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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Is part of the deal to "never speak about NSA again for the rest of his life" or something like that? I doubt he would take it then, nor should he. In the meantime, those who leak to Wikileaks will apparently face execution - so h
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
I actually wouldn't be surprised at all if the US and UK governments would be perfectly fine with China, Russia and so on being able to hack and spy most of their citizens and companies as long as they could also do that. From their
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
As well as one for a Skype backdoor: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2509604/data-privacy/mi... Microsoft has some interesting project choices.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
It may very well be that the algorithm is completely objective, but not necessarily "fair". This is the problem with profiling algorithms.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
> Be indecent or obscene. Really? They're going to send people to prison for "being obscene" on the Internet?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Cool. Wouldn't it have been better to use Libsodium instead of OpenSSL, though? Also a Rust version of this would be nice.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
They don't actually intend to put humans in them, though?! This should be done Real Steal-style.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
> Our politicians on the other hand seem to do anything the EU tells them What the US tells them too, probably: https://blog.cyberwar.nl/2015/07/dutch-intelligence-bill-pro...
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
It also wouldn't hurt to move away from the "network security" model to a "zero trust network" model, where each computer is secured against everyone else in the internal network, just like it would be against the I
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Why do companies do stupid things like that? Is it a technical issue or do they REALLY care that much about having your name on file even if you want to delete your account? Maybe there's an argument for Facebook keeping your picture
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Unlock the devices? If the owner used fingerprint authentication or a passphrase, I would hope Apple can't unlock those devices. Also, I would imagine not everyone would want their devices unlocked by family members if they die say
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Indeed, I thought the Plex guys started using Rust.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
It's much worse for pictures than fingerprints because most people have tons of pictures of themselves online now, and many are also public. It's probably just a matter of time before malicious hackers start spoofing their identit
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Windows Phone (and Windows RT previously). Windows 10 "Mobile" will probably suffer from the same lack of browser choice (on purpose, obviously).
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
> We can keep screaming at them until we're blue in the face and nothing will change. Well, unless you're Taylor Swift. Then Apple will do what you ask within 24h. I know there's no Taylor Swift of the iOS software ecosyst
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
We'll probably have to wait a few more years until Webassembly and the easier to use and faster Vulkan API comes to the browser as well. I know they've been working on WebGL 2 (OpenGL ES 3.0-based) for a while, but if it doesn&#x2
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
It probably has something to do with tourism. The thinking must be that if you see the Eiffel Tower's picture online (I believe this new law threatens the whole EU) you won't want to go see it in person anymore. And using the ty
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
They couldn't find someone that looked a little bit more like Steve Jobs?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Somewhere in-between those points, I'm guessing: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/07/01/nsas-google-wo...
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
That doesn't sound like a "donation", though? At the very least Craiglist tried to portray it as something they're doing out of the goodness of their hearts.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
> Interfering with communication structures.. So? That terrifies you?
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
Or knives. I believe the recent beheading in France was caused by a knife. Something must be done about these dangerous weapons that facilitate beheading!
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
So Cameron wants to reinstate the writ of assistance for the online world? Because that's what his proposed "warrant" is (signed only by the Home Secretary). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writ_of_assistan
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
>"By attacking the financial infrastructure of drug trafficking organizations world-wide, DEA has disrupted and dismantled major drug trafficking organizations and their supply chains, thereby improving national security and increas
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
In other words, even if the x86 ISA itself is not bloated anymore, the CPUs can be . Because x86 CPUs still support a lot of 20-year old legacy stuff.
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
The problem isn't necessary the laws, but the fact that there never seems to be any punishment for abuses, so the NSA just learns the laws don't apply to them, and keep doing whatever they want. If our representatives actually pun
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
So how does the FISA court determine that "3-hop" people (millions) are "suspicious, then? The standard for an NSA "general warrant" is FAR, and I mean FAR weaker than for a regular warrant. Literally orders of magn
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
The NSA asks for "general warrants" and you think that's "reasonable"? NSA: Can we spy on everyone at once? FISA: Why yes of course you can - BUT, you have to fill out this form first...and do it properly or we&#x27
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
The NSA has re-interpreted the meaning of the word "relevant" (for investigation) in order to collect millions of people's data at once. How can the FISA judges ever approve that? Also, you're forgetting that a federal C
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by higherpurpose 11y ago
More root certs?

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