The reason is there is not a whole lot of evidence out there to suggest that race is a driving factor, as appose to other factors like education levels, environmental health, and economic opportunities that for historical reasons may also correlate with certain racial groups.
Consider: You have 1000 identical little plastic boxes. You open 200 of them and insert a little slip of paper with the word "crook" written on it. You open the others and insert a little slip of paper that says "good citizen" on it. Close up all your boxes. Put them in a larger box and shake to fully randomize. What percentage of the time will you pull out a box with a "crook" card in it?
Now replace the box you removed, and randomize again. Draw out 200 boxes, and dip them in vinyl dye turning them bright green. Replace the boxes. Would you expect to find crook cards more frequently inspecting only green boxes that simply inspecting any box?
Now suppose that you do decide to only look at green boxes or say that for every beige box you open you will be opening 10 green ones. Might it seem like most of the crook cards you discover are in green boxes? Would this be a good justification for continuing to more closely scrutinize green boxes?
If you can figure out how to do server side search in a way that is reasonably efficient (storage and compute), does not require the server side to know the key, does not otherwise compromise the secrecy of the cipher text (user documents); I suspect you can make a great deal of money licensing your patent.
This only works if the recipient knows you are sending it in your special high security envelop. If not dear old Uncle Sam can open the letter read it, and put it back in a regular secure envelope to send on to the recipient.
Webmail - made it hard technically to do client side encryption (back in the days when CGI was all you had). It also has made it hard economically. How to do pay for your webmail offering unless you A) are the ISP charging for the line (we should probably forsake google, yahoo, hotmail and go back to this model), or B) Hard to make a buck if you can't look at the data to do target ads.
SPAM - Who wants a public list of all the e-mail addresses that are valid for their domain out there? How well would that work out. 10 years ago if MUAs had started tossing messages out that were not encrypted or signed with their users public key, it might have stopped unsolicited bulk mail. Today the SPAMers have enough computer power and bandwith to fetch the keys and generate signatures.
Yes I was being sarcastic, I am a little uncomfortable with listing all the mail addresses in DNS, all someone has to do to know mail addresses are valid to spam is look them up. That isn't desirable.
It is a great system though for domain level keys. Though/
Just imagine if we had some system were you could cryptographically secure DNS values, and some defined TXT record were you could expect to get an organizations public key.
This would work nicely because the client could safely and automatically fetch the key, encrypt the message, or just sign it. It would then be ciphered at least as far as the last hop publicly exposed mail server, safe from prying eyes at your ISP, their mail rescue service, etc.
Sure it only works for org level keys, but it would be an easy step in the right direction
Excuse me but the right to property is the very most fundamental. You can have free speech all you like but if they can take your soap box, a hell of a lot of good it will do you. This was his equipment, his company, he should be able to use it to send any message he wants, he should be free to provide services to anyone he likes, and deny them to anyone he does not three letter agencies included. Property rights are exactly what we are really talking about here.
When you live in fear the government can seize your asserts and livelyhood for indefinite periods on any trumped up charge while you are driven into bankruptcy fighting them, non of those other freedoms matter! Property rights and their absolute sanctity should be the most important issue to anyone who really wants a free society.
People keep writing post like yours, about what we don't know. I say it does not matter. The NSA has been caught now contradicting itself again and again. Liars lie. Trust is earned and at this point I don't think NSA or the rest of the state security apparatus has any. After all these abuses it should be encumber upon then to show they haven't violated anyone's rights in cases like this. Without evidence to the contrary we have every reason to assume they did, and few reasons to offer the. The Benifet of doubt.
Kinda brings the whole Golden Rule thing into focus doesn't it. Maybe if the NSA and by extension our nation does want to be attacked, terrorized, and treated so much; we should consider attacking, threatening, and terrorizing others less often.
For one thing because we effectively subsides the rest of those systems and Obummer care is going to make the subsidy bigger; especially when they start to pull things like the tax on device makers out of it.
All of those systems effectively impose price controls on device vendors and drug producers. This keeps costs to the system down; meanwhile those companies extract super premium margins from American consumers (because demand for healthcare products is inelastic) which they turn around and fund their R&D with.
Essentially its the same free rider problem the individual mandate is designed to fix; except that the bill deliberately worsens it because it lines the pockets to the healthcare industry whom the statists needed to support their monstrous corruption of our formerly free society.
The point of giving the money to low income kids was just to get the masses to think this is a good idea. It will also help make it politically impossible to repeal. I don't really care where the money goes, the point is to both take it away form the content cartels and make the law populist.
