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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
"It means stuff that teaches you about the world." I guess you do not find the story is teaching you anything about the world? "But if this... was a sign of some bigger, underlying trend, then perhaps it could be." Maybe
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
The tone of this article suggests Snowden is nothing more than a pawn in someone else's game. Why should anyone care so much about him? We've heard repeatedly that what he has disclosed - a massive amount of spying on Americans a
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Security Without Identification(chaum.com)
9 points by hispeedencrypt 13y ago|0 comments
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
May I ask what convinced you they were a center of excellence in the 90's? I ask this sincerely, not in rebuttal. What do you make of the comments of Binney that NSA was caught sleeping (for lack of a better phrase) by 9/11? Why
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
I think this is the saddest aspect of these spying programs and the ensuing paranoia... it actually might discourage people from using encryption or anonymizing proxies... for fear it will get them on a watch list. If you start using PGP fo
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
The thought that your tax dollars are going to pay for some bloated overpriced inefficient software solution is unpleasant. For example, according to Binney and co. ThinThread was small, fast, efficient and cost-effective, but some outside
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
Have you stopped to think about the fact of enforcing the CFAA so harshly against private citizens (e.g. downloading too many JSTOR articles), while their government boasts about hacking into the critical network infrastructure of other cou
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
No, but they need to ask HW mfrs like Cisco to put backdoors in for NSA's use... at least, that's what some Chinese newspaper was suggesting recently. Based on the talks I've been watching by the group of NSA whistleblowers
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by hispeedencrypt 13y ago
Apple, Google and Facebook can store communications for evermore. And NSA can easily get a copy anytime, via a rubber stamp by a judge in the secret court. Now, in light of this, are we all (the good guys) permitted to use strong encryptio