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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Assuming that's legal. I know bugs are sold, sometime openly, but it depends on how FBI wants to see it.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Unless we start spending less than 1% of our GDP or so on Pentagon Inc, I don't mind this. What's the point of having a $12 Billion aircraft carrier if a Chinese hacker can hack it? Or having a $700 Billion a year military if a ki
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
>> The court approved each of the 1,789 government requests it received in 2012, except for one that was withdrawn. Scary as hell, considering that one request can be as broad as: “It is hereby ordered that [Verizon Business Networ
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Hey Booz Allen, we need another 6000 analysts to double team your other 6000 analysts. Truly yours, Current NSA Chief, and future Booz Allen Hamilton CEO.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Because each court order could single out hundreds or even thousands of phone numbers or e-mail addresses, the number of individual communications that were improperly collected could number in the millions, officials said. Hey Google, Fa
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Obviously it's not different in principle, but in practice there are comparatively few people on the no-fly list Yeah but if it's YOU, it's 100% of people as far as you're concerned. No one cares that you're a 4 y
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
NSA Claims Surveillance Programs Aided Stopping Of 50 Attacks; Details Lacking Yeah, I'm the Queen of England. Really, but details are lacking. Sorry NSA but I am not buying it, some megacorp is worried about losing billion dollar ch
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Google, IIRC, does not let you search from TOR either. If they can't track you, you're no good to them.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
A very helpful Apple salesperson helped me save $750 Not really "save", he just gave you less options and the cost $750 less.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
So you have the right to remain silent...as long as you're abreast of the latest SCOTUS ruling and understand them. In rather words you may need to be a lawyer and no niceties with the cops: am I under arrest? No, adios then. If they w
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UK ISPs will enact auto-filtering of adult content by the end of 2013(thenextweb.com)
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
"They can still get them from Apple directly, and Apple can read them.* That's a direct lie from Apple, if you are right. Any proof? What about end-to-end encryption?
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Simple, because if they published for a year they'd have say 10,000 requests, which seems a lot more than 5000 for six months. $4.99 vs $5
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Pay Booz Allen billions a year the same rate as NSA does and you'll have it solved in a short time. of course incentives and priorities matter also (the soldiers have already done the fighting, so what's the rush might be the atti
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our customers in the first place. There are certain categories of information which we do
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
will allow child porn images which have already been “flagged” by child protection organisations such as the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to be wiped from the web in one fell swoop. Next will be those images that offend [insert religio
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
I suspect that they have a better database of our browsing and email habits than Google does. That is, every email sent, website visited, search done, place visited via smartphones and so on. Of course NSA can connect it with a name and a r
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Like dropping a thousand pages at 9 PM, EST on a long weekend Friday? Drip, drip, drip...
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
they don't have full metadata access from Google Mail either. And you know this...how exactly? I can't say they do but it wouldn't surprise me. To say that they don't however is a different story. What's the diffe
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
It is really hard to fathom just how bad the first Bush administration --- really, the Cheney shadow administration, which is what it was in the first term --- was. And Obama did what exactly? Expanded it or at least kept it the same. Let
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
It is but tell that to NSA and to all those angry Senators and Congress people--and especially to those lobbyists from the military industrial complex. He will be kept "in isolation because he can leak secrets even from jail"
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Most powerful guy on the planet? I hadn't heard of him until now. He's probably heard of you and that's the real power. He may have to do a few searches but he definitely knows more about you than you know about about yours
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
In a normal scandal story, the appropriate committee would grant immunity to Snowden, have him testify, then bring up Clapper, have him testify, and compare notes. Preferably publicly. Have you seen Manning lately ? White as flour. Shows
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Who do you hate America? What do you have to hide? It's all to protect the chilrun /sarcasm Sadly, the train has left, even courts are neutered. They can and are supposed to nip it in the but they will not do it. Journos are hara
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
"I'd call it a major innovation..." The company behind the Loon concept has been working on this for over a decade. http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Space_Data_Awarded_USAF_Cont... Innovation on an existi
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
IIRC, they can store it ssl-ed and wait for the encryption to be broken. If Google can store everything in their servers, NSA, CIA et al with virtually unlimited budgets and some of the best mathematicians in the world surely can do the sam
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Break Microsoft up and divide any MSR ideas among the companies. No that's innovation, but currently MS doesn't want to rock the Win /Office boat.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Beer, IMO. Sometimes you need to forget the status quo and dream....
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
This is not news, I am not in the field and have known it for ages. So have cement makers that make specialized cement. The immediate money will be in making a special liquid that can be sprayed in existing concrete building to make them la
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
+If a company uses their profit (e.g. from ads) to provide and finance something as extremely useful and important as free internet access to developing countries - then yes, that's totally fine for me. Depends how they make that pro

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