themeek

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by themeek 11y ago
Espionage is standard practice in the world today. So are isolated assassinations, torture, coups, and state sponsorship of terrorism. The United States participated in all of the above. Domestic citizens in America feel as though their gov
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by themeek 11y ago
Could use an explanation for downvotes. Seems on topic to me.
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by themeek 11y ago
That doesn't matter for his argument, though. Sure the Confederate flag used today was the battle flag and not the flag of the union. I don't think people flying the flag really care about that. Flags are symbols and the south att
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by themeek 11y ago
Apple is not and should not be a political actor. More and more the United States has included corporate activities into the fold of law enforcement and legislation. A host of institutions called FDRCs exist in a public-private limbo - repr
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by themeek 11y ago
There's two fundamental systemic blockers to investment in information security. The first is a problem is with incentives over time. (The same thing happened with global warming, with overfishing, with deforestation, with cyber privac
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by themeek 11y ago
Thank you. :)
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by themeek 11y ago
Can you speak more about your experiences at Reddit, as much as you can? Was bulk information ever requested and what types of issues did it seem like requests came in for? Is other private information just IP addresses or is it passwords a
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by themeek 11y ago
This is the future (but really just one small step) of defensive measures that need to be taken against computer network exploitation. There is essentially no computer network that can not be breached by dedicated and patient (and especiall
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by themeek 11y ago
Right. His domain was similar to and confused with the Russian propaganda operation. His website was roped into the censorship network by mistake because of its similar name. Or do you think stopfasttrack.ru was posting 'spam' abo
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by themeek 11y ago
Military information support for national security purposes within the borders of the US is considered legal by the US government. It is called Civilian Affairs Information Support. The Army, it was discovered, was sending fake letters to n
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by themeek 11y ago
Yup. Let's dive into this a bit. The thing is that when you invoke 'they' you don't mean Facebook. Facebook as a corporation doesn't care about the general public seeing how prisons are run. The government - and whe
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by themeek 11y ago
The link you give is to data requests, not to content curation. Twitter has historically played much harder ball with the State Department and DoD with regard to account takedowns and content censorship. Though neither, as far as I can tell
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by themeek 11y ago
I think the EFF is being generous here. Facebook blocks posts to certain types of political material even if it is posted by an American citizen. They would round out and wax and wane about 'terrorist material' - content such as t
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by themeek 11y ago
Admittedly much fewer (on the order of 'a few'). It's also hard to compare, as constants are hidden in big-O. Real performance comparisons between cryptosystems are comparisons of real-world engineering implementations: espec
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by themeek 11y ago
The paper suggests that it would take on order 2^27 bit operations for encryption/decryption for securely parameterized instances of this scheme, small ciphertexts and keys, and a simple multiplication and addition formula. If true, th
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by themeek 11y ago
> Amazing that so much attention is given to the NSA here.. Well, the topic of default encryption is related to a mass global surveillance network supported by data collection capabilities built into the internet backbone - and HN is con
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by themeek 11y ago
Sure, if you can say that hundreds of millions of people can simultaneously be specifically investigated. > We know that all corporations that had their inter-datacenter networks compromised have encrypted traffic on those links, makin
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by themeek 11y ago
Well, that's generous. You don't have to be specifically investigated by the FBI (just 'related') and the court orders used to make requests can be quite large and in practice are primarily automated. If you look at th
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by themeek 11y ago
Expect more "Singapore Rising", "Philippines Rising", "Taiwan Rising", "Thailand Rising", etc stories in future. In a bid to contain China's rise into a world power and global superpower rival, t
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by themeek 11y ago
So many different purposes. Sometimes control is necessary for everyone's benefit - government has a legitimate claim to power. Sometimes control is self-interested - it does one party more good than it can do the other. Sometimes cont
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by themeek 11y ago
The control is not always in the hue of totalitarianism or evil or malice. Some control is necessary of any government. Some control is perceived to be, but is not actually, necessary. Some control is self-interested and self-concerned. Som
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by themeek 11y ago
By cyberwar he means that nation states were investing in state-of-the-art capabilities to use Computer Network Exploitation for the purposes of espionage and sabotage. This has been happening since the 90s. It is true that it has gotten co
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by themeek 11y ago
I think it would still be non-trivial as event bindings, DOM bindings and others things would not work out of the box. It's a super neat idea though.
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by themeek 11y ago
> as you write and rewrite the same sector, you're doing so against the same set of "tweaks". > but as a backdoor, it's a pretty crappy one, because it requires your computer not only to be on and "unlocked&qu
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by themeek 11y ago
No, we're on the same page. I don't have an attack on XTS you are not aware of. Code (again pretend in hibernate/wake behavior) that deliberately leaks information about important boot blocks on the disk could lead to a full
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by themeek 11y ago
Sure. XTS reuses the sector-block for an IV, and so on a per-block level encryption is deterministic. The flaw here would be a scenario where there are deliberate repeated modifications to blocks of the harddrive (somewhere like within hibe
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by themeek 11y ago
Bitlocker (well, "Device Encryption") does upload your harddisk keys to OneDrive by default, and OneDrive is onboarded to PRISM for government request. So in the case that you end up provisioning a computer or device with Bitlocke
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by themeek 11y ago
We are definitely in a bubble. The question is whether, when and how bad it will burst. Predicting market events like bursts is extremely hard, even for experts - so hard you can make a lot of money from it - remember that economists too sa
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by themeek 11y ago
Currently DIA uses internet signals collection, social media analysis and human intelligence to identify foreign messaging and popular messages that are harmful to national security. They will submit requests to have these taken down (as th
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by themeek 11y ago
My guess would be that it is because fake accounts are not merely fraud, but are often front organizations, either by lobbyists and political PACs or by corporation PR groups, or by nations states abroad and at home for their own covert &#x

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