distill17801

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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   > How are they going to MITM communications with certs that never left my machine? The long game. They: - make sure you wouldn't be in a position to need to transmit data anywhere that would receive it without CA's in their hy
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   I'll die on the hill that this started at or before the Patriot act. Think about it. What's happening now just seems like a natural unfolding.
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   Please show me a photo of an NSA car with a light bar on it. They're not cops.
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   It's generally accepted fact that the NSA broke HTTPS, for some of the time, for some of the services. It's unclear what they do have, but you'd be naive to assume consumer HTTPS is keeping them out. It's too complicate
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   I recall having a nuclear meltdown personally when I heard about all of this in the mid aughts. Nobody cared. Nobody understands this today. Everyone just complains about the Donald, but I point to this, and they don't realize the c
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   Propaganda indeed: my instinct says we are being lied to about how three letter agencies and military are paying for services. They give us a PR front that Uncle Sam is a regular paying customer just like you and me, but they're probab
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   I hear you but, the Patriot act was the gateway. View it as a spectrum from then and how the Administration is now, and suddenly what the Donald is doing doesn't even seem bad: it seems on par for the dystopian road-map laid out long
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   I second this: HTTPS (as most consumers use it) is probably a front (who are these CA's really anyway?) Plot twist: _Perhaps_ Mythos / Fable keeps explaining ways (that we can't comprehend or don't always work) to break
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   by distill17801 3mo ago

   I guess we're just conspiracy theorists for landing at the objective conclusion that three letter government agencies: - find "modern AI" to have strategic importance - have ways to spend loads of money while having a front-f