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by pvnick 13y ago
Considering DPR presumably made $80 million in bitcoins before he was caught, >definitely don't even think of implementing it yourself is not very convincing...
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by pvnick 13y ago
I agree. According to the article he evidently ordered another hit worth $150k. This idiot sounds like he was trying to become some sort of psuedo mob boss. Totally doesn't look the part though [1] [1] http://www.forbes.com&
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by pvnick 13y ago
Just donated some more at https://rally.org/lavabit . Godspeed Ladar. You're an inspiration to us all.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I agree whole heartedly. When I first started playing around with data, despite my lite statistics background, I had no idea what I was doing and no amount of education would have prepared me for noisey, real life data sets. I had to become
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by pvnick 13y ago
Gah, you're right, thanks!
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Qwest CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison, "vindicated" by leaks(washingtonpost.com)
14 points by pvnick 13y ago|6 comments
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by pvnick 13y ago
Just gave $25, I hope to see Mr. Levinson succeed! It would definitely be a very meaningful symbolic victory against the surveillance state.
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by pvnick 13y ago
On the mobilization front, this rally is aiming to be a large display of support for reforming the surveillance apparatus: http://rally.stopwatching.us
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by pvnick 13y ago
This is a gripping account of what these surveillance programs lead to written by someone who saw when they go wrong: I live in a country generally assumed to be a dictatorship. One of the Arab spring countries. I have lived through curfews
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Brazilian president Rousseff launches tirade against US over NSA surveillance(theguardian.com)
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DOJ identified latest leaker "from obtaining phone logs of AP reporters"(twitter.com)
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by pvnick 13y ago
Looks like the anti-spying-stories brigade is out in full force today flagging this and the two stories about GCHQ hacking the Belgian telecom companies
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm getting tired of the knee-jerk tendency for a small group of people to flag these extremely critical revelations. Yesterday the post about the mass rally on Washington was flagged to the bottom and eventually kicked off the front p
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by pvnick 13y ago
Certainly would!
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'll be there, for sure (driving from Florida if anybody wants to carpool). This is exactly the kind of movement that gets the attention of our leaders and is the logical progression from the previous Restore the Fourth rallies.
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Report: NSA spied on Brazilian, Mexican presidents(cbsnews.com)
61 points by pvnick 13y ago|50 comments
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Whistleblower Award - Jacob Appelbaum answers for Edward Snowden [video](youtube.com)
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by pvnick 13y ago
Looks like he actually impersonated officials with higher access: http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/29/20234171-... Snowden appears to be have acted brilliantly. We couldn't have asked
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by pvnick 13y ago
>An anonymous official attributed the abuses to “overzealous NSA employees or contractors” eager to prevent another 9/11 attack. I find this incredibly funny. "Sure we broke the law, but it's because we love our country t
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October 3, 2011 FISC Opinion Holding NSA Surveillance Unconstitutional(eff.org)
135 points by pvnick 13y ago|35 comments
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by pvnick 13y ago
Awesome! I've been looking forward to this for a long time. I don't have much to add to the discussion other than to express my cautious joy that this is coming to light (I'm nervous at the extent to which the opinion will be
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by pvnick 13y ago
You would do best to remove your obscene personal attack quickly. Do that and you would have expressed a valid opinion. Don't and you're likely to be banned.
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Idiot Big Brother(nationalreview.com)
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by pvnick 13y ago
Oops, typo! Thanks, fixed
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by pvnick 13y ago
>Commandeering is a practice we're used to in wartime, where commercial ships are taken for military use, or production lines are converted to military production. But now it's happening in peacetime. No it's not. We are t
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by pvnick 13y ago
Aaron was also involved in some groundbreaking software development for political activism [1] [2]. I find it extremely easy to believe that someone in the DoJ saw that and decided to make an example out of him to dissuade other "hackt
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by pvnick 13y ago
I assume you're talking about this: https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/15-7
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by pvnick 13y ago
I've been interested in something like this ever since I saw Monty Python's The Funniest Joke in the World [1]. Tldr, it's a joke so funny, that it literally kills you after you hear it. I wonder what to what limit a humor ge
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Thank you Edward Snowden(cms.fightforthefuture.org)
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by pvnick 13y ago
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rootkit+PLO+Chemical+weapon+Disaster+me... Do ya feel lucky? Do ya?

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