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by jwtadvice 8y ago
Reading between the lines: > The Tesla brand name takes this seriously. Question the headlines, opinions, etc. > You are safe using Tesla. What happened to this person won't happen to you. > The driver made some questionable d
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by jwtadvice 8y ago
Surveillance partner for NSA PRISM program, with Condoleeza Rice on its board. Stopped using DropBox due to ethical concerns years ago.
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
You are completely right. Adversary is the correct term.
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
It's a knee-jerk reaction to totalitarian domestic propaganda. Has a tendency to breed confused, alarmist, emotional and untechnical conversation. Here's the truth: Russia isn't evil. Neither is the United States. But they ar
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
The post-Soviet era is and was not the end of history. Geopolitical competition exists as a human condition. Much of the "communist versus capitalist" competition that "justified" the Cold War, was actually just a result
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
They also don't/won't sell Chromecast product. This is the danger of vertical integration. Once upon a time the US government did built and used antitrust and antimonopoly legislation.
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Seems punitive to me, rather than 'fair'. US copyright law has no jurisdiction the same as German copyright law, other than by coincidence of geography/volunteer base. I think Project Gutenberg is doing the best thing it can
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Except that they block world leaders (and other globally important actors) as requested by the US security/power community. PR. No thanks.
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Military funded (DARPA's Social Media in Strategic Communication program) to develop the research necessary for running highly automated global-scale social network propaganda campaigns.
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Coworker at Fortune 500 does this. Old housemate at different Fortune 500 did basically this (slept on the floor, only owned cardboard boxes, one week of clothes and a car). Both of these people are incredibly rich. One came from parents wi
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I would really like to know more about the involvement of the Stanford Research group in enabling these exploits. Speculating on a whim here, but it wouldn't seem like much research would be needed with the exception of perhaps either
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I really hope that Wikileaks: A. Works with companies to get these vulnerabilities patched. I know that US media outlets are paid to be hard on Wikileaks when it does this to harm its reputation, but the campaign of negative publicity is le
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
"Yes, because we've totally just been nuking or threatening to nuke anyone who looked at us cross-eyed for the last few decades... /s Your nomenclature is a bit hyperbolic." Is quite clearly a strawman. > You're
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Right, you've just reaffirmed what the parent poster said. The US reserves the right to use it's nuclear weapons in this way. But in no way is this the unique, most important, or most manifest reservation of nuclear force. Nor is
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
That is not the US policy. The US policy is to use the threat of overwhelming force, nuclear and non-nuclear, for leverage in interstate conflict whatever that conflict may be and whether or not that conflict is a threat to the United State
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
It's interesting. I did not mean this comment as criticism (as you suggest). I'm merely accounting that the point of the article ("in the 1950s, the US policies on use of nuclear forces was startling - to our sensibilities -
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
First. Strawman. Not helpful. I actually lifted the nomenclature directly from National Security experts. I did not invent or distort any of the nomenclature. Further, it is a very accurate representation of the terminology and nomenclature
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Yes official policy is important. This is for several reasons: 1. Official policy communicates expectations. Others derive their behavior from, in large part, the official positions of others. 2. Official policy provides a mechanism of comm
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
The US continues, today, to be the only first-strike nuclear nation threatening to (as an explicit policy) destroy civilian population centers in a host of competitor countries as a coercive tactic and if and when it serves US national inte
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Had the exact same thought. The timing of the report is perfectly placed after the Russian president's most recent remarks and the Russian Congress's report on American influence efforts on Russia's elections. From the conten
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I'm not comfortable with Google having and sharing my data. Very excited about the NVidia chips though. Would be happy to run TensorFlow with them on my own hardware - though I'm more excited about the day when client software and
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
The important aspect for the NSA's interpretation is that algorithms can look at and process the data and create metadata or synopsis information from it. Having an intelligence system ingest this metadata and synopsis is not considere
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Yup. Regarding the differences it's important to both compare and contrast. The US likes to try to color Russian propaganda as "evil" or "illegitimate" or "propaganda based on lies" or some such other nons
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
> To make it all equivalent is... Is your point that you think American propaganda is the truth and non-American propaganda are lies? I stand by our earlier sophisticated conversation about propaganda as influence and perception manageme
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
> I lie, you lie, what's the difference? Definitely not what I'm trying to say. > No, there is truth, it's something to strive for, and it makes all the difference. Absolutely. This requires that one does not take any p
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
This is what makes most propaganda devastating. What you are talking about is "white propaganda": telling the truth but in a manner that creates a useful perception. This is unfortunately the basis of most information and news med
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I would agree with most of this, but add that the comment could very well be talking about US domestic propaganda and the falsehood narrative that "Russia is behind it." Essentially it's this: there are many narratives for ex
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
Hi! I'm the parent user you've implied may be a propagandist for Russia. Your comment does the following: * Create uncertainty. * Make many baseless claims in order to force others onto defense and occupy all their resources. And
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I follow a number of the podcasts, blogs and outlets that you've listed and have a different impression entirely. So I don't really know how to resolve that for you.
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by jwtadvice 9y ago
I wouldn't characterize everything-is-Russia complicity as an infosec community consensus. I'm in the infosec industry and disagree. In fact, my colleagues and coworkers tend to have far more nuanced and informed positions than wh

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