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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Do you think that the NSA would bother breaking CA keys? We know that they have shadow certificates and have much success infiltrating CAs to steal their keys and that they have been able to forge them without having to break the keys (via
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Appelbaum also mentioned they have advanced crypt-analytic capabilities against AES, but the evidence right now supports that these advances are not enough to break AES in the general case.
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It was Tice. My mistake. Thank you for the check.
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If you are speaking about insurgent groups in the Middle East, it's sort of confusing. I would suggest that even ISIL isn't a terrorist group, at least in the same sense that the word terrorism has been used throughout the past 10
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Reprising a comment. It's not about terrorism. Never was. That's just how the deep state sells it to voters. If you look at the Snowden documents (and leaks by others) you'll see essentially nothing other than the internation
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So-called Fusion Centers have, and they get help from way on up high.
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One can hope. When Binney blew the whistle on the NSA he specifically said that he saw a request for Senator Obama's communications during his time there, as well as other elected officials.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Reprising a relevant comment: The United States and allies do use the internet to spread Western culture and ideas, start revolutions, and kindle insurrection. The United States CIA attempted (and nearly succeeded) in inciting a revolution
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The first thing I will note is that you didn't specify 'most' of the things on the list. I think that's okay, but I do want to suggest that perhaps you aren't ardently for free speech as many of the items in the lis
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While I would be apt to agree with his conclusion I have trouble with his arguments, which I find sloppy. Thesis: the high level problem is that general purpose computing (and general purpose manufacturing, like 3d printing) dramatically lo
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Most? It seems to me that there are a couple where it's arguable. I'm curious which ones you think don't cause harm to others and why it is you think they do not.
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> No one has a right not to be offended. And free speech isn't really free if it can't offend. Yes this is the principle of offense. > It sounds like the argument for trigger warnings is that some people think they might be
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
We impose limitations on Free Speech for libel, slander, obscenity, pornography, sedition, hate speech, incitement, fighting words, classified information, copyright violation, trade secrets, non-disclosure agreements, right to privacy, rig
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Certainly new technology and unprecedented populations were major aspects of warfare during this time period. I would add poison gases to your list. Remember though that many other (non-destructive) technologies made their entrance during t
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Oh the modern world still has a taste for imperialism. The techniques of imperialism are not even that different than that of centuries old, though with modern spins. Plus WWI and WWII were not the result of imperialism or at least not as
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
America as a nation has always been drawn taut between its interests - intelligence, military, economic, political and otherwise - and its ideals which clearly state that " all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with c
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Interesting. Do you have you have more than this article to go on (I found it's connection tenuous, but it could be just this report). Has the white house nudged CISPA specifically? What's quoted in this article is sort of a blank
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
This goes to some lengths to explain why Assange is willing to publish anything, no matter how damaging in the short term it may be to particular interests. He doesn't want to be a curator or a decision maker about what information is
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Well, I think what the parent is saying here is that the United States set a precedent for other nation states to engage in destruction of industry when they see national security or state advantages - while the myth of America being a fair
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Hmm. Up until now the Sony/NK thing has been confusing from a technical standpoint - there's lots of good reasons to be curious about and skeptical whether NK had anything to do with the SONY hack (see the bazillion threads on HN
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I didn't consider that. I hope so.
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> The fact that they sometimes threaten things they can't do adds no information to the question of whether they did this thing. I think it does. I think it calls into question that when NK makes a threat, we can't just assume
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I understand and I disagree with this sentiment wholeheartedly.
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Right but they still make plenty of empty threats especially on a global scale . Nor have their threats to use many of the artillery they have pointed toward South Korea (including nuclear arms) been fulfilled. Of course North Korea and So
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Haven't those discussions been largely mixes of new people? I think it's fair for the people who didn't get a chance to weigh in the first time to have their own deliberation about it.
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How do you square this with the fact that NK makes empty threats all of the time?
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I argued here that it may be NK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8765292 But I don't think I can agree with your comment. Whether the group in question is new or has a new moniker I don't think says anything
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
What sort of evidence, in this case and in general, proves a negative?
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With the destruction of his reputation, operatives working with him at Wikileaks, harassment of his living conditions, false contributions of fake cables to increase his workload, tapped communications and locked down locale I don't th
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Despite downvote I do insist: sockpuppet does imply collaboration. And I do insist: the IRS is regularly used (with other capabilities) by American administrations to harass and discourage political opponents. This is not a contended fact

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