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by justcommenting 12y ago
It's easy to think of a few "not all bugs are created equal" reasons this might be misleading. Weighted averages of CVSS by OS might have been more useful, for example, and dis-aggregating Microsoft OS versions but not the va
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by justcommenting 12y ago
what a great testament to her life and to its worth
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by justcommenting 12y ago
This is almost a continuation of the pattern from 2013 in which senior officials made claims that were quickly and devastatingly revealed to be false or misleading in comparison to what NSA and its partners were actually doing in practice.
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Obama said people want secure mobile communications, but NSA undermined that(washingtonpost.com)
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by justcommenting 12y ago
I'm glad to see Sarah's courageous acts receiving more positive attention.
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How Latest Snowden Leak Is Headache for White House(blogs.wsj.com)
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by justcommenting 12y ago
Your comments seem to underscore how Google controls the debate by defining the terms on privacy issues. You seem to be saying "Concerned about privacy? You could check up on Google by acting like one of its advertising customers..&q
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by justcommenting 12y ago
It really depends on the relevant counterfactual; yours makes total sense from the vantage point of lots of developers, but I tend to prioritize privacy and autonomy. When I visit catphotos.wordpress.com, my intention is not to leak informa
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by justcommenting 12y ago
This particular issue has come up in previous HN discussions, but I would draw people's attention to innocuous and quite reasonable-sounding phrases like "need-to-know basis." What does that really mean for a company like Goo
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by justcommenting 12y ago
This seems to be a growing problem, even among so-called 'privacy advocates.' The last time I checked, EFF's Privacy Badger extension was designed around having no qualms about making exactly these types of bad trade-offs on
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by justcommenting 12y ago
As someone who respects your work, I would suggest that perhaps the more interesting problem is EFF's structural inability to do anything but apologize for Google policies and practices that clearly and obviously harm user freedom and
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Equation Group victim pleaded for help online in 2010(arstechnica.com)
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by justcommenting 12y ago
> I don't want my browser linked with my Google account. You might want to pay a lot more attention to SSL-based tracking methods, e.g. https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-
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by justcommenting 12y ago
My experience with relatives' computers has been that trying to completely remove Chrome from Windows is a lot like trying to remove a rootkit, specifically one that phones home a lot. If any other company did those sorts of things in
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by justcommenting 12y ago
It's worth mentioning the history of 'coordination' or 'bringing into line' between the public sector and the private sector here, especially gleischaltung[0]. I'm not trying to make a direct comparison, but th
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Obama Calls on Silicon Valley, Congress to Do More on Cybersecurity(america.aljazeera.com)
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by justcommenting 12y ago
It's worth mentioning the history of 'coordination' or 'bringing into line' between the public sector and the private sector here, especially gleischaltung[0]. I'm not trying to make a direct comparison, but th
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by justcommenting 12y ago
What I want OCW to be and what OCW set out to accomplish are not necessarily the same things, so in a bunch of ways it's unfair for me to have expectations that don't comport with theirs. But for me personally, accessibility seems
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by justcommenting 12y ago
As a longtime OCW donor myself, I definitely hear you but would still say we still have miles to go until we've made OCW accessible to all. I could see how OCW might not feel very open to the blind and deaf. I never said I supported th
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by justcommenting 12y ago
so access to knowledge--most of which, it's worth noting, is massively subsidized by taxpayers in the form of grants and related overhead--is a luxury good? that's not a world i want to live in; access to knowledge is foundationa
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by justcommenting 12y ago
this is a false choice; no one would credibly make that sort of claim about audio-only courses in podcast form or video recordings without audio. you're focusing on the economics, and that's fine, but the court is focusing on whet
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by justcommenting 12y ago
This reminded me of moxie's recent post about whether we've put the glasses from They Live on or taken them off[0]. In terms of the internet as a failed utopia, it seems to comes down to the choices we all make in deciding this
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by justcommenting 12y ago
spyglass mosaic was one of the first browsers i used; even back then, i remember thinking spyglass was a peculiar name..
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Short PGP Fingerprints Considered Harmful(evil32.com)
1 points by justcommenting 12y ago|0 comments
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by justcommenting 12y ago
I hope other governments will take notice of this ruling in considering political asylum for the person who blew the whistle to expose these human rights violations on a massive scale.
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by justcommenting 12y ago
at present, it's certainly a lot less user-friendly to get up and running than adblock plus or adblock edge. i also wonder if they risk running into the conflict of interest situation adblock plus ran into where people start paying off
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Tracking Protection on Firefox(support.mozilla.org)
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by justcommenting 12y ago
for many modern desktops/laptops (including recent Apple machines, which i don't think was the case even just a few product cycles ago), Intel's vPro appears capable of many forms of surveillance/subversion. in terms of
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by justcommenting 12y ago
as someone who made previous comments on backblaze data analyses posted on HN, i wanted to say thanks. this is fantastic, and i'm looking forward to digging into these data! and even though i share some of the same sentiments from othe
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by justcommenting 12y ago
It wasn't necessary to ultimately compel Risen to have a chilling effect on journalism, much like it wasn't necessary to ultimately imprison Thomas Drake for the rest of his life to have a chilling effect on IC employees who seek

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