible to restrict it for political, commercial, religious or any other purposes." I disagre
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by generj 13y ago
I'm very comfortable with this, and find it un-controversial. Obtaining intelligence on nuclear and space (AKA nuclear delivery systems) is a very valid goal for the NSA to pursue. Frankly, if the NSA wasn't working for this data,
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by generj 13y ago
Cool! I'll have to check this out then. I love 123D in general, it's like Inventor, only free! That has long been my Achille's heel - I can EAGLE a pcb pretty easily, but woodworking / 3d interlocking Ponoko designs elud
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by generj 13y ago
I guess I'm not seeing the advantage over existing software. Unless there are some tie-ins with their other 123D software to, say, automatically create a hardware enclosure from a schematic.

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