The content cartels faced with potentially an amount 10X their revenue, not profit, revenue, to cover the cost of government law enforcement conducting dragnets for them might not lobby so hard to have government conduct more dragnets for them.
Traditionally the copyright system was to give authors the ability to impose civil liabilities on those who infringed upon their works. It was incumbent upon them to identify who was doing the infringing and file a legal action. Their lobby has shifted this burden onto the people by criminalizing copyright violations, effective turning our public law enforcement into their own private investigators on our dime.
Sine the general public won't likely accept my libertarian view that we should simply reduce the governments capacity to engage in law enforcement to the point where it/must/ focus only on seriously disruptive crimes. Let me get out of character and propose a TAX. Its only fair after all those who use the service should pay.
How about we say: Any entity that engages in the distribution, sale, or licensing of copyrighted works in the form of recorded music, finished films and movies, software, or long form narratives for a profit shall be subject to the copyright enforcement levy; with the exception of original authors engaging in a single one time transfer of all copyright associated with a work. Entities which meet this criteria shall be required to report what part of their revenues are associated with these activities. The tax rate shall be determined by the GAO estimate of costs incurred by federal law enforcement related to copyright enforcement. The tax rate shall not be less than 1% and shall not exceed 1000% of the revenues upon which it is levied. (And get broad public support) proceeds from this tax level shall be used to provide scholarships to low income college students.
I might be missing the obvious but I don't see the *need* to be on the same network. A couple nailed up ARP entries on your next hope router, a nailed up arp on a separate router with some NATs all at your ISP should enable your favorite three letter agency to this from the comfort of their Washington offices.
Encryption in the cloud is not all that realistic. Encryption of any real value requires good key management. That is to say only the people who are supposed to read and or author the plain text documents have the keys.
Right now what you mostly see if you see data at rest ciphered at all is the provider has all the keys, if you are really really lucky the provider stores the keys and keeps them weakly ciphered with some crappy password you have. Which they have many opportunities to intercept for any arm twisting spy agency that happens to come along. Why? Well in the case of the mostly honest provider because users are not very good at key storage, and are worse at key exchange.
Not to mention ASPs like Microsoft for example want to compete on features and user experience. They feel they need to be able to do things (and they might be right) like server side searches. If all the data is encrypted either, they have to have so much metadata that the plain text is hardly much of a secret anymore, using probably nearly twice the storage, or they have to send every document down to a client doing a search to handle locally with its keys, using lots more bandwidth and wall time. How many people would sign up for hosted Sharepoint if they could not search it?
The big public providers have no interest in encryption. How exactly would Google monetize GMail (lets pretend messages sent to you are all encrypted for the moment) if all the messages are opaque to them? By that I mean they did it right and build some client side decryption in Java Script or something so they never have access to the message? They could show you a few not really well targeted ads on the logon page and around the margins but not much more. The dollars and cents don't work, and people like "free as in beer". Joe six pack thinks E-mail is free, if you tell him he can have it free or encrypted but not both, free will win so often those of us that would pay won't be given the option. Same goes for dropbox/yousendit/etc.
Sorry no, if privacy is really an important issue for you "the Cloud" is pure fail.
Sort of a sheep guarding the hen house problem there don't you think? You really thing "internal affairs" is all that objective at any of these three letters?
Do the IA guys get the clearances to look at the information needed to do a truly effective audit of anyone working sensitive case?
Assuming you want more than IA, are you going to give the GAO guys all the clearances they need.
Congress has worked to impede the process but the president does not need congress to do it. They have thwarted some of the ways he tried to go about it, like bringing some of the detainees to the US for trial.
The President is however empowered as the Commander and Chief he could military tribunals and then either, imprison, repatriate, or execute according to the results. As the President he could pardon these people at which point they would be free to apply for visas and or be repatriated. There is little if anything Congress could do about this.
So GITMO is still open because Obama does not really want to be the owner of the consequences political or otherwise of dealing with these people whatever those might be. He wants Congress involved so he has political cover if things work out badly, somehow.
No they are not and shame on your for suggesting it. Not all work is worth a living wage. Not everyone needs to earn a living wage either, millions of teenagers live with their parents, and don't need to be earning a living wage, for example. If someone is willing to do work for a given wage there is not reason to stop them, none.
If you need a living wage and can't earn it doing what you are doing, you need to do some other kind of work, or you know get yourself a bus ticket and go someplace where living costs less.
You don't have some god given right to live in NYC and support yourself serving coffee.
Cut the crap, stop calling people slavers, and try some self reliance.
