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by salient 13y ago
Again, unless it was registered as a company in US, then I don't see the problem.
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by salient 13y ago
Last I checked those two organizations were also in favor of stronger Patriot Act-like laws, and other such things, probably because such laws favor their friends in the Military Industrial Complex.
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by salient 13y ago
Was Megaupload registered in US, too? Otherwise I think they have a very bogus case of "jurisdiction". Just having the data pass through US servers doesn't or shouldn't count, the way the Internet works, and how it'
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by salient 13y ago
How can it be constitutional to extract your DNA, and then make you pay for it ? That doesn't make any sense to me. What's next? Making you pay for your own jail time? If they want to make you do all of that, then they should pay
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by salient 13y ago
Why are countries in such a hurry to decide one way or the other, when Bitcoin's market cap is still very small in many of these countries? Can't they wait a year or two longer, and see where it goes and pass more appropriate laws
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by salient 13y ago
Another paper dealing with IP-layer anonymity: http://www.magnusbrading.com/phantom/phantom-design-paper.pd... And a first try at implementing it: http://www.magnusbrading.com/phantom/phantom-imple
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by salient 13y ago
No. Survival is our strongest instinct. Besides, human population will plateau around 10 billion or so, and we're already seeing trends, from very early ones to pretty advanced ones (Japan), where people decide not to have kids anymore
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by salient 13y ago
I'd rather have the choice. I have no choice with ageing. The same is true of "immortality". What immortality really means is that you kind of have a choice of not disappearing forever (well unless a car runs you down or some
129.
by salient 13y ago
Completely disagree. It was just a week or two before Snowden came out that New York Times was praising Skype for how "secure" it is, even against government snooping. The poor souls thought Skype was still P2P, when that stopped
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by salient 13y ago
The app was far from being a "secure" app. And going by how far they've to promote it as a "secure" app, of course there should be an equal amount of response for why it's not secure (since it isn't!). T
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by salient 13y ago
EFF is doing such amazing work with these lawsuits. I hope people remember to help them out and donate: https://supporters.eff.org/donate You could also help this campaign for privacy tools which NYT and many other journali
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by salient 13y ago
Now, if they can adopt F2FS (flash friendly file system) for SSD's, that would be neat, too. On Motorola's latest phones and in benchmarks it shows substantial performance difference (~50 percent more on average or so).
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by salient 13y ago
I actually read that Boeing was in the lead for winning this contract before, but I don't remember the source.
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by salient 13y ago
They pick on this guy and harass him with every chance they get to "send him a message" (they should know by now that doesn't work on him, but anyways). The US government really is extremely petty and vengeful. And that'
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by salient 13y ago
And knowing that, they still chose to implement it in Windows?
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by salient 13y ago
Are you saying there should be no outrage over this because "they should've known better"? Let's not forget the website is a victim of an oppressive government, ultimately. You're also implying, people shouldn'
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by salient 13y ago
I see it's not mentioning the open source KeePass.
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by salient 13y ago
> And finally, the most exciting news: we've signed a first contract with iSEC partners to evaluate large portions of the Windows software and bootloader code. This review will begin in January. That's huge. I assume you'r
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by salient 13y ago
Unpack the extension, too? This process probably reduced the external extension installations by 100x, while they can still pretend that you can still technically install external extensions. First off, I think their original excuse was BS,
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by salient 13y ago
Not anymore: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57611380-93/google-to-ban-e... I agree with others - there's a trend here.
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by salient 13y ago
Well I can think of at least one extension that they'd love to make disappear for good.
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by salient 13y ago
The end of RSA (the company)? I find it absurd that a security company no less, would hear many veteran cryptographers say this is backdoored a decade ago, and still going ahead and using it - as the default! Who stakes the whole reputa
143.
by salient 13y ago
What the hell? And people are still skeptical about trusted computing having backdoors?
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by salient 13y ago
You mean something like this? http://cipherbit.org/
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by salient 13y ago
Second DJB! Would be the perfect choice, especially now that more and more cryptographers are looking to his curves and protocols, so he already knows what the vision for the future of IETF should be. I'm actually quite excited about t
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by salient 13y ago
Even after this you still don't think they're actively subverting encryption standards? http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123...
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by salient 13y ago
What do you think about Surespot? https://www.surespot.me/documents/how_surespot_works.html
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by salient 13y ago
Yes, that's what they're doing. I checked them out earlier this year and I remember being disappointed they didn't offer forward secrecy like OTR.
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by salient 13y ago
What happens to that facility if the Supreme Court/Congress bans mass surveillance - which would imply they don't need it anymore (to host that many servers)? I fear that if we let them continue to use it, they'll keep runnin
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by salient 13y ago
They were way too early to the market. Maybe it would've been ok to be there since Cortex A15, but being there at the Cortex A9 generation always seemed premature - at least for big customers like HP, Facebook, and so on. Maybe they sh

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