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by zmanian 12y ago
A lot of folks on the legal/policy side of this debate believe that a regulator can distinguish between network administration that is monopolistic rent seeking and that which is value added services. I'm very suspicious of this a
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The primary value of the Blackphone is that is comes with several hundred dollars of security services. 1. SilentCircle's encrypted messaging and VOIP solution + licenses for close collaborators. 2. Disconnect.Me's VPN 3. Spideroa
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My understanding of the situation is no one has even proposed a "very costly plan to save Miami." This is Venice on an accelerated time scale. Miami pales in comparisons proportionate wealth and power when Venice started sinking i
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This seems like a tremendous failure of efficient markets at the moment. The market has high confidence information that the value of land in Miami will diminish towards zero in the near future. There should be brisk trade in derivatives be
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Very strange that this story is on front page instead of the original. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/article/2014/07/09/under-... neutralitymentality said that his post of the source story was
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by zmanian 12y ago
If you've ever heard Morgan's talking about dissassembling malware in Syrian beheading videos it is chilling. Morgan and Citizen Lab's analysis of malware for sale to governments. https://citizenlab.org/2014&#
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In proof of work cryptocurrencies, transaction fees will become increasing important. Mines need feedback loops with users to ensure that transaction fees are high enough to avoid congestion in transaction processing. As the blockreward dro
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by zmanian 12y ago
The conspiracy theory is a bit more complex. The NSA has two programs for upstream collection prior to 9/11 2001. THINTHREAD and STELLARWIND. THINTHREAD was designed by long time NSA personnel to protect privacy while providing compara
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In many ways, this article is more important to the inside baseball of the NSA policy debate rather than public understanding of the NSA program. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has found the section 702 program to be reason
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Running a Tor exit node, developing encryptions tools , working on government transparency and protecting journalists are all seen as dissent in the current environment. The reason to engage in these activities is a duty to protect democrac
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There seems to be a lot of utility here for folks developing hardware based public key infrastructure like BitCoin wallets.
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It is a must pass Defense Appropriations bill. It won't get killed. This also is the first time that the NSA lost a vote. Just want to thank sinak and everyone who deployed https://shutthebackdoor.net/ on dime. Interne
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I got a confirmed yes from Anne Eshoo. Anyone else have a report?
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The way it has been explained to me is that Google's fat binaries have no dependencies beyond libc. The task scheduler would just have to deploy that one file to one or more machines to get it to run. Containers are much more flexible
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I went to a talk on Omega on Box.com about a year ago. At that point Omega was still about managing Google's giant statically linked binaries. Did Google switch to containers in a year? Maybe that answer is in your slides? If so crazy.
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Some thoughts on using TrueCrypt safetly(cpj.org)
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Bitcoin Remittances to Kenya's MPesa(bitpesa.co)
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The status of TextSecure on iOS is that a new WebSocket based message transport bus needs to be implemented on the server and client side. Text Secure for Android uses Google's Push Messaging Service which queues messages when devices
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There is a lots of interesting work on building office suites and browsers that can take advantage of parallelism. But the general consensus is that we need to invent new lower level tools first. See Rust + Servo and MSFT + M#
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Ever mobile phone carrier makes themselves a root CA on devices they sell and routinely Man-In-The-Middle sites like Youtube.
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Recommendations?
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Deliver our signatures to Senator Feinstein on June 5th. Join Us(shameonfeinstein.org)
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If I was going to start this thread over again, I'd have done a better job differentiating between the concepts of in the data center and in the server. Also I'd do a better job of discussing Section 215 of the Patriot Act which i
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Google is the only company to deny having FBI/NSA devices on their network. When Spylockout asked Apple's general counsel about devices on their network, we could not get a denial. Apple also made iMessage e2e encrypted for a reas
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Also priority inbox and antispam.
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So the PRISM consist of FBI electronic wiretap portals/devices within a company's infrastructure. Now we know the FBI will generally require a court order or an NSL before accessing the portal to request user information. No one h
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In the current state of affairs, lawful intercept/ PRISM devices on Google's network can potentially see everything behind the SSL layer. The global passive attacker can see all incoming and outgoing emails between providers that
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by zmanian 13y ago
It is amazing that this company succeeded. One would have expected that the comic book store owners would have effectively resisted but DC wanted something in place for the iPad launch and it just started the ball rolling down hill. Haven&#
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The legality is unproven but Apple's General Counsel's office has embraced it. It is an increasingly mainstream idea. It should be standardized.
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Section 988(e)(2) Would Never Have Applied: Bitcoins are not foreign exchange.(towneslaw.com)
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