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by xnull2guest 12y ago
“The facts contained in this program constitute a combination of the greatest number of highly sensitive facts related to NSA/CSS’s overall cryptologic mission,” the briefing document states. “Unauthorized disclosure…will cause excepti
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Interesting perspectives, so here's another volley. I think "users prefer ads to paying" is not a full explanation: I did include "paying is painful". If that's all there were - just upfront cost, how do we dea
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
We've gone in a security model that Bruce Schneier calls Digital Feudalism. We give up rights to have large centralized organizations take care of our security for us. In exchange we give them data that they are allowed to sell. This i
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Yeah looks like that was the argument that held up until just a few years ago. I remember it being 'illegal' (like breaking the speed limit) at that time. As of 2010 it appears to have changed. Note that it IS illegal to modify a
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
I looked it up and am wrong as of 2010 when the Registrar of Copyright of the Library of Congress ruled that, in fact, it was legal to jailbreak iPhones and other smartphones. Apologies, I will remove the comment above.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
> Despite our dislike of DRM, we have come to believe Firefox needs to provide a mechanism for people to watch DRM-controlled content. We will do so in a way that protects the interests of individual users as much as possible, given wha
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
> It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. Bu
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
In general, if one could find preimages using SAT it wIn general, if one could find preimages using SAT it would be done for cryptanalytic purposes would be done for cryptanalytic purposes. SAT is also not likely to admit a hardware (ASIC,
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
I would be partial to this thesis, but I find it to be more a failing of the media. From Wikipedia: "In a democratic society, however, access to free information plays a central role in creating a system of checks and balance, and in d
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
According to Binney they almost certifiably are. I think they downvoted because Binney cites the DEA, CIA and FBI - which are law enforcement - however in this thread posters have taken law enforcement to mean your friendly neighborhood mun
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
If a (co)processor, firmware, battery, daughterboard, memory, (really anything on the north/south bridge), UEFI certs or code, harddrive, OS, microcodes, transistor doping amounts, protocols, touchscreen, drivers, services or crypto st
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
> Maybe the ultimate lesson we learned then and now is how little people care. People are woefully uninformed on the NSA and surveillance. If you ask a random layperson what Snowden disclosed nine times out of ten you'll get "t
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
2. some people are spreading rumors and fake information. Yeah that would be government purposefully trying to sabotage the protests.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
The creepy thing is that it's more than just shills. You can confront a shill. Information can be targeted to individual and to groups of people through multiple fronts in tandem with word of mouth. It wouldn't be a problem except
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Everyone has to start from a few members. Isn't it more interesting to analyze services based on their features, anyway?
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
It exists in a usable fashion? Not to elbow Diaspora - they have a noble idea.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Reprising and modifying an old comment from another account: The latest trends in advertising has moved beyond 'behavioral' targeted advertising, where a user is served specific content because they may have browsed something simi
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
I don't know anyone outside the tech industry who has signed up for Ello either. But I do know a bunch of people who value their privacy. They just don't know what they can do about it.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/01/power_and_the... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/the_battle_fo... https://www.schneier.com&#x
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Yeah one of the problems with Ello is that there's no real guarantee that they won't eventually start selling/mining/advertizing or that they won't be bought by a company that will. Diaspora had the right philosophy
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
The people I talk to outside of tech circles care very muhc about privacy and having their data sold. But it's one dimensional to think about the average person when talking about Ello, or any other service. Why can't Ello just be
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Sounds like a whole lot of bikeshedding to me. Most of what you're suggesting doesn't apply, won't improve things, is a higher standard than we require of competing implementations or are being done already. It's fantast
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Well, they take on responsibility as stewards, which means they will be the target of criticisms and backdoor attempts, and will need to meet the demands of downstream demand for fixes, requests and help. They also need to (have already) sp
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
* Nah, the BSD guys are removing their dependency on OpenSSL, which is terribly broken for a number of reasons. They are not offering to replace OpenSSL for everyone on every platform. That's not their goal. They've said this from
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
"Project SPEARGUN in progress" "Key Activities in Progress: Access ... New Zealand: Partner cable access program achieves phase 1" "New Zealand: GCSB's cable access program SPEARGUN phase 1; awaiting new GCSB A
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
No, it's political as well. Imagine knowing the talking points and agendas of politicians before an international political gathering. The Cuban Twitter program is another example of non-corporate use. Sabotage and owning of infrastruc
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Nope. It's about an ongoing global cyber intelligence war. Check out my other comment in this thread for a quick rundown on some stuff to start researching.
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No. The programs are not about terrorism at all. Check for other comments on this thread (I posted a lengthy one) for details.
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They covered that in their talk. It 100% was implemented. You can watch the talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKSDmwKcFQA
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Glenn Greenwald, Snowden and Julian Assange spoke eloquently about how NZ made international promises to get surveillance bills passed years in advance of bringing it to a vote. When a country manipulates its people (like Australia is doing

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