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  1. Re:Faster, Scalable Factoring on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    True. Read post I was replying to again.

  2. You have made an assumption on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 1

    "if they want to exchange..." Keyword: If.

  3. Faster, Scalable Factoring on Silent Circle Moving Away From NIST Cipher Suites After NSA Revelations · · Score: 1
    Factoring large semiprimes has a scalable solution. For example, if you have a large semiprime that is expected to take a billion years to factor, you can throw a billion cores at the problem and factor it in one year. I am *not* referring to GNFS.

    WIth a billion cores of custom silicon, you can speed it up even more.

  4. Re:GNU excitement on LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support · · Score: 1
    (40% less than GCC 4.8 which somehow uses much more memory than its predecessors)

    GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. Link

    C++ programs are fatter than pure C. So, now, GCC is fatter.

  5. Re:Uh... on Somebody Stole 7 Milliseconds From the Federal Reserve · · Score: 1

    4. NSA insider got the info in the minutes before 14:00EDT, contacted buddy to release the order queued up for 13:00CDT.

  6. Re:Any different from https://google.com ? on Google To Encrypt All Keyword Searches · · Score: 1
    It is a re-direct. And it happens immediately. Bookmarks or links (external to Google) that contain search terms will still give away the search terms.

    http://www.google.com/#q=google+enables+more+https
    redirects to
    https://www.google.com/#q=google+enables+more+https

    I like that maps and news are now also https.

    So, to answer your question, no, it is not different, there is no extra security or privacy over doing it yourself.

    It is just automatic.

  7. Re:Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Or the other 15 digits. Maybe a toeprint is the way to go.

  8. Re:GPL trumps BSD as a usable open source licence on New Operating System Seeks To Replace Linux In the Cloud · · Score: 2

    Not accurate. You can do whatever you want with GPL code, and you can keep your mods closed, as long as you do not distribute your 'closed mods'. If you distribute binary, you must provide the source.

  9. Re:"blunder" is far too kind a word for it on Another Climate-Change Retraction · · Score: 1

    Three times is enemy action.

  10. Re:The NSA controlled the servers on FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you have a point to make or did you just not like the message?

  11. Re:You can switch it off. on UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm trying to come up with an appropriate island.

    Oh! Got it! Antartica will work wonders.

    And they can debate global warming too!

  12. Re:Wow! on Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Smells like NSA on steroids.

  13. Re:Uh... okay on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Unless FISC has ordered everyone to turn over a copy of the keys.

  14. Re:Uh... okay on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    If they have the certs, they have TLS. So even your TLS secured email is not secure, nor is your HTTPS.

  15. Human element required on Will Robots Replace Rent-a-Cops? · · Score: 2

    Robots do not eat donuts.

  16. SELinux is not windows on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    So far, everything revealed has come from windows. Until something comes out that shows otherwise, it may be that all of the info came from windows machines.

  17. $ sudo su - on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    If you want to do it right.

  18. Yells at cloud on Linux Vendors Push For Open-Source In Hybrid Datacenter Clouds · · Score: 2

    Until the NSA problem is cleared up, the cloud stuff is just drifting.

  19. Stupid people have no morals on Just Thinking About Science Triggers Moral Behavior · · Score: 1
    Stupid people only care about themselves. It's "me!, me!, me!" all the way down.

    Intelligent people are programmatic bugs, that actually care in spite of the "intelligent creators" design.

    The "intelligent creators" only care if you procreate, because you are food, and they will show up some day.

  20. Re:Bound to happen. on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1

    Whew. For a minute there, I thought they were going to start feeding people subtracts.

    Oh, wait. Maybe they just did.

  21. 50,000 GCHQ documents? on Report: Britain Has a Secret Middle East Web Surveillance Base · · Score: 1
    I do not recall hearing this factoid. I believe most everything mentioned before predominately was from NSA docs, not GCHQ docs. Did The Independent get this correct?

    And this:

    Scotland Yard said material examined so far from the computer of Mr Miranda was “highly sensitive”, the disclosure of which “could put lives at risk”.

    Examined? As in they broke the encryption? Or is this misinformation?

  22. "what Groklaw has achieved cannot be unachieved" on Joining Lavabit Et Al, Groklaw Shuts Down Because of NSA Dragnet · · Score: 1
    If Groklaw had never happened, just imagine how worse things could be. Imagine how many people would never have learned what they know now, and how much easier that makes it for the forces of evil to perform their evil deeds. Imagine how many non-technical legal people have started their own personal education of learning technology.

    Education and Communication are key to the future, and Groklaw did everything possible in that regard.

    If only other websites were like Groklaw, how much more that humankind could accomplish.

    The Future may be a mess, but Groklaw has accomplished much in preparation for the journey.

    Godspeed PJ!
    Godspeed to everyone!

  23. Re:Liveleak on UK Government Destroys Guardian's Snowden Drives · · Score: 2

    Didn't you get the memo? It's a huge collection of cat pics. That mouse in your pocket was confusing you.

  24. Re:TO: J. Bezos FROM: NSA on Why Weather Control Conspiracy Theories Are Scientifically Ludicrous · · Score: 1

    In about 7 weeks, the real info will be released.

  25. Re:So what? on NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds · · Score: 1

    And the president and doj. That would explain a lot, wouldn't it?