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by ianhawes 13y ago
My understanding is that the overwhelming majority of Federal employees on official duty from FBI, DHS, DOD, NSA, etc.. that attend DEFCON (and related conferences) are actually not agents at all, but rather low ranking analysts whose job a
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by ianhawes 13y ago
I'd bet most laptops/PCs sold in the last 4 years have included at least 2-4 GB of RAM, 60-100 GB of HDD, and a relatively fast processor. Aside from gaming, most internet browsing can be achieved with devices that came out in 200
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by ianhawes 13y ago
I sincerely hope that Ecuador denies his request and he is deported back to the United States. In his Q&A, Snowden said the United States was worth dying for. If he truly wants things changed, he certainly won't achieve it hiding i
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by ianhawes 13y ago
I think this diagram I created for you may clarify things: http://i.imgur.com/o870mrh.png
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by ianhawes 13y ago
If anyone turned it into a Kardashian spectacle it was Snowden himself. His video interview and Q&A have only served to publicize himself. He could have easily and safely leaked incriminating documents to a journalist and achieved the s
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by ianhawes 13y ago
Read receipt requested? That seems unnecessary given its the NSA.
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Lt. Gen Michael Hayden (Ret) was the DIRNSA at the time Russell Tice is alleging these wiretaps occurred.
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Definitely a possibility. If that is the case, what is PRISM's responsibility then?
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by ianhawes 13y ago
But still, NSA would need to know the entire IP range of all public facing servers, their purpose in relation to the service (for example, which IP range handles Gmail vs Search). Plus, if this were a store-it-and-forget-it situation, PRISM
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by ianhawes 13y ago
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/what.html?m=1 From Larry Page, CEO of Google That IS what you wanted, right?
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If this were happening at the packet level, PRISM would need constant maintenance for each service, and a MUCH higher budget than $20mil a year. Think about it, to be effective, you'd need to parse the format at which the data is sent.
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by ianhawes 13y ago
The theatrics around this entire story make me question his true intentions. His answers today are anything but straightforward, and the majority of them don't actually deal with information he leaked, but rather his opinions on survei
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by ianhawes 13y ago
Something to consider is that the trend the past year has been to use headless browsers over BeautifulSoup, cURL, etc.. because headless browsers are harder to detect by anti-scraping systems and can interpret JavaScript.
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Actually he's coming off as arrogant with delusions of grandeur.
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I don't think Snowden would have any idea whether the audits were effective or not. An analyst in the position of auditing is likely segregated from the employees whose searches are audited.
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by ianhawes 13y ago
BAH, SAIC, CSC, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman are all infamous, when it comes to software projects, for being completely incompetent. What you've described is my experience as well. 9 times out of 10, when a project actually ne
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by ianhawes 13y ago
The likely scenario is that information distributed throughout the agency suggests that they do not spy on US citizens. Basic training is done for all employees where they are taught not to spy on US citizens. However, NSA also conducts cla
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Now if he would just update his headshot.
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by ianhawes 13y ago
If anyone is interested in an alternative to the usual RTMP servers (FMS, Red5, and Wowza), I highly recommend EvoStream ( http://www.evostream.com ). Compared to the alternatives, EvoStream is much more efficient. I believe TinyChat publis
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by ianhawes 14y ago
Iframe of the affiliate link. eBay sets the required cookies.
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by ianhawes 14y ago
Whoops! Didn't see that :) To be fair, I didn't see the pricing page at all. I did see the 0.8c on the Buy Number page. I suppose 0.8c is accurate, but you'd probably be better off putting $0.008 instead.
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by ianhawes 14y ago
The pricing is outrageous compared to Twilio. 8 cents per text message?
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Moreover, you could simply 301 redirect the index of one of your 'shell' companies to a legitimate company. No one would be the wiser.
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by ianhawes 14y ago
I would suspect that it would be related to Android development given that (1) Android SDK requires Java, (2) Facebook develops a native Android app, (3) Facebook does NOT develop a native Blackberry app (other mobile SDK using Java), and (
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by ianhawes 14y ago
Yeah, just noticed this when I saw the reasonable $49 price. Really sucks.
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by ianhawes 14y ago
Native Twitter iOS app vs the HTML5 Twitter app. Native Twitter is great. Very snappy, great UX. If, by chance, you click a Twitter link in Safari on iOS, you'll be facepalming as you wait.
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by ianhawes 14y ago
Can someone elaborate on what he means with this line: "But the conditions that make patent protection essential in the pharmaceutical industry are absent."
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Not only that, but each time the app launches, it phones home to Appcelerator. This is by default, and you can only disable it by turning off Analytics in the config.
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Presumably, the operators accessing it are using other compromised servers as proxies to connect to the C&C servers. Their initial connection from HQ is probably to an overseas VPN that has been setup by an IC shell company (shell being
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Excellent article! I've worked with Titanium since the very beginning and would absolutely recommend it to anyone that wants to reuse pieces of their application between iOS and Android. Granted, certain UI elements that exist on iOS with n

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