rasterizer

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by rasterizer 13y ago
So the upgrade took a few hours to complete and it didn't happen instantly in defiance to the laws of physics. Next time play it safe and upgrade during the weekend. The post is dated May 27, is Google planning to announce a new featur
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by rasterizer 13y ago
You want me to speculate about arrow direction?! alright, generally speaking the access is not "direct" because the "boxes" act as buffers. I can't say if they "pull" the boxes or they just serve subpoenas
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Obviously there is plenty of room for speculation but what seems to emerge, at least as I see it, is that even the worst case scenario doesn't entail actual "direct access". In the case of activity timestamps (which I'm
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Interesting. Some insight, some contradiction and confusion especially when compared to earlier reportings on the first slides: - The "direct access" claim is replaced with "FBI interception unit" which is "governme
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YouTube And a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack(googlesystem.blogspot.com)
46 points by rasterizer 13y ago|10 comments
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by rasterizer 13y ago
HN is seemingly so oversaturated with NSA items that they're seeping into all submissions regardless: I'll assume you are not trolling and just misinformed so I'll address your 'elephants': - Google already said tha
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by rasterizer 13y ago
According to Google "NSA powers" in their case are restricted to FISA orders, so I'm not sure how a random worker at a government contractor can produce these. Snowden was a sysadmin for a contractor and that is how he got hi
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by rasterizer 13y ago
That's stupid. Particularly how you list 'plentiful storage' as a drawback, if that's the case then it's plainly an issue of law as it pits privacy against usability. Also Gmail is the only webmail that offers serve
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Already thoroughly discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5920530 and here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5921005
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by rasterizer 13y ago
They didn't say they keep deleted mail, could be boilerplate warrant language.
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Abit harsh on Google. I mean what are they to do?
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Here it is: http://www.scribd.com/doc/148608149/Foreign-Intelligence-Sur...
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by rasterizer 13y ago
They would want to publish the scope of the FISA requests. The other companies aren't going this far and I think they deserve a credit for what they're doing. And I disagree with commend you link to, the solution isn't limit
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Again with the 'carefully worded denials' - the denials were similar because they were accused of the same thing, which is allowing "direct access". The most worrisome and misunderstood part of these reports is the &quot
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Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage - ship your HDDs to Google(developers.google.com)
13 points by rasterizer 13y ago|11 comments
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Making sense of the confusing Supreme Court DNA patent ruling(boingboing.net)
1 points by rasterizer 13y ago|0 comments
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by rasterizer 13y ago
You are conflating and confusing things.
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by rasterizer 13y ago
I disagree. Opt-out is the right approach, if you are using someone else's product you should assume you're interactions with it are being measured. It's beyond quid pro quo, it's how software improves and evolves, and i
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by rasterizer 13y ago
You are overreacting, not to mention reaching the wrong conclusions from these NSA reports. The problem isn't measurement, that is a cornerstone of engineering (and of everything else really), the problem is government overreach. It&#x
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Go. Add it :)
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Also "People standing behind you".
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Microsoft Said To Give Zero Day Exploits To US Government Before It Patches Them(techdirt.com)
332 points by rasterizer 13y ago|65 comments
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by rasterizer 13y ago
At least you can't blame them for missing a PR opportunity: https://plus.google.com/+JeffJarvis/posts/5X7nHcjijsC
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Google uses Perfect Forward Secrecy: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2011/11/protecting-...
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by rasterizer 13y ago
I assume they need to know what data to send; the "system" might refer to the database with FISA orders.
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by rasterizer 13y ago
How else would one comply with data requests?
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by rasterizer 13y ago
"millions of requests per day"?! the number of FISA requests since 1979 is just short of 34,000: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin... Let's try and keep the speculati
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by rasterizer 13y ago
Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue. Just read the damn thing, it's not long.
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by rasterizer 13y ago
You can't know that. Canada has it: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6870/125/ Sweden has it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5852497 http://peterfleischer.bl
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by rasterizer 13y ago
If you think that the US is the only country with overreaching intelligence bodies then you're deluded.

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