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  1. Re:It's all about encryption on Microsoft Buying Skype for $8.5B · · Score: 1

    I think your right. This brings the historically not so easy to tap telco system http://arstechnica.com/software/news/2008/01/bavarian-government-caught-looking-for-skype-backdoor.ars
    back into the US crypto fold.
    The simultaneous online connections count "typically 20-30 million online at any one moment" will get the NSA ip/voice print mirror.
    http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2011/05/wsj-microsoft-to-buy-skype-for-7bn-rest-of-world-for-real.ars
    Whats in this for MS? Next gen lcd top HD sofa chat? Text/video to a cell? The codec? The huge user base? The brand? To stop cross platform/web 2.0 brand drift?
    For that price? MS has the hardware, software, a community (both social and corporate) using its products. A small effort to rebrand existing products as one would have done it.

  2. Re:What about Google? on New Chrome Exploit Bypasses Sandbox, ASLR and DEP · · Score: 1

    The NSA would like to see the world use more MS. If the world ever splits into local hardened operating systems with real on duty admins, field work gets more difficult.
    With MS in use/gifted at a state/federal level around the world, the US has their too kit in place. News like this shows what is been offered as finally 'safe' is really rather open.

  3. Re:Whack-a-mole on Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima · · Score: 1

    The "containment" chamber for the spent rods was the water in the pool. The concrete containment was below the pool.

  4. Re:Sensational! on Chain Reactions Reignited At Fukushima · · Score: 2

    http://fairewinds.com/updates ha
    Try the same news in video form from a US energy advisor with 39-years of nuclear power engineering (Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in nuclear engineering) experience.
    http://fairewinds.com/content/who-we-are

  5. Re:Intelligent agency is the central question? on Evolution Battle Brews In Texas · · Score: 1

    The interesting part is now they have opened the door to "some intelligent agency", a lot of people are going to want some time and school book sales for their "intelligent agency".
    Impressionable young people will face many charming people with persuasive ideas all under this new legal "intelligent agency" opening.
    One God, one good God, one evil God, many Gods, fallen God, trapped God, ancestors, critters, demigods .. teachings of a cult hero.. teachings in "accepted" books are all of value now :)

  6. Re:Pippen pad? on Gaming On the iPad 2 and What It Means For Apple · · Score: 1

    Got the usb port for the next gen AppleJack controller?

  7. Re:Call me Crazy... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 1

    hi AC, read the line "the current enemy superstate." If you enjoyed 1984 try Burmese Days. Down and Out in Paris and London might be helpful as some currencies fail.

  8. Pippen pad? on Gaming On the iPad 2 and What It Means For Apple · · Score: 2

    Back to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin
    But will do a basic 1080p unlike the like 640p is 720p HD efforts still on sale.
    Lets hope the SDK is easy to work with and cheap.

  9. Re:Ummmm, really? on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1

    Read up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones, the member list- recognise any names?
    Alumni organizations shape young minds for life. Connections are made, policy formed later in life?
    Groups on your average US college campus can be a lot more than 'clubs'.

  10. Re:Duh? on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1

    You have small political groups forming, with real pictures of people, their friends, friends of friends. Facial recognition, voice prints, ip's, email... all connected back to state, federal, private and international databases.
    Loaded in from a city, state, local level in near real time by state, federal and their 'helpers' nothing is really hard work anymore.
    Tracking 10 people at a peace group meeting in a small hall once a month was suffering. Adding your own agent into that group was suffering.
    Now its all done for them.

  11. Re:Call me Crazy... on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Re And I'm also quite mystified why so many people are celebrating this.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate

  12. Re:This is good to know on Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://stocksthatpay.com/?p=16697 with a pic "U.S. helicopter, which was destroyed to protect intelligence"

  13. Re:Misleading summary on NSA Advises Upgrade To Windows 7 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For the BSD users http://cryptome.org/0003/fbi-backdoors.htm
    The NSA would not really care what OS you use, its all networking in plain text and a known ip to them.
    64 bit Windows 7 just reduces the malware and provides a cleaner network.

  14. Re:Somebody is trying to break the Internet on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 1

    A click on the websites register "waiver" page would offer a long legal document to clear all that up. Then the site could offer big tent "permission"/'cover' for all its ads and 3rd party tracking.
    Only local low end sites without legal experts would have to use "permission to save a cookie" pop ups.

  15. Re:This is the second way America tries to invade on US Offered To Draft NZ 3-Strikes Law, Fund Copyright Initiative · · Score: 1

    But from the US end its win win win :)
    NZ is made safe as a consumer of US export quality media, the US gov can offer 'aid' to NZ. US security contractors know how to thank the US political system as NZ requests flow.
    Nothing really new in a classic US trade deal. Whats in it for NZ legislators :)

  16. Re:Somebody is trying to break the Internet on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 1

    Just the free ad supported version. The paywall and social networking sites will be fine.

  17. Re:A new soft drink on Sweden May Mandate Opt-in For Cookie Transfer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwedentrunk
    ~1630 wants it "Swedish Drink" back.

  18. Re:Open source names on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 1

    Yes something like avidemux2 sounds useful, it does something to an avi file.

  19. Re:M.I.T. already has an $8 billion endowment. on Amar Bose To Donate Company To M.I.T. · · Score: 1

    Schools that actually need the money dont produce the type of students the US actually needs.
    Scholarships and testing helps stream out the useful and gifted.

  20. Re:Why collect WiFi hotspot data? on Apple Updating iOS To Address Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002145.html has some insight into what Apple was after re WiFi hotspots. Skyhook and Goole had to seek them, Apple had iPhone owners.

  21. Re:Textbooks are too expensive on Amazon Automatic Pricing Lists Book At $23M · · Score: 1

    US$23M hmmm given an average US textbook price of say $100 now, how much hyper-inflation would result in this price in say 10 years?

  22. Re:Next worm: "Stripes" on Iran Says It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    Katz, Iraq was considered very very bad by Israel at the time. Iran was considered less very bad by Israel at the time. So Israel and Iran did get on at a weapons selling level at the time. wiki/Iran–Israel_relations#Khomeini_era. covers some of the details.

  23. Re:Poor Article on Iran Says It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    What are their options?
    Build their own OS? Expensive, needs time and no fun for the top developers.
    Import a one task "black box" OS from Europe/Asia for sub sets of the production line? Expose their funding/procurement networks as the expensive new OS is sold and then sabotaged again?
    Do the best with Windows but finally understand it should have never been trusted?

  24. Re:Next worm: "Stripes" on Iran Says It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack · · Score: 1

    They got on just fine after Revolution too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair

  25. Re:Whats the use? on Pirate Party of Canada Promises VPN For Freedom · · Score: 1

    Gives the end users a feeling of been safe, protected and encrypted. The question about who is paying and who gets to see the 'plain text' logs would be good.
    Recall TOR and the "The International Broadcasting Bureau" "InterNews Network" https://eta.securesslhost.net/~pgpboar/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=435&sid=a3285ad3d6319c80dfad3c29fe704fde
    Honey pot, color revolution?