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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I've been following Bruce Schneier's blog for a long time. He is a decent cryptographer, and a notable personality and technical expert. He's very new to "geopolitics". In fact, he's published a number of corre
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
This article reads pretty lazily in my opinion. It fails to mention that the CIA had an internal hunt for the contractors which leaked the "Vault7" arsenal - confirming that indeed it was a contractor and indeed that they had mish
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I recently wrote a chess AI in javascript, and found that it wasn't able to evaluate nearly as many moves per second as I expected, even though the implementation was pretty light (though not extensively optimized). My feeling is that
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The congressional hearing last week had them say that "the Obama Administration threw pebbles, and it's about time we started throwing rocks."
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
This is incredible. I followed this link down into the Margolus-Levitin theorem, which puts a physical limit to how much computation (entropy?) you can produce with a single joule of energy (6 x 10^33 operations/second). It seems that
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Could you explain the difference between whataboutism and context, particularly if a comment tries specifically to say that "two wrongs don't make a right"?
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
They would love to if someone gets them copies of the FSB hacking tools.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
SONY had partnered with the US government to create a film that they thought and hoped could galvinize a revolutionary mood in North Korea (by making a comedy about the CIA assassinating the leadership and showing that mock assassination on
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I remember when the internet was primarily shock videos and Newgrounds flash animations, and really crappy expages raw HTML webpages with flaming GIF animations. That internet was horrible. It was filled with goatse, tubgirl, lemonparty, cr
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Private companies are the current gatekeepers to free speech, to propaganda, to censorship, to surveillance. They can not disregard human rights and principles of free society any more than a government can - just as they can not violate hu
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Well this is the CIA. It can confuse the attribution so that trust is spoiled, so that energy is spend uselessly, so that another country takes the blame, for false flag attacks to justify other strategic moves.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I see a number of these articles from time to time about the health effects of (warm|cold) water treatment. Seems to me not to be a replacement for exercise, a healthy diet, and good sleep. Maybe as a supplement. Or maybe for someone who is
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Yeah, that's nice PR. Currently there is a partnership between the major infrastructure providers and the Federal government to remove, discourage and defund content that has national security implications. This theoretically includes
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The coup attempt was very, very real. Erdogan's subsequent power grab was/is also very real. (They aren't mutually exclusive.) The social media rumor that you're referring to has been widely discredited.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
My purpose was to talk about biases of media outlets in general rather than discuss the biases of one particular media outlet (Wikileaks). Wikileaks has important biases. So does CNN. Wikileaks does important reporting. So does CNN. Of cour
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
With the gap of 7 months? Russia and Turkey at the point of the disclosures were in a rapprochement: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/turkey/2016-07-20/ru... The result of the disclosures was a weakeni
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I read through about 10 pages of the first book ("without models"). It struck me as very nearly identical to current statistics practice. It clearly differentiated itself as discussing counterfactuals (the data needed to actually
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Right. But it's curious that "How biased is CNN?" gets shut down any time it comes up as a serious topic. From the whitewashing they did on the genocide in Bahrain (after accepting money from that government) to the misleadin
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The problem is that other sources are not willing to perform the kinds of investigations and do the sort of publications Wikileaks and few others are willing to do. When Snowden approached CNN, the Times and a number of other large media ou
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Anyone in the know how about whether the CIA subverted the security of software or whether they inserted vulnerabilities into software? One of the shocking and disgusting things from the NSA leaks was that it actively sought to create new v
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Yes. Correction made in the parent comment. Thank you.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
The number of times I've had perfectly reasonable ideas downvoted immediately on reddit...
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
This is a far, far cry from the kinds of quality journalism that Wikileaks does. It appears that the claim the password was 'password' wasn't a story in and of itself but an anecdote relating to the weakness of Podesta's
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Wikileaks published the internal communications of the Erdogan Administration in Turkey, indicating among other things (corruption) the administrations back channel to the Assad Administration in Syria (an enemy of the United States). The f
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
This is perfect. Much of the US media narrative about its overseas interventions likewise fall into this category. Much of the war propaganda consumed by the US population is based on truth. The problem is that US citizens don't have t
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
While the AI might be cheating by taking salient features from RAM rather than from pixel values, this is still an incredible feat. Just a few years ago we did not have generic algorithms that could take even salient features and self-learn
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Here's a recent Thinktank summary of the encryption and what access is difficult for the government. https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/1... You will find that the following summary is
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I want to be clear here: nationalism and euroskepticism are also fact-based worldviews. The difference between the worldviews are which facts are emphasized, shared and deemed culturally relevant. You can make pretty much any movie "ba
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
> This comment in particular seems to imply that government agencies can break e2e encryption. Much E2E encryption can be broken by government agencies. For HTTPS for instance, the government is a certificate authority accepted by your
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
What an incredible way to conceptualize and compare computer versus biological viruses (with the size of them in bits looking reasonably similar). In the virus writing scene there are a number of trends that have allowed generic approaches

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