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by notveryrational 8y ago
This is about so much more than software...
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by notveryrational 8y ago
That's the thing, if you look at the NSA, they were and still are absolutely empowered to do what they did. The only person who got in trouble for the domestic surveillance disclosures were the person who blew the whistle. That's
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Ahh same deal. Geographical restrictions are for civilian law and political purposes. National Security follows different standards.
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Chip on your shoulder? So the State Police (NY State for me) did manufacture child pornography allegations. I am glad your experience was different. I believe that in this case, the CIA planted this evidence. I love my username, one could e
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by notveryrational 8y ago
I remember getting in trouble for hacking with friends in High School. When a friend got in trouble for stealing and publishing data from our school, the state police went around scaring all of the parents and media with accusations of susp
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by notveryrational 8y ago
That's because Wikileaks is not in any way a Russian operation. Wikileaks is globally important as a whistleblowing operation. If you go back to the 1990s you can find the US government applauding Wikileaks' publications. When Wik
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by notveryrational 8y ago
North Korea was very likely the culprit behind the SONY hacks. If you read the leaked emails, you will find that SONY had worked with the US Department of State and the CIA to add American propaganda into "The Interview" with a pl
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Common misconception. CIA is allowed to target Americans, and does on a regular basis. Targeting Americans for political purposes is illegal. Targeting Americans for National Security reasons is perfectly within National Security Law.
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by notveryrational 8y ago
This is really nice research! Simple, effective, and brutal. This reminds me of the research that went into finding issues in the media plugin models. Essentially, once the security community discovered that Java and Flash, etc, plugins did
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by notveryrational 8y ago
From the guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on T
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Outside of the general scaffolding to society that law enforcement plays (e.g. "keeping the order") I have never been personally assisted in any real way by the law. My experience is that law has been gamed and weaponized, wielded
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Yes. My comment was flippant, referring to the CIA global assassination program disclosed in increasingly greater detail over the past couple years.
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Going to guess the CIA?
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by notveryrational 8y ago
While far from the current state of the art of practical cryptography, I have a very soft spot for "theoretically constructed" cryptographic hash functions. I've encountered SWIFFT (which uses a lattice SVP), and some based o
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Fascinating history. The original intention of the planes was for the purpose of breaking international law (violating airspace in a way believed to be undetectable) until flights, in practice, showed that other countries were in fact able
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Anyone know what she was reporting on that caused the Justice Department to censor the coverage?
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Nothing where they are going to gas all the developers or something. Nope. It's more about priorities and intentions. Microsoft doesn't care about the developers. It cares about having the dominant platform. It recognizes that its
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Microsoft can not buy goodwill with me, personally. I worked at the company and was privy to "strategic conversations" whereby they were looking to regain trust with developers to get them back from Android and Google to Windows s
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by notveryrational 8y ago
An incredibly good source, isn't it? That on top of the consistent details provided by his unnamed sources, and the corroboration that's surfaced since.
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Note that the former head of Pakistani intelligence, Asad Durrani, whose country housed Bin Laden when Seal Team Six did the dispatch - has the same story that Hersh does. None of these things seem particularly unbelievable. Having research
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Security professional here. This isn't how security works. When the term "secure" is used, it is relative only to a threat model. Typically these threat models are implied, but different perspectives, levels of experience and
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by notveryrational 8y ago
> I don't understand the distinction you're trying to draw between block ciphers and the ECLDP. Dual EC was an RNG, which is (among other things) an important symmetric primitive. I think the definition of NOBUS that you'r
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by notveryrational 8y ago
The NSA is a pragmatic organization and is concerned only by "nobody but us until somebody figures it out", so long as there is an operational advantage it provides to the United States. We should also note that "nobody but u
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by notveryrational 8y ago
I don't think you understood the argument above. My attempt to clarify it as I understood it: The argument is that a unique-to-NSA analysis technique could be used to get NOBUS backdoor by virtue that only NSA would be able to use the
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Huh? Conspiracy theories?
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by notveryrational 8y ago
That's because there's no way its intention is to disrupt a soccer game. That's Ukraine's intelligence sector's way of driving popular "regular Joe" attention to a security interest that they have (by misl
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by notveryrational 8y ago
The journalism on this is awful. The Ukrainian statements are ridiculous and should have been challenged by VICE rather than sensationalized. A state actor isn't going to run the kill command on 500,000 routers to disrupt a soccer matc
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by notveryrational 8y ago
Remember the American "no fly list"? How about the American "threat scoring system"? China's doing just fine compared to the land of the free.