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by ttctciyf 13y ago
I know, it's almost as if they lied about their mission statement and it's really "maximize shareholder profit." This is really disturbing my worldview. You don't think other huge corporations might have mission sta
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Schneier discusses NSA docs (working on new stories)(technologyreview.com)
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
If NSA opsec was such that an outlier like Snowden, ideologically motivated and willing to up sticks and lose a career and a nice untroubled life, could access and deliver detailed information on backdoors (we haven't seen any specific
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
(non physicist, non mathematician) The current excitement seems to be to do with a forthcoming paper from Arkani Hamed and his student Jaroslav Trnka. The pdf at http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~tonge105/igst13/Trnk
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
Also unable to access it from a Virgin train in the UK: 'restricted' because the site is considered 'malicious or inappropriate'. Can't help wondering if this is how things will be under the upcoming UK Internet &#x
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
I don't know either, but I do wonder if it could be to do with this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
Not wanting to sound too cynical, but choosing to let them break out the sledgehammers does seem to have made a pretty good story in itself, doesn't it?
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
Yes. Did you notice "Why we don't have FAQs" starts with: "we're often asked ..."?
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by ttctciyf 13y ago
Realistically paranoid, I think. Best plan may be to create a small encrypted partition, and put some data on it, so you can give them the passphrase when asked. Don't forget the passphrase!