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by thingexplainer 10y ago
But what seems to be in question here is if WikiLeaks said "US officials speaking on condition of anonymity said that enhanced interrogation was vital to finding Osama Bin Laden," did WikiLeaks actually talk to those officials and
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
I'm sure he would, that doesn't make it appropriate to use leaked information to carry out a vendetta. edit: getting source
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
I misread the tweet, they said "black-rimmed glasses" rather than "sunglasses". So it seems to boil down to, "It seems like most of our critics are those upwardly-mobile Jews." Another sad chapter in the descen
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Thanks, learned something new.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
While I agree that Assange has been under an incomprehensible amount of stress for such a long time, he is getting increasingly radical and less journalistic, such as his (edit: alleged) vendetta against Clinton.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
At the risk of sounding naive, what do the brackets and sunglassses (edit: they're just glasses) mean and how is it anti-semetic?
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
It isn't a real word I'm afraid, but an FBI invention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Onymous
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
It is possible (if not the norm for branded accounts) for multiple people to use a single account.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
This isn't a very interesting criticism. If WikiLeaks says an anonymous source told them something that is a.) completely believable and b.) isn't what a onymous source would be able to say, I see no reason to doubt them. I don&#x
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
And presumably you have a record of those same chats revealing the content was, "I'm not interested in participating in your conspiracy to commit fraud, stop talking to me." If you meant to imply they could abuse this capabil
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
In all seriousness, and meaning no disrespect, have you researched the Kennedy assassination and come away with the impression there was no conspiracy? Because I didn't even think it was particularly controversial that the official sto
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
> Yeah, if something is hard we should just give up right away and save time. You misunderstood me, and it is true that I did not speak plainly. The Internet is a global resource which we cannot legislate because it isn't something
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
> You are welcome to disagree with the notion for your inbox. And we did, by implementing Bayesian spam filters, not be making spam illegal. It's a bit rich to think we can legislate a global Internet. > Telemarketers are just do
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Junk mail wastes more resources in a day than spam ever will. Spam should be legal and junk mail should not be.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Moxie says this happened in the first half of 2016, but the censored month seems have eight characters, ruling out the first six months. My bet is on December. My hedge is that I counted wrong. Edit: I counted wrong. <digit><digit&
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
My thought is that this would be problematic in markets with natural monopolies. There aren't a lot of mom-and-pop power companies. (There are plenty of moms and pops selling power, but as I understand they sell it to the power company
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
I feel like you're talking over me rather than trying to understand what I say. But stay safe and have a good life anyway, traveler.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Collection by intelligence/LE agencies and by private companies are increasingly interrelated. These are not separate problems, but two sides of the same coin. I'm afraid you've missed my point, because I don't use those
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
There surely is, but the first step is to acknowledge that the world has come to a certain point where we've lost control of our data and intelligence agencies, and not to write off people who's privacy has been compromised as foo
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
I have a hard time believing that people would sit and wait for death because the lights were out. If they had to walk 100 miles, till with their hands, garden with whatever fibrous, undomesticated vegetables the could find, and fertilize w
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Something to consider when you're comparing products based on "trustworthiness."
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Granted. But the police shouldn't be written into TCP. That is a social solution, not a technical one.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
I think we should attempt to address the ills we find in society, lest we see them expand rapidly without any counter force.
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
The rest of the world brought me here, and I was unwilling to let them pass me by and leave me alone but with perfect control of my data. The world is rich in complexity and devoid of absolutes. I've yet to see someone build an ivory t
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
>> how often do you audit source code? > You would be surprised! How often do you audit OwnCloud's source code? (I'd describe it as "naive.")
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
Do we need to take measures against people shouting nonsense through megaphones, or can we just accept that they have this capability and pursue more interesting topics?
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
> I read the the US government estimates a 80% civilian mortality if the power grid is down for a year. Our food production, waste and water treatment, hospitals, etc run on electricity, sure. But 80% doesn't seem anchored in realit
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
This is the ultimate sample bias. Organizations are perfectly capable of keeping secrets, even if they are composed of individuals evolved to communicate the truth. We don't know how much we'll never know. If we find out about cla
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
And why do you think we'd know?
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by thingexplainer 10y ago
If you don't keep your airgapped laptop on your person or in a tamper evident container at all times, it isn't an airgapped laptop. And if it isn't an airgapped laptop, it shouldn't know any secrets.

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