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by northwest 13y ago
> We don't need to use GPG to make large-scale surveillance harder, we just need to use more email servers. We definitely should encrypt everything , whenever possible.
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by northwest 13y ago
> We have an email server monoculture. The issue goes a lot further: We have a technology monoculture. Technology has this annoying property to trend towards a monoculture. You can also see this when you count the tech giants who hold
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by northwest 13y ago
> "[...] so what are you suggesting those customers do now?" > "Hushmail has a fairly secure email service. [...]" Pretty surprising, coming from a guy like him. A little reminder: http://www.wired.com
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by northwest 13y ago
Thanks. I think I don't trust myself enough to handle anything crypto-related.
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by northwest 13y ago
Yeah, I should stop saying intelligent things. ;-)
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by northwest 13y ago
This reminds me of how the Occupy movement was handled by the authorities.
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by northwest 13y ago
> I think having some sense of power important to the well-being of humans? Of course it is. That's not the question, I guess. The question is: How much difference regarding power (generally expressed in money/wealth) is health
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by northwest 13y ago
> "What we're finding is power diminishes all varieties of empathy" Another reason to stop the decline of the middle class and to begin to reverse this trend.
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by northwest 13y ago
> At one point, one of the guys asked to use the bathroom. I showed him where it was and went back outside the house. I remember thinking he had been in there longer than was normal. If you leave cops roaming around your house alone, you
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by northwest 13y ago
Don't worry, you won't find it on the front page.
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by northwest 13y ago
Is this real life?
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by northwest 13y ago
There is a conflict of interest between this post and HN: HN's goal is also to promote YC start-ups (directly and indirectly), and they happen to be US-based.
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by northwest 13y ago
> The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle tru
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by northwest 13y ago
> What about an alternate messaging system addressIng these issues ? In case he was talking about unencrypted email, it's obvious: -> Only use encrypted email (with an email client). In case he was talking about encrypted ema
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by northwest 13y ago
> They are also working on a special BitTorrent-powered browser, which lets users store and distribute The Pirate Bay and other websites on their own. Great idea. If this came as a plugin, it would probably spread faster. (This is btw ho
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by northwest 13y ago
> Obama has his own reality distortion field. Another possibility would be: He has (or thinks he might have) a gun to his head and fears to meet a JFK-like fate (for himself or his family). In this case he should step down and denounce t
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by northwest 13y ago
Also, rest assured that the US government will continue to put enough pressure on foreign/European governments to continue mass surveillance on their behalf. If there is no fundamental structural change in the US, the Western World wil
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by northwest 13y ago
He had the "balls" to say on TV something to the tune of "the US doesn't have a spying program at home". That should be enough for everybody to understand even Mr Hope-and-Change is lying now.
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by northwest 13y ago
If you're implying he's got a gun to his head, he should just step down and say "I can't do my job any longer".
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by northwest 13y ago
Exactly. It will be just another tasteless joke, until they are made just as transparent for us as we have been transparent for them, all these years.
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by northwest 13y ago
It's a trap! https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_Complex
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by northwest 13y ago
1. Make some cheap meaningless concessions 2. Let people fall asleep again 3. Continue to build the surveillance state 4. This time, hide it even better
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by northwest 13y ago
He could still just sell it to someone in another country. Neither the service nor his 10 years of work would be lost.
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by northwest 13y ago
Also, what prevents the guy from setting up that service in a European country (Switzerland is not subject to EU laws)? I don't see why his 10 years of work would be lost.
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Ask HN: Which is the best secure mobile messaging app?
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by northwest 13y ago
I suppose it's time we have a public open hardware effort in order to break the telcos' unhealthy monopoly.
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by northwest 13y ago
I agree, an economic incentive would certainly add value to the ecosystem and allow it to grow faster.
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by northwest 13y ago
Remember when WiMax was being discussed? How come it still isn't being sold yet? Could it be that it's because providers felt threatened? I suppose it would take meshnets to a whole new level.
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by northwest 13y ago
Question: Could it be interesting to have the main project leaders set up a website allowing everybody to pay hackers to come to your home and set up the required equipment ready-to-use?
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by northwest 13y ago
Yeah, it's not really popular, these days. And don't count on it becoming more popular any time soon.

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