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  1. Re:apple can pull some DCMA BS and sue them on FBI Hires Cellebrite To Crack San Bernadino iPhone (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But if Cellebrite signs a NDA...

  2. Re:Don't conflate those things on Whistleblower: NSA Is So Overwhelmed With Data, It's No Longer Effective (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    "My health or my parent's health should not come down ensuring someone makes a profit for a hospital stay"

    You could say a similar statement about a roof over your head, or food on your table.

    But as my father is a food producer, should he have to provide service to you for free? He's self employed so everything he makes as profit goes to putting food on the kitchen table (we were not rich growing up).

  3. Re:Security through antiquity on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Stripe it to 100 floppy disks. Then place the floppy disks in different parts of the world. Make retrieving each disk like a scene out of Mission Impossible.

  4. Re:GPS clocks? on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 2

    GPS itself is time based. Each of the 24 satellites sends a ~1575mhz signal containing information including the atomic time. Simplified, the GPS receiver determines the distance to the satellite (since it has the timestamp in the signal), then intersects each satellites "distance spheres" to find the receivers 3d coordinates.

    So there are 24 GPS satellites (and more GLONASS, etc) transmitting the atomic time at 1575mhz

  5. Re:Why is everybody drawing a line at their phones on Obama: Government Can't Let Smartphones Be 'Black Boxes' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I don't understand the fuss about Apple giving a backdoor to the NSA. Any data you send out has only some probability of being secure. Most of what people are complaining about (NSA vacuuming up all data) is data people are sending plaintext over the internet.

    If the govt accesses your data, that's your fault for not making it secure enough. Or trusting insecure implementations as secure.

  6. Re:oh dang on Federal Judge Admits Existence Of NSA's PRISM Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    NWO unstoppable since they got Dennis Rodman https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  7. Re:Well... THAT didn't take very long. on Federal Judge Admits Existence Of NSA's PRISM Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    Systemd is doing a pretty good job of wrecking linux on its own.

  8. Re:... and they say we wear tinfoil hats on Federal Judge Admits Existence Of NSA's PRISM Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 1

    Tinfoil, what? MS and NSA relationship has been headlines since 1998. What rock have you been living under?

    http://www.cnn.com/TECH/comput...
    FTA:

    It's gotten to the point where no vendor hip to the NSA's power will even start building products without checking in with Fort Meade first. This includes even that supposed ruler of the software universe, Microsoft Corp. "It's inevitable that you design products with specific [encryption] algorithms and key lengths in mind," said Ira Rubenstein, Microsoft attorney and a top lieutenant to Bill Gates. By his own account, Rubenstein acts as a "filter" between the NSA and Microsoft's design teams in Redmond, Wash. "Any time that you're developing a new product, you will be working closely with the NSA," he noted.

  9. Re:PRISM began 2007 on Federal Judge Admits Existence Of NSA's PRISM Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 2

    Technically it began in 1998 with the Verizon Business partnership.

    MS hasn't even been secretive, why should they? They're just assisting law enforcement in doing their jobs

    http://www.cnn.com/TECH/comput...

  10. Re:... and they say we wear tinfoil hats on Federal Judge Admits Existence Of NSA's PRISM Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 0

    Re 1, Accountable for what, trying to defend the country from attacks?

    Re 2, google the sovereign citizen movement.

  11. Re:We supply terrorists weapons !! on Federal Judge Admits Existence Of NSA's PRISM Program (vocativ.com) · · Score: 2

    This is just how it looks from your perspective. The vast majority are good people just trying to help the country. Sure, sometimes they may get a little over zealous and overstep their bounds, but if they didn't try, I'd question their enthusiasm for law enforcement.

  12. I'll keep whining on Miniature Fuel Cell To Keep Drones Aloft For Over An Hour (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    ... they should have posted my submission about Ardupilot continuing on as nonprofit.

  13. So they didn't post my article about Ardupilot becoming an entity, but post this garbage?

    What other sites are like slashdot out there?

  14. What am I reading in the summary? on Former NSA, CIA Director Michael Hayden Sides With Apple Over FBI (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Govt doesn't have rights.

  15. This NSA spying is needed. Govt would be in the dark if it wasn't for PRISM. Do we really want the LEO that keep us safe to be blind?

    The 4th does not protect your data when you send it plaintext over the internet. Every router from you to the destination sees your information. NSA is just seeing the same thing every random router has seen since the dawn of the internet.

  16. Re:When will people learn? on Raspberry Pi 3 Is a Nice Upgrade, But Alternatives Exist With Faster Performance (phoronix.com) · · Score: 0

    Any suggestions on how to remove soldering fumes from a home work area? Something like a mini hood. Whenever I solder, the fumes go straight into my face.

  17. Re:telescope science != astronomy on $500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS · · Score: 1

    At my alma mater, a few of the upper level CS courses cross referenced as Math courses (like Theory of Computation). They shared enough courses that with a CS degree, automatically came a math minor.

  18. Re:Computer programming is not computer science on $500K NSF Grant Boosted Girls' CS Participation At Obama Daughters' $37K/Yr HS · · Score: 1

    ^^^Maybe at a community college. What you describe sounds like the syllabus for the CS205-Software Engineering course I took.

    A real CS curriculum will be much broader than just software.

  19. Re: What a crock on Godfather Of Encryption Explains Why Apple Should Help The FBI (bgr.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So what is that NSA meta data program for then?

  20. Re:What about "Import Grade" on FREAK, Logjam, DROWN All a Result of Weaknesses Demanded By US Gov't (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    What's images got to do with this?

  21. Re:What about "Import Grade" on FREAK, Logjam, DROWN All a Result of Weaknesses Demanded By US Gov't (csoonline.com) · · Score: 0

    Why on earth would the govt want to spy on you? You think some NSA nerd is sitting behind his star trek console watching your every move?

  22. So what's the technology on Skydio's Forthcoming Consumer Drones Can Sense and Avoid Obstacles (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I missed it in the article, but are they using optical flow, LIDAR, IR-lock, sonar or something new?

  23. Re: "skeleton key" on FBI May Be Opening A Security Hole To Federal Agencies (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't tin foil hat people that through paranoia think the govt is spying on them.

    And most are OK with govt monitoring communications for terrorist/criminal activity. Maybe you missed the NSA poll? https://www.washingtonpost.com...

  24. Re:Mark zuckerberg is #6 richest man in the world on Brazil Facebook Head Arrested For Refusing To Share WhatsApp Data (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    People like to feel important by thinking govt is spying on them.

  25. Re:Mark zuckerberg is #6 richest man in the world on Brazil Facebook Head Arrested For Refusing To Share WhatsApp Data (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just more anti govt haters. The police are after the bad guys. Sorry to break it to you, nobody is spying on you. You're just not that interesting.