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by s_q_b 13y ago
Not very good. It's a thorny problem, but honestly I doubt many mujahideen are motivated by blanket surveillance. That's not to say that the government didn't just mint a few hundred new highly skilled blackhat "hactivis
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I understand this is an unpopular opinion on HN, but I'm not willing to give up the advantages surveillance gives us. There are people out there that very much want to cause regular citizens harm. Make all the comparisons you want betw
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Congress can't change the scope of Constitutional rights, either to expand or narrow them. They could, however, simply outlaw the practice. This all happened once before, with the Church Commission, and we were able to step back from t
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Its possible I'm wrong. I've never designed a UAV flight system, so I was speculating as to reasons why a lower level of encryption might be needed. Its possible that's not a realistic constraint for atmospheric craft.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
That's not correct. Since 2001, the NSA has been retasked to recording all SIGINT information, and figure out what's relevant later. This was the reasoning behind NSA Total Information Awareness (hence the name,) as well as its su
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Sure! Man I love when people on hn ask genuine questions rather than trying to one up one another. It's one of the reasons I was so reluctant to stop lurking for so long. Much like the Mars rovers, the navigation system is loaded in a
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Sure, but that's a little different than listening to everything. Not to mention trivial to detect. Just watch CPU consumption and start spouting off trigger words.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Technical feasibility is not something the NSA can wish away. They're not magic. The fact is that keeping a microphone array active all the time would crush battery life, especially if it was constantly recording and transmitting. Righ
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by s_q_b 13y ago
> for example a near-real-time flight application. Primarily latency. Now, ideally you'd like the entire subsystem moved off disk into volatile memory, but for some things you're going to have to read from disk. I can imagine c
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Absolutely. I'm DC based, so it's more "your" than "our." But you'd be equally surprised to see the flow of money that moves in the opposite direction. In-Q-Tel, the non-profit venture capital firm of the
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by s_q_b 13y ago
MIL-SPEC means encryption built to military specifications. It includes, but does not equate to, NSA Suite B cryptography. As you can imagine, using crypto designed by a paranoid spook agency would not be appropriate for all military applic
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Totally possible the imaging equipment retains data in an insecure fashion. However, milspec != NSA, and its highly likely the Russians would help the Iranians in such an endeavor in exchange for intelligence sharing.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I'm surprised Endgame Systems isn't mentioned. As far as I can discern, they're one of the largest purveyors of zero-day exploits to the IC. They sell a target-mapping tool known as Bonesaw, and for a couple million a year yo
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by s_q_b 13y ago
"Regarding the data, it is possible that the prosecutor decided the data is not relevant for the case and that there is no need to embarrass the victim who cannot defend himself." That's a dangerous justification. First, the
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Sure, but it would be difficult to enforce in practice. Many former prosecutors go on to become defense attorneys, plaintiff's attorneys, etc. However, they retain many of the biases they picked up while working in the prosecutor'
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by s_q_b 13y ago
"2. Based on commentary from native Persian speakers on this thread, it would appear that no one is claiming that the drone was remotely piloted by Iranians into US Airspace, but rather the one that was shot down in Iran several months
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I can't stress this enough: burying an extant report while providing the underlying data does not fulfill a prosecutor's obligation. It's been tried in DNA cases, and when uncovered almost always results in ethics charges. Wh
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by s_q_b 13y ago
If this is anything, it's probably a redux of the Taliban accessing the unencrypted video feed of Predator drones. For a long time, most video (not control) feeds were sent in the open. The Taliban realized this and were able to grab t
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Pursuant to Brady and Giglio, a prosecutor has an affirmative obligation to turn over all testimony and documents that are exculpatory or tend to impeach the credibility of a prosecution witness. In layman's terms, a prosecutor has a d