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by xnull 12y ago
Found the reference to Israel/France, looking for Germany references. http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl... (pg 40/125) Why the downvote here? The comment contrib
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by xnull 12y ago
Addendum: we help fund partners programs. http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl... (pg 124)
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by xnull 12y ago
I'm not misunderstanding it, no. I like to make wordplay; I'm sorry it was confusing. If you reread hopefully you will see we are in agreement.
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by xnull 12y ago
> The Fourth Amendment is part of a document legally defining and describing... No disagreement there. But that doesn't mean that the document grants the right. It merely recognizes the rights. We hold these truths to be self-eviden
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by xnull 12y ago
Wait no. The 4th amendment is an unalienable right. It doesn't (shouldn't) matter where in geologically a person or his property are. We can think about it this way. The United States (well, certain bureaus) do not believe that th
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by xnull 12y ago
Chances are your computer has already been compromised. Your house? Probably not.
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by xnull 12y ago
So basically your argument is: > Rolling back freedom of speech is a non-starter. * Governments have a free speech right to propaganda. (The techniques I suggested 'rolling back' are only used for the purposes of propaganda). &
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by xnull 12y ago
Voters will only demand it if they are informed. Voters will only be informed if both social and traditional media are able to provide actionable, verifiable and non-biased reports. Media will only be able to provide quality information whe
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by xnull 12y ago
I don't understand you either. I don't know what you mean by a 'sorting filter', but what I'm talking about is an algorithm that takes >40Mb of data as input (pictures of Bolt and Athens for example) and uses thi
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by xnull 12y ago
Can't a human draw a picture of Usain Bolt in the Greek Olympics? Wouldn't such a criticism also apply to human art?
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by xnull 12y ago
Just push? With the intelligence community hacking into Senators' computers to defend themselves from investigation, even admitting it, at will, with no reprimand? And have it barely scrape the news? Is it that easy? Can we just re
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by xnull 12y ago
100% correct. But what if we imagine/allow/invent the series of algorithms that 'pluck' a good picture of Usain Bolt from the set of 5MB files without inspecting too many (let's say O(log) or O(log log))? That'
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by xnull 12y ago
> The smartest CS undergrad at any vaguely reputable school could probably do this correctly. It shouldn't be a problem at all for one of the biggest companies in America if they actually care. You are very wrong about this. > as
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by xnull 12y ago
A very good point. Local police will likely be able to access the device but only after calling up the chain. Previous versions of iOS and other smartphones had forensics kits that made it trivial for local law enforcement to grab data out
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by xnull 12y ago
It's extremely difficult to implement cryptography correctly, and then cryptography != security != privacy. You should also look through the other linked articles. Some of them include features built into iOS devices that already circu
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by xnull 12y ago
Unless they need to rebuild the reputations of companies that got hurt by the disclosure of their prior partnerships (ahem, which notably included Apple and Google).
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by xnull 12y ago
I hypothesize that this is a coordinated yet simple ruse to rebuild trust in these brands post-Snowden [1][2]. There was similar press coverage regarding the DEA and iCloud encryption that was misreported in a similar way [3]. The Intercept
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by xnull 12y ago
Everyone keep your eyes peeled for same thing re Value Act Capital and Microsoft.
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by xnull 12y ago
There are nuclear treaties that prevent stationing and mobility of NATO troops and armaments in the Baltic, Ukraine isn't even a member of NATO, and they are getting far more than mere sanctions - intelligence, equipment, financial aid
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by xnull 12y ago
100% possible and at reasonably low cost.
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by xnull 12y ago
Wait who abandoned Ukraine?
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by xnull 12y ago
It's weird. We have this notion in America that corporations are (or are supposed to be) efficient. They're not. Markets are if you grant a series of tenuous assumptions. Markets are the fair efficient competition between unfair a
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by xnull 12y ago
Oblivious Transfer, ZKPs, SMPC, Functional Encryption, Attribute-Based Encryption, (better) cryptocurrency are all things I expect to see before FHE.
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by xnull 12y ago
Adapting Ur-Beowulf to Ar-Curunir and Grendle to Google: "So the Shieldings' hero, hard-pressed and enraged, took a firm hold of the hilt and swung the blade in an arc, a resolute blow that bit deep into her neck-bone and severed
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by xnull 12y ago
Yes. Yes yes yes. Craig Gentry did more than just discover the first theoretical scheme, he reopened an interest in FHE. Yeah all the schemes are inefficient and will remain so for decades. But already the progress on FHE is incredible. 200
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by xnull 12y ago
For many reasons, but I'll admit it was mostly a provocative and clever remark more than an informative one. If you want more meat than that: the US government, and in fact the majority of modern Western-style governments, do not direc
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by xnull 12y ago
Looks like others in those branches of the thread have replies to those materials. Other thread-goers should read those branches of the discussion to craft their own informed opinions.
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by xnull 12y ago
I'm not a lawyer so nothing I say below means anything. From what I can tell - yes - he was guilty of insider trading by the letter of the law. Sharing insider information as CEO about the future of the company with shareholders is by
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by xnull 12y ago
Yes, this is a good caveat. This is what Nacchio claims. I do not have much in the way of a third party source. It's likely that Snowden doesn't know anything about it.
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by xnull 12y ago
This is nothing compared to what allegedly happened to QWest. When the US Government was forcing telecom by telecom to install taps into their business's core routing hubs Joseph Nacchio, the CEO at the time, dug his heels in demandin

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