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by sroerick 12y ago
I don't know if sightings have increased, per se. But there are a lot of sightings captured on cell phones these days. Many are obvious fakery. Some seem more interesting.
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Some times when you rephrase an argument, it becomes a different argument. Some times when this happens, we call it a strawman argument.
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Very interesting. I like that a lot. However I'm not sure it would ever work with an open forum. Invite only is awesome, but open forums are important too.
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To be fair to him, you accused him of saying something he didn't.
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> A living straw man The term is agent provocateur, I presume
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Mr Obama just sided with Mr Cameron on the issue of forcing companies to backdoor their products. Do you believe that backdooring American products will have a positive effect on security?
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Hacker News is quite astroturfed. Every web forum is.
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Do you believe that NSA should be conducting economic espionage? There is a clear need for defense. But because of lack of oversight, NSA has overstepped its bounds in both foreign and domestic spheres. The other side of this argument, one
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by sroerick 12y ago
The article addresses this very point. It specifically explores the conflict of interest that the NSA must work both offensively and defensively. It makes the argument that the balance has shifted so drastically to the offensive that our de
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is a good point, and I thank you for contributing it. Generally, I'd disagree that Apple makes great hardware. I've owned an iBook and 2 MacBooks, and I think Apple generally produces shoddy quality products. The exception be
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You are right about this. Thanks for pointing out this nuance.
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Neither. I was responding to the parent comment, which was implying that OP was somehow shirking his duties as a Linux user by not using hardware with broken driver support. I was suggesting that OP has better things to do than fix drivers
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Maybe he doesn't want to spend his time or his energy needlessly tinkering with a system for which the manufacturer doesn't give a damn about supporting linux, despite having used the code to build their own, proprietary operating
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by sroerick 12y ago
Agreed. I want SSH and that's about it. I'd love this device so much.
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I think this connection is not as arbitrary as you make it out to me. The intersection between muslims and Arabs is pretty large. I'm not sure the same secular identity politics exists in the Middle East as exist in America. Beyond tha
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Hah, why does CNN have a "Happy Birthday Playstation" message on this page?
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No, he also posted the timecodes from the torrent, which imply the data was transferred at USB 2.0 speeds. This data can indeed be verified with the torrent. I agree with your criticism of naming former executives. But Schneier also express
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by sroerick 12y ago
Sorry, I deleted my post because it came out more sarcastic than I meant it. For transparency's sake, my post was (from memory): > The data is publically available on torrents. > >You could easily prove Schneier wrong.
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by sroerick 12y ago
I deleted my last post which came out snarkier than I meant it. The point I meant to get at was that the timecode analysis which was featured is not just claimed by Charles Johnson, but rather is in the torrents released by GOP. I don'
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is the correct response to this meme. The hacks are far too damaging to be viral marketing. That said, there can be no denying that Sony turned lemons into lemonade, and milked this attack for all the awareness it could possibly get. I
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> The underlying premise is that the FBI is utterly incompetent and unable to investigate a crime of this nature. No, there's lots of different things that could be happening. The FBI could have said it was North Korea to save face.
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For sure. Thank you.
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I challenge your source for [2]. I looked for the name Guardians of Peace prior to that meme starting, and after the George Clooney article came out, I looked again. While Nixon did use the phrase Guardians of Peace a number of times, I was
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by sroerick 12y ago
I have been looking for close to a week for Infosec professionals who believe DPRK was responsible for attacks. So far I have found two. One is @daveaitel, who sells security solutions to governments. The other is @thegrugq, who believes th
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by sroerick 12y ago
Schneier is going back in the "Skeptic" category. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/12/did_north_kor...
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Viral marketing for "Black Hat"
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XMPP stopped working with Jabber for me, roughly a year ago.
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I saw a "MPAA Cyberterrorism Expert" on CNN the other day. I think Sony and the MPAA have been doing quite a bit to get people to believe that DPRK was culpable. I saw Seth Green tweet a direct quote from a Sony Press Release yest
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by sroerick 12y ago
While not the strongest argument (The absence of an argument is not an argument), I do appreciate you bringing up this nuance which I think is a valid one. The FBI's assumption is absolutely newsworthy, and I'm glad Schneier repor
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I made no such claim. I'm no expert in this regard, and my knowledge base should be understood here as a layman's. I read the FBI report, and while I'm sure that there is plenty left out of the report, their diagnosis was bas

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