You're right - Snowden's actions don't amount to treason. But they were espionage. Even Snowden's own account of events makes that clear.
Sadly, while it's clear that he should face some sanction for his action it's nearly certain that the punishment he will receive for his crime will be horribly out of proportion to the severity of it. Too bad; I guess he didn't think everything out all the way. He forgot that pawns are expendable - and in the final analysis, he was just a pawn.
To borrow a line from a movie, "These are the facts of the case . . . and they are undisputed."
What're you people expecting, jury nullification? Unfortunately, one of the problems here is that Snowden will never be given a jury trial - and if he is, he'll be denied the right to provide a defense for himself. Also unfortunately, regardless of what his motives were his actions were clearly espionage.
"These are the facts of the case . . . and they are undisputed."
Just not American patriot. Was American citizen, da . . . but is patriot of largest nation ever, is hero to workers' paradise. Would be citizen, but bear does not want to taunt eagle too much.
Wow, they implemented the canary on their website? That by itself is major league cool!
I am however very sorry to hear that TrueCrypt may be going away. I personally use LUKS (being a Linux user), but this is still bad news for end users in the computing community.
RBAC/SELinux will handle that nicely. Done right, those systems will even let you remove the root account entirely.
Beyond which, if I have root there's no security problem, is there? (With the exception of me having root in the first place, that is).
This also explains why a certain worthless hostfile manager for Windows runs in ring zero. To defeat security. Can't conceive any other reason why, unless the programmer was just too stupid to properly design his work. Sort of explains why the code isn't somewhere reputable, like CNET, or SourceForge, or even (*shudder*) Tucows. It's the kind of mistake one would expect from a young, inexperienced programmer with delusions of adequacy.
That's awfully close to what I had in mind. I suspect the right selection of software could get me very close to the tricorder of Star Trek fame. At need, a portable scanning device, a recording device and a computing device. Could even double as a medical tricorder. And it's a communicator, too!
Better not make phasers - we're having enough trouble dealing with the possibility of printed handguns.
Based on some of the medical devices I see being built for the iPhone and Android ecosystems, I have high hopes that I won't have to wait too much longer. Perhaps a decade or so.
Patents on rounded corners? Patents on interacting with a website by mouse-click? Patents on using a touchscreen as an I/O device? All these and more have been done, if not always successfully. Need I go on?
I certainly don't want criminals to be better equipped than the police forces charged with controlling them. I'd just like to see a mechanism in place to intelligently determine and regulate when such hardware and tactics are deployed - and leaving LAPD to regulate itself is not an acceptable solution to this problem. Nor is oversight by the Mayor or municipal government sufficient to satisfy my requirements for oversight. I might accept state-level oversight, leaving the ultimate responsibility with the state's Governor - might.
Our federal government was initially created with three distinct divisions - executive, legislative and judicial - all of which are (theoretically) charged with oversight of the other two. Individual states are not necessarily designed to be self-regulating in this way; to the best of my knowledge, municipal governments are not at all organized to provide self-regulation. LAPD is not the only example - look at the city of Seattle's PD (which only grudgingly gave in to popular pressure to get rid of the drones, and still refuses to comply with state and federal oversight into abuses by Seattle PD).
I definitely want the cops better trained and better armed than the robbers. I also want someone not part of the PD or local government looking over their shoulder, making sure they don't set themselves up a private kingdom.
hardware. I was a teenager when they got their first (used military) assault vehicle. They had the 80mm smoothbore cannon replaced with a battering ram. They "needed" it to serve no-knock warrants on hardened drug houses.
At what point did the LAPD cease to be a police organization and become a military one (owing allegiance to the Mayor and city of Los Angeles instead of the US federal government)? They use military hardware and tactics. In some instances, I can understand the need; now that criminals are using hardened installations, body armor, automatic/paramilitary weapons, there needs to be a capacity for law enforcement to respond in kind. What I find lacking is the oversight. As nearly as I can determine, the only thing reining in the private paramilitary organization created by (now retired) police chief Daryl Gates is often civilians with cell-phone cameras.
LAPD - "To Protect and Serve" has seemingly be replaced with "We'll treat you like a King".
A technique which is centuries (perhaps millenia) old. Not bad.
I personally prefer printing the gun from a metallic substance instead of a plastic one. Increases the cost, but decreases the difficulty. You might want to mill the weapon's bore to ensure reliability, but that's trivial once you've cast the parts.
I'd like to see figures regarding the available labor pool. Google's workforce is 17% female. What percentage of job applicants at Google were female? Google's workforce is 1% black. What percentage of applicants were black?
Also - what percentage of Google's workforce are of Indian descent? What percentage of applicants have been Indian? Here in the US, people of Indian descent would certainly be considered members of an ethnic minority, a large number them (even a disproportionate number, perhaps?) being professionals in the IT field. I suspect that Google's workforce is representative of the qualified candidate pool from which they can hire.
Not that it isn't already - and not that it takes away one bit from the significance of this new technology - but I'd really love to see someone fix that "last mile" of my internet connection.
