privacy101

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by privacy101 11y ago
Economic and political espionage are probably the main goals if this mass spying.
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by privacy101 11y ago
I would have more trust in a separate device that has no networking capabilities.
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by privacy101 11y ago
The device could instead have a display that displays a password, QR code, one-time-key, etc... and then you would scan it using a webcam or your phone (or type it manually).
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by privacy101 11y ago
or ask Google, Apple, and Microsoft to automatically un-install the nefarious applications from all computers and phones... not sure what they would do about Linux ...
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by privacy101 11y ago
Who decides whether it was terrorism, revenge, craziness, etc?
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by privacy101 11y ago
Next, nuclear powered car, hopefully.
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by privacy101 11y ago
This is like saying that because the NSA could record all communications forever that they should.
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by privacy101 11y ago
Of course killings are never good but why don't you get rid of the cause?
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by privacy101 11y ago
Do they disable it globally or selectively enable it?
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by privacy101 11y ago
perhaps something like this would be clearer: http://imgur.com/rlImtkX
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by privacy101 11y ago
Does version >4.4 enable writing to SD card from apps again?
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Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI?(schneier.com)
8 points by privacy101 11y ago|0 comments
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by privacy101 11y ago
So many apps request permissions that would make this possible that I believe that it is a real threat.
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by privacy101 11y ago
Invisible light should probably also be kept in mind, although probably not as problematic.
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by privacy101 11y ago
Nobody is perfect at creating software (and probably not perfect at creating hardware either for that matter).
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by privacy101 11y ago
it is a big mistake but either way it is very fast...
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by privacy101 11y ago
Apparently i2p is better protected against this type of attack but it might not be perfect. "This sort of attack is powerful, but its applicability to I2P is non obvious" [1] "Without protocol scrubbing or higher latency, glo
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by privacy101 11y ago
What I don't get about Tor is that if your adversary can see all Internet packets, all the time, wouldn't it be trivial for them to find the real source and destination of a Tor packet using it's meta-data (size,timestamp,etc
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by privacy101 11y ago
At this point, Microsoft might as well be a branch of Government...
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by privacy101 11y ago
the blog post does not even mention warrants but the justia link does... I would be curious to know if a warrant is required for all people located in the area where such a device is used (which of course should be impossible).