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by rl3 13y ago
Yes, he said an insider sent him a coded handwritten message on a basis similar to a one-time pad. He also said that he could not read most of said message due to misplacing the key-code. EDIT: My original reply likely butchered terminology
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by rl3 13y ago
Direct audio link is here (MP3): http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress_trac/web/20927/0/BF... --- At 0:48:26 Tice mentions the intercept order for then-Senatorial candidate Obama. He also mentions tha
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NSA whistleblower Russ Tice goes on record with new revelations(boilingfrogspost.com)
248 points by rl3 13y ago|125 comments
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by rl3 13y ago
I don't know, those may constitute a mask.
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by rl3 13y ago
Time to break out the wigs, face paint and glasses?
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by rl3 13y ago
Amazon has a fairly liberal order modification window. Why not just audit the orders the same way they were entered? A Mechanical Turk redundancy layer if you will.
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by rl3 13y ago
> I suspect that the powerful conspirators some people seem to suspect are well aware of my friend's lesson and are equally unwilling to tolerate a partial success. It depends on what constitutes success. Take this hypothetical: th
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by rl3 13y ago
Well, assuming the theoretical assassins had physical access to his car and world-class embedded systems expertise at their disposal, it would just be a matter of locking his doors, disabling steering, disabling braking, and flooring the ca
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by rl3 13y ago
"Why don't you give answers that aren't bullshit for a change?" Hastings replied. This man was a badass.
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by rl3 13y ago
“I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it’s going to be recorded and it goes to the government,” Kelly said. “I think the public can understand that. I see no reason why that
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by rl3 13y ago
I'm sure there are stringent barriers in place. Thing is, when many of the senior officials at NSA are former high-level executives at contractors, and vice versa, it makes you wonder.
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by rl3 13y ago
Absolutely true. What you said means the NSA has the capability to put whoever they wish under the microscope and effectively bury them by proxy. The only way that doesn't work is if they either have an irreproachable system of oversig
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by rl3 13y ago
NSA is supposedly constrained to its strict national security mission charter. However, I've heard murmurs over the years about analysts passing off information in an unofficial capacity to federal law enforcement if what they come acr
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by rl3 13y ago
The technical portion of William Binney's presentation at HOPE 9 sheds a lot of light on this.[1] If you go to 14:33 in the video, it has a nifty screenshot of an activity sequencing tool. He also talks a lot about latent semantic anal
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by rl3 13y ago
I imagine the efficiency of their algorithms depends on what they're looking for. If they're looking for patterns similar to those of historical terrorists, then their false positive rate is likely reasonably low considering the s
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by rl3 13y ago
Sorry, the tone of my original opener was unduly harsh and slightly ignorant; fortunately the edit window was still open. Good articles.
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by rl3 13y ago
The article conducts a fairly scrupulous analysis of what politicians and officials are saying, and likely is correct in its assertions. However, it doesn't mention (within the same post) that the NSA has been operating DPI gear at the
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by rl3 13y ago
Ubisoft dropped Michael Ironside from the Splinter Cell franchise, so I'm pretty sure NSA has no tough guys left now.
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by rl3 13y ago
Such things can backfire: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/wikileaks-insurance-file-decry... EDIT: Didn't see the Twitter update at the bottom, my apologies.
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by rl3 13y ago
It shouldn't fly. That's why in my original post NSA was listed dead last as a probable data source, far below normal federal law enforcement means (such as administrative subpoenas). Even those were far less likely than simpler e
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by rl3 13y ago
> The government classification isn't about protecting the secrets of private citizens, only government secrets. Using that logic, Facebook private messages supplied courtesy of the NSA would be highly classified, considering their
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by rl3 13y ago
Data acquisition methods in order of highest probability: 1. ^ This. 2. Was actually public information; story details lost in transmission or translation. 3. Her phone was still logged into Facebook. 4. They gained access to Facebook via l
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by rl3 13y ago
As I understand it: Project creators log in to Kickstarter and utilize a Chrome bookmarklet provided by BackerKit, which then reads/scrapes the backer infomation from Kickstarter and sends it to BackerKit.[1] It's kind of messy, but frankly
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by rl3 13y ago
The primary users of the app were likely the type of people who have 500+ "friends" on Facebook. If they still manage to complicate all their relationships, well, what a terrible problem to have.
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by rl3 13y ago
With or without consent, they're still butchers. There's an implicit trust that exists between patient and physician. Namely, that said physician actually knows what they're doing in the first place. When patients consent, they're essential
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by rl3 14y ago
> Indeed, the NSA has their own fab. They could always just fab architectures specialized in BTC mining, assuming their fabrication capacity is of sufficient scale to get the job done. I'm sure anyone who successfully performed a hostil
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by rl3 14y ago
I agree. It's certainly more prudent to go with the flow [of piracy] rather than waste time and resources struggling against it. The Hotline Miami developers did just that.[1] Although the 93.6% piracy rate the Greenheart Games article refe