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by wyck 13y ago
Does anyone remember this.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5194489 The story where he thought his computer was backdoored by a government agency and provides no evidence other than some weird paranoid hunches. His ori
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by wyck 13y ago
An interesting article from 2001 which discusses this at length. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB990563785151302644.html Alternative link (WSJ one acts wierd) : http://www.zdnet.com/news/spy-agency
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by wyck 13y ago
This first question that comes to mind is what was he doing driving at 4:30 in the morning. His friends describe him as a "grandma diver" so why was he driving so fast and blowing red lights on a residential street? Did he ever di
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by wyck 13y ago
It gets even worse, on some searches I have to scroll a full page down, just to see a result not pushed by a google asset (ads/map/etc). In essence it takes up about 90% of screen space on a large desktop. Example: http:/&#x
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by wyck 13y ago
Want a throwback, services that are pre-1993 still exists: http://sdf.org/ , but a geocities retro revival is just a fad.
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by wyck 13y ago
I think you can also use a prism to just split 1 fiber into 2 or more, much like a mirror, similar to how some laser systems work. So in essence the original beam goes on it's merry way unaffected and the duplicate(s) goes into a black
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by wyck 13y ago
They should have a better grace period, they are afterall a hosting company and this really affects trust with users. I would pay extra if there was a checkbox to enable a 30 day grace period (snapshot, not a live site) because sometimes st
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by wyck 13y ago
There are several fiber optic beam splitting patents that are actual prisms which serve various needs. For example : http://www.google.com/patents/US4671613 (one of the many). I'm not saying this is used but it do
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by wyck 13y ago
You realize that 99% of Canadian traffic is routed through the USA right, and that sharing data between US agencies and CSIS is normal? Also we already seem to have our own PRISM that does not have a fancy name and no one is willing to tal
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by wyck 13y ago
Wikileaks made their "insurance" available to everyone via torrent... in other words they have safety in numbers. Snowden having distributed to file to "many different " people is vague and if the # is small could put th
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by wyck 13y ago
The online "territory" will shift away from America eventually, especially for non Americans who are still stuck under the USA's influence. This is exactly the kind of thing, along with recent events, that will eventually d
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by wyck 13y ago
Someone who doesn't like PHP... maybe there's a cave that these people can huddle inside ranting about it, because no one gives a shit.
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by wyck 13y ago
Well there is company called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future that was created by Google and the CIA, they just need another partner;)
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by wyck 13y ago
Open source that I know of: OpenSolaris - OpenIndiana OpenOffice - LibreOffice Ksplice - Discontinued support for non Oracle linux MySql - MariaDB
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by wyck 13y ago
Not really. You wouldn't use TOR and have a sign saying "hey I live here", that obviously defeats the purpose. Imagine you're in Egypt and you lead a political party that is targeted by other parties or even the governme
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by wyck 13y ago
Well you can start your education here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring#Social_media_and_t...
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by wyck 13y ago
You're missing the point TOR isn't about encryption, it's about anonymity. If you're in a situation which can threaten your life, the latter is clearly more important.
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by wyck 13y ago
So I am supposed to know brown means assembly and javascript is orange , oh and coffeescript is dark blue..and so on and so on.
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by wyck 13y ago
Also I can't read anything that slides, and I'm a fast reader.
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by wyck 13y ago
Much ado about nothing.
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This is documented in several books including "The shadow factory", it's been going on for decades. The Telco's basically get absolved of any legal responsibility directly from the oval office. How exactly that works in
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by wyck 13y ago
This is finally starting to make sense to the "media". A large part of the story was the unfiltered taps, PRISM seems effective at pinpointing the important bits in what used to be an overwhelming stream. e.g. Get FISA request on
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by wyck 13y ago
Are you bored by defining moments in history? Maybe if your work doesn't involve computers, but that would be called ignorance.
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Ask HN: Is it possible that hardware backdoors have direct access?
10 points by wyck 13y ago|2 comments
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Swowden has already been smeared as someone who only worked for the NSA for "3 months" and lacks both an education and technical expertise. They are essentially making him look like an amatuer, until more information is released t
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by wyck 13y ago
Snowden send 41 slides, only 5 have been released. The only 2 people ( Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman) that have the rest have no intention of releasing them.
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by wyck 13y ago
There is something odd about the PRISM leak, only 5 slides have been published, yet Snowden wanted the full 41 slides released. Both Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman seem to have no desire to publish the rest, Greenwald had this to say ab
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by wyck 13y ago
Flat design is flat because your looking at a 2-d surface. Making 2-d surfaces which are typically words and "things" that separate words look 3-d is not that important. Design is hard regardless of the dimensions, implied or othe
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by wyck 13y ago
He worked for the CIA on IT security since approximatly 2004-2005. In 2007 he was stationed in Switzerland (CIA), he left the CIA in 2009. In 2009 he started to work for a private contractor in the U.S and Japan which had him stationed at a
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Panopticon(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by wyck 13y ago|0 comments

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