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by mpyne 12y ago
> I'm especially surprised that a VC would make such a comment because it's an industry where being nice for the sake of relationship can be highly unethical. I think you need to read the rest of this thread, especially the por
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by mpyne 12y ago
> The rest of us out here that make up the majority of the world have the NSA breaking our laws with impunity. When the rest of the world starts upholding things like First and Second Amendment principles even for their own citizens, I w
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by mpyne 12y ago
I didn't get the impression jerf was arguing for perfect security, as much that they were saying that securing only against a passive attacker is as useful for the user as not using TLS at all. Selecting a threat model is all well an
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by mpyne 12y ago
I've used important software for submarines. OPSEC limits what I can say, but let's just say I wasn't very impressed.
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by mpyne 12y ago
NSA developed it and open-sourced it (much like their development of the crypto hash used for git), but Red Hat and the Linux kernel devs have pushed it the most since.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> "Congress in the FAA (building on the Protect America Act of 2007) specifically authorized programmatic warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance in a manner almost guaranteed to sweep up a substantial volume of communications
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I'm speculating that it is really only different from more dire authoritarianism in degree. If that's the case, then everything is authoritarianism (to some degree) and then Syndrome's quote from The Incredibles applie
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Or, more precisely, we don’t know if they obey laws. Do you know that any agency in the U.S. obeys laws? Do you verify this everyday, across the entirety of the USG? That was always the striking thing to me about these leaks as compa
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by mpyne 12y ago
> but the website references FISA 702, but doesn't understand it: One of the very first Snowden leaks was a complete misunderstanding of the leaked program (PRISM), so why should it be shocking that FISA 702 is misunderstood here?
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by mpyne 12y ago
Alpha radiation from outer space can't penetrate the atmosphere, for much the same reason you can't fire bullets 1km underwater from the surface. The only source of alphas from cosmic radiation would be from some sort of indirect
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by mpyne 12y ago
Perhaps. But I wouldn't describe "preventative maintenance" by police as necessarily bad, if (and that's the big question) it can help avoid direct negative consequences down the road where those negative consequences ou
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by mpyne 12y ago
Yes, I should have made it more clear that I was piggybacking on this story to make a more general observation. As a member of the military myself, the increasing militarization of law enforcement in the U.S. is something that has me concer
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I don't really mean to speak against the checkpoints, I just wonder if "police state" has a clear enough definition to provide an interesting framework for discussion of modern governments That's a really good point
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by mpyne 12y ago
I wish you guys the best. But it does make the whole "USA IS A POLICE STATE!!!1" claims a bit harder to take seriously. I keep trying to imagine East German civil libertarians publically crowd-sourcing requests to the Stasi to div
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Why are they so hung up and being The Ones Who Deliver The Software And The Hardware? For the same reason that Ubuntu and Firefox are?
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Once it has been on the internet, it is forever. If that were truly the case, we wouldn't be so worried about NSA retention of data.
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by mpyne 12y ago
It's exactly this. Congress in front of cameras is far, far different than Congress behind closed doors. The thing people sort of gloss over for politicians is the Cantor Effect: These guys normally actually need to get re-elected, o
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by mpyne 12y ago
Good point, I only wish I'd seen it in time to fix my comment.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> You haven't made the case that the NSA's shenanigans are in any way "inherent" to the internet as currently designed and implemented. Not the NSA's shenanigans, the shenanigans of any properly resourced forei
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by mpyne 12y ago
In addition there's also the less rosy issue that if G.Hash becomes more powerful than the other pools and starts doing small-scale theft or other activities, it's safer for your money to "pick the winning team".
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by mpyne 12y ago
> If you have a problem with another operator, you may not have any legal, civilized means of achieving redress, so (virtual) "violence" may be your only practical recourse. It would be less depressing if these real issues were
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by mpyne 12y ago
> That seems to be one of the fundamental paradoxes in the anarchistic ideal of Bitcoin - that implicitly, collective action to centralize and exploit the system is a perfectly legitimate act within its framework, if you can get away wit
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Andreessen took the concept of "shooting the messenger" to new depths of stupidity when he said that. And yet, not really. With the exception of RSA, American tech. companies are being hammered for the actions of NSA, not for
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by mpyne 12y ago
My SSBN used at least two separate subsystems running Red Hat-based servers as a part of their functionality. Yet another separate system used X11. Thanks, FOSS devs! :)
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I seriously doubt it the people who got jailed for certain tweets walked up to a policeman in the street and made the same comment they would get the same punishment. That's true, but there's a difference between being offens
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by mpyne 12y ago
Another notable result of the 1980 census was that it was the first one where the majority of Americans lived west of the Mississippi River.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Bitcoin transactions are usually priced in dollars so the volatility is immaterial to its use in transactions. That then leaves the question of why not simply use the non-volatile currency directly. Bitcoin would still have the advanta
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Come on guys, is it so hard to understand that if you exchange an asset for a security, you don't own the asset anymore? In this case this fact is directly contrary to a worldview held by many at HN, so I suspect everyone pointing
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Remember kioslave's support for ssh/sftp? Yes, such support is still there. In fact, it's even easier to get to than it was in KDE 3 (where you effectively had to be good at understanding how KDE converted URIs into kios
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I wonder why so many design-related critiques sound as if someone comitted a crime against humanity. C'est la vie, I suppose. The comments here were even more virulent with the last beta. I didn't even bother to comment then,

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