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by pvnick 13y ago
How likely is it that these companies can be compelled to turn over their SSL private keys via FISA court?
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by pvnick 13y ago
Ah, see, he was referring to North Korean law, not American law. So he was technically making the most truthful or "least untruthful" statement he could make.
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by pvnick 13y ago
CISPA anyone? Now we know why that law was pushed so hard, and we now have another strong reason to oppose this tactic. But Keith usually gets what Keith wants, so I'd bet money on it passing this time around.
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by pvnick 13y ago
This sounds amazing. I've done iterative jobs in hadoop before - it's very hacky and I generally just have it launch job after job after job until the result converges to where I want it. I'll definitely try this out soon. Th
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by pvnick 13y ago
It's interesting to see how the massive backlash elicited such a fast response. I'm curious as to how such a task is being undertaken at MS headquarters, with developers working overnights, dropping current work to support this pi
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by pvnick 13y ago
>We’ve had several influential folks from the researcher community join our security teams as Microsoft employees I can confirm they had a (semi?) official program to do this as far back as 2006, as I was actually doing penetration testi
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by pvnick 13y ago
Oh hey tptacek it looks like you've shifted your opinion on this whole NSA scandal a bit over the past couple days to be less skeptical and more in line with the rest of HN. Was there any particular story that made you change your mind
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by pvnick 13y ago
>No sane person tries to blow up an airplane You could have stopped there.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Personally, I think Binney has a difficult time speaking and, if he had written out his response, would have chosen a different word than "traitor," just based on the way he stuttered and struggled to complete that sentence.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Wow, great job guys! This is really well-done. I feel like these centralized "routers" to congressmen are going to make a huge impact on how people make their voices heard. Also Holmes you sound very professional
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by pvnick 13y ago
I understand your point, but http://beta.dawn.com/news/772409/no-obama-tears-for-children... To be fair, it wasn't apache helicopters.
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by pvnick 13y ago
>the only defense against abuse of this database is only policies. This point is extremely important and is what Snowden continuously returns to. In yesterday's Q&A he said "policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens.&
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by pvnick 13y ago
This guy is amazing. The thing I love about him is he truly embodies the bravery that goes along with the idea that it's better to live in a free society with a modest threat of terror attacks than to live in an oppressive society wher
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by pvnick 13y ago
>gone unnoticed by tens of thousands of security professionals for several years I like that you seem to be making an honest assessment of the program but I really insist that you check this [1] out to see a few whistleblowers who have
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by pvnick 13y ago
1. Glenn Greenwald, the reporter with actual access to the source and documents, is sticking to the original narrative. I don't know where this "back walking" theme is coming from. Take a look at Greenwald's twitter @ggr
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by pvnick 13y ago
This is hilarious: >What do ordinary Americans think? >But, more importantly, what does Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak think?
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by pvnick 13y ago
Daniel Ellsberg (the famous pentagon papers whistleblower) recently stated "With Edward Snowden having put his life on the line to get this information out ... I see the unexpected possibility of a way up and out of the abyss." [1
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by pvnick 13y ago
I think we can stop them if we stand united in defiance. Look what we accomplished with SOPA/PIPA - they were on the verge of passing and we demolished those bills. Just some efforts off the top of my head: -Restore the Fourth (reddi
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by pvnick 13y ago
Hey Reed! Good to see you're still with Mozilla
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by pvnick 13y ago
Apparently the CIA agrees with you: http://www.salon.com/2010/03/27/wikileaks/ From TFA: "the CIA sees Obama as a valuable asset in putting a pretty face on our wars in the eyes of foreign populatio
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm working with some of the folks at stopwatching.us, and we've got some cool things going on. We're currently working with some of Aaron Schwartz code that he wrote when getting involved in politics to deliver citizens&#x27
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by pvnick 13y ago
>He's that good? Knows the `infinitude' of time? Chess gambit(@)? Let's hope so!
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by pvnick 13y ago
Watch Glenn Greenwalds twitter (@ggreenwald) over the next few days/weeks. He alleges to have several more bombshell stories to release, and it looks like he's waiting for the government to lie themselves into a corner before drop
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by pvnick 13y ago
Thanks for your reply! Also I agree :)
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm sorry you've found yourself in the crossfire. How do you feel about Snowden?
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by pvnick 13y ago
Response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878534
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by pvnick 13y ago
Thank you :) Relevant part of the article: >In a secret court in Washington, Yahoo’s top lawyers made their case. The government had sought help in spying on certain foreign users, without a warrant, and Yahoo had refused, saying the bro
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by pvnick 13y ago
removed word "professional" because apparently that's a bigger deal than the content itself...
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by pvnick 13y ago
The problem is a lack of oversight. FISA courts are secret and allegedly a rubberstamp process (see link in my original post). If the program were to go through normal channels it would be ok.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Snarky tone unnecessary. To which court order do you refer? Edit: Also, your tweet quoting me sarcastically was also unnecessary. I'm trying to be helpful and you're being rude.

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