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by throwaway654329 4y ago
CIA is partially responsible for making conspiracy theory a slur. This makes your comment very funny for some, I suspect. Do you have a statistical breakdown of a normal incidence rate of former intelligence officers in positions of power?
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Both, obviously. A related example: in the Snowden archive we saw that NSA sends people into American (and foreign) companies to achieve project BULLRUN sabotage goals. They do this for other programs and it is clearly not only NSA.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
The embargo against Cuba, partially relaxed under Obama, reinstated intensely under Trump, maintained today by Biden. Think of the children? Nah… America, fuck yeah!
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This is a feature for Google, not a bug. I suggest you read “When Google met Wikileaks” [0] for a nice read related to this topic, including discussions with former U.S. Department of State people brought in to run Google ideas. [0] https:
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Especially if you have to fill out an SF-86 form such that they have blackmail on you for the rest of your life, oh and since the Chinese stole most of those from OPM… this should apply double for reasons of foreign counter intelligence?
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It’s not an accusation, it’s a statement of facts.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
You don’t recall NSA doing interception on your internal network? You don’t recall Jared Cohen from the State department being recruited to run Google Ideas? You don’t know that State is used for cover for CIA? Maybe you’re just not aware o
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
I’m not convinced there aren’t binary blobs in the precursor at key locations which can sabotage both being free and open, as well as having a potential security impact. To be fair: non-free hardware and/or non-free software are not re
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
It’s a good question - the analysis seems to ignore the need for non-free software to properly build the FPGA bitstream files from source. We have no way to know the Xilinx tools are safe. None of those papers address the tool chain questio
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
For one: it is almost entirely based on a non-free tool chain. They rely on a non-free Xilinx tool chain for the spartan 7 (XC7S50) FPGA which is the heart of the device. They do use an ice-40 (which has a free tool chain as well as a non-f
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
“The people” - of course. So you and me! Everyone we know! Society! But really: The state who has to expend resources (gotta pay for the officers time), the courts (he is costing them time by asking for a trial!), the prosecution (they prob
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
No? Zuckerberg wasn’t in it to sell illicit drugs, though that apparently happens often, and it seems clear that data and targeting of specific people based on that data was a conscious strategy. That might not be illicit in America but it
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
So you want his new trial to also be a preordained show trial? What if he actually isn’t guilty of those accusations? What should happen to the agents of the state who either entrapped (if true) or fabricated (if false) those claims? And re
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Indeed, I am not DPR and I have no skin in the game of his sentencing.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
His prison conditions seem to extremely bad and your response is to argue he had a fair trial by a jury of his peers. I wonder if you can see that one does not relate to the other? He should be punished by being incarcerated, not by other p
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Your comment is my favorite in the entire discussion because you don’t trip over the supposed moral flaws in his character. I appreciate that you focus on why the state tried to entrap (or frame him if you want to assume the claims are tota
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Yes, it is reasonable to assume so. The DEA coined the term, right? It seems like mass surveillance provided by intelligence was likely used to locate relevant computers but that is not what was introduced in court to the best of my knowled
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Indeed, it was the realization of his political ideals, no matter how wacky they may seem. He created a market place which was available as a tor hidden service. It was primarily a website and a communications hub, this makes it a kind of m
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
> There's nothing unjust about imprisoning drug traffickers, organised crime bosses and those that seek to put out hits on their enemies. There is when the state breaks its own principles and rules, that is the point. It is literall
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
I understand the why - the state felt challenged - ultimately when the state is the supposed victim, the crime is inherently political. It’s nice to see someone in this thread acknowledge the political nature of his situation and thus his s
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Yeah, it’s confusing, his stated political goals and the claims of the state with the clear goal to discredit him seem to clash. Perhaps we should doubt the state, presume innocence of the accused, and ensure he is given a separate trial on
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Does the U.S. justice system in your estimation have any political prisoners? If so, could you provide a name of a current prisoner? In my view the answer is clearly yes. One kind is a prisoner of conscience. Prisoners of conscience are not
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
To call that a legal system and not a systemic political persecution is probably not uniquely American, though it is uniquely on display in this case. Lately with SCOTUS, I think we are seeing widespread dissent about the worth of the entir
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Your claim doesn’t invalidate my claim. It may be that you personally disagree and that’s your political right. Like the man said: you’re entitled to your opinion but not your own facts. Take a look at the definition of relative and absolut
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
This. He explicitly wanted to remove opportunity for violence of in-person transactions. This fact wasn’t even a meaningful mitigating factor in sentencing.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
Indeed. Consider the inverse situation: Imagine if Catholics who tithe were investigated, prosecuted, and convicted by the same standards. You’d have to imagine it because while many of us know about the child sexual assault scandals in the
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
In a civilized country such as many developed countries in Europe a life sentence is roughly fifteen to twenty years. That is a remarkably long time. It is an extreme punishment. There are exceptions for psycho killers like Anders Breivik.
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
To inflict cruel and/or unusual punishment and as a deterrent to others. The judge only acknowledged the latter half of my first sentence and the former is the quiet part judges can’t say out loud lest the damned have a toehold for an
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by throwaway654329 4y ago
No, it really is a matter of settled law in America that if acquitted of a charge that you are innocent as you start with the presumption of innocence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence is a useful