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by salient 13y ago
OH, no it's real. Remember US was the one that came up with SOPA and ACTA, too. It wasn't China. It was US, the land of the free. They wouldn't be "trolling" 3 times in a row. They're serious about this.
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by salient 13y ago
What's disturbing is that even though they know which data is from US citizens, they still won't discard it, and can even use it. I mean, maybe I can understand if they "incidentally" collect the data of some people -
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by salient 13y ago
Yes? https://www.aclu.org/national-security/police-requests-cellp... The type of surveillance NSA can do is quickly trickling down to FBI, DHS, DEA and even the police. Even this wasn't too long ago: http:/&
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by salient 13y ago
The funny thing is that we're probably just a few decades away from doing that , too.
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by salient 13y ago
Microsoft shares all vulnerabilities with NSA as soon as they find out about them, and long before they fix them, anyway, which is like giving them access to a lot of backdoors into Windows. Adding one more from rand_s doesn't change t
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by salient 13y ago
If Microsoft has been collecting billions in revenue with an invalid patent for years, could the court (or EU Commission?) force them to reimburse that money?
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by salient 13y ago
This headline almost makes it seem like this is a bad thing. How about: "FAT patent invalidation saves Android OEM's from Microsoft's illegitimate rent-seeking?"
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by salient 13y ago
> However, software can be audited, the hardware cannot be Exactly. So work on solid security/privacy principles, rather than take the easy way out and hope for the best.
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by salient 13y ago
Sounds like a good move to me. Intel has been awfully quiet about this.
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by salient 13y ago
Hey, stealing is stealing. Right US government? I guess they don't like it much when they are on the other side of a copyright trial. So why does Obama keep pushing for stricter and longer copyright laws in the TPP treaty then?!
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by salient 13y ago
It's definitely something someone with too much power would say or think, especially in the context of the NSA.
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by salient 13y ago
I don't know how it will do as a niche thing in enterprise, but I think it's very unlikely it will ever catch-on with with mainstream users. It just seems too much of a hassle. Now turn that into an NFC ring of sorts that does t
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by salient 13y ago
Awesome, I've been waiting for this. Now CyanogenMod should be the most secure OS out there against snooping, even compared to Google's own Android. Too bad Google isn't taking steps to offer end-to-end encrypted communicatio
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by salient 13y ago
Does he really expect this to go well in the long term? Tyrants never learn from history, do they?
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by salient 13y ago
This is why I think it's insane when I see Bitcoin-based services built apps for iPhone first . How naive are they? It's obvious as night and day that Apple would try to ban Bitcoin apps if they try to get into payments themselve
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by salient 13y ago
If you want competition, stop letting local governments make "deals" with the ISP's to bring such and such Internet or service to that area. Almost always that ensures the company will get a monopoly in that area. It's p
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by salient 13y ago
Yeah, the last thing we need is another manual for how governments should control the society in the future, as if 1984 wasn't enough. My guess is the people in NSA are already thinking about how to implement a Minority Report-like p
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by salient 13y ago
I'm hoping one of the results from the NSA reform will be that we'll properly name who and what exactly is a terrorist. The government spies on everyone, and then to justify their spying they're calling all of them potential
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by salient 13y ago
I don't know if these things make a difference or not, but there are 1/3 votes needed for ECPA reform, with 3 days to go: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/reform-ecpa-tell-g...
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by salient 13y ago
She should be recalled. She's done enough damage as the Chief of Intelligence Committee in Senate, and she's going to do more in the next 5 years if we let her. I still remember getting my stomach turned by how aggressively she pu
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by salient 13y ago
I think his point was that they're all doing it for selfish reasons, not for some "principles". The principles are the public agenda, but they're really doing it because they're starting to lose business overseas -
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by salient 13y ago
I knew making corporations hurt over their cooperation with NSA willingly or unwillingly (by not having proper security) is going to play a major part in turning this around, although it's still early days, so I'm cautiously opt
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by salient 13y ago
I think TACK is targeting browser vendors, and convergence is targeting browser users. But it doesn't look like it has been updated since 2011 (still in beta, too), and there's no add-on for Chrome.
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by salient 13y ago
So you're saying that if the government is passing the boundaries of legality and morality, people should just keep their heads down and not say anything? Frankly, I'm disgusted by you "American" attitude towards this.
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by salient 13y ago
> The majority of the population is ok with this stuff Not according to polls since the Snowden leaks came out. Also, I've yet to see real evidence of the mass surveillance over the past decade helping stop terrorist plots. They sai
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by salient 13y ago
It should've happened before Snowden's revelations, and have their morale down after everything they've been asked to do. They just seem upset about "getting caught" now. Well, cry me a river.
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by salient 13y ago
You mean like this? http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/6/5184168/fda-approves-new-1...
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German Patent Ruling Threatens Microsoft's Windows Phone Earnings From Android(forbes.com)
288 points by salient 13y ago|67 comments
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by salient 13y ago
There were some interesting discussions about the abolition of patents in Europe in the 19th century, that speak to what you're saying: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130503/17414322946/discus...
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The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA(newsweek.com)
204 points by salient 13y ago|157 comments

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