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  1. Authorized to do what by who? It's a torrent site.

  2. Do you want the Kremlin to have your data or just the NSA? The idea that the NSA regularly collects data from US citizens is well documented. The idea is tenuous that Kaspersky is colluding with the Russian government to export data from USA targets to Russian intelligence. Endpoint security relies on central services understanding what is going on in the world. This can be referred to as operation intelligence. Kaspersky sense data back into "unsecured channels" and may include data that DHS considers sensitive. I would personally want the best antivirus or malware software that identifies the most vulnerabilities and I don't give a damn which nation illegally collects my data. If they want to exert power over who collects it then they should be open about how they collect it.

  3. Re:There's nothing you can do with your own ISP on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Not sure if trolling or genuinely naive...
    Looking through DogDude's post history, I'm going to go with the latter.

  4. Re:There's nothing you can do with your own ISP on How To Protect Your Privacy Online (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    You must be using the new definition of "literally" because otherwise what you wrote doesn't make any sense. There are literally (old definition) hundreds of ways to encrypt communications and obscure the fact that they are even happening at all.

  5. p2p social sharing on Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? (counterpunch.org) · · Score: 1

    This is a novel decentralized approach to social sharing https://ssbc.github.io/patchwo... It really doesn't address the threat of a state actor hacking your endpoints but it's a start.

  6. Let's Call Him on Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment (onthewire.io) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Tell him how you feel: 501-604-5380 US District Judge J. Leon Holmes 500 West Capitol Avenue, Room D469 Little Rock, AR 72201 501-604-5380 Courtroom 4D Staff Information Law Clerks: Nicole Swisher, Lauren Summerhill Courtroom Deputy: 501-604-5384

  7. Re:So what if the world sees it? on BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you write to someone to let them know that? I don't know how it works in the UK but if enough people write letters about stuff in the USA then our representatives still ignore it and listen to the highest paying special interest group that donated to their campaign. Maybe things are less corrupt in the UK?

  8. Re:It all goes back to ... karma on Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You can't just say "I didn't vote for this" and absolve yourself from responsibility. Your tax dollars are paying for this and there is something that you can do about it:

    1. Go here: https://www.opencongress.org/people/zipcodelookup.
    2. Type in your info.
    3. Call each number and leave a message stating "I am one of your registered constituents. I do not support the drone program. I perceive it to be illegal and may constitute war crimes. My name is Doofus O. Death and I live at *your address here*."
    4. Done!

    That would take 1-4 minutes depending upon which state you live in and how many representatives you have.

  9. Send Them a Thank you Note on Followup: Library Board Unanimously Supports TOR Relay · · Score: 5, Informative
    KILTON LIBRARY

    80 Main Street
    West Lebanon, NH 03784

  10. Re:Happened to me a couple of days ago on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 1

    Why wait? Complain now: https://contactus.netflix.com/...

  11. Re:Exodus on Ask Slashdot: What Happens If We Perfect Age Reversing? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe if you spent less time complaining about the things other people have, and more time improving your lot in life, you wouldn't be so poor?

    Maybe... and maybe not. The relevant cartoon: https://imgur.com/gallery/h82v...

  12. Please Comment on US Proposes Tighter Export Rules For Computer Security Tools · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The opened a public comment period. Please send them your comments and let them know what you think. https://www.federalregister.go...

  13. Re:Too many VMs on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Solve a Unique Networking Issue? · · Score: 1

    I have done this on a MacMini before as I tried to simulate a network for a program I wrote, and I literally had to return the MacMini for a swap with iMac having top configurations.... Still had a horrible time with 12 nodes Regardless how powerful your laptop is, I dont think it can do 16VMs at a time.

    The latest MacBook Pro has an 8 core i7 with 16GB of ram and an SSD that writes at over 5 Gbps. I think you meant: "The crappy laptop they issue for upgrading firmware probably wouldn't run 16 VMs very well."

  14. duplicity: local encryption, multiple backends on Ask Slashdot: Best Medium For Storing Data To Survive a Fire (or Other Disaster) · · Score: 1

    automatically encrypt your data locally and upload it to multiple locations. These locations can be public locations as only your private key can decrypt the incremental (or full) backups.

