krek

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by krek 12y ago
It's not about pedophiles or catching terrorists. It's about the state having power.
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by krek 12y ago
This is best plain English explanation I've seen yet (been looking for an hour). Thanks.
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by krek 12y ago
> people have more respect for those who present themselves well If presenting yourself well means driving a luxury car, or having an expensive home, then no, I don't respect these people more than others. There are no such 'r
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by krek 12y ago
Yep. And reading the pdf for phase 1 of the audit, worth about $40k, the findings didn't seem very impressive. Specifically the readability portion where they give a critique of naming conventions in the code. I could see the develop
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by krek 12y ago
Wouldn't an offline desktop version of this be better?
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by krek 13y ago
The New Yorker's Mayer is paraphrasing an anonymous source, which she then counter-points in the very next sentence of the article with a quote from NSA historian Matthew Aid, who says: “The resistance to ThinThread was just standard b
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by krek 13y ago
> his own "ThinThread" system was designed to do exactly that, but with better technical controls over who could view the data. That's plainly false. His system was specifically designed to throw-out private data, that is
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by krek 13y ago
> I couldn't imagine the comments that I've seen about blacklisting former government workers and publicly shaming service men and women coming from anyone who has carried this kind of responsibility. I think the 'activist
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by krek 13y ago
> Yes, I do have things to back it up. Such as? Bill Binney, having actually been one of the top mathematicians at NSA for 30 years, carries more weight than you do, unless you want to share specifics that back up the regurgitation of t
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by krek 13y ago
> NSA, which has been ~10 years ahead of private industry for the last couple decades, before which time they were even further ahead. Do you have anything to back this up other than the old rumor that NSA (specifically their crypto) was
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by krek 13y ago
You shouldn't get your news from corporate media. Corporate media don't like unions because they fight for living wages which cut profits from the few who benefit from them.
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by krek 13y ago
Oh ya, Mitt, the epitome of a hard worker.
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by krek 13y ago
> b) a 30 year old person stuck in a Russian airport who has appointed himself the ultimate arbiter of what is leakworthy and what is not, what programs are legal and good and which are illegal and evil. No, he's not the ultimate a
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by krek 13y ago
> I managed to figure out what it meant with a little background in computer and networks knowledge and no background with IC work. We still don't know what exactly is going on, or know if direct access really exists, so this is pre
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by krek 13y ago
> The companies themselves are still the ones who end up providing the data to NSA though Well that's certainly what the companies are saying. Whether they are telling truth (personally I think they are) or not is something else. S
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by krek 13y ago
Your quote is accurate, "direct access" is not verbatim. Though "collection directly" and "direct access" seem semantically the same to me in the context of the slide. [1] The relevant slide is talking about tw
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by krek 13y ago
How is Snowden possibly lying? He's reading verbatim from the NSA documents which use the words "direct access". Also he isn't "maintaining" this, this is part of his original interview from over a month ago.
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by krek 13y ago
How can we take full responsibility for the Evo Morales incident? Do Europeans bear no responsibility for allowing their governments to be US lapdogs? As a US citizen I have to bear the responsibility both for my country and your inability
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by krek 13y ago
Especially not surprising because working for CIA he expected to be monitored, and it's just self preservation to publicly espouse the "correct" ideologies.
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by krek 13y ago
It already has ended with a tragedy. Our privacy rights and 4th amendment protections have been thrown out the window. The making of Snowden into a Kardashian spectacle is to distract us from this fact.
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by krek 13y ago
I interpret it to mean that if NSA's filter catches words related to communications security then it is flagged and possibly read by an analyst. It does say the Director of the NSA has to specifically request that the communication be
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by krek 13y ago
Binney didn't design the system that's currently being used, and that's his whole point. He designed a cheap way to do what the current program does but that would protect people's privacy (in part by not storing all th
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by krek 13y ago
The issue to me is if the so-called "upstream" actually stores all the raw SSL data, and how fast it's decrypted. This is apart from any corporate cooperation, except for the Mark Klein AT&T splitter variety. (Unless of
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by krek 13y ago
What are the odds that Google, Yahoo, et al. handed over their private keys, I wonder.
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by krek 13y ago
I can't remember which interview it was, if on Democracy Now, or his MIT lecture video, but Bill Binney stated that the NSA in fact does decrypt HTTPS.
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by krek 13y ago
Yes, if you mean his blogging. That's kind of the point.
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by krek 13y ago
The problem with Brooks's arguments is that they fail as soon as you apply them to other NSA whistle blowers like Bill Binney and Tom Drake. He paints Snowden as a young, incompetent, introverted outcast who "couldn't naviga