nosnoopcharter

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   by nosnoopcharter 11y ago

   There are instances where government funding for a technical project is suspicious, like NSA paying RSA to set a weird default PRNG. This isn't one of them. DARPA funding for independent businesses and research groups is very hands-off
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   by nosnoopcharter 11y ago

   Whatever you think of advertising, it doesn't have to enable government spying. Moving ads to HTTPS would solve the eavesdropping problem. Google has already announced it's doing just that. Also, it's not that simple for an I
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   by nosnoopcharter 11y ago

   There's a great op-ed by Stanford's Jonathan Mayer and Princeton's Ed Felten explaining this problem. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/12/13/nsa_surve... Their two labs al