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by ra 13y ago
It makes China look like a good world citizen and the US look like a self righteous sabre rattling bully.
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by ra 13y ago
> sort of like the Hushmail compromise That's interesting. I couldn't find anything that describes the hushmail compromise in this way. Do you have a link that explains it? (Am currently thinking about how to make a more secure
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by ra 13y ago
Zilch. Cryptographic security depends on good key management practices.
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by ra 13y ago
Possible freelance work if she's interested. We're in Sydney; I'll send you an email.
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by ra 13y ago
allegedly
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Australian government shelves controversial data retention scheme(smh.com.au)
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by ra 13y ago
You're right, it's hypocrisy in action. I wonder if a panel of lawmakers were given all of this to make recommendations on, without secrecy, gag orders or political prejudice, if we'd have very different situation today.
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Yahoo FOUGHT against NSA warrantless spying but lost, forced to join PRISM(dailymail.co.uk)
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by ra 13y ago
I'd love to see if/how traffic has changed since the announcements. I wouldn't be surprised if we look back on this as a watershed moment for the whole Internet industry.
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by ra 13y ago
So if Herschel leaves L2, will it go into a permanent heliocentric orbit or will it decay?
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by ra 13y ago
Is there a jurisdiction on the planet where data is safe from domestic wiretapping [1] (i.e. international espionage not withstanding)? Serious question. 1. Clarification: I mean warrantless wiretapping.
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Australia gets 'deluge' of US secret data, prompting a new data facility(theage.com.au)
50 points by ra 13y ago|8 comments
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by ra 13y ago
Wow, that's a great read. I've read that post before but had no idea it was about Pine Gap. Thanks for posting.
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by ra 13y ago
Totally. And as someone who runs a linux and mac machine the "personal license" is awesomely down to earth.
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by ra 13y ago
Totally man. I'm in the process of switching my email from google apps to lavabit + imap client. I've already blocked cookies on www.google.com.au so my searches aren't logged, and I'm running Ghostery to cut all third p
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by ra 13y ago
Yeah all this takes on a whole new context in the light of PRISM. I think it was Cory Doctorow who said, "Snowdon took the theory out of conspiracy theory".
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Pine Gap(en.wikipedia.org)
77 points by ra 13y ago|8 comments
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PRISM: Why you should care (Cory Doctorow)(guardian.co.uk)
9 points by ra 13y ago|0 comments
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by ra 13y ago
I'm using Ghostery on Chrome. Seem to do the job.
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An open letter to my friend, the NSA(arstechnica.com)
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by ra 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he left Hong Kong before we'd even heard of Edward Snowden. I imagine getting overland from China to Europe wouldn't be too difficult (we're talking high values of difficult here). Equally he c
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by ra 13y ago
I'm suggesting that it was a planned outcome (of terrorism) to make our governments to mistrust us like this. Bin Laden wasn't the first person to predict that an increase in terrorism would lead to an increase in "Orwellian&
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Aus Post and local councils access Internet and phone records without a warrant(smh.com.au)
8 points by ra 13y ago|0 comments
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by ra 13y ago
One can have little doubt that the real terrorists look upon all this with glee. I imagine the perpetrators of extremist based terrorism see this erosion of civil liberties as an enormous win. Yes. Snowden is definitely a hero, of dare I sa
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by ra 13y ago
Nothing is free. Your website becomes a data collecting beacon for their advertising network (hence the awesome demographics). Nothing wrong with that BTW, it's the same reason Google Analytics is free; but it's worth pointing out
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by ra 13y ago
From Senator Ludlam: http://scott-ludlam.greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/...
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Australian Senator introduces new Bill to prohibit warrantless surveillance(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by ra 13y ago|1 comments
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by ra 13y ago
You know what, you're absolutely right. For a long time I've favoured OrionVM over AWS for this reason. Something needs to change. What do you think are the chances of Senator Scott Ludlum's "Get a Warrant" bill [1]
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by ra 13y ago
"[1] for completeness/fairness, I'm pretty sure Amazon would treat and Sydney AZ instances I spin up exactly the same way. [2] actually, I suspect I'd get the worst-case scenario of the least protection available under
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by ra 13y ago
I've not tried it, but Aussie startup Zeromail sounds good, if slightly over your budget: http://zeromail.com/

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