The first step to solving a problem, is identifying it. I find the fact that Nintendo was willing to blame it self for its failure in the market place encouraging.
Rather than a bunch of executives playing CYA and concocting some narrative full of nonsense about macro economic headwinds or something, they actually named something they will be expected to do something about.
I am sorry but to suggest you are not already wiretapped strains credibility. There is only one reason to put storage on the order of 12 exabytes, which is what some estimates put the NSA planned Utah facility at. That reason is you are keeping payloads.
I don't think you need anything close to 12 exabytes to keep all the meta data you could get your hands on for even decade time scales.
Sorry given all the revelations lately, all the lies we have been told by the folks who say Snowden is lying and some back of the envelope estimates based on the little information i do know there is no reason I can see to accept of any public statements made by NSA. Credibility and trust are be earned; If the NSA wants to be believed its incumbent upon them to offer something better than "because we say so"; right now their critics are more credible than they are. Snowden has little to gain and everything, perhaps his life to loose doing what he did, Snowden has documentation that even if may be inadequate to fully support all his claims does offer proof the NSA dramatically exceeded its understood activities, and absolutely has mislead the public.
Normally the PKI on certificates is just used for authentication, and then encrypting the exchange of the symmetric key; symmetric key encryption is used to transfer the actual documents. My guess would be those companies collaborating with NSA on snooping have a server side SSL library that shares the negotiated symmetric keys with the NSA and after the connections are setup simply duplicates all the packets; which the NSA can now decrypt the payloads of.
No matter what country you're from or what your political ideals are, it is never okay to "not support the troops".
The troops are people who have put themselves in harm's way to fight for their ideals.
Maybe they put themselves in harms way for their ideals, or maybe they did it for a steady pay check, and to get the training needed to go after one of those often very lucrative private security/logistics jobs at an entity like Blackwater ( or whatever its calling itself now).
I am not suggesting that I am ungrateful to those who have served in our military. I am not suggesting most of them are Patriots, or that the vast majority of their hearts are in anything inconsistent with serving our nation, and defending their families and fellow citizens. I would remind you though that very few peoples motives are entirely pure, and in any barrel large enough you will find a bad apple or two.
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The reason is there is not a whole lot of evidence out there to suggest that race is a driving factor, as appose to other factors like education levels, environmental health, and economic opportunities that for historical reasons may also correlate with certain racial groups.
Consider: You have 1000 identical little plastic boxes. You open 200 of them and insert a little slip of paper with the word "crook" written on it. You open the others and insert a little slip of paper that says "good citizen" on it. Close up all your boxes. Put them in a larger box and shake to fully randomize. What percentage of the time will you pull out a box with a "crook" card in it?
Now replace the box you removed, and randomize again. Draw out 200 boxes, and dip them in vinyl dye turning them bright green. Replace the boxes. Would you expect to find crook cards more frequently inspecting only green boxes that simply inspecting any box?
Now suppose that you do decide to only look at green boxes or say that for every beige box you open you will be opening 10 green ones. Might it seem like most of the crook cards you discover are in green boxes? Would this be a good justification for continuing to more closely scrutinize green boxes?
One word: search.
If you can figure out how to do server side search in a way that is reasonably efficient (storage and compute), does not require the server side to know the key, does not otherwise compromise the secrecy of the cipher text (user documents); I suspect you can make a great deal of money licensing your patent.
If you are trying to disrupt a terror cell, yes. If you are looking for dirt to stop the "wrong" guy from wining an election less so.
This only works if the recipient knows you are sending it in your special high security envelop. If not dear old Uncle Sam can open the letter read it, and put it back in a regular secure envelope to send on to the recipient.
And then some other stuff happened.
Webmail - made it hard technically to do client side encryption (back in the days when CGI was all you had). It also has made it hard economically. How to do pay for your webmail offering unless you A) are the ISP charging for the line (we should probably forsake google, yahoo, hotmail and go back to this model), or B) Hard to make a buck if you can't look at the data to do target ads.
SPAM - Who wants a public list of all the e-mail addresses that are valid for their domain out there? How well would that work out. 10 years ago if MUAs had started tossing messages out that were not encrypted or signed with their users public key, it might have stopped unsolicited bulk mail. Today the SPAMers have enough computer power and bandwith to fetch the keys and generate signatures.
Yes I was being sarcastic, I am a little uncomfortable with listing all the mail addresses in DNS, all someone has to do to know mail addresses are valid to spam is look them up. That isn't desirable.
It is a great system though for domain level keys. Though/
Just imagine if we had some system were you could cryptographically secure DNS values, and some defined TXT record were you could expect to get an organizations public key.
