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by strictnein 5d ago
The report was discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647300
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by strictnein 6d ago
One of the reasons that unions in the US are unpopular because they function as the funding arm of one of the political parties. In some states you have to join these unions to get a job at a state agency or at a government funded school. T
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by strictnein 7d ago
> disingenuous What's disingenuous is comparing government mandated minimums and acting like that has any reflection on what the situation is for the vast majority of people. In addition, plenty of states and localities have their o
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by strictnein 7d ago
How do you do DPI on hundreds of PBs a day? Explain the process that would allow you to "look for interesting stuff".
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by strictnein 7d ago
Switches handle data at far faster rate than any hardware can actually inspect it, store it, process it, etc. But yeah, just a rack of "fast switches" is all it takes to route hundreds of petabytes of data each day. You should let
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by strictnein 7d ago
Might be a better article on this: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20... The Gamespot one is really poorly written. Not sure if it's AI bad or human bad. An example: > Laid-o
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by strictnein 7d ago
There are plenty of legal "safety nets" for American employees, regardless of if you're in a union or not. Could they be better? Sure, anything can be improved, just like every other country on Earth. What kind of boggles my
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by strictnein 8d ago
Yeah, I'm sure some system like that exists, although I'd assume that would be more in the CIA's purview. I'd be surprised if they kept a broad swath of data for most people though as the tech companies already do it and
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by strictnein 8d ago
Of course, but the comment I was replying to stated: "the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers" Which implies that they are looking at it all and records it. The vast, vast majority of Cloudflare&#x2
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by strictnein 8d ago
If you just look at the largest 4 of those, you'd have 100Tbps of traffic to monitor, with an average throughput of roughly half of that. That's ~540PB ((50 Tbps / 8 bits) * 86400 seconds/day) of traffic a day with just
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by strictnein 8d ago
Yes, I'm well aware of XKeyscore. If it required ~700 servers in ~150 locations (mostly US military bases and embassies) to surveil a small slice of internet and other traffic back then, how many would it require now? How many location
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by strictnein 8d ago
What? That's not a "straw-man" in the slightest. I was responding to the comment that said "Everyone who disagrees with the GOP is labeled antifa" with two of the many prominent Democrat politicians who haven't
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by strictnein 8d ago
> "it’s no big secret that the NSA is listening in on the node/isp level" The NSA is doing deep packet inspection at every "node/isp" in the world? That's a pretty amazing claim. How are they managing t
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by strictnein 8d ago
The NSA couldn't care less about you and your customers, nor do they have any interest whatsoever in the megaton of worthless internet traffic that goes through Cloudflare. This article, from over a decade ago now, explains how they ac
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by strictnein 9d ago
It clarifies what, exactly? That there are a myriad of spellings for a group whose name is originally in Arabic and couldn't care at all about how we spell it? I was just correcting the person who thought it was inaccurate to use the s
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by strictnein 9d ago
I always enjoyed Kim Zetter's work. Well written and researched, and she doesn't put herself in the story, unlike some other authors. She highlights the practitioners who are actually the ones doing the work.
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by strictnein 10d ago
Hizballah and Hezbollah are different spellings of the same thing, with Hizballah probably being more accurate and the one regularly used by the US government.
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by strictnein 10d ago
> "They claim that anyone who does not align with their policies is a member of this organization" No one is claiming that Amy Klobuchar or Gavin Newsom is a member of antifa.
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by strictnein 12d ago
By "bookie" I was actually thinking of all the small sportsbooks I saw in the UK when I've visited in the past. Calling them a casino would have been wrong and I couldn't remember the term "sportsbook".
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by strictnein 12d ago
"All of these" is two. OpenAI had a router issue. Anthropic had a separate issue. Anthropic uses a lot of SpaceX compute, so an Anthropic issue and a SpaceX issue can be one in the same, as was likely the case this time. And they
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by strictnein 12d ago
I'm confused by your statement. Are you suggesting that these companies that have invested tens of billions in their networks and datacenters decided to create a shared single point of failure?
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by strictnein 12d ago
> They all transit the same wires as all other traffic. Copy them at any regional bottleneck. Oh, is that all? > Again, they transit the same wires as everyone else Which shared wires does Google's traffic go across? Do they shar
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by strictnein 12d ago
It happened yesterday.
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by strictnein 12d ago
If this would have included a full RCE chain with Sandbox escape Google would have paid significantly more. Having just a Sandbox RCE is neat, I've got some on my laptop currently, but it's just a piece of the puzzle.
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by strictnein 12d ago
No, it doesn't. HSTS and other methods prevent this from happening.
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by strictnein 12d ago
Explain the system in which you could capture all of these chats with no knowledge of anyone in these data centers. How are they routed to this NSA system or through some NSA device when these companies' compute are spread over hundred
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by strictnein 12d ago
Read the article. It doesn't match the title. OpenAI says it was a boring reason: a routing issue.
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by strictnein 12d ago
What does having a "well trusted TLS cert" enable for them in this case, exactly? Having a magical cert doesn't mean you can just intercept everything.
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by strictnein 12d ago
OpenAI and Anthropic have their systems in dozens of data centers, including using compute from the major cloud providers. Are you implying that all of these data centers (and many of their employees) are involved in helping the the US gove
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by strictnein 12d ago
Sharepoint is the cause of the outages?

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