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by pvnick 13y ago
I'll bet Snowden is a Hacker News and Reddit user. I expect that he might read this thread when he gets to a computer, perhaps even taking the time to do a Reddit AMA. If so, Hi Ed! Thanks for doing what you did!
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by pvnick 13y ago
This of course happening the day after what was perhaps the biggest revelation so far, even though Putin said that asylum would be conditional on Snowden promising "to stop harming the United States." I do not think this highly sy
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Snowden wasn't an analyst
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I find it fascinating that they are essentially corroborating everything Greenwald and Snowden have said, except just being nitpicky on tone and scope. Especially this: "One feature is the system's ability to limit what an analyst
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by pvnick 13y ago
Hey, I wanted to apologize for my personal attack earlier. I've been having a bad day and took some of that frustration out on you. But as for your question, I'm speaking less about legal precedent (of course there's a differ
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I realize you're very knowledgable in legal matters and enjoy playing the nitpicking contrarian in these cases, shining the light of truth on all us hopeless ignoramuses, but regardless of under whose jurisdiction the trial actually to
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I agree. The problem with that charge in particular, however, is that it would have had extremely far-reaching implications for all investigative journalism
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by pvnick 13y ago
Yes! I'm at work but started cheering in my chair when I read the verdict of Not Guilty on aiding the enemy. Was truly expecting the worse with that, but to hear a "not guilty" charge on this was very reassuring.
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>Prosecutors called him an anarchist hacker and traitor who indiscriminately leaked classified information he had sworn to protect, knowing it would be seen by al-Qaida. They showed that al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden obtained copies of
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by pvnick 13y ago
From one of the security hawks: >"The good news is that we were able to prevail, but that doesn't mean that it's over. If anything it's sending a message that we have to ... let the American public know that we'r
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by pvnick 13y ago
This seems to have been the plan all along, and it's working brilliantly. As Greenwald said in the recent Majority Report interview [1] we are still "near the beginning of the revelations," so I think we're going to cont
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Step 1: Put your dic (delete) pns.py I was cracking up. Brilliant!
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NSA surveillance critics - including Greenwald - to testify before congress(guardian.co.uk)
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> "Russia has never extradited anyone, and will not extradite," said Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. While part of me feels that this is good news, the other part - cynical from all the word games I've heard from
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by pvnick 13y ago
I see this as largely coincidental, and nothing nefarious. If you follow the link from the page to the archived version [1], look among the dozens of subjects, click on Ethics, scroll down to near the bottom of the page, you'll see the
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by pvnick 13y ago
Did you not see the vote spread yesterday? Twelve vote difference. That's incredible, and this is only the beginning. Also remember, there are still leaks to come, we've only seen a glimpse of the full scope of the revelations.
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This is great! A followup contact, either praise or criticism, is like Pavlovian conditioning for our representatives. I'm happy to say I was able to give positive reinforcement to my congressman. Forgive me if I'm mixing up my th
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by pvnick 13y ago
It would be interesting to do some data mining on the open secrets data set for things like this. Has anybody seen any work on identifying statistically significant funding sources for clusters of representatives based on the way they vote?
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Twelve votes? That's it? Wow, that's incredible. The first real tide change we've seen since the passage of the patriot act. Those who voted Nay seemed to do so because "metadata isn't covered under the 4th amendmen
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by pvnick 13y ago
It seems he accepted Putin's terms to not release anymore information. I wonder if that means no more information coming out, period, or that since most/all of the information is now with third parties that it's their respons
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This actually seems like a reasonable compromise
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It's creeping up the front page. Looks like it got hit early on by the HN purists who flagged it a bunch, but now that they're out of ammo it's getting up there.
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Takes literally 33 seconds to call (just timed it)
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This is the best chance we've yet had. We have actual support from congress! Please, even if you do nothing else for this cause, call your congressman and urge him/her to support this (the Amash Amendment). Here's a helpful
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Very cool use of Voronoi tessellation. Did you use D3? Also, I see you're using data from ground monitoring systems. You're probably seeing the result of residual heat being let off from surrounding industrialization over time.
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That seems to be the problem. The political environment these days is so overly partisan that the minute we get a candidate that focuses on issues that are important to us tech folks, everyone gets tripped over social policies and end up mi
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I almost missed out on NSA leaks because I didn't bother to install encryption(harpers.org)
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German Intelligence Used NSA Spy Program(spiegel.de)
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Infuriating, but did we really expect any differently? These programs are a bureaucrat's wet dream. A single congressional hearing is not going to make them go away. The continued leaking of the more incriminating documents - an inevit
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FISA Court Renews NSA Phone Surveillance(rt.com)
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