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by hackuser 9y ago
@mods: Please fix the link, which is to the comments and not to the article (and the comments are currently abominable).
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Fourth Circuit Holds Wikimedia Has Standing to Challenge Upstream Surveillance(justsecurity.org)
12 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
What character encoding do they use? ASCII is 7-bit, all those characters use 1 byte in ASCII, and of course email addresses were originally (and until recently?) restricted to ASCII.
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Connecting the Dots: Social Media Microtargeting and Russian Election Interference(justsecurity.org)
2 points by hackuser 9y ago|0 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
There have been many articles on the subject, but this is an excellent, deep dive into techniques and technology, including a lot I haven't seen elsewhere.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Does anyone know how much of libraries' out-of-copyright content, including rare books, is now available online? A tiny fraction? The important stuff? Speaking more generally, despite the promise of the Internet it seems like the more
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Inside Russia’s Social Media War Machine(time.com)
2 points by hackuser 9y ago|1 comments
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by hackuser 9y ago
The article doesn't say activities in Africa are new, but that they are significantly expanded. From the article: > In 2006, just 1 percent of all U.S. commandos deployed overseas were in Africa. In 2010, it was 3 percent. By 2016,
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by hackuser 9y ago
Some surprising evidence. Per the article, the factory employs ~10,000: > Ambulances have been called more than 100 times since 2014 for workers experiencing fainting spells, dizziness, seizures, abnormal breathing and chest pains, accor
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by hackuser 9y ago
The ProPublica report is more informative: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-cloudflare-helps-serv... Even if Cloudflare wants to use the extreme libertarian justification of enabling all speech no matter what it
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by hackuser 9y ago
How widely is LibreSSL used, compared to OpenSSL?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> The solution to malware is obscurity. Have an OS that no one wants to break into ... ... and you'll have an OS for which neither malware authors nor legitimate software developers want to write applications. There's a trade-o
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by hackuser 9y ago
Tip: Don't spend time trying to remove malware and undo its effects. You'll never know if you succeeded; most malware is designed to hide itself, and likely this particular malware is well-written. Wipe the laptop and reinstall. I
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by hackuser 9y ago
> from Kaspersky Lab ... the lab with ties to Russian intelligence, who are suspected of leaking the NSA tools.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Fair point.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Surface Aggregator Module (SAM) Internals - a little chip on your Surface Pro/Laptop/Book that you probably didn’t know was there Nobody on the Internet seems to know what it is (based on my 5 minutes of looking). Does anyone
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by hackuser 9y ago
That is an interesting hypothesis that I've thought about. It seems plausible (but what do I know) - do you know of any research that supports it? An honest question; you are not obligated to do my research but maybe you know.
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by hackuser 9y ago
What you say may be more true than you think: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554889
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by hackuser 9y ago
> figuring out how to handle surplus labor without (often violent) societal upheaval will be the defining issue of this century The jobs and the welfare of individuals are the top priorities IMHO, but I'm not sure there is a great p
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by hackuser 9y ago
Couldn't you just identify the user by their logon?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> all the checks and long security procedures Could you provide more detail?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Perhaps in the trade-off between good international relations and trade on one hand, and security on the other, Trump leans more toward security than prior administrations. Certainly the Trump administration has demonstrated that the value
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by hackuser 9y ago
A few thoughts, though I'm not an economist: * 14 million is a big number, but it's less than 5% of the U.S. population. I do agree that it's a serious concern, but because of the welfare and economic opportunity for those pe
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by hackuser 9y ago
People in the article claim that the attack backfired because the public now knows how to deal with Russian propaganda. I'm not sure of that. Would Le Pen have done better or worse without the leaked documents? She was much further beh
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by hackuser 9y ago
There seems to be a wide variance in the way political stories are handled; for example, political issues not involving Trump seem more accepted. I suppose consistency in this matter isn't that important, except that it's a bi
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by hackuser 9y ago
An interesting question, but I think theoretical at this point. The evidence is very strong, not only in the U.S. but in other advanced economies who all perform similarly. In addition to the evidence, expert opinion (economists) seem unani
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by hackuser 9y ago
@dang, @sctb: Could you let your many users know the current HN policy on political articles? Obviously something is going on, it seems since (February?). Not being up front leads to frustration with wasted time on submissions and comments,
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by hackuser 9y ago
Buffet did just make headlines by criticizing the CEO of Well Fargo, of whom Berkshire Hathaway is the largest shareholder, for their poor handling of the fake account scandal. Perhaps that's why Berkshire's code of conduct is att
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by hackuser 9y ago
What does that mean? If it means, literally, U.S. Gross Domestic Product has reached its peak, then my point that the GDP has grown every year but one since 1950 answers the question. To be clear: Every year since 1950, except one, the U.S.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> notably corrupt What about their employers? I think unions are painted with a very broad stereotype by people who don't know them (including most people on HN, I would guess) and held to different standards than businesses, many o

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