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by pvnick 13y ago
Yes I am a web developer that goes to work everyday in a professional environment.
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by pvnick 13y ago
>Google have stated that they have humans look into each request, and that there is no dropbox I've been looking for this since I read your comment but can't seem to find it. Perhaps you could point me to the article to which y
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by pvnick 13y ago
The Guardian "backwalk" actually VALIDATES our worst fears, albeit with technical nuances to ensure legality. It's really just about the only viable way to implement this absent an SSL encryption crack (I would guess they&#
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Well if you're going to be pedantic than so am I. The US is a "representative democracy" in that we collectively vote on those people who make decisions, the idea being that average citizen is a better judge of character than
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by pvnick 13y ago
>A majority of the insinuations of the original "leak" have since been retracted I don't think this is true at all. Glenn Greenwald is sticking to his guns, alluding to further revelations, and there has been no evidence c
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by pvnick 13y ago
Cyberhope, cyberchange, etc
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by pvnick 13y ago
I am a "big data" engineer, and I have no idea how they could do something like this. However my inability to theorize a potential method of collecting this data is not evidence for/against its existence. Remember the NSA e
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by pvnick 13y ago
>Also, the "direct access to servers" meme that was categorically false doesn't help to take it seriously I don't think this was ever determined. The documents specifically stated that access to the servers is &quot
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm really excited! I like the incremental release, I think it builds momentum in the way that a full dump could not. Just as one story has been thoroughly explored, the next one comes out.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I love Mozilla
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by pvnick 13y ago
It may not be "illegal" per se, but I would certainly say that it's either unconstitutional or at the very least against the spirit of the constitution. For whatever the hell that's worth...
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by pvnick 13y ago
"Mr. Obama, tear down this PRISM"
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by pvnick 13y ago
What if one of Kim Jung Un's subordinates leaks details on "abuses" in the prison camp system? Technically he's breaking the law - North Korea's law - but I think it would be difficult to say that it would be the wr
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by pvnick 13y ago
Wonderful, just more ammunition to use on my Restore the Fourth rally event page
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It says the NSA Utah data center is designed to store data on the yottabyte scale. My mouth literally dropped open when I read that.
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He really could have made some sort of progress if it was his intention
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by pvnick 13y ago
Didn't think of that, seems obvious now that you mention it
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by pvnick 13y ago
The memo claims they're trying to reach out to Snowden to verify his intentions to seek asylum. I wonder how they do that?
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by pvnick 13y ago
Exactly. This is THE law in America. Not some crap that the congress du jour baked up
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by pvnick 13y ago
Have to put your full name in to sign (I did). Ominous captcha: http://i.imgur.com/P0Ff5Kd.jpg
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by pvnick 13y ago
Rand Paul, killing it again.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I wonder how far in the future we'll have to wait before people like Glenn Greenwald become potential drone strike targets...
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by pvnick 13y ago
Not surprising. This is an incredibly opaque administration that's prosecuted more whistleblowers under the espionage act than every other administration combined . The contrast between campaign Obama and president Obama is staggering
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by pvnick 13y ago
I don't know who to believe anymore...
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Ask HN: As a Big Data engineer, how do I avoid helping governments spy on us?
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I think the real question we should be asking ourselves is "What sort of society are we trying to protect?"
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I agree. I'm usually the first to spot a conspiracy, but this looks like an innocent clarification to improve the quality of the piece. It was shocking enough to see how adamantly the entire editorial board of the New York Times distanced
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Said Jim Sensenbrenner, who introduced the Patriot Act : “As the author of the Patriot Act, I am extremely troubled by the F.B.I.’s interpretation of this legislation,” he said in a statement. “While I believe the Patriot Act appropriately
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by pvnick 13y ago
I assume that the cost and complexity of doing analysis on the millions (billions?) of phone calls daily limits even the government to metadata analysis, from which they likely issue orders for the contents of specific conversations based o
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by pvnick 13y ago
Hey JunkDNA, I was hoping to learn a little more about what you do and your field. I'm going to be graduating soon with a bachelors degree in biochemistry, and I would consider myself a fairly competent developer, so I'm looking to start do

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