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by tsotha 11y ago
I interviewed with the CIA out of college. The first thing they do during interviews is disabuse the applicant of any notion he's applying to be James Bond. The clandestine people are only a tiny, tiny portion of the organization. Mo
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You're missing the point. They all do it.
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You mean the way Obama remarked he didn't know how to say something in Austrian, or how he hadn't been to all 57 states? If you follow anyone around with a microphone 24/7 you're going to come up with some pretty dumb
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Bankers, lawyers, and politicians have always been corrupt and/or incompetent. People still used to have kids.
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Maybe. Doesn't that strike you as the sort of thing the government would tell everyone, whether or not it's true?
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His ASVAB scores put him in the top 5%, and his IQ is supposed to be in the high 130s. I've always thought it ironic he's more intelligent than the vast majority of people who think he's stupid. It's probably human natu
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yes. The idea the wealthy got together and formed a big conspiracy to shut everyone else out is a bit on the paranoid side. It's not that you can't get a prestigious job without the right kind of background, it's that you
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A relative of mine worked in contracts while he was in the USAF. He hated to deal with small companies, because you could never count on them to deliver. On more than one occasion while he was there the Air Force took delivery of a half-f
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yep. The correlation/causation problem is strong with this one. It's not that old Mr Smith is alive because he still comes to the office. He still comes to the office because he's alive.
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>I was under the impression that you couldn't run a bruteforcer against these phones because the key is kept inside of a hardware security module. Couldn't the duress code just wipe the key in the HSM? That's something I h
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>Even if all those problems could be overcome, it would be prohibitively expensive to deploy enough of the airships to protect the United States along its borders and coasts. Is this even a proposal? I thought they were mostly worried a
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Yes. The A7 came out after anything I've read on the subject, so it may be more difficult. But really all this means is they need to get the copy without destroying the phone and have some way to put it back. The point isn't to
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I'm a little confused here. Are you trying to say there's no way you can disconnect the battery of an iPhone even if you don't care whether or not it works when you're done? Really? I begin to doubt your fitness for t
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I wasn't trying to say they can somehow get your plain text - this is just a copy of encrypted data. What they can do is keep you from tricking them into destroying the data they have.
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I'm pretty sure there's a lead you can cut.
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Nonvolatile, of course.
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What I meant is they yank the battery as soon as they get the phone. I believe you can clone the memory without powering the device if you have the right hardware. If not they could always disconnect the antenna before powering up.
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>And I really can't think of a way to clone a device like an Android device without unlocking it. ADB now a days requires your explicit permission from a prompt. And if you are like "oh they have ways" I would be very inte
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Not really, no, because it turns out cops aren't actually stupid. When they arrest you and take your phone (or anything electronic, really) the first thing they do is clone the memory. You might succeed in wiping out a copy by giving
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by tsotha 11y ago
You could make it an easy one. Say your normal code is 5829. The panic code should be something like 1111. You'll never key it in accidentally, and people have codes like that, so it won't tip off an assailant.
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Yes and no. Nixon did a lot of things Obama wouldn't get away with. But the technology for the sort of dragnet snooping government agencies can do today wasn't available.
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>The only time you're protected is if the key in question is password protected AND you only memorized the key (ie didn't write it down anywhere). Then you can plead the fifth. I don't think that's the case. There wa
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Well we kind of are. Not as a rule, no. Normal men can do laundry. But you may be right about single guys on the right end of the salary curve.
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That will never change, because it's being driven by female intrasexual competition. Men simply don't compete with each other in the same way.
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>Happened twice in the last century. Even South America was the least affected, but it wasn't unaffected, and it's not like they'd generate a huge amount of trade (compared to EU/Asia who would definitely be involved)
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You don't need a publishing industry for that; you just need book reviews.
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>How about the CEO does not get a golden parachute? How about we let the CEO and the board work it out? >It is your money when you bail them out when a too big to fail company fails. There's no reason to bail companies out.
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How?
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>I'd like to see CEOs treated like true investors. Want to make 50 million if the company does well? Cool. Company loses money? You owe $60 million. I'd like to see people not worry about what other people get paid. Unless you
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by tsotha 11y ago
You also have to factor in QE. Low interest rates make bonds considerably less attractive, so a lot of the money that used to be in bonds has moved into the stock market chasing returns high enough to cover inflation.

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