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by s_q_b 10y ago
The series definitely doesn't portray the government as a force for good, or even a significant player. "Politics is for puppets." "We voted for this, not with our rigged elections..." "I'm talking about t
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The magnetic mines are exactly what they sound like. Someone drives by on a motorcycle, slaps an explosive on the side of a vehicle, and drives away. Not very subtle, but apparently very successful in taking out Iranian nuclear scientists.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's fair. But what I see is that the car fleet will head towards OTA no matter what we do. Forgive me for my cynicism. If you've ever worked with embedded systems... Well the state of consumer security is so bad I'd be sho
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's beside the point. The question of centrally distributed updates is orthogonal to that of self-driving cars.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I fully agree. The crux of my argument is that self-driving cars aren't inherently any more hackable or trackable than existing vehicles with existing available data connections through cell, emergency communications, OTA updates, or u
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by s_q_b 10y ago
If the security services target you, and truly wish to kill you, current methods will more than suffice. The Israelis like magnetic mines, the Russians polonium, the Yanks... Well to be perfectly honest I'm not sure, but it almost cert
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by s_q_b 10y ago
You're right. But the question is, did the FBI read that image and seek a court order anyway? The FBI is slow, but not incompetent by any means. This was a terrorist's cell phone, a crucial link to determining whether this was a l
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I'm... fairly certain that no one in this discussion realizes that's a Ron Swanson quote, or that /s means sarcasm.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The free market: It's what makes America great, Britain good, and France terrible. /s
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Roll your own router, especially if it shares a board with the wireless access point. Commercial configs are radically insecure.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Obama will never pardon Snowden. The popular perception of him is liberal, but he is in reality one of the most hawkish men in Washington. He sends Hellfire missiles like the rest of us send email. Obama will never go against the security s
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The CFAA is too blunt of an instrument. At the very least it should have options for lesser charges. But for some reason every politician's reaction to cyber events is to make the CFAA more draconian. President Obama is actually in fav
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Well, in fairness he is somewhat smart. Most people don't successfully hack the FBI and the Federal Reserve.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
RSA key fobs were an extremely simple invention, yet they are ubiquitous in enterprise. Often the value of a product lies not in its technical sophistication, but in whether that product solves an unmet business need. Spotting these opportu
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This particular APT is also not exactly subtle. Their attacks appear to be political maneuverings that the Russians want the American security establishment, which includes many reputable attribution analysts, to recognize as Russian activi
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Usually I trust Kaspersky to ID the correct Advanced Persistent Threat when it's Western and FireEye when it's non-Western, in this case APT28 a.k.a Fancy Bear. APT28 is pretty obviously Russia, due to character encodings in the f
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by s_q_b 10y ago
In this case it means uprising. The choice to use that particular word, especially in English, deliberately links current acts of free speech to two previous brutal civil wars. This is neither a real event nor a reasonable use of terms. It
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by s_q_b 10y ago
> Should they have to prove it in a court, for each separate comment posted, before they can ask Facebook to remove that comment? Yes, absolutely, without any doubt or qualification of any kind. "Scalability" is not even an ap
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Then we should really get around to stop treating it like one. But on a more serious note, the opinions of Supreme Courts have very strong moral force, express well-fashioned legal reasoning, and are frequently cross-cited between nations.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The phrase "digital intifada" induces an eye-roll nearly as severe as it's cousin "digital holocaust." Comparing the deaths of massive numbers of civilians to Facebook posts is tone-deaf at best.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
> Posts that call for illegal actions (such as stabbing civilians) should be removed, whether they are posted by Palestinians or Israelis. "[G]uarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe adv
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The President of the United States has the almost unqualified power to grant pardons for crimes against the United States, whether current or past, whether unindicted or convicted.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Too much ambiguity in the law creates the opportunity for arbitrary enforcement.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I don't know what that means, and you appear to be posting from a sock puppet account.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Since the comparison between North Korea and other dictatorships keeps arising, I feel compelled to note that North Korea is truly an edge case. Nothing in Western democracies, Middle Eastern theocracies, or even African dictatorships comes
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by s_q_b 10y ago
> Every time we have been interventionists either overtly or covertly it has caused unintended consequences and often disastrous ones. When will we learn that it hurts more than helps? That is patently false. The United States alone has
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by s_q_b 10y ago
... First, North Korea is not a nation defending borders. It is a personal fiefdom that deserves neither the name "nation" nor the respect it entails. Second, past colonialism does not establish a moral equivalency with the mass-s
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by s_q_b 10y ago
It's interesting. I had written up a few potential objections that I ended up cutting from my post. This was one of them: "The first objection is that South Korea is right there , and thus is conceivably within range of a nuclear
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This is not a bad idea in spirit. However, one seldom mentioned fact is that anti-Han sentiment runs very deep in both Koreas. Transforming North Korea into a true vassal state of China may be the solution, but there will need to be a ser
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by s_q_b 10y ago
If the United States' military posture was not so depleted at this point, I would say that it is time to seriously consider a conventional first strike. Right now, North Korea cannot deliver a nuclear payload anywhere. It's one th

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