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by csandreasen 10y ago
Don't apologize - factcheck.org is right; thehill.com is wrong. Just go back to the original FBI report here:[1]. None of the e-mails were properly marked; three e-mails chains consisting of eight individual messages had at least one
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by csandreasen 10y ago
This is an installation banner, as in: "You've successfully installed LNMP" From the LNMP GitHub page: This script is written using the shell, in order to quickly deployLEMP/LAMP/LNMP/LNMPA(Linux, Nginx/Te
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by csandreasen 10y ago
CNN and the Washington Post both reported that WhatsApp and Telegram were found on several of the Paris attackers' phones, but that the content wasn't able to be recovered. http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17&#
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by csandreasen 10y ago
From your link: (c) The term “confidential communication” includes any communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the parties thereto, but excludes a
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by csandreasen 10y ago
Absolutely. If a business is offering services that a customer is using to commit a crime, the police wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't go down and ask for logs.
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by csandreasen 11y ago
That's interesting. They've come pretty close to that line in the past... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tea-party-taxes-and-wh...
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Probably about as much as you see from him on the subject of Russia and China. The Intercept is about as unbiased as Fox News - lots of criticism directed towards the US and its allies, silence on every other country.
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How Apple's fight with the FBI will hurt our privacy(politico.com)
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by csandreasen 11y ago
A gaping "backdoor" already exists in the form of the software update mechanism. By the same logic you're using, Apple can't keep their source code and signing key secure forever, which would be a much worse leak than t
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by csandreasen 11y ago
This is more like the FBI asking the storage unit owner to turn off the security system that he installed that incinerates the contents of the storage unit when someone tries to pick the lock, but only on the unit that the FBI has a warrant
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by csandreasen 11y ago
By that same logic, Apple's source code and software update key could eventually leak, too, which would have even worse effect. The FBI is handing the phone over to Apple to apply the modification, not asking Apple to them the means t
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Demanding keys would conflict with the 5th Amendment; in the few cases that I'm aware of[1][2] where a defendant was successfully compelled to decrypt their files, the suspect had either already demonstrated that the evidence was in th
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I don't think that's an appropriate analogy. You may as well just say "In the 1700s, if you wrote an enciphered letter..." since cryptography isn't a new concept. Various schemes have been used to protect military
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by csandreasen 11y ago
First off, Martin Luthor King didn't kill himself, so you can't really say that the FBI compelled him to do so. Secondly, you're using the actions taken by a domestic law enforcement agency more than half a century ago as evi
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> Anyone who intends subversive action can be targetted. They can be approached and manipulated by an agent who knows everything about them. The would-be-subversive can be nudged, sabotaged or flat out blackmailed. You've just
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by csandreasen 11y ago
> The US government revoked his passport while he was in an international "no man's land" (i.e. the international side of Russian customs), effectively making him stateless. This is a myth that keeps getting repeated. The
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by csandreasen 11y ago
There's a huge difference between those links and showing systemic abuse. When I actually go and read the stories behind your links, what you state is that 13 people in 10 years abusing their position at the NSA to spy on their signif
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by csandreasen 11y ago
To which I would ask "Under what circumstances would the government pay a federal agent to watch me have sex for the next 10 years?" This and the similar comparisons that I often see raised in response to the "I have nothing
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by csandreasen 11y ago
To put this into perspective, it's worth noting that this was an issue of almost unprecedented contention between the US and Israel over whether or not to lift sanctions against Iran in exchange for nuclear disarmament. What Israel do
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by csandreasen 11y ago
If code was added to leak the state of the PRNG, then whether or not Dual EC is used becomes a non-issue. The person who created the backdoor could leak the state regardless of which PRNG was used.
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Is this guy sitting in a coffee shop with a 2U rackmount ScreenOS-based hardware VPN connected to his laptop? If not, this particular attack that the article is discussing wouldn't work.
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by csandreasen 11y ago
It's even more complicated than that - Juniper used Dual EC, and changed the Dual EC parameters, but ultimately the output of that PRNG was being used to seed a different PRNG (probably for speed purposes). From your 2nd link: ScreenO
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by csandreasen 11y ago
If you're going to use the envelope analogy, also consider that we don't put our mail in envelopes to prevent the police from intercepting it; we put them in envelopes to prevent access by all of the people handling the mail betwe
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Forcing the terrorists/criminals to roll their own encryption would be a huge win for both law enforcement/foreign intelligence agencies and the general public. When non-cryptographers write their encryption software the likeliho
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by csandreasen 11y ago
I'm not quite sure how generating more data about people's locations and putting it in the hands of more people is considered a victory for privacy advocates.
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Jim Sensenbrenner is the last person who should be lecturing on dragnet surveillance. He was one of the writers of the PATRIOT Act, then failed to attend any classified briefings where the NSA explained what they were doing with the phone
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by csandreasen 11y ago
Regarding #2, since it's worded somewhat ambiguously, should we read that as wanting to stop targeted attacks in general (I'm thinking specifically of criminal suspects/etc. when a valid warrant exists) or targeted attacks ag
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by csandreasen 11y ago
The internet has created a weird environment where repercussions for socially unacceptable speech (even if taken completely out of context) can be dramatically more severe than any harm that was caused by the original speaker. In general,
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by csandreasen 11y ago
His passport was revoked the day before he left Hong Kong.[1]. He traveled to Russia on what turned out to be an invalid travel document issued by the Ecuadorian embassy in London [2] (same one that Julian Assange is holed up in). [1] http
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by csandreasen 11y ago
The same site has a good Fourth Amendment flowchart as well: http://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=2256 For what it's worth, the whole site is a good read for an introduction to American law.

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