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by salient 13y ago
Probably Daniel Ellsberg. I don't know if he actually had higher approval rate than Nixon, but considering Nixon had to resign after that, I'm thinking he did. There are also a lot of parallels between Ellsberg and Snowden, and a
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by salient 13y ago
Can this be fixed by changing the firmware to OpenWRT or DD-WRT?
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by salient 13y ago
Michael Hayden, former chief of NSA, recently said that the young people should give up on their "romanticized" idea of transparency (for the government). That's some irony for you, considering his NSA is the one that started
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by salient 13y ago
We have laser connection to the moon now, actually. And he was right about fiber optic cables, too.
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by salient 13y ago
Median salaries can't and don't show anything about inequality in salaries, though. If the salaries of the "top 10 percent continued to grow", while the "median salary" is roughly the same, then that means the
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by salient 13y ago
They have FBI doing that for them, and ATF [1], and who knows who else. I think many of these agencies are starting to ask for funding specifically for these sort of "operations", where they not only try and convince people to com
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by salient 13y ago
By the way, I hear you can't really "wipe" data on SSD drives. I don't remember why exactly though. Probably some fault-tolerant mechanism. Or maybe it's what NSA has been asking HDD OEMs to make from the beginning
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by salient 13y ago
Child porn? So they are worried people are bringing child porn into the country through laptops? What the hell? I mean I'm not saying it's never going to happen, but what a ridiculous compromise to make. It seems to me judges ar
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by salient 13y ago
Messages by carrier pigeon? Sounds pretty "mobile" to me. I think the point is Bitcoin is revolutionary in many ways than just being a digital currency. It's also P2P, and these type of technologies seem very hard to shut dow
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by salient 13y ago
It doesn't actually talk much about why Bitcoin and other currencies like it were/are a "bad idea" for the economy. It mainly talks about how governments wanted to kill them, and how they succeed in the past (something t
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by salient 13y ago
I don't know how much they overlap, but Steve Gibson was saying recently in one of this latest Security Now podcasts that what FIDO is trying to do is inferior to his recently launched SQRL protocol. He starts talking about it at 0:56:
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by salient 13y ago
It seems the more transactions are on exchanges, the lower they make the rate. Some like Bitpay I think offer flat rates per month, too, for businesses (starting at something like $30 a month, no extra commissions). So while Bitcoin's
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by salient 13y ago
Yes. I would disregard comparisons with BitMessage. I don't think they really target the same market. BitMessage wants to be more of a private snooping-free e-mail system. Twister wants to be more of a public decentralized social n
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by salient 13y ago
Don't confuse the end of Moore's Law with the end of computer technology progress. Moore's Law is actually a pretty specific law. It says the amount of transistors in the same amount of space doubles every 2 years. We're
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by salient 13y ago
I'm still not convinced any one entity deserves to keep a creation for so long under monopoly given by the society (some interesting discussions in 1869 [1] about this), but let's assume they do. I'd still like to see a syste
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by salient 13y ago
From what I can tell its main focus is not to be an alternative to Tor, but a censorship-resistant P2P Twitter alternative. Or if you will, a "true" P2P social network (Diaspora, Status.net always relied on federated servers, whic
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by salient 13y ago
I've noticed this before. They start sounding the trumpet about some dangers, after they already do them themselves - like when they said that cyber-attacks should be considered acts of war because they can put infrastructures in dange
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by salient 13y ago
First off, I don't think anyone except "tinfoil hats" really imagined the scale of NSA spying. Who really thought the NSA would try to subvert the cryptographic standards they pretend to create to "secure systems"?
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by salient 13y ago
You can't even average that out, because the vast majority of those 13,000 "terrorist attacks", if true, are certainly inside countries where they are basically at war with each other. And in many of those countries, US contr
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by salient 13y ago
As Schneier recently said, assume everything is vulnerable by default [1], and work with the machines having that in mind. Until everything from the hardware level to the OS and applications is open source (which is pretty much the way FS
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by salient 13y ago
And people can't wait until they get OS-level DRM like in Windows 8 and Chromebooks, just to play Netflix in "HTML5", even though it plays just fine now in Silverlight, and TPM in their hardware? I don't think they reall
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by salient 13y ago
It certainly read like an ad for IBM.
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by salient 13y ago
For starters, I'd probably use this over Bitmessage for the easier to use UI alone. This one also seems to be a little more focused on public messages, too. It looks like a fully decentralized version of Twitter, which could be more ap
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by salient 13y ago
Could Dart or other languages in the browser solve this problem of not being able to do crypto properly in the browser, or is this a more fundamental problem of having crypto inside a browser in the first place?
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by salient 13y ago
Greenwald's speech was great, but so far the most interesting one to me has been Jacob Appelbaum's speech where he gives a lot more technical details (including new information) about how the NSA is hacking systems and how far the
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by salient 13y ago
This is starting to become sort of trend with Apple.
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by salient 13y ago
I thought the NSA wasn't "attacking domestic citizens"? They can't excuse this one away as an "error" anymore. NSA/Obama administration lied. Again. What a surprise. And boy are these NSA stories flagged i
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by salient 13y ago
I think that already existed for years, and Apple is pretty much the only one in Europe who offers an adapter for their charger, while everyone else uses micro-USB. So I may be wrong, but I think this is about actually forcing Apple to prov
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by salient 13y ago
I wouldn't go to Krugman for technology insights. This is the same guy who basically said the Internet has no future, and now he's repeating it for Bitcoin.
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by salient 13y ago
This is only going to get worse if they make drones autonomous, which this TED talk shows they have a lot of reasons for why they will want to make them autonomous, unless there's huge public outcry demanding a ban: http://w

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