Hey, if this is really that fast - I wonder if it could make mesh networking a viable alternative to the current (centralized) form of internet access? After all, why should all of those OLPC recipients be the only beneficiaries of mesh network technology? It would be like TOR for internet access, making it a free, publicly available utility instead of a luxury (and for those who don't think internet access is a luxury, let's remember that there are a lot of us who lived and functioned quite well before the internet was invented).
Wardriving and free WiFi hotspots are only the first, feeble attempts to make the internet the free and open communications mechanism it needs to be, because despite my previous assertion that we did just fine before the internet it's nearly impossible to function nowadays without internet access. More and more entities require an email address, the way they used to require telephone or postal mail access.
Why should Google care at all? They only search websites and return search results. Think of them as a common carrier. They don't create the data, they only catalog and organize the data - sorta like maintaining and publishing a phone book.
Google isn't publishing criminal records, only showing users where those records are. What part of this is Google's fault?
The thing is (if I've understood this correctly) they (the other publicly available information sources) will also be bound by the "right to privacy".
This will probably result in a new industry - private, pay-for-play sites which provide the same information. It's not freely available, and one line in the TOS to the effect that the information gathered there is not to be published or disseminated should cover the pay site's interests nicely. The data will be available to paying customers only, making it much harder for an individual to find out exactly what is being said about him or take action on that information.
It will also cause people performing such individual searches to improve their Google-fu. As you've pointed out, the actual websites with the actual information will still be out there. It'll just take a little more effort to make Google return the desired information. Instead of searching on a proper name, people will learn how to directly search the resources for which Google is filtering the results.
Lastly, it could spur the creation of specialized search engines with web infrastructure hosted in, say, Nigeria. Not a bad idea actually - they could call it 419-411.com. No European legislation could touch them - after all, without Nigeria how would I ever have learned about an opportunity to make $4.9 million in return for helping to get the money out of the country?
The Europeans are playing 'cat and mouse' with a gorilla - a very smart gorilla, I might add. Regulating search engines is the most obvious way to attack this issue at a centralized point, but as you've pointed out the data will still be out there on one or many more other loci; only now it'll take more effort to identify all of the places where that data exists.
Now I'll just sit back and wait for my fanboi to post his response here. This is certainly a subject near and dear to his heart.
Second - if all you can do is argue incessantly, spamming the board with your wild invective it is more and more evidence of your mental instability. I'm sorry that my previous analysis was too accurate for your comfort; too correct for you to accept as anything but an attack.
Third - if I've committed libel (as you repeatedly say) you will need to seek redress in court. Your inability to do so against all that you have threatened (and there are several) would seem to confirm your inability to do so. I have even given you my contact information, yet no subpoena appears to be forthcoming.
You really need to seek out professional help. Even without a degree in psychology I can clearly see how you came to be so badly damaged. Get help soon, before something terrible happens young man. I am certainly your superior in both age and mental abilities. You're the one repeatedly advertising the state of your software. My opinion no longer matters, as you keep reposting it here in your own words.
Crazy. I'm familiar with the study Fizzer06 is referring to (I've seen it myself), but my google-fu doesn't seem to be up to the task of finding it.
Fizzer06 is absolutely correct. You are absolutely useless. I guess that explains why you posted as Anonymous Coward, eh? Please affix a red, flashing light to your head and stand on the side of a dark highway until the inevitable happens. Please?
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Sadly, while it's clear that he should face some sanction for his action it's nearly certain that the punishment he will receive for his crime will be horribly out of proportion to the severity of it. Too bad; I guess he didn't think everything out all the way. He forgot that pawns are expendable - and in the final analysis, he was just a pawn.
What're you people expecting, jury nullification? Unfortunately, one of the problems here is that Snowden will never be given a jury trial - and if he is, he'll be denied the right to provide a defense for himself. Also unfortunately, regardless of what his motives were his actions were clearly espionage.
"These are the facts of the case . . . and they are undisputed."
Just not American patriot. Was American citizen, da . . . but is patriot of largest nation ever, is hero to workers' paradise. Would be citizen, but bear does not want to taunt eagle too much.
Puts it in perspective, don't you think?
I am however very sorry to hear that TrueCrypt may be going away. I personally use LUKS (being a Linux user), but this is still bad news for end users in the computing community.
How do you feel about the opposite sex, or people of different ethnicity than you?
Beyond which, if I have root there's no security problem, is there? (With the exception of me having root in the first place, that is).
This also explains why a certain worthless hostfile manager for Windows runs in ring zero. To defeat security. Can't conceive any other reason why, unless the programmer was just too stupid to properly design his work. Sort of explains why the code isn't somewhere reputable, like CNET, or SourceForge, or even (*shudder*) Tucows. It's the kind of mistake one would expect from a young, inexperienced programmer with delusions of adequacy.
Better not make phasers - we're having enough trouble dealing with the possibility of printed handguns.
You may make him commit suicide again. He's done it before, you know.
Take it easy on him. He was abused as a child.
Based on some of the medical devices I see being built for the iPhone and Android ecosystems, I have high hopes that I won't have to wait too much longer. Perhaps a decade or so.
Patents on rounded corners? Patents on interacting with a website by mouse-click? Patents on using a touchscreen as an I/O device? All these and more have been done, if not always successfully. Need I go on?
