themeek

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by themeek 11y ago
I am disputing that I broke the rules. The OP had said that tptacek was a shill. I defended tptacek by saying I didn't know that he was paid or whether he was just in the circle of security contractors (he is) or whether he merely boug
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by themeek 11y ago
Which ones in particular? That's just not right. Everything I said has been perfectly straightforward and honest. Downvote brigades are usually only a thing on Reddit, but I experience them here occasionally. The OP claimed you were a
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by themeek 11y ago
You should have posted this to OP. I am defending tptacek.
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by themeek 11y ago
The Military-Industrial-Lol Complex, in fact - and the Build-a-lollers.
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by themeek 11y ago
Lol.
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by themeek 11y ago
Yes, see the other thread. Responded there. Right, he was involved in insider trading. If you don't do anything illegal it's hard to blackmail you for it. That was the claim. Blackmail. Sure, he did something wrong(-ish).
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by themeek 11y ago
You are right about Risen and Sterling. I think you get the point though. The leverage placed on Risen to reveal his sources and the placement of Sterling under the Espionage Act - the use of backroom deals to keep Risen's publication
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by themeek 11y ago
He was charged with the Espionage Act. Please refer to the original comment to see that I did not claim the US charges individuals with treason. Risen got it better than others though in some ways. Binney and his family were held at gunpoin
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by themeek 11y ago
Not the ACLU. James Risen. Journalist.
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by themeek 11y ago
Germany's Secret Service just charged their leading Civil Rights group on treason for publishing information about the German government's plans to further expand domestic mass surveillance. This is not different than what has hap
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by themeek 11y ago
Oh yeah. That's totally happening. The Sunshine Policy was ended some time ago. President Geun-hye called for international support for the unification at the UN. SK, the US and Japan have joint plans for the destabilization of the reg
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by themeek 11y ago
I find this neither complete nor accurate but it's good to see a list like this. Thanks for doing the legwork. Don't forget the Japan mutual defense deal, the upcoming Korea unification and all the other hundred things in the Asia
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by themeek 11y ago
I do not. Microsoft Research and Google Research and IBM are examples of places where some of this research is done - and there's Universities. MITRE does as well as other semi-public orgs. But it's the case that all of these plac
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by themeek 11y ago
The work that DARPA does is incredible and we should be proud, as a country, that we pursue transformational research. One of the big weaknesses of the private sector is that there are few opportunities to pursue high-risk high-reward resea
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by themeek 11y ago
This would be for a cryptographic attack - not someone with the hardware.
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by themeek 11y ago
No, what my post was claiming is that the presence of malware didn't hurt my system and wasn't an issue when I browsed the files (on a practical basis). I understand the potential. I think it's valuable for you to do this. Yo
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by themeek 11y ago
Unfortunately it is more difficult than this. Even if you practice safe computing it's likely that your information will be compromised - especially in the long term and especially if you are an organization. That's not to say thi
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by themeek 11y ago
Oh sorry. The Stratfor leaks had a TON of shady stuff. > I missed all that–can you point me in the right direction? Sure! The CEO of SONY, high level state department officials, RAND specialist on nuclear deproliferation, regime change a
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by themeek 11y ago
The emails from SONY had some controversial stuff in them. For example here is an interaction between the CEO and the State Department about setting up a group of media executives to develop US propaganda for the Middle East and Russia: ht
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by themeek 11y ago
I really like this solution. Critics might be able to say that Wikileaks BOTH hosts malware AND tampers with evidence - but if Wikileaks has a voice to respond it has a pretty good reply. Filters and services sometimes block entire domains
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by themeek 11y ago
It's an interesting problem: * If Wikileaks edits the content it can be criticized for tampering. * If Wikileaks leaves malware in it can be criticized for circulating malware. It may also give an excuse to search engines and other par
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by themeek 11y ago
So it looks like there's not much of a worry someone has from looking through those files themselves. Personally I have looked through these files and have not run into any malware issues pointed out by the article. I found it very inf
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by themeek 11y ago
That sounds mostly right to me. Barely floating or even running in the red (making shit for money) also provides financial incentives. But beyond the monetary there are plenty of types of leverage - legal, "human", and access to i
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by themeek 11y ago
Journalism: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitte... http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-secretly-created-cuban-twi... http://www.washingtonpost.com&
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by themeek 11y ago
This is 100% absolutely the case. But it's important to ask hard questions and get denials: even when they are blatant lies it makes the organization responsible for the lies (and any associated fallout) and it puts pressure 'upst
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by themeek 11y ago
We do but it's unfortunately not widely covered. The Snowden document released on the strategic objectives - the high level goals driving all NSA technology - included strategic communication, which we know from DoD investment in the l
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by themeek 11y ago
Not quite. I wanted to get a picture of whether the socketpuppeting that is done on reddit was colored by particular objectives - whether US and partner sockpuppeting is allowed where adversary sockpuppeting is not - and whether censorship
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by themeek 11y ago
During his AMA I asked clarifying questions that never got answered about Reddit's policies about federal programs and partnerships regarding the management of political discussion attributed to foreign actors - and whether like other
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by themeek 11y ago
To expand on the bit about there being more torture than we know: 80% of the CIA report was censored from public view.
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by themeek 11y ago
This is a 'networking issue' not yet attributed to an adversarial compromise. There is also an outage at United Airlines and the Wall Street Journal - none so far attributed to an attack.

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