    Some backends:

  15. Re:I choose MS SQL Server on Why I Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL/MariaDB · · Score: -1

    do you know you can't rollback a transaction that modifies a table?

    That is incorrect. No wonder you must have had a hard time with the tools if you don't even know the difference between MyISAM and InnoDB. MyISAM is basically BerkeleyDB with a server process over it. It is blazing fast for small amounts of data with low concurrency. It uses full table locking for inserts or updates. InnoDB is the engine that makes the differences between Postgres Maria/MySQL largely inconsequential.

    The main difference that I see is that Postgres fans generally have the same zeal and lack of experience that Rails fanboys exhibit. I am not sure where you fall but you are doing a disservice to our community by spouting false claims when you do not understand what you are talking about. (That sounds like a rails fanboy to me.)

  16. Re:Ron Wyden Edward Snowden on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About · · Score: 1

    They do not need to read it into the congressional record to be protected under the Speech of Debate Clause of the constitution. Listen to the first senator, Gravel, that ever exercised this right speak. He was uncertain of the legal grounds, so he intended to read it into the congressional record as part of a filibuster. This was prevented by process, so he called a subcommittee hearing and read it into the subcommittee record.

    This senator now states that the supreme court ruling about his actions protects legislatures from prosecution when divulging state secrets in the interest of public debate.

    Watch what he has to say here: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/12/16/former_senator_mike_gravel_on_putting

    I can only find one case where a senator has tried to use this to get out of a DUI and his attorneys are asserting that the senator is protected under the Kentucky Constitution clause, not the federal constitution. The case is set to be heard May 5th of this year.

  17. Re:Ron Wyden Edward Snowden on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About · · Score: 1

    "Constutionally protected from being punished"

    you are misinformed in more than just your spelling, sir. The only thing that I can think of that you may be referring to is the national defense act where party members granted themselves immunity from war crimes. LOL! I would love to see that tested in court. Where does it say in the constitution that our legislative branch is immune from the laws that they themselves make?

  18. Re:Ron Wyden Edward Snowden on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About · · Score: 1

    It has been revealed in court that the FBI borrows NSA spy data to make drug arrests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... Now will it change?

  19. Re:Arrested him for WHAT? on UK Police and PRS Shut Down Karaoke Torrent Site · · Score: 1

    without the prosecution present

    Did you mean without the defense present?

  20. Microsoft has targeted other platforms in the past on Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It didn't end well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  21. Re:thats to spendy on Buenos Aires Issues a 'Netflix Tax' For All Digital Entertainment · · Score: 2

    The country is under reporting inflation. Some peg it at 30%. The best way to hedge against inflation is to borrow a lot the currency that is devaluing and then purchasing something that holds its value. Bitcoin fits the bill nicely. Unfortunately, there is a limit on the amount of foreign transactions an Argentine can make. Listings on the Argentine "eBay" are selling BTC in pesos for twice what it is worth in the USA: http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/MLA-520567302-bitcoin-btc-la-moneda-del-futuro-_JM This is probably dubious from a legal standpoint but selling mining contracts seems to be popular on the site as well.

  22. Slashdot is a Bad Place to Ask This on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Everyone here is going to tell you that a human needs to be there because that is their livelihood. Any task can be automated at a cost. I am guessing that it is not your current task to automate maintenance tasks otherwise you wouldn't be asking. Somewhere up your chain they decided that for the uptime / quality of service it is more cost effective to have a human do it. That does not mean that you can not present a case showing otherwise. I highly suggest that you win approval and backing before taking time to try to automate anything.

    Out of curiosity, are they VMs?

  23. Run Your Own Node in Austria on Austrian Tor Exit Node Operator Found Guilty As an Accomplice · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can spin up your own Tor exit node in Austria here: http://lowendbox.com/tag/austria/

    Or, if you prefer, you can just donate to people that are running nodes here: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayDonations

  24. Send the Board Feedback on Privacy Oversight Board Gives NSA Surveillance a Pass · · Score: 1

    Tell them what you thing about the report:

    Email: info@pclob.gov
    Fax: 202.296.4395

  25. GitLab Already Exists on New Apache Allura Project For Project Development Hosting · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is pretty nice too: https://www.gitlab.com/