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661.
by problems 10y ago
Likely has a lot to do with the countries themselves. Russia and China have much stricter governments and the values on freedom and privacy aren't as widely respected - so not as many leakers pop up.
662.
by problems 10y ago
I think it's going to be severely abused politically. I've already seen a few people on the right saying it means the DNC hack was 100% fake. And I've already seen a security researcher on the left saying it has nothing to do
663.
by problems 10y ago
Nothing about "active command and control servers" is strongly attributable. They aren't signing them with Russian government certificates or running them from Russian government IPs. They're buying servers or VPN connec
664.
by problems 10y ago
It wouldn't surprise me - a lot of the stuff they use to identify a malware source just isn't that accurate. Anyone can buy a server from the other side of the world, anyone can put strings in another language into malware and any
665.
by problems 10y ago
> I have no problem with them optimizing for impact. But they refuse to admit that is what they are doing. It disingenuous at the very least. They've stated that's exactly what they're doing in several pieces. > It&#x27
666.
by problems 10y ago
We're not talking credit card numbers, SIN numbers are just a series of a few numbers which may match many, many unrelated things. I'd have to see the specific case to really say yes or no to that one. Many of the leaks they get a
667.
by problems 10y ago
> Comey disputes that in the linked article. >> "We did not develop any evidence that the Trump campaign or the current RNC was successfully hacked." - Linked Article Seems pretty contradictory to me. Maybe a previous adm
668.
by problems 10y ago
I don't think that's true - many companies have stricter policies about this or simply block it via technical means. No outside emails with attachments or links for example, screening phone calls and strict training. You don'
669.
by problems 10y ago
I think you're missing a key part, there's a difference between being a target and actually losing valuable information. It's entirely possible that either they failed to break in or that they failed to get any significant in
670.
by problems 10y ago
It seems like that is in large part a mischaracterization of what happened. Read the tweets and comments from around https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/768134865049030656
671.
by problems 10y ago
Is there even any evidence for that? If I recall correctly the claims said they attempted but failed to get anywhere at least with Trump's RNC.
672.
by problems 10y ago
What's wrong with that? They simply optimized for impact. If they were to dump all the releases months before the election no one would have remembered them, no matter how significant. They've done partial releases and released ov
673.
by problems 10y ago
They're advocating for radical transparency of governments and corporations, not individuals - there's a significant difference. Releasing these exploits as is would result in harm to individuals who are unrelated entirely to the
674.
by problems 10y ago
Not really... the biggest example of this was probably the leak that happened from Manning - but it in large part wasn't really WikiLeaks fault, they gave an AES 'insurance' key to a journalist who released it without really
675.
by problems 10y ago
They do have exploits - they had lists of vulnerabilities in iOS and Android they were planning to report and release after patching has occurred.
676.
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, it'll be interesting here though - they potentially have some pretty major remote exploits and tech firms might be resistant to even patch as those who are unpatched will be left vulnerable to attack. The standard route then is t
677.
by problems 10y ago
See - I have the opposite issue, if I'm using a computer I want the information on a webpage or form, if it's not then I want to call and talk to someone - never a machine. If I'm interacting with a system, I want to interact
678.
by problems 10y ago
It might be unprofessional, but I'd laugh and roll with it even as someone without kids. Especially for internal calls within your team, probably not a bad thing to do - you want to have a fairly relaxed relationship with them generall
679.
by problems 10y ago
I think a lot of what's being construed as political bias from Wikileaks is simply optimizing for maximum impact. They want their leaks to be felt, to have real-world results. If they were to just dump everything months before the elec
680.
by problems 10y ago
I have to disagree - leaks seem to be the only way that this information gets out and the only way that people seem to care much about privacy.
681.
by problems 10y ago
See - this isn't what they're discussing at all, it seems to be what they're trying to imply with the naming, but it's not actually that at all. They're discussing game mechanics that force you to say - shoot some c
682.
by problems 10y ago
It's not so much focused on demonstrating your own values so much as it's about UI and the conduct that the UI is able to generate through cause and effect. Like in GTA, do you try to talk our your problems or do you shoot first a
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by problems 10y ago
I'm assuming FF for Android because it's the only browser on the market with decent extension support to my knowledge.
684.
by problems 10y ago
I doubt you'd get busted for passing off fake ivory even without such a change, probably not many people want to out themselves as an ivory buyer to authorities and media.
685.
by problems 10y ago
Don't go poacher hunting yourself, arm and pay some locals to do it - help the community and all that, discourage the kind of desperation that leads to poaching in the first place.
686.
by problems 10y ago
> I like to think i'd decline to work on that Does it say something bad about me that I'd be the one jumping up and down to work on this? It seems really interesting from an analytical perspective and the malicious side of it w
687.
by problems 10y ago
Yeah, there's a very high risk of a fork if a significant number of miners decided to censor such a transaction. Look at the Ethereum Classic debacle - and remember that many Bitcoin users tend to hold those views stronger than many Et
688.
by problems 10y ago
But they can still come and beat you for it. Other cryptocurrencies like ZCash, Monero, etc solve this in a more elegant way by making transaction actually anonymous.
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by problems 10y ago
Bluh, don't get me started on Finder. Icons in directories would randomly be overlapping just because I hadn't been in them in a while and new files were added, they added this weird tagging system with colors that just doesn&#x27
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by problems 10y ago
> It's interesting that no one blinks twice at the thought of using a decades-old operating system - it's "mature", "battle tested", "proven over time" or some other phrase. We use maintained opera

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