Our federal government was initially created with three distinct divisions - executive, legislative and judicial - all of which are (theoretically) charged with oversight of the other two. Individual states are not necessarily designed to be self-regulating in this way; to the best of my knowledge, municipal governments are not at all organized to provide self-regulation. LAPD is not the only example - look at the city of Seattle's PD (which only grudgingly gave in to popular pressure to get rid of the drones, and still refuses to comply with state and federal oversight into abuses by Seattle PD).
I definitely want the cops better trained and better armed than the robbers. I also want someone not part of the PD or local government looking over their shoulder, making sure they don't set themselves up a private kingdom.
A: I don't know. Why is starting a comment in the Subject: field incredibly irritating?
At what point did the LAPD cease to be a police organization and become a military one (owing allegiance to the Mayor and city of Los Angeles instead of the US federal government)? They use military hardware and tactics. In some instances, I can understand the need; now that criminals are using hardened installations, body armor, automatic/paramilitary weapons, there needs to be a capacity for law enforcement to respond in kind. What I find lacking is the oversight. As nearly as I can determine, the only thing reining in the private paramilitary organization created by (now retired) police chief Daryl Gates is often civilians with cell-phone cameras.
LAPD - "To Protect and Serve" has seemingly be replaced with "We'll treat you like a King".
I guess this is the same kind of problem which prevents the "WiFi umbrella" concept from taking hold. If not the same, similar.
(Incidentally - really great explanation. Again, thanks.)
How about we see if there's really a problem here before we fix it with a jackhammer?
That's a separate (if related) issue - but let's omit H-1B from the discussion for now.
I personally prefer printing the gun from a metallic substance instead of a plastic one. Increases the cost, but decreases the difficulty. You might want to mill the weapon's bore to ensure reliability, but that's trivial once you've cast the parts.
Also - what percentage of Google's workforce are of Indian descent? What percentage of applicants have been Indian? Here in the US, people of Indian descent would certainly be considered members of an ethnic minority, a large number them (even a disproportionate number, perhaps?) being professionals in the IT field. I suspect that Google's workforce is representative of the qualified candidate pool from which they can hire.
Hey, if this is really that fast - I wonder if it could make mesh networking a viable alternative to the current (centralized) form of internet access? After all, why should all of those OLPC recipients be the only beneficiaries of mesh network technology? It would be like TOR for internet access, making it a free, publicly available utility instead of a luxury (and for those who don't think internet access is a luxury, let's remember that there are a lot of us who lived and functioned quite well before the internet was invented).
Wardriving and free WiFi hotspots are only the first, feeble attempts to make the internet the free and open communications mechanism it needs to be, because despite my previous assertion that we did just fine before the internet it's nearly impossible to function nowadays without internet access. More and more entities require an email address, the way they used to require telephone or postal mail access.
Google isn't publishing criminal records, only showing users where those records are. What part of this is Google's fault?
This will probably result in a new industry - private, pay-for-play sites which provide the same information. It's not freely available, and one line in the TOS to the effect that the information gathered there is not to be published or disseminated should cover the pay site's interests nicely. The data will be available to paying customers only, making it much harder for an individual to find out exactly what is being said about him or take action on that information.
It will also cause people performing such individual searches to improve their Google-fu. As you've pointed out, the actual websites with the actual information will still be out there. It'll just take a little more effort to make Google return the desired information. Instead of searching on a proper name, people will learn how to directly search the resources for which Google is filtering the results.
Lastly, it could spur the creation of specialized search engines with web infrastructure hosted in, say, Nigeria. Not a bad idea actually - they could call it 419-411.com. No European legislation could touch them - after all, without Nigeria how would I ever have learned about an opportunity to make $4.9 million in return for helping to get the money out of the country?
The Europeans are playing 'cat and mouse' with a gorilla - a very smart gorilla, I might add. Regulating search engines is the most obvious way to attack this issue at a centralized point, but as you've pointed out the data will still be out there on one or many more other loci; only now it'll take more effort to identify all of the places where that data exists.
Now I'll just sit back and wait for my fanboi to post his response here. This is certainly a subject near and dear to his heart.
Second - if all you can do is argue incessantly, spamming the board with your wild invective it is more and more evidence of your mental instability. I'm sorry that my previous analysis was too accurate for your comfort; too correct for you to accept as anything but an attack.
Third - if I've committed libel (as you repeatedly say) you will need to seek redress in court. Your inability to do so against all that you have threatened (and there are several) would seem to confirm your inability to do so. I have even given you my contact information, yet no subpoena appears to be forthcoming.
You really need to seek out professional help. Even without a degree in psychology I can clearly see how you came to be so badly damaged. Get help soon, before something terrible happens young man. I am certainly your superior in both age and mental abilities. You're the one repeatedly advertising the state of your software. My opinion no longer matters, as you keep reposting it here in your own words.
Please call 800-543-3638.
Fizzer06 is absolutely correct. You are absolutely useless. I guess that explains why you posted as Anonymous Coward, eh? Please affix a red, flashing light to your head and stand on the side of a dark highway until the inevitable happens. Please?