mrobot

22 ms·

181.
by mrobot 13y ago
Yes, put complete trust in the same judicial system that moves judges off of cases when they don't like the rulings. Especially when those rulings are centered around the exact handwavy unjust fourth amendment violations that justify t
182.
by mrobot 13y ago
This ruling is incorrect. Protections under the fourth amendment must apply. Companies must be able to guarantee your data is safe, or you end up with thermostats and laptops in your home that can watch you without your ever knowing. You mu
183.
by mrobot 13y ago
I didn't see anyone ask. Does "mission accomplished" mean no more leaks from the Snowden pool? What was the last leak, then, RSA security? "By the way, RSA sucks! Mission accomplished."
184.
by mrobot 13y ago
Clarification: The argument was not that it was clearly better, but that RSA believed the NSA could be trusted to have good intentions. This makes changing a bit more suspicious, but i guess the argument is that it wasn't suspicious en
185.
by mrobot 13y ago
Thank you for clarifying, Mike. Deciding what is responsible is likely a coordinated effort. I think the same argument applies. Do we think someone might be being irresponsible here? Sensationalism, or real problem?
186.
by mrobot 13y ago
My gut tells me EMC's stock price does not directly correspond to what's actually been going on here, and that this is not limited to RSA. Let's briefly assume that the RSA issue is just a tiny piece of a giant EMC public-pri
187.
by mrobot 13y ago
Here's a question: Do we think Snowden is intentionally misleading us to attack RSA and EMC, or that he's actually releasing as little information as he can to get us on the right track toward fixing things? Why would this particu
188.
by mrobot 13y ago
> and monitor all of its branches for criminal activity, and they basically did that--but not as much as the US demanded I'm not convinced that it wasn't completely obvious. The Mexico unit shipped $7 Billion to the US unit. Wh
189.
by mrobot 13y ago
Ah, ok. So where is the protest?
190.
by mrobot 13y ago
> The worst critiscm you can level here is that a lowly-paid cashier was insufficiently trained to spot potentially dubious sources of cash that were being paid in. It seems like the frequency with which this was happening would suggest
191.
by mrobot 13y ago
I thought the whole point here was that Dual EC DRBG was clearly better at the time. We made the decision to use Dual EC DRBG as the default in BSAFE toolkits in 2004, in the context of an industry-wide effort to develop newer, stronger me
192.
by mrobot 13y ago
Yes, why pay $10M for something that could be accomplished with "Hey this is better, you guys should switch. Here's why"
193.
by mrobot 13y ago
Results are all that matter.
194.
by mrobot 13y ago
Wha? The war of rape is about Jamie Leigh Jones, specifically about rape, and contains gems like "The best official estimates suggest that between 8 percent and 10 percent of all rape claims are false"
195.
by mrobot 13y ago
Damn, censored. Wonder who gets admin on news.yc, anyway...
196.
by mrobot 13y ago
Yikes.
197.
by mrobot 13y ago
What is the voting argument? There are so many people that a vote does not matter? Is this just the US, or other places, too?
198.
by mrobot 13y ago
I remember looking over EMC's acquisitions when all of this starting breaking. EMC acquisitions just read like someone building a surveillance system: RSA, multiple deep packet inspection companies, enterprise clustered postgres, eliti
199.
by mrobot 13y ago
Then what do they mean here, in this hearing, when they make such a big deal out of how Terry applies? 21:07, 23:04, 37:00 of first session link (morning session) http://www.c-span.org/Events/Civil-Liberties-Board-Revie
200.
by mrobot 13y ago
I see, so we might see this as a temporary latency increase that will be quickly argued against or worked around in the name of efficiency.
201.
by mrobot 13y ago
Is there any way to tackle this at the Terry level? It seems like we can protect ourselves more if we can explicitly eliminate the ability to systematically manufacture terry stops based on phone calls, other behavior, skin color, religion.
202.
by mrobot 13y ago
One difference is that it's not in a central GOV DB. Shouldn't it be considered private if the company can guarantee me it's not analyzed by the government without my knowledge?
203.
by mrobot 13y ago
My point was that phone records is often used as a distraction from the rest of the programs, "see look, it's just the outside of a letter!". In reality, two things are wrong: a lot of letters' insides are analyzed as we
204.
by mrobot 13y ago
Does anyone really believe these highly connected politicians didn't know? Doesn't hiding the details of the program protect it from those who would oppose it? Wouldn't some effort be expended there?
205.
by mrobot 13y ago
> I think the sentiment here mainly is going to be any report from 60 Minutes that isn't 100% negative about everything the NSA is doing is not going to be good enough. Or maybe just something that's not 100% positive.
206.
by mrobot 13y ago
Well, maybe they should have touched on it, then. I wonder why they didn't!
207.
by mrobot 13y ago
Sigh, more about phone records. Phone records! Just metadata collection! Data collection? Oh, right, we do that, too.
208.
by mrobot 13y ago
More sources on how RAS is being used by these different agencies. Note that an initial RAS queries are what pulled the data in to the more easily queryable "corporate stores". Morning session of civil liberties review, 21:07, 23:
209.
by mrobot 13y ago
One thing that always bothers me is the assumption that we dislike the NSA because we're worried about them reading our personal emails and looking at our photos, and.. "you know.. our Instagramming". We should know it's
210.
by mrobot 13y ago
Scored below these, bumped from the front page, does not even have NSA in the name for NSA penalty. Is it because the submitter is green, or some other valid reason? 27. DataStickies: USB drives as sticky notes (datastickies.com) 120 poin

More ›