This would work nicely because the client could safely and automatically fetch the key, encrypt the message, or just sign it. It would then be ciphered at least as far as the last hop publicly exposed mail server, safe from prying eyes at your ISP, their mail rescue service, etc.
Sure it only works for org level keys, but it would be an easy step in the right direction
Excuse me but the right to property is the very most fundamental. You can have free speech all you like but if they can take your soap box, a hell of a lot of good it will do you. This was his equipment, his company, he should be able to use it to send any message he wants, he should be free to provide services to anyone he likes, and deny them to anyone he does not three letter agencies included. Property rights are exactly what we are really talking about here.
When you live in fear the government can seize your asserts and livelyhood for indefinite periods on any trumped up charge while you are driven into bankruptcy fighting them, non of those other freedoms matter! Property rights and their absolute sanctity should be the most important issue to anyone who really wants a free society.
People keep writing post like yours, about what we don't know. I say it does not matter. The NSA has been caught now contradicting itself again and again. Liars lie. Trust is earned and at this point I don't think NSA or the rest of the state security apparatus has any. After all these abuses it should be encumber upon then to show they haven't violated anyone's rights in cases like this. Without evidence to the contrary we have every reason to assume they did, and few reasons to offer the. The Benifet of doubt.
Kinda brings the whole Golden Rule thing into focus doesn't it. Maybe if the NSA and by extension our nation does want to be attacked, terrorized, and treated so much; we should consider attacking, threatening, and terrorizing others less often.
For one thing because we effectively subsides the rest of those systems and Obummer care is going to make the subsidy bigger; especially when they start to pull things like the tax on device makers out of it.
All of those systems effectively impose price controls on device vendors and drug producers. This keeps costs to the system down; meanwhile those companies extract super premium margins from American consumers (because demand for healthcare products is inelastic) which they turn around and fund their R&D with.
Essentially its the same free rider problem the individual mandate is designed to fix; except that the bill deliberately worsens it because it lines the pockets to the healthcare industry whom the statists needed to support their monstrous corruption of our formerly free society.
The point of giving the money to low income kids was just to get the masses to think this is a good idea. It will also help make it politically impossible to repeal. I don't really care where the money goes, the point is to both take it away form the content cartels and make the law populist.
The content cartels faced with potentially an amount 10X their revenue, not profit, revenue, to cover the cost of government law enforcement conducting dragnets for them might not lobby so hard to have government conduct more dragnets for them.
Never happen, Obama already decided it was more profitable to tax it.
Traditionally the copyright system was to give authors the ability to impose civil liabilities on those who infringed upon their works. It was incumbent upon them to identify who was doing the infringing and file a legal action. Their lobby has shifted this burden onto the people by criminalizing copyright violations, effective turning our public law enforcement into their own private investigators on our dime.
Sine the general public won't likely accept my libertarian view that we should simply reduce the governments capacity to engage in law enforcement to the point where it /must/ focus only on seriously disruptive crimes. Let me get out of character and propose a TAX. Its only fair after all those who use the service should pay.
How about we say: Any entity that engages in the distribution, sale, or licensing of copyrighted works in the form of recorded music, finished films and movies, software, or long form narratives for a profit shall be subject to the copyright enforcement levy; with the exception of original authors engaging in a single one time transfer of all copyright associated with a work. Entities which meet this criteria shall be required to report what part of their revenues are associated with these activities. The tax rate shall be determined by the GAO estimate of costs incurred by federal law enforcement related to copyright enforcement. The tax rate shall not be less than 1% and shall not exceed 1000% of the revenues upon which it is levied. (And get broad public support) proceeds from this tax level shall be used to provide scholarships to low income college students.
I might be missing the obvious but I don't see the *need* to be on the same network. A couple nailed up ARP entries on your next hope router, a nailed up arp on a separate router with some NATs all at your ISP should enable your favorite three letter agency to this from the comfort of their Washington offices.
Encryption in the cloud is not all that realistic. Encryption of any real value requires good key management. That is to say only the people who are supposed to read and or author the plain text documents have the keys.
Right now what you mostly see if you see data at rest ciphered at all is the provider has all the keys, if you are really really lucky the provider stores the keys and keeps them weakly ciphered with some crappy password you have. Which they have many opportunities to intercept for any arm twisting spy agency that happens to come along. Why? Well in the case of the mostly honest provider because users are not very good at key storage, and are worse at key exchange.
