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by justcommenting 11y ago
I want to know why you (at least implicitly, given your comment's wording) think it was appropriate to disclose mass surveillance of Americans but inappropriate to disclose mass surveillance of others. I didn't mean to imply that
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by justcommenting 11y ago
It's disappointing to see someone who is usually so thoughtful on these issues implying that the mass surveillance of the ~7 billion people on this planet who are not Americans was inappropriate to disclose. Perhaps you meant something
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by justcommenting 11y ago
If you use a Nexus 7, you probably have a Google account, so you could use a Google Voice number to register.
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by justcommenting 11y ago
https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/653705501381947393
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N.S.A. Summer Camp: More Hacking Than Hiking(nytimes.com)
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Brian Smith, Eric Rescorla, Julien Vehent... all of these individuals have dragged their feet on certain security/privacy issues in the past in ways that could have benefited intelligence agencies, particularly pre-Snowden when scrutin
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Their new suitor is Yahoo, but since we're on the subject of Firefox defaults and funding, this reminds me that Firefox's "Show Cookies..." UI has been broken for years. And that Mozilla refuses to merge many of Mike Per
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Upon considering that this talk was delivered pre-Snowden, the value and prescience of this talk is even more significant. This article is now on the front page of WSJ.com!
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Kudos to moxie and team for their work and their example of positively enabling others to speak freely, for inspiring others to build better alternatives, and for being the change they wish to see in the world. Also wanted to share one of t
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Not an endorsement of Dell or Ubuntu, but Dell appears to offer 8 (mostly lower-end) laptop models with Ubuntu pre-installed: https://www.dell.com/us/p/laptops
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by justcommenting 11y ago
as a friend reminded me, anonymity only buys you time; it does not buy anyone justice. and david simon's recapitulation is more succinct and compelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Fv-nJCfrk
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Given all the vitriol on another front-page thread, I wanted to note from the site that "A close reading of published NSA leaks shows that the agency's attacks on VPNs are consistent with having achieved such a break." I&#x27
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by justcommenting 11y ago
In terms of root causes, this incident should cast a spotlight on NSA/IC strategy and the balance between "Information Assurance" goals and SIGINT goals: is the NSA going to deliberately leave everyone vulnerable (including,
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by justcommenting 11y ago
Some historical context for considering why bills proposing to compel greater collaboration or coordination or cooperation from companies storing private communications might be problematic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by justcommenting 12y ago
The last few sentences are a great summary: "The prison looked like an image on an old postcard, a haunting, uniquely American symbol of state power. And a thought occurred to me: the walls of the penitentiary guarding this pacifist we
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by justcommenting 12y ago
>1- tor is broken. For what definition of "broken"?
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by justcommenting 12y ago
this article points out several important aspects of uber's 'unfair advantage,' which in the labor market almost completely boils down to structural forms of tax avoidance that regulated incumbents are unable to match, but ne
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by justcommenting 12y ago
that's a lot of psychological manipulation
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by justcommenting 12y ago
kinda sorta mostly beating EFF to the punch? AWESOME! this makes the world a better, safer place....and especially after showing some love to djb the other day, this is pretty excellent news.
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by justcommenting 12y ago
It usually goes something like "mom, what are the two words (short authentication strings) you see on your phone?" Sometimes she even asks me--we make jokes about the combinations. And yeah, it's true that some of the Snowden
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by justcommenting 12y ago
My mother literally did not know how to turn on a computer until a few years ago, but was able to use Signal on her iPhone after almost no explanation. My mother looked at me funny when I tried to explain GPG to her after the Snowden reve
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by justcommenting 12y ago
I've also noticed the quality of DuckDuckGo search results has been steadily improving, especially over the past year. I would encourage anyone who tried it and went back to another search engine to consider giving DuckDuckGo another s
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AT&T Charging Customers to Not Spy on Them(theguardian.com)
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The NSA Director Pretends He Doesn't Understand How Encryption Works(motherboard.vice.com)
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by justcommenting 12y ago
Probably just a CDN issue ( https://cnn.com not found, www. shows an error, etc.), but fyi... Cert Subject Alt Names: Not Critical DNS Name: a.ssl.fastly.net DNS Name: .a.ssl.fastly.net DNS Name: fast.wistia.com DNS Name: purge.
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by justcommenting 12y ago
Thank you also to djb for designing the salsa20 family & poly1305. And kudos to Cloudflare for pushing the envelope in this regard!
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by justcommenting 12y ago
I actually think reframing these issues as something that might necessitate a fork for corporates could be good for all involved because that hopefully would mean less egg on Mozilla's face when someone finds out they're being DPI
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by justcommenting 12y ago
I was half expecting a Snowden acceptance speech via robot[0][1] [0] http://www.wired.com/2014/06/inside-edward-snowdens-life-as-... [1] https://twitter.com/robotsnowden
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by justcommenting 12y ago
Browser vendors need to rethink the mostly blind eye they've been turning toward corporate DPI and silent MITM. I don't think browser vendors are necessarily responsible for Superfish or Privdog, but I do think they play a role wh
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by justcommenting 12y ago
Somewhere around 20% of nurses in the United States belong to unions--some of which exert enormous political influence over the state and federal laws governing the other 80% working in an already highly-regulated market. Collective bargain

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