They will also be held accountable, at least internally, if, when it becomes known, and subsequently there is damage to the interests of the US. So in spite of your rhetoric, it's always a gamble. And I think in this particular case, we have reason to believe the man: the damage would have been potentially too great. And there is, in this particular case, seemingly no real reason to lie.
Never mind spying governments, Microsoft and/or Apple, or the RIAA - anywhere where the Internet will try to compete with the mafia, the Internet will fail. Because just like the mafia, the Internet is an unregulated bunch, but unlike the mafia, the Internet does not use fists and/or real-life weaponry when it doesn't get what it wants.
Taxi-business, garbage-collection - Internet people shouldn't even try it. They'll come after you.
Just the other day I read in a magazine how a lot of LED lights are not at all EMC-proof. They may have an efficiency of 80+ percent, but they emit radio for the rest of it.
That's why, next to adblock, you also need flashblock. Autoplay of flash is not only of the devil esthetically, flash itself is a major vector of infections.
Your analogy is a strawman. The 'NSA also does good' isn't necessarily predicated on the snooping side of the NSA; the NSA is divided into several parts, some of which have nothing to do with spying but, for example, making cryptography safer.
Lions roamed the mountains northern Greece/Thrace until some time in 1400's, if I recall correctly. In fact, they had a presence in the entire 'arc' around the eastern mediteranean. Hercules wore a lion's skin.
It's a bit of shame that you feel the need to react so bitterly to an experiment whose real-life ramifications will be upon you soon enough. 39 megapixel is expensive today - will it be in five years?
"Then why did they have to pay you to use a 'good' algorithm? If all they had to do is convince you it was awesome that would have been enough. How fucking dumb do you think we are?"
Amateurs and open source developers are not the only people using crypto. A lot of the time it's government or other (contract-) workers that need to comply with standards. To make something part of a standard, you need to pay. If only because it's work.
Torque - the guy is *sitting* in it! Have you ever thought of what tension the weight of a grown man puts on something built out of Lego over the distance between the front- and hind-wheels?!
I think this is why he said he would claim asylum in Iceland at first - remember that? - thinking 'I have a nice scoop for the people there on the activities of the NSA'.
It's like key negotiation: if your key has leaked, or you have a feeling it might be about to leak, you change it. Requiring another round of communication.
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It looks like the scandal in The Netherlands about the NSA from what is revealed by Snowden, is mainly the *lack* of anything scandalous at all. There was a four-page article in a leading newspaper the other week about it, and the most it could claim was that we were infiltrated from 1947 until 1968 and that, every now and then, they might take a poorly protected mySQL database on some poor slob's website.
I don't mean to sound like those other 'security experts' who feign fatigue and familiarity with NSA's practices, but this one mainly stood out by its complete and utter boringness, I tell you.
If you get real people on the line, ask them about their mother. And whether they love their mother. Tell them you love their mother too. You love their mother a lot. Tell them you can't stop thinking about their mother, all day, every day.
Use a low, slow voice. Use unexpected pauses. Shout every now and then.
Then, at the end, ask them where their mother lives.
I've yet to RTFA, but the sentence "Despite currently holding the title, Anand is very much the underdog, which only serves to illustrate why the current system is broken" does nothing to illustrate the point. Rather the opposite: a contender who beats the incumbent happens all the time. The fact that this is possible, is the prime motivator for trying at all, and thus the reason for the existance these tournaments.
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They will also be held accountable, at least internally, if, when it becomes known, and subsequently there is damage to the interests of the US. So in spite of your rhetoric, it's always a gamble. And I think in this particular case, we have reason to believe the man: the damage would have been potentially too great. And there is, in this particular case, seemingly no real reason to lie.
They didn't think to just make a phonecall to the producers of the movie?
Never mind spying governments, Microsoft and/or Apple, or the RIAA - anywhere where the Internet will try to compete with the mafia, the Internet will fail. Because just like the mafia, the Internet is an unregulated bunch, but unlike the mafia, the Internet does not use fists and/or real-life weaponry when it doesn't get what it wants.
Taxi-business, garbage-collection - Internet people shouldn't even try it. They'll come after you.
So, who signed off on the roadworthiness test?
You realize that there is no biologically acceptable definition of 'race', right?
"The difference between you, Senator, and me is that you can make it all go away with a vote."
So can you.
Google is just going to have to be a little bit more compliant when it comes to FISA orders, that's all.
Can I get an invitation to your birthday party? Your hipness is off the scale!
Just the other day I read in a magazine how a lot of LED lights are not at all EMC-proof. They may have an efficiency of 80+ percent, but they emit radio for the rest of it.
That's why, next to adblock, you also need flashblock. Autoplay of flash is not only of the devil esthetically, flash itself is a major vector of infections.
You forgot to put the word 'cloud' somewhere in your buzzword-bingo post. And it would have been so easy, too ! What with your coffee analogy an' all.
Your analogy is a strawman. The 'NSA also does good' isn't necessarily predicated on the snooping side of the NSA; the NSA is divided into several parts, some of which have nothing to do with spying but, for example, making cryptography safer.
Lions roamed the mountains northern Greece/Thrace until some time in 1400's, if I recall correctly. In fact, they had a presence in the entire 'arc' around the eastern mediteranean. Hercules wore a lion's skin.
It's a bit of shame that you feel the need to react so bitterly to an experiment whose real-life ramifications will be upon you soon enough. 39 megapixel is expensive today - will it be in five years?
"Then why did they have to pay you to use a 'good' algorithm? If all they had to do is convince you it was awesome that would have been enough. How fucking dumb do you think we are?"
Amateurs and open source developers are not the only people using crypto. A lot of the time it's government or other (contract-) workers that need to comply with standards. To make something part of a standard, you need to pay. If only because it's work.
Torque - the guy is *sitting* in it! Have you ever thought of what tension the weight of a grown man puts on something built out of Lego over the distance between the front- and hind-wheels?!
Because it's based on assymetric encryption and only they have the private key?
I can only suspect that it has a security angle. As in: she can't listen in those calls or something.
I think this is why he said he would claim asylum in Iceland at first - remember that? - thinking 'I have a nice scoop for the people there on the activities of the NSA'.
It's like key negotiation: if your key has leaked, or you have a feeling it might be about to leak, you change it. Requiring another round of communication.
Eh.. because 'friendly' spying agencies are well-known for the way in which they exchange this kind of information?
/ Seriously.
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It looks like the scandal in The Netherlands about the NSA from what is revealed by Snowden, is mainly the *lack* of anything scandalous at all. There was a four-page article in a leading newspaper the other week about it, and the most it could claim was that we were infiltrated from 1947 until 1968 and that, every now and then, they might take a poorly protected mySQL database on some poor slob's website.
I don't mean to sound like those other 'security experts' who feign fatigue and familiarity with NSA's practices, but this one mainly stood out by its complete and utter boringness, I tell you.
God.Ashton Tate. Suddenly I get a flash of their logo on the floppy envelope.
If you get real people on the line, ask them about their mother. And whether they love their mother. Tell them you love their mother too. You love their mother a lot. Tell them you can't stop thinking about their mother, all day, every day.
Use a low, slow voice. Use unexpected pauses. Shout every now and then.
Then, at the end, ask them where their mother lives.
I've yet to RTFA, but the sentence "Despite currently holding the title, Anand is very much the underdog, which only serves to illustrate why the current system is broken" does nothing to illustrate the point. Rather the opposite: a contender who beats the incumbent happens all the time. The fact that this is possible, is the prime motivator for trying at all, and thus the reason for the existance these tournaments.