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by s_q_b 13y ago
That press release is very odd. It negatively impacts the standing arguments in the pending litigation, and it's also just flat strange for the government to release information about classified surveillance programs. It almost reads a
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by s_q_b 13y ago
With the traffic on and off the island, I'd imagine the modern native population has a much higher resistance to Asian and European pathogens than even a generation ago.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The problem is that this is exactly the type of issue a court should decide. When the government violates clearly expressed tenants of the Constitution, Federal courts stand as the sole safeguard between the people and the unbridled power o
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Personally I like refrigeration, modern medicine, transportation, and high technology. Maybe those aren't your thing, but I know if I was born into a society like that, I would spend my life trying to see what was beyond the water. Or
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Well there is a particular self-replicating set of devices that we already know in detail. If we're going down this road, have they bothered to think that maybe we're the self-replicating alien probes? Disclaimer: Don't belie
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I can't tell you how happy that makes me.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
If you have a nearly universal database, you can probably get pretty close to covering the entire population of the country with 3 hops.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
First, FBI cracked 512-bit disk encryption in a recent case, seemingly with NSA help, so it seems they've got some pretty powerful brute forcing capabilities. SSL is generally only 256-bit. http://www.fiercecio.com/tech
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by s_q_b 13y ago
It's definitely the Defense Intelligence Agency. They do a lot of intelligence collection. I'm disturbed by Snowden's grandiosity in those statements. He fits the personality type interrogators would call a "grand egoist
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Adversary profile precludes this vector.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Okay, sounds like an interesting challenge. Let's describe the problem and examine possible solutions. Goals: 1. Securely login to websites. 2. Securely unlock a Macbook Pro. Solutions to (1): A. (1) Can be solved with a password memor
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I think NSA is cognizant of the fact that they could lose the FISA authorization to collect from endpoints at the internet services sometime soon, while they're more likely to retain access to the backbones. It's bass ackward, sin
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by s_q_b 13y ago
It really is. When you look into the history, you realize that most of the Amendments arose from specific abuses of the law by the British state, and are really an attempt to permanently protect rights that already existed at common law.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
File permissions aren't nearly enough here. He had access to their network systems, so you'd need encryption in transit as well, and a thousand other safeguards at both the software and hardware level. Not to mention, Snowden was
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by s_q_b 13y ago
It actually goes all the way back to common law and the trial of Sir Walter Raleigh, and was later enshrined in the Sixth Amendment. During the trial of Sir Raleigh, the prosecution moved affidavits for its witnesses into evidence, without
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by s_q_b 13y ago
That's strikes me as impractical. Just because the police can enter my house for certain reasons doesn't mean everyone should have that right. Similarly, there are legitimate reasons for the government to conduct surveillance. Tha
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Well that's the rub. Remember, we already live in the surveillance state. As it stands now, you're reliant upon the goodwill of the current government. If we put robust safeguards in place, we could ensure our rights more concrete
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by s_q_b 13y ago
We vote, organize, protest. :) A few years ago I would have been right there with you, but since learning more about national security I have come to the conclusion that it really is a unique sphere where idealistic conceptions aren't
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by s_q_b 13y ago
That's true, but to me lumping in the gendarme with firefighters and EMS is pretty Orwellian language engineering.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Yeah, you can, but it doesn't look like the systems were built that way. Honestly, the state of cybersecurity is pretty bad throughout both the public and private sectors. Somehow I doubt the NSA is immune to that trend.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
As a sysadmin he probably had root access to a ton of systems. Own the infrastructure, own the organization.
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Maltego: Open Source Intelligence Analysis Tool(paterva.com)
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I don't dabble in anything illegal, and I don't scare easily, so they wouldn't really have anything to hold over me. But yeah, I can definitely see that going that route would invite some unwanted attention. It's probabl
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Thanks! Also, this seems as good a time as any to bring up Maltego. It's an OSINT network analysis tool that is as good as anything I know about in civilian law enforcement. You get some really cool results when plugging in Twitter dat
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Europe is full of US military bases, which although intelligence requests are approached through a veneer of "assisting allies," does come with a certain amount of implied threat when you enter the dark realm of realpolitik. Heck,
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by s_q_b 13y ago
(1) should be conclusively disproven by now. (3)'s probably closer to the truth. I for one would be flat out shocked if some US chips didn't have security overrides built-in
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Modern newspeak and equivalent English terms: Department of Homeland Security - Department of State Security Public Safety - Police Department of Defense - Department of War Enhanced interrogation techniques - Torture
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by s_q_b 13y ago
A few years ago at Defcon someone rigged up a Twitter scraper, and found all the tweets that geolocated to the massive NSA headquarters parking lot. That said, it's not clear to me that it's legal to actively attempt to "out&
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by s_q_b 13y ago
"Power is not given to the courts to make new law. The legal contortions required to twist the intent and letter of the Fourth Amendment so that it agrees with NSA, without making new law would be obscene." Unfortunately that&#x27
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There's two issues at play here that are legally distinct: 1. Surveillance of United States Person (USPER) communication. 2. Surveillance of non-USPER communications. With regard to (2), the Fourth Amendment does not apply to foreign n

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