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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I want to go further with this idea. What we need to do is understand why both nations are doing this. What reasons do they have? Why does it seem like a good idea? Are they the same reasons? Are they somehow fundamental? How much choice is
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Right, but if you look at the large torrent sites they make large amounts of money from ads. They are 'free' but they make money (they don't make money from you - they make money by you). Since popcorn time is effectively t
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
All expectations have no proof? Yes it's speculation. Re: evidence. The evidence we do have is from precedent - former file sharing services that have made money from similar types of technologies (notably bit-torrent). It is an establ
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I just did this. It is not that ads are not possible, it is that ads are currently not shown. So here's a question: do we expect that to continue in perpetuity? My expectation would be that of the root comment: the website will in the
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I did not read the article. Is there a website to get popcorn time or the 'torrent' files for them? This would be the place for ads. Edit: I have now read the article in full. Question about financing below.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The OP probably was replying to the fact that larger nations are able and willing to lean on service providers to extract personal information and deanonymize private conversation. This is a normal mode of analysis for citizens trying to se
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
They get money out of it. The Pirate Bay makes a huge margin from the advertisements on their website. Edit: apparently they do not currently have ads on the website or in the app, so they do not currently make money.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Thank you. Yes I introduced it as terminology because I felt it was present in content without the terminology before I spoke my piece. You misunderstand me. I am neither justifying nor trying to justify torture. I am trying to show why nat
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
There are a number of reasons that I can tell - but no one 'killer' reason. The first is that sequestration has been cutting the defense budget so that the normal methods of technology development and acquisition are more limited
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The sum total of the following links: DoD will be investing, through parterships with executives of companies that acquire technology from startups, like Facebook, and with partnerships with Silicon Valley Venture Capital Firms to invest in
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
It is interesting you think the China boogieman is disappearing. Luckily for us the relatively near future will inform us who is right so we don't need to hash out the principles. It's also interesting to see that what I'm do
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Our public servants are not good or evil. They are merely people responding to the incentives that they are faced with. This means that they are incentivised to behave by fear of losing their jobs, by financial contributions and kickbacks,
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Have you been following the news with regard to the Defense Department and Silicon Valley? There is a concerted effort now, through government compulsion and money, to funnel venture capitol towards start-ups with cyber security (offensive
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
The social criteria is questionable. If the Federal Government cares, do you not think they can dredge your social media interactions? Do you not think that they do this for presidential candidates and those applying for top brass positions
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
It's funny that when very analogous things happen in America I am accosted by people defending the principle that the West is still a stalwart of 'freedom' because we can still choose and have the freedom to take actions that
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Probably not. The US superpower status has been hollowing out and China has begun to be able to project power in very impressive ways. The US sees China as its major threat right now. What the US government would like to do is 'contain
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Looks right. There isn't much of a trail here (the wiki page is relatively new and mostly created by one individual), but I'd buy the general story. They do sound partisan, if not for their history and conflict with the Kremlin. I
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
This is one of the upsetting things about the transparency of the accident. It's unique given the long held opacity of the civilian casualties racked up by the program, including innocent people making their ways to weddings and funera
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Yes. It is my understanding that the nephew of al-Awlaki, also a US citizen, was engaged with the resistance on the ground. Not that that's necessarily okay then to kill without a trial but the argument for assassinating him is perhaps
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
There have been an unusually large number of civilian casualties from the drone program. If memory serves its currently over 20 incidental deaths per high value target. Leaked documents from the CIA (by Der Speigel) even enumerate administr
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Can the Defense Department Rekindle Romance with Silicon Valley?(foreignpolicy.com)
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Who is Meduza? (It's unfortunate but) we need to be careful what information we consume - and from where - during these times of propaganda warfare.
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Kind of like that, yes - though it is not so much a right as it is a practical consideration. The difficulty is that companies aren't going to willingly share information that might then be turned around to indict them. So to quell tho
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Like Fusion Centers of the Department of Homeland Defense, the United States has centers called ISACs (Information Sharing and Analysis Centers) which collate data from American industries, look for threats, patterns and anomalies, and will
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
I hear a great number of predictions regarding China - especially on discussion forums. It's also interesting to hear your analysis of debt accumulation. When the US did much the same what I kept hearing from finance folks was that for
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Right. At the top of my post I correct the title to say everyone hacks everyone. This is a tragedy of the commons type situation. Nobody wants to disarm. However there is historical precedent for cooperation and disarmament under these cond
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Well, we're talking here about very concrete things: days where cyber activity is stopped as a show of good faith, or nations trading their compromised networks like they do today with spies. This won't in and of itself stop the a
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
Meh - that's not why there are cyber attacks. I mean - if you take the attacks on greatfire and SONY they are retaliations for propaganda operations. 'Information' available around the globe and 'narrative' around t
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by xnull6guest 11y ago
New Everyone Cyberattacks: What's to Be Done? Four things, each with their own time horizon and in parallel. 1. Norms for cyber warfare and international cyber activity to be developed. (The US may not be able to lead this post-Snowden
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by xnull6guest 12y ago
Yes, Crimea and Eastern Ukraine shares a border with Russia, NATO exercises had been going on in Crimea under the purview of a Western CSO propelled Kiev, Ukraine and under it the republic of Crimea was slotted for entry into the EU (and ev

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