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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The long term strategy of the US is to provide energy security to Europe between tar sands, crude, gas and oil. It has multilateral plans with Canada and Mexico to build North-South pipelines to achieve this. Recently the conflict over oil
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The United States has been working on a coup for Maduro, since its coup of Chavez hasn't worked out for it. This time it would really like to install Leonardo Lopez as he's willing to privatize Venezuelan oil to US companies. The
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Like China's "One Belt, One Road"?
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
I bet corruption will remain. But it's my understanding its been drastically reduced. No positive news of China gets upvoted in America though, because we are burned that they are winning the trade war.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Can you document that for me, and for HN?
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
They've been purging corruption for the entire Xi Jinping's administration. Not that it isn't there. They would also have to disrupt the world reputation of China - not just its domestic one. And be rest assured the US alread
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Right but 'they reached too far during Windows 8' isn't an argument for reaching too far on Windows 10 (plus, Windows 8 really wasn't that long ago so it's still a pretty new policy).
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
> shouldn't include the full contents of emails, just telemetry on how they were typed. Can you explain how you got to this from what you asserted before? Autocomplete data should be more than enough to get that content.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The fact is that there is a greater East-West struggle going on right now. It was Saddam. Now it is Assad. Next it may be Rouhani. The Middle East is caught between Eurasia and Europe: the East's plans to move Westward and the West&#x2
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Israel, especially with its technological superiority, Western backing and Iron Dome, would most certainly win. Would still be quite costly.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
If the downvoter needs help understanding the historical analogy that makes this above comment make sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Inalienable rights. Not civil rights. Inalienable rights are human rights - which extend (at least in theory) to foreigners. I read the story. But anyway if the Supreme Court ruling holds from Zimmerman it would apply equally well to everyt
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Aren't cyberarms arms? Isn't the right to bear arms an 'inalienable right'? I don't get it. And I don't get why this is a 'privacy' or 'free speech' issue or why corporations, as Google argu
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Well they are trying to destabilize the regime - I didn't provide data on that. (Would you like some?) The anthrax thing is reporting facts. I didn't say that the US IS organizing this. I didn't say NK was RIGHT about their w
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
How difficult is it to configure this? Users should definitely choose passphrases of sufficient length and sufficient types to be secure. This is unfortunately an infamously tricky area of security to get right.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Nice! Of course this isn't ever actually used - in practice users choose four to eight digit passcodes. Users should, if they want to secure their information, use a randomly chosen passcode of approximately 30 digits long.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
I see. Is there a limit? Does it approach 128 bits?
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Four digits, choice of 10 for each digit. log(10000)/log(2) ~ 15.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Giving your data to a third party is a very difficult thing to do. Either their policies and heuristics are not perfect (like this article), they go under and you lose your data and service (probably not the case now with Apple) or they wil
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Yes. Sure. The US arrested hundreds of journalists from covering Occupy, leading to a sharp drop in it's Freedom of Press score (I don't trust that metric, but other people seem to like it). They also put a media blackout zone aro
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The US absolutely does censor group organization efforts in the US and political speech as well. What the US does is quite different than China and it faces quite a different set of challenges than China. It's an apples and oranges com
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The ISIS example is far more complicated. It's part of information warfare. ISIS is of course partially supported by the US government for the purposes of destabilizing the Assad regime. But we don't want it in Iraq - just Syria -
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The political elite seriously see absolutely no difference. There are a number of directions we could go to expand on that.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
A Russian spam site called StopFastTrack? The US use the term 'spam' and 'trolling' as code to mean foreign propaganda. I can get you more information about that as well.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
Well it's not irrelevant tu quoque. Telegram is like ZunZuneo and other initiatives by Western governments to force their adversary to choose to either censor something and take a PR hit or have their countrymen radicalised. I ought to
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
I agree with this. Sometimes I get brigaded and I feel the urge to call out the immaturity. For references, here's an example of a website that was simultaneously blocked on a bunch of providers because it matched domain name patterns
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
It's true. Downvotes don't change that.
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The United States censors links to foreign propaganda as well. They DDOS sites sometimes, especially ISIL-active forums, etc. I don't know if they DDOS state sponsored sites - they are probably more stealthy (something the Chinese don&
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
The reason I say this is that it's being used to exclude certain countries and it sets up rules that explicitly favor particular countries. Given its strategic nature its role is to protect both Western powers and regional countries th
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by themeekforgotpw 11y ago
It's exactly that. Listen to Obama's State of the Union speech. He said it quite clearly. The TPP is about fixing international law and the terms of trade to benefit the US - as opposed to China (who has been pushing for other tra

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