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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's important to understand the historical context. Aaron was arrested in 2011, when a lot of other internet politics was happening. Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, LulzSec (remember Fuck FBI Friday?), Wikileaks, SOPA. "The b
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> I hope that law firms far and wide encourage their associates and partners alike to update their knowledge with this "But most of all, the legal profession has failed. Democratic governance depends upon responsible individuals thr
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Most Americans are actively hostile to privacy, not just ambivalent. If you tell them, "Alice doesn't carry a cellphone, because she thinks it shares her real time location with advertisers, hedge funds, private investigators, de
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
From the statement, "In addition to further harming already marginalized communities, these charges could be used to brand as terrorists people who protest against government injustices by engaging in civil disobedience or actions that
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Please don't insinuate that I think people should be treated differently based on their religious affiliations. I think that due process rights of despicable people should be protected precisely because I want them to be available to
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
When you say "these terrorist attacks", do you have a concrete definition in mind? Or are you just expressing outrage and disgust? Because right now, people accused of terrorism can be held in Guantanamo without habeas corpus. Th
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I also understood this as an instance of the security state threatening Congress. The police were saying, "Don't even think about de-funding or reforming us." DC police spend $210k/employee. 80% of its 2500 employees a
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> Your metadata just ends up getting semi-permanently logged on various machines, and there is nothing you can do about it at this time. Sealed sender means that an eavesdropper who can introspect into RAM inside Signal's AWS infr
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
These responses are over the top. The photo of the congressional office that is circulating shows a wireless Logitech keyboard and mouse, and an unlocked workstation. That tells a pretty damning story about the ambient level of security aw
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Intel Patents CPU ID Spoofing(patents.google.com)
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
This is probably an indicator that outside counsel is saying "antitrust might be a real thing again, why don't you lower your profile a smidge." Nothing says "cartel" louder than a "joint venture" comprise
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
This assumption that countries need population growth is insane. Humans are not bacteria, we should not pursue endless population growth. What we need is serious investments in technology to make elder care easier.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
How constrained is the Monero network in terms of transaction capacity? Could it support 100k people buying a book every day?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I want a coin I can use to buy burritos. If that coin also obfuscates the fact that I bought a burrito, all the better.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Obama isn't even the worst American on that list. Henry Kissinger has one.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There is a lot more to a communication system than the primitives it uses. Even holding primitives constant, there is a lot of room for variation (and bugs and side channels). Recall that one of the early identifiers of equation group was
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I think the excerpt more about the artificial regimentation and the arbitrary authority than the shape of the building.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
An alternative explanation is that US policy makers like Larry Summers and Bob Rubin are just incompetent, delusional, and greedy.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
"Sovereignty" is an important concept that dropped out of American discourse in the 1990s. No self-respecting country relies on foreign cryptography to protect its diplomatic communications. Similarly, no self-respecting country
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
While the title is about CIA, its actually a story about DOJ and FBI. [1] The rot runs pretty deep. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/09/how-a-cia-cove...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
What about this summer? The way DHS and local police specifically targeted journalists? That's way more harmful to "liberal democracy" than some foreign sock puppet dumping evidence of high-level corruption.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The primary threat to "liberal democracy" is CIA, DHS, MI5, and MI6. It is not SVR or MSS. This has been true since the Cold War. Who did more harm to "liberal democracy", J. Edgar Hoover (who tried to extort MLK into
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
So Apple corruptly bribes Congress to give it legislative benefits, Congress corruptly accepts those bribes, and the blame lies solely with Congress? That's one way of looking at things.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
You're either naive or dishonest. FAAMG actively lobby Congress to create and preserve "loopholes" which are actually intentional features of the tax code rather than unforeseen errors. Apple is also lobbying against a very
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
>and may even be early indicators of brain disorders that have not yet manifested themselves in psychological disturbances It's only a matter of time before someone as unscrupulous as ClearviewAI develops a phrenology tool for ident
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> The failure isn't on their end. So Apple et al. are able to successfully monetize massive public investment in technology, book all their profit in tax havens using outlandish schemes like "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich&
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's a pretty simple concept. Net orderflow moves the price in the direction of the flow. Having foreknowledge of net flows implies knowledge of future price changes. Front-running is just trading on that knowledge. Here are some wa
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There are rumors of recent-model iPhones receiving "carrier setting" updates not documented on the carrier's website (they should be), occasionally followed by instability (crash, refusal to boot, refusal to reboot on battery
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> The amount of value you can obtain by trading something is by definition what it is worth. That is one important definition, but it's just a statement of ideology. Was Instagram only worth $1bn when they sold to Facebook in 2012.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yeah, but they benefited from a system that coerces people to trade their labor for less than it is worth. Zuckerberg is worth >3x the annual income of all surgeons in the US. It is implausible that his net worth reflects his replacemen

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