Not to mention ASPs like Microsoft for example want to compete on features and user experience. They feel they need to be able to do things (and they might be right) like server side searches. If all the data is encrypted either, they have to have so much metadata that the plain text is hardly much of a secret anymore, using probably nearly twice the storage, or they have to send every document down to a client doing a search to handle locally with its keys, using lots more bandwidth and wall time. How many people would sign up for hosted Sharepoint if they could not search it?
The big public providers have no interest in encryption. How exactly would Google monetize GMail (lets pretend messages sent to you are all encrypted for the moment) if all the messages are opaque to them? By that I mean they did it right and build some client side decryption in Java Script or something so they never have access to the message? They could show you a few not really well targeted ads on the logon page and around the margins but not much more. The dollars and cents don't work, and people like "free as in beer". Joe six pack thinks E-mail is free, if you tell him he can have it free or encrypted but not both, free will win so often those of us that would pay won't be given the option. Same goes for dropbox/yousendit/etc.
Sorry no, if privacy is really an important issue for you "the Cloud" is pure fail.
Sort of a sheep guarding the hen house problem there don't you think? You really thing "internal affairs" is all that objective at any of these three letters?
Do the IA guys get the clearances to look at the information needed to do a truly effective audit of anyone working sensitive case?
Assuming you want more than IA, are you going to give the GAO guys all the clearances they need.
Tough to keep secrets when so many get access.
Wierd_w you nailed it!
Congress has worked to impede the process but the president does not need congress to do it. They have thwarted some of the ways he tried to go about it, like bringing some of the detainees to the US for trial.
The President is however empowered as the Commander and Chief he could military tribunals and then either, imprison, repatriate, or execute according to the results. As the President he could pardon these people at which point they would be free to apply for visas and or be repatriated. There is little if anything Congress could do about this.
So GITMO is still open because Obama does not really want to be the owner of the consequences political or otherwise of dealing with these people whatever those might be. He wants Congress involved so he has political cover if things work out badly, somehow.
So is the AFCA
No they are not and shame on your for suggesting it. Not all work is worth a living wage. Not everyone needs to earn a living wage either, millions of teenagers live with their parents, and don't need to be earning a living wage, for example. If someone is willing to do work for a given wage there is not reason to stop them, none.
If you need a living wage and can't earn it doing what you are doing, you need to do some other kind of work, or you know get yourself a bus ticket and go someplace where living costs less.
You don't have some god given right to live in NYC and support yourself serving coffee.
Cut the crap, stop calling people slavers, and try some self reliance.
The first step to solving a problem, is identifying it. I find the fact that Nintendo was willing to blame it self for its failure in the market place encouraging.
Rather than a bunch of executives playing CYA and concocting some narrative full of nonsense about macro economic headwinds or something, they actually named something they will be expected to do something about.
I am sorry but to suggest you are not already wiretapped strains credibility. There is only one reason to put storage on the order of 12 exabytes, which is what some estimates put the NSA planned Utah facility at. That reason is you are keeping payloads.
I don't think you need anything close to 12 exabytes to keep all the meta data you could get your hands on for even decade time scales.
Sorry given all the revelations lately, all the lies we have been told by the folks who say Snowden is lying and some back of the envelope estimates based on the little information i do know there is no reason I can see to accept of any public statements made by NSA. Credibility and trust are be earned; If the NSA wants to be believed its incumbent upon them to offer something better than "because we say so"; right now their critics are more credible than they are. Snowden has little to gain and everything, perhaps his life to loose doing what he did, Snowden has documentation that even if may be inadequate to fully support all his claims does offer proof the NSA dramatically exceeded its understood activities, and absolutely has mislead the public.
Normally the PKI on certificates is just used for authentication, and then encrypting the exchange of the symmetric key; symmetric key encryption is used to transfer the actual documents. My guess would be those companies collaborating with NSA on snooping have a server side SSL library that shares the negotiated symmetric keys with the NSA and after the connections are setup simply duplicates all the packets; which the NSA can now decrypt the payloads of.
I doubt the NSA is actually MITM.
No matter what country you're from or what your political ideals are, it is never okay to "not support the troops".
The troops are people who have put themselves in harm's way to fight for their ideals.
Maybe they put themselves in harms way for their ideals, or maybe they did it for a steady pay check, and to get the training needed to go after one of those often very lucrative private security/logistics jobs at an entity like Blackwater ( or whatever its calling itself now).
I am not suggesting that I am ungrateful to those who have served in our military. I am not suggesting most of them are Patriots, or that the vast majority of their hearts are in anything inconsistent with serving our nation, and defending their families and fellow citizens. I would remind you though that very few peoples motives are entirely pure, and in any barrel large enough you will find a bad apple or two.