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by lucastx 11y ago
I like how the Panopticon concept is complemented by the Synopticon one, as in "many watches few". It's close to the "sousveillance" concept. What may save us from a dystopic totalitarism is the freedom and agency w
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by lucastx 11y ago
> Google is a known collaborator with three letter agencies (remember that famous "SSL added and removed here :)" diagram?) The SSL diagram indicates not Google's participation; it shows that NSA was wiretapping their data
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by lucastx 11y ago
The Obsproxy and Pluggable Transports are kinda this, aren't? https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en > obfsproxy is a tool that attempts to circumvent censorship, by transforming the Tor traffic
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by lucastx 11y ago
It's not "typing stuff", it's exercing forced, unasked control of your computer (plus unknown behavior on other operating systems), isn't it? If the user's expectation when handed a thumb drive looking USB devi
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by lucastx 11y ago
Indeed. The Tor Project has one of those: https://people.torproject.org/~karsten/tor-brochure/tor-broc...
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by lucastx 11y ago
Also there is a very interesting language called Io: http://iolanguage.org/ I actually thought (just woke up, dizzy) that the news was about the language.
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by lucastx 11y ago
I'm a GNU/Linux user for almost a decade now, sysadmin, programmer. I still double click things everytime I'm using a Windows desktop (not on the web of course), as does everyone I know here in Brazil.
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by lucastx 12y ago
I think that framing this around "consumers" is not the main point here. If you think that those that benefit are only in a buy-and-sell negotiation, a free market is very appealing. What we are doing here in Brazil regarding the
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Brazil at the heart of privacy and data protection international discussions(in4melegalblog.wordpress.com)
1 points by lucastx 12y ago|0 comments
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Internet in Brazil under debate(internetlab.org.br)
2 points by lucastx 12y ago|0 comments
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by lucastx 12y ago
The title of this Wired article is somewhat over the top. It is about a (then) upcoming Gareth Owen's presentation on 31C3. I just watched it [1] yesterday, and Gareth Owen himself says that this number is the count of a certain kind o
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by lucastx 12y ago
Therapeutical herbs. Prohibited books.
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Why All the Snowden Docs Should Be Public: An Interview with Cryptome(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by lucastx 12y ago|1 comments
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by lucastx 12y ago
I like the way calling it a "waking dream" hints that, during a trip, the subconscious (whatever it is concretely) expands its connection with the conscious mind. The fact that lucid dreaming is a way to explore your mind ("p
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by lucastx 12y ago
Maybe I live in a place where technology (and security practices, specifically) goes forward later than Silicon Valley? (Answer: yes)
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by lucastx 12y ago
I've used it in the past so I could run commands on a server, when the administrator only gave me FTP access. Uploading PHP files with system() calls works too, but C99 is much easier to use. But yes, I only came to know it when I was
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by lucastx 12y ago
Maybe we don't actually have a democracy? You know, we have been watching, for more than a year now, story after story telling us that the Five Eyes intercept, filter and store a range of communications between allegedly criminals, mer
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by lucastx 12y ago
It introduced me to cognition as a emergent phenomena (specially the chapter "Prelude ... Ant Fugue" [1]). It made me think about various philosophical topics such as holism vs reductionism and syntax vs semantics, the meaning of
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by lucastx 12y ago
Not only the mathematical content gets hard, but the book is full of puns, metalinguistics, crossreferences, good enough to make you laugh out loud and subtle enough to not become saturated.
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by lucastx 12y ago
It changed my life as well -- along with other great books he wrote: "The Mind's I", a collaboration with Daniel Dennett, is a more light read than Gödel Escher Bach which also talks about consciousness, emergence and cogniti
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by lucastx 12y ago
Yes, according to this Wired article: http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails/
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Julian Assange on Digital Sovereignty and Surveillance at #NETmundial2014 (advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org)
3 points by lucastx 12y ago|0 comments
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by lucastx 13y ago
His website has a new design. Nice.
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by lucastx 13y ago
The link is broken, soneca. It has no trailing slash.
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by lucastx 13y ago
I read the "stealthy" in the title as "hidden from bosses and coworkers", thinking its interface was similar to Office and all windows would hide with Ctrl+Shift+F8.
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by lucastx 13y ago
I feel guilty of upvoting a joke on HN. My only comfort is knowing that this one will be buried, and this will be my punishment.
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by lucastx 13y ago
laughing out loud, here. took me some seconds to understand this subtle one.
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by lucastx 13y ago
That's not how a properly implemented hash -- and cryptography in general -- is supposed to work. This strategy is called "security by obscurity", and is seen as a very bad one. Instead, cryptography aims to provide means to
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by lucastx 13y ago
I think this is more about making noise to remember people -- people which does not follow tech and NSA news -- that surveillance is still a problem, that Snowden is still stuck in Hong Kong, that the NSA still collects a huge amount of per
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by lucastx 13y ago
Slightly off-topic, but since the developers are listening: Is there a RSS feed for The Day's blog ( https://thedaywefightback.org/blog/ )? I want to keep up with the news.

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