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Is Marissa Mayer Helping Yahoo—or Hurting the Struggling Tech Giant?(vanityfair.com)
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Schneier: 'Stalker economy' here to stay(cnn.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
Great question. Other folks have made good points about the value of sticking with what you know but on the other hand there are advantages of other platforms as well. Could the kind of blogging application you've got in mind be buil
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by jdp23 13y ago
> opted to go with MongoLab, which I am still suing this is either an unfortunate typo or a great backstory ...
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White House OKd spying on allies, U.S. intelligence officials say (latimes.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
The information was presented to the EU parliament by Duncan Campbell -- who broke the ECHELON story 25 years ago. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Campbell_%28journalist%2...
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New Details Show Broader NSA Surveillance Reach (online.wsj.com)
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Interesting thread, thanks for sharing. Huge difference between page 5 (when people still believe it's just a badly-handled storage system problem) and afterwards (when the true story is revealed).
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by jdp23 13y ago
Agreed about the value of differentiating between different kinds of +/-1. Also Slashdot's meta-moderation is a significant advancement on its successors.
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by jdp23 13y ago
Nice to see the HN discussion quoted in the article. Presumably, based on Justin's comments in the other thread, Google's happy to see this article. After all, it will help keep users from having a false sense of security when usi
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by jdp23 13y ago
Yeah, it isn't so easy to get to the important issues ... seems like their expectations is that users already know what bill they want to comment on when they get there. So, okay, not Stack Overflow yet. But more positively they&#x27
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by jdp23 13y ago
That would be Popvox: https://www.popvox.com/
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It's kind of like the scene in Annie Hall -- "I have Marshall Mcluhan right here!"
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Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think(theatlantic.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
Pro tip: setting up an auto-responder on your regular email account pointing people to your surveillance-free account is not generally regarded as best practices. Inaccurate headline aside (the author is candid about the limitations of what
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Opponents of NSA surveillance emboldened by close House vote(thehill.com)
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by jdp23 13y ago
Excellent points - something every tech startup founder should keep in mind. Teh Portly Dyke's "How to Fuck Up" is a good companion piece. http://portlytruestories.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-fuck-u
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by jdp23 13y ago
A good look at the kind of maneuvering that goes on in Congress to determine what gets voted on, including some interesting -- and very unusual -- tactics by Amash.
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The NSA Fight(nationalreview.com)
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Rep. Holt Introduces ‘Surveillance State Repeal Act’(news.antiwar.com)
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Good job calling! And yes, call both again - with thanks (it shows you really care and are paying attention), and with disappointment, asking why they voted the way they did, letting them know this may influence your vote in the primary an
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by jdp23 13y ago
Agreed. This is the closest vote on anything related to the Patriot Act in a long time; and the bipartisan support is very encouraging.
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by jdp23 13y ago
The 2002 "carnival booth" paper by Strauss and Chakrabarti is a good analysis. There's a summary here with some quotes from Hal Abelson http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N48/48secure.48n.html
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Group of tech giants to demand greater NSA transparency(news.cnet.com)
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Former Top NSA Lawyer Blames Civil Libertarians For 9/11(techdirt.com)
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Excellent point. And how are the anonymous activists supposed to prove that they're US citizens without revealing their identities? And just as with the NSA's reasoning, there's no protection for non-US citizens. Also worth
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The key point's near the end: The current controversy over the agency’s surveillance policies was first set off after Mr. Snowden leaked a secret FISA court order telling Verizon to turn over calling data from all of its customers. Mr
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By Rep. Rush Holt, D-NJ, who's running for Senator and facing Cory Booker in the NJ primary. Not a lot of details so far ... Soon, I will introduce legislation that would repeal the laws that brought us our current “surveillance state
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Public Opinion Shifts on Security-Liberty Balance(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
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How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states(guardian.co.uk)
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