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by tippytop 13y ago
Be careful what you wish for, Google is now one of the biggest spenders in Washington [1], $18.2 million on lobbying in 2012. Needless to say, big business in the tech sector will have plenty of say in the future (if that was ever a worry),
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by tippytop 13y ago
The issue has been making it's way toward the mainstream despite the security establishment doing their best to keep it on the fringe. The leadership has the most to lose---their reputation for establishing an un-American system. The t
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by tippytop 13y ago
Sort by state/district and party: http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412
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Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
17 points by tippytop 13y ago|3 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
Snowden used lavabit.com, which is located in the US (and probably being scrutinized a bit more than usual these days). I think it's more important to diversify services than to insist on airtight alternatives. My mail is not terribly
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by tippytop 13y ago
Why can't this API be fixed, isn't that the whole point of the 'go fix' command?
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by tippytop 13y ago
As the US is the only country to actually use a nuclear weapon against another, the long-view of the empire's historical narrative would be interesting to see.
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell(nytimes.com)
117 points by tippytop 13y ago|86 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
I haven't followed the Dropbox conference, but have they made any statement in regards to the whole PRISM "Dropbox coming soon" claim or anything else about user privacy?
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Snowden Using Lavabit for Email(boingboing.net)
11 points by tippytop 13y ago|6 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : "If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)"
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by tippytop 13y ago
These are some of the biggest corporations in the world, with resources to push back on behalf of their users---if they wanted to. Heck, at least Yahoo did something. At some point the PRISM collaborators took a calculated risk that their u
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by tippytop 13y ago
I don't think the intention is to create a moat around the conference. Things have been getting quite cozy between these two [1]; I'm sure recent revelations don't play well with this conference's attendee base. [1] htt
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by tippytop 13y ago
I use the Wikipedia auto-suggest url [1], it works great for my needs. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=...
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DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)(duckduckgo.com)
353 points by tippytop 13y ago|164 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
There is something these companies allowed that went beyond others, Twitter is not listed for example. As Snowden pointed out [1], these companies need to make some kind of technical assurances for privacy, otherwise customers (and potentia
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by tippytop 13y ago
I'm sure Ms. Meckfessel is a lovely person, but this is clearly a PR driven piece pumped out of Google for recruitment purposes. Throughout this entire NSA scandal people lament there's nothing we can do, but these tech companies
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by tippytop 13y ago
Public systems have been gutted by the private schools.
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by tippytop 13y ago
He has a nice idea about a prospective path of resistance: "The [telcom] companies should write enforceable clauses into their terms, guaranteeing their clients that they are not being spied on. And they should include technical guaran
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by tippytop 13y ago
You sound like a pretty boring dude. He's just a guy in the Internet writing stuff, and you're just a guy on the Internet talking about him.
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by tippytop 13y ago
As things are, this is one of the few points of contact for public feedback with the NSA. They describe themselves as apolitical tools for the administration, well, that's a pretty big hammer to give a future unknown with no public ove
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by tippytop 13y ago
According to this article [1], with Ecuador wavering, Snowden as applied for asylum to 15 different countries, Russia among them. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/world/europe/snowden-appl...
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by tippytop 13y ago
If there's one thing we've learned from all this it's that the tech companies should be viewed as collaborators and can not be relied upon to assert our privacy rights.
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by tippytop 13y ago
While I support this protest, in my opinion, this is a non-media savvy day to have it. "Regular folks" use the day off for family, friends, and bbqs. It's a holiday so no one will be working at the government buildings, and i
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Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA(theatlanticwire.com)
191 points by tippytop 13y ago|40 comments
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Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders(nytimes.com)
79 points by tippytop 13y ago|17 comments
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VP Biden in San Francisco for Democratic fundraiser(abclocal.go.com)
5 points by tippytop 13y ago|0 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
I think it will change things; I'm an American. Having your customers trust is important for business---now data stored offshore has just become a feature.
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California Republic(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tippytop 13y ago|0 comments
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Obama Fundraising in Palo Alto Tonight(nbcbayarea.com)
8 points by tippytop 13y ago|1 comments

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