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by mpyne 11y ago
> Oh, you mean scientists can still do things like that, and that cat GIFs don't prevent it? Shut your mouth! If, as you indicate yourself, the Internet could still be used for science whether or not it also delivers videos of cats,
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by mpyne 11y ago
Who dreamed of a highbrow Internet, and how did they get so out of touch with humanity in the first place?
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by mpyne 11y ago
Which if you click further around in that section of the NSA website, you'll find that NSA is only talking about information assurance of classified and sensitive military information, not any information handled anywhere in the govern
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by mpyne 11y ago
Did you read the page you linked? Try clicking on the "About IA at NSA" link and you'll find out what NSA means by "Information Assurance": > NSA's Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) protects and defend
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by mpyne 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'd sign up for it if the alternative is 20+ million records of private data in the hands of an unfriendly state. But then I don't think that NSA is Literally Satan™ either.
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by mpyne 11y ago
This wasn't just a single employee that made a single mistake. The Navy is happy to fire commanding officers for calling out sailors who show up late for physical training because it's embarrassing to the sailor, and yet it seems
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by mpyne 11y ago
You have no understanding of how work is dispersed within the U.S. intelligence community. Which is fine, of course, but why are you trying to speak as if you have authoritative knowledge? You say that NSA is responsible for cybersecurity w
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by mpyne 11y ago
Network security is not NSA's job. Nor is information security. Communications security is, but only for "national security information" (i.e. classified) and military communications. Defense against "cyber attack&quot
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by mpyne 11y ago
Have the secret backdoor keys for Dual EC DRBG leaked yet? Nuclear launch codes and authenticators? Analogies are useful but don't get carried away, especially when talking about something as broad as "the government" (as if
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by mpyne 11y ago
Legitimate? Yes. "OK" is a function of how pervasive the spying is, but far from expecting other countries not to try at all, I'd honestly expect other countries to try mightily to get information on what the President of the
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by mpyne 11y ago
Don't pin everyone on "that's what the people want though!!!"... there's a reason we don't simply setup government so that whatever passing whim the populace manages to latch onto gets adopted and then cast asi
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by mpyne 11y ago
have to sell more milk.
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by mpyne 11y ago
Even more interesting is that someone besides us "government shills" has finally acknowledged the idea that something NSA does could possibly be legitimate...
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by mpyne 11y ago
Thucydides is especially interesting for me since he was a historian--but far from being a dispassionate observer, actually played a small role in the history he was trying to describe (as you hint at when discussing their rigor).
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by mpyne 11y ago
> Doesn't the NSA doesn't operate at such scales? Or is it just that the US doesn't expect adversaries to be as capable? NSA does. And the USG is well-aware that China and Russia and even Iran could do this too. So regardi
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by mpyne 11y ago
> Do they have anything? Wikileaks claimed they had leaks that would offend the Kremlin itself, back in October 2010. Then the FSB made very public threats, and all of sudden Wikileaks was in no particular rush to leak anything regarding
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by mpyne 11y ago
And yet not as close as they used to be. It's not coincidental that the U.S. DoD has just recently signed agreements with India on exporting carrier technology and know-how, among other defense cooperation projects. Russia has supplied
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by mpyne 11y ago
This is a joke, right? Assange himself admitted to telling Snowden to flee to Russia in particular, not just as a waypoint to Havana... But yes, since 2010 or so Wikileaks has been co-opted by Russia. In October 2010 Assange had crowed that
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by mpyne 11y ago
OK, but who's arguing otherwise?
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by mpyne 11y ago
> There's a lot of heat in this debate, but very little light. An ironic statement given the 3 paragraphs that preceded it...
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by mpyne 11y ago
> Oh right, better to have folks born on the wrong side of an arbitrary line continue to live on $3k/year in order to make sure American wages continue to rise from $40k to $60k. Be honest - your actual complaint is that reducing in
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by mpyne 11y ago
Well, read the section on DC "amplidyne" motors and you'll see that their conception of an amplifier is more general than you might be expecting. :)
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by mpyne 11y ago
> These aren't great to be honest. I've scanned through them in the past and there's a ton of missing stuff. You can read these and know what stuff is and how it works but not how to use it or any practical concerns. This
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by mpyne 11y ago
Except that you need to do the same things for Bitcoin-based businesses as well, as I indicated in my other comment. If you're trying to say that you'll simply break the law, you are also able to do so with fiat cash flows (just a
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by mpyne 11y ago
> You should consider that you are also a bit absurdly denialist on the subject. If we were talking about anything other than the bubble sort of online transactions it would be a different story. It is inherently less efficient than basi
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by mpyne 11y ago
> I've actually created a service (B2B) which requires bitcoin as I need atomicity, which bitcoin delivers perfectly (as long as I wait for N confirmations, it's pretty certain that I now _own_ the bitcoins). Atomicity is not a
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by mpyne 11y ago
My point is that when you say that system X is superior because of unique feature Y, that "unique" feature should actually be unique. Bitcoin is a system with rules just as much as any other financial system, so the point that was
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by mpyne 11y ago
> Permission required to participate in any electronic-fiat-money-transfer-system™ = mucho Then make a better system which doesn't burn all of Ireland's electrical output to handle 2 transactions a second, to let people transfe
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by mpyne 11y ago
But "permission" from other people is required, even on Bitcoin. Try spending more from an UXTO than the UXTO is actually worth and see how fast your suggested transaction is rejected by the rest of the nodes and miners in the Bit
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by mpyne 11y ago
Not just that, but how do these disparate government agencies verify that so-and-so checking into the local agency office is actually cleared for SECRET or TS or whatever? They have to look it up somehow. That lookup will likely involve a c

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