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by s_q_b 13y ago
This is the beginning of the predictable blowback from the tactics against The Guardian. Everyone within the United States press is now starting to realize that they could be potential targets in future leak prosecutions. Watch as they push
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by s_q_b 13y ago
If that's the case, there's an unhealthy amount of basic Java in the text, but it's still a very good course.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
It look substantially similar to COS 226 at Princeton, also taught by Kevin Wayne, which uses this textbook: http://algs4.cs.princeton.edu/home/
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by s_q_b 13y ago
If Coca Cola is depleting a shared resource, then there is an unpriced negative externality. The solution is for the government to transfer some of the gains from the new more efficient system to those worse off under the new equilibrium. T
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Onshore equipment can mirror fiber optic cables without interrupting traffic.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
According to unnamed sources in media reports, the USS Jimmy Carter's cable tapping abilities aren't functional. See e.g. The Shadow Factory by James Bamford.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Certain agencies within the military run very well (JSOC and Army Corps of Engineers come to mind.) On the civilian side, NRC, OMB, NSF, Department of State. NSA under Alexander is also very well run after the post 9/11 binge abated. T
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by s_q_b 13y ago
That's the most bizarre part. First, Snowden steals his information from a Microsoft Sharepoint server? What are classified documents doing on a Sharepoint server? What is a Sharepoint server doing inside the network boundary at NSA? N
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Might help if hundreds of millions of people spoke Esperanto.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The author clearly has a language barrier. Not all bug reports are going to come with sterling reports to back them. In the end, Ḱhalil fell back on the lingua franca of the internet: a working demonstration. The onus is on the organization
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Throughout my life, I've had a larger than average exposure to the children of the very wealthy. What strikes me is that they seem afflicted with the same existential angst that plagues us all from time to time. They wonder what everyt
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There's also this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/13/olsen_raptor_case_ge... And the fact that the F-22's stealth coatings, even if they work, ablate in rain. http://www.wired.com&#
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Right. The Hyperloop's technical innovations are twofold: a tube with low-pressure that can be maintained with industrial-grade pumps rather than vacuum, and an air bearing to support the vehicle rather than maglev. My first thought is
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The files themselves point out that the Secret Service first began investigating Swartz with the publication of his "Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto." The smart people in law enforcement are scared sh*tless of hacktivists, so it&#
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Very true. However, when creating security policy, one should always keep in mind those that have permission to access information, rather than those that have actual access to information. It's a nightmare to me that there could be 15
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by s_q_b 13y ago
You're right. I've corrected it where possible. It's not nitpicky either, given that it's someone's name. I apologize. Other words I misspelled at one or another include Heymann, personnel, guardian, and wolves. :)
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I would debunk this piece by piece, but it's more efficient to make my point with a single example. >"Local law enforcement, yes--because, as the report notes, they did not have the in-house expertise to figure out what was goi
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Or a series of third parties can compete to offer the infrastructure, which is just a CDN tied to a small computer with an HDMI out, and the former networks and new production houses can offer their programming on one, some, or all of them.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Of course I distrust his father as well. That's why I want to see the original documents, and make my own conclusions. There's no irony here. MIT is making a claim that it's report represents the ground truth about the events
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by s_q_b 13y ago
> "'Wrongdoing' is a broad term. The report says that MIT did not do anything illegal. It does not say that MIT made no mistakes. Once again, have you actually read the report? If not, you should do so instead of relying o
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by s_q_b 13y ago
My bet is that TV-over-IP eats the market before de-bundling occurs. In terms of cost, distribution, quality, and ease-of-use, digital downloads beat cable every time. The only piece of the puzzle networks still own is content production. W
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by s_q_b 13y ago
>"...[U]nfortunately, from what I've read (particularly what's in the Abelson report, see below), I don't think the DOJ was listening to MIT in this case anyway; the US Attorney's office had its own view of the c
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by s_q_b 13y ago
:) Yes, I am. It was part of an electronics kit my father bought for me. I remember carefully placing the pieces between spring-end contacts to construct the basic circuits. Building electronics from scratch is very satisfying. I think I ma
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by s_q_b 13y ago
1% is actually a little low. According to a report provided to Congress, 4.2 million people have a clearance. 1.4 million of those are TS/SCI (Top Secret / Secret Compartmentalized Information), the level Snowden held. Source: ht
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I remember, as a small child, building a powerless radio that vibrated the speaker using the strength of the radio transmission itself. Is ambient backscatter is the same thing, except across much wider frequencies ranges?
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Not to sidetrack the conversation too much, but I fully agree, and I'm sure those in the agencies do as well. It's a gap they're closing, with two-man rules etc.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Yes. The comment was restricted to internet-connected devices and in particular network and endpoint security safeguards. Both Snowden and Manning got their information from systems to which they had been granted access. .Mil and IC targets
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The actor I'm most disappointed in is MIT. Right now, the DOJ is one of the targets of a massive scared-straight campaign by Beltway technologists. One of the worst kept secrets in the world is that US cybersecurity, outside of the mil
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Rush Holt (D-NJ-12) has a PhD in physics, and more than a passing understanding of computation.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
As a follow up, one of the few things we know about "Satoshi Nakamoto" is that his name is not Satoshi Nakamoto. It's a pseudonym, perhaps a nom de guerre, of the creator or creators. Bitcoin is a really amazing piece of soft

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