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by nikcub 13y ago
before somebody jumps down his throat for saying he had a salary of $200k a year, the original part of the article is as follows: > He has had "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend w
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by nikcub 13y ago
but you can bet that if CNN broke the story and he went to them with the documents they would be praising him .. i've noticed a few outlets that are usually progressive have been leaning anti-Snowden, and I can't help but feel tha
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by nikcub 13y ago
The broader metadata requests had a declassification date of 2038 - they must have argued that it isn't tied to any one case, and that it could always threaten an ongoing case if made public. It is interesting that yet again we end u
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by nikcub 13y ago
Google continue to deny, rather than explicitly explain why their name is mentioned as a partner in an internal NSA document. A remaining explanation that matches all the known facts right now is that PRISM is a data format or data standard
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by nikcub 13y ago
Watch 'Inside the NSA' first, since it goes into the history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPh5Pe1Iwk If you watch them in sequence it is almost a continuous timeline.
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by nikcub 13y ago
You need to have been convicted to receive a pardon, the petition should be not to prosecute. Despite the semantics, this is a good idea to let the administration know that a lot of citizens do not consider what Snowden did to be a crime an
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by nikcub 13y ago
Why doesn't someone just built a Tor hidden service that is an interface to the Twilio (or similar) API? Sign up with Bitcoin, get a phone number and then send/receive SMS and send/receive calls using DAP/getUserMedia (h
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by nikcub 13y ago
If you don't want to download all the docs to view, there is a mirror on Google Docs with web based viewers: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bx25s45t4-d_eE0xbklZ...
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Anonymous releases NSA documents(pastebin.com)
166 points by nikcub 13y ago|18 comments
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by nikcub 13y ago
A campaign promise Obama made was to revisit the PATRIOT Act and when it came up for renewal to implement better oversight for NSL's and sneak-and-peak warrants. The Patriot Act was reauthorized in 2009 without a single modification, despit
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by nikcub 13y ago
I can just imagine the pre-briefing with NSA's PR people "we need to establish your tech credentials, what are you really good at" "err, Bejeweled Blitz?"
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by nikcub 13y ago
The zero arrests could be because they are reluctant to reveal that NSA domestic data collection is being used as a source in indictments. The NSA could simply throw up leads which are then investigated by the FBI who would collect evidence
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by nikcub 13y ago
> On one flight, he and his aide-de-camp learned "BackTrack," It only took him one flight to learn to use 40+ apps? Impressive, i've been using some of these apps for ~15 years and still don't know them well. (BackTrack is nothing more
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by nikcub 13y ago
this particular leaked document only applies to Verizon Business Network Services. they will request the same data from other providers in other FISA court applications. there is nothing in the request that makes it specific to Verizon Bu
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by nikcub 13y ago
I totally bought into GAE when it was first released - evangelized it, wrote and adapted a bunch of libraries for it and ended up implementing a dozen or so projects on it. The price hike completely killed me. I optimized what I could but t
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by nikcub 13y ago
Welcome to the Australian banking cartel Somehow through one of the worst banking crisis in the history of the world the major Australian banks still remained some of the most profitable companies in the world. The banks in Australia are a
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by nikcub 13y ago
Twitter proliferated on openness - they owe a large part of their success to it. Part of me feels they have broken a promise with early users - now that they have their critical mass and revenue pressure they can turn their back on 'open'.
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by nikcub 13y ago
I always have 2-5 windows open with 5-30 tabs in each. This is an interface problem that needs to be solved, nobody really needs that many tabs open. It becomes ridiculous when you don't want to update your browser incase you lose all your
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by nikcub 13y ago
Xerox, Post-it, Frisbee, Roller Blades, Q-tips, White Out, Windex, Viagra, Aspirin, Escalator, Zip-loc, Scotch tape, Polaroid, Jacuzzi, Walkman, Velcro, Super glue All become common English words, many of them in the dictionary but started
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by nikcub 13y ago
Right on topic. It may be only a little sidenote in the article, but that is an interesting revelation that is worth investigating further. It is very strange for a bank to not allow a standard wire to an international account. A refusal wi
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by nikcub 13y ago
and the freemium model was in place before Yahoo bought them I was a pro user, cancelled when Yahoo bought Flickr and forced us all to use Yahoo accounts.
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by nikcub 13y ago
Their method would have been a lot more difficult had they not caught Sabu and flipped him. Even with Sabu flipped, absent a confession they only have a lot of circumstantial evidence on Jeremy. Sabu was blatantly poor at covering up his id
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by nikcub 13y ago
> His client gave him access to the bank's internal network. That's just making it too easy.
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by nikcub 13y ago
They imply in the article in The Verge that they have spent it, or are going to spend it. When I asked them straight up in an email they didn't say that they didn't spend it, only that they wouldn't disclose where[1]. Anybody reading that a
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by nikcub 13y ago
Funny, in the profile of Mt Gox in The Verge[1] they said: > Mt. Gox estimates it costs $25 million in the first year to become fully compliant in the US. But considering a regulator could potentially swoop in and seize funds if a viola
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by nikcub 13y ago
check the SSID they are looking for, setup the network they want, establish a connection and then MITM their connection. This is what products like the Pineapple are setup to exploit and automate. It really is a lot of fun trying it out and
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by nikcub 13y ago
Here is the original Government press release: http://www.justice.gov/usao/nye/pr/2013/2013may09.html I could not locate a copy of the actual indictment, so if somebody could find a link to it I would appreciate it. I was curious to how t
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by nikcub 14y ago
re: your first paragraph, there is a way to jack an entire DNS record and not miss anything. It involves writing a custom DNS server. Once you become the primary, as the queries come in, if you are queried for a record that you don't know,
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by nikcub 14y ago
I am probably misremembering, the comment above prompted me to try and work out what the rate could have been, it is likely that it is much higher. I tried to find the details but had no luck. They have since moved on from that prototype
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by nikcub 14y ago
The very premise of this article is a huge technical error that misreads the Internet Census report. for eg. > The map is further limited to Linux-based computers with a certain amount of processing power. And finally, because of the pa

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