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by northwest 13y ago
Anything short of a very clear revolution (regarding the NSA and the political system in general) won't solve the real basic issues. I just hope it will be a rational and calm revolution, not a bloody one.
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by northwest 13y ago
Was he "wrong" or was he lying? I'd say that's secondary, in some way. The first thing that matters is the result . And it continues a) to be unacceptable, and b) to not be addressed
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by northwest 13y ago
Let's not get side-tracked. This article is "just" about a some details. The real issue that must be resolved and is still not being addressed is: As long as these NSA activities are not dismantled and the People do not have
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by northwest 13y ago
Does anyone on Hacker News still use Gmail?
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by northwest 13y ago
> For years, FOIA requests to the CIA garnered the same denial: "We did not locate any records responsive to your request." ...because we thought life would be easier for us if we didn't even try.
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by northwest 13y ago
Just one more point: the colon depends on solid material in order to push things through (it's how it works). Get rid of solid food in there and its muscles won't create any real transit.
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by northwest 13y ago
The real question seems easy: Why should one start to "eat" in a way that our body was never made for? For how long has humanity been eating natural and solid things again?
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by northwest 13y ago
Btw, the whole "I renounce b/c I'm just losing cash" problem also applies to Green Card holders abroad who either haven't "moved in" yet or have temporarily "moved out". AFAIK they also pay US ta
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by northwest 13y ago
A potential upside would be: They may come back one day. Which they almost certainly won't without their US passport/citizenship.
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by northwest 13y ago
Being a US citizen abroad may even come at a "social" price, given the negative PR campaign the US has been running for a very, very long time now.
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Apple aerial map photos blocked over Oslo in Norway(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by northwest 13y ago|0 comments
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by northwest 13y ago
This would require the source.
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by northwest 13y ago
> I think powerful commercial interests colluding to purposefully break the rule of law is a huge negative. It happens all the time, though, if you look at the financial, banking, insurance and oil industry - even without the slightest (
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by northwest 13y ago
That's probably the best idea right now - uniting. Will they? They're of course competitors, they could be played off against each other by the government. Anyways, such talks would have to remain ultra-secret.
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by northwest 13y ago
I would really like to see a place where possible solutions are actually being discussed, voted on and worked out, like I tried to say here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152935 It kind of really sucks that we'
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by northwest 13y ago
It's the NSA-related articles that often come from The Guardian. That's simply because this paper is the window for Snowden (not sure if they have an exclusive agreement, maybe). They have the balls to stand behind him, unlike a l
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by northwest 13y ago
> [...] when they post everything on Facebook and use Google/Apple/Microsoft? I can only speak for myself, but my only sin is to still have an iPhone (soon to be replaced by an Ubuntu phone). Apart from this, I have left all
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Microsoft is Working on a Cloud Operating System for the U.S. Government(wind8apps.com)
1 points by northwest 13y ago|0 comments
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The NSA is turning the Internet into a total surveillance system(theguardian.com)
233 points by northwest 13y ago|114 comments
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by northwest 13y ago
You may start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29
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by northwest 13y ago
And: > Around this same time I became aware of the problem of observation in quantum mechanics. At it’s basic level the issue is that you can affect particles by simply observing them. That's simply because you can only measure by a
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by northwest 13y ago
If http://secushare.org/end2end means we'll never be able to entirely rely on HTML5 app platforms, FirefoxOS won't be able to offer secure communication after all. Guess we'll have to go with Ubuntu, then.
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by northwest 13y ago
> With retroshare all resources are gone if you delete those, with Freenet & GNUnet you simply can't delete anything. Sure, that's true and the advantage of Freenet and GNUnet. The flip side of the caching is of course that
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by northwest 13y ago
No Sir.
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by northwest 13y ago
Well, Thunderbird has the add-on called "Enigmail" which makes it easy. AFAIK there's no key directory integrated, but then again, is a key directory really a good idea? It adds another attack vector. And then of course, this
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by northwest 13y ago
The other "darknet" options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29 The most complete one seems to be http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/
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by northwest 13y ago
The only thing I regret is that valuable thoughts go to waste, in the sense that, since they're not stored, they can not be endlessly discussed, improved and ultimately result in real solutions. For me any discussion has the ultimate g
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by northwest 13y ago
It sounds like a really bad killer virus.
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by northwest 13y ago
And what are the reasons that led people to lose interest? Maybe one answer is "because we don't feel enough pain yet". In this case, don't worry, the pendulum will swing back soon enough. The concept of real democracy i
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by northwest 13y ago
> Is democracy overrated? No. It's just that we haven't gotten through to eliminating the corrupting elements and anchoring this legally, yet. Why? Because corruption (= ultimately money) protects itself.

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