FISA is way to entrenched to be simply eliminated after 35 years. Hell even when NSLs were initially created with the 1978 FISA act they were actually voluntary to respond to and there were no codified penalties for not complying. They were also extremely limited in scope for whom they could be used by and against. It wasn't until the 2001 FISA amendments as part of the Patriot Act that NSLs got especially heinous.
Just because no penalties are codified on the document it doesn't mean unwritten penalties don't exist. Any time you piss a bunch of powerful people off there is a penalty whether it is written into the law or not.
And whether the consequences are direct or indirect. Powerful people have a way of whacking you in ways you would never expect, or even see coming. Oh, that loan you wanted from Citibank.... Or, that prestigious college you wanted your son/daughter to get into... Yeah, like that. Pull a string here, or there and whammo, there goes your life down the drain.
You dismiss the article because of the source, yet offer no counter to their position or opinion.
Well, to be fair, you're offering very little in return as well. What is your answer to Schneier's, "I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight." Is that even possible? Secret orders received from secretive agencies backed up by secret courts; what's an executive able to do to fight this, other than close up shop or shift the op to another jurisdiction?
Well, it used to be called the press or The Fourth Estate, but journalism has gone the way of the Do-Do. The best way to end a secret program is to tell everyone what's going on! That's how you fight a secret.
No foreign or multinational will use US based servers and services from here on out, or very very few naive ones will. People in the US are looking to use non US servers. That alone is a telling statement.
I wonder how many of us have started to write or say or do something, then after a moment reflection, decided not to do so because.... well, you know.
Even a Wikipedia search might make you interesting.
A distinct chilling effect is occuring.
Baaa! I will not have my freedom of speech impinged! I do what I have always done and if the NSA wants to talk to me, fine, come get an earful!
Europe seems to take this stuff a lot more seriously.
But that's not really needed. What's needed here is to put pressure on the US government, and pulling business out of the US will do just that. Even if the net is still being spied on, enough harm to US corporations will get the lobbyists' attention.
What harm comes from a corporation moving its servers out of the U.S.? Other than making them bigger targets for the NSA that is supposed to be spying on everyone BUT the U.S.A.? Vote the fuckers out that approved this nonsense and reform the system back to what its mandate is/was supposed to be! Corporations are better staying inside the U.S. with technology infrastructure than outside. They know this, mostly because they have people that work for them that know how to read!
I am all for alternative fuels, but using a food source to ALSO be a fuel source is stooooooo-pid. Have you seen what happened to the price of corn since using it for ethanol took off? Great for Monsanto and ADM, but not for people that eat corn. Sugarcane is a horrible crop for the environment, let alone the impact using it for ethanol has on sugar prices for human consumption.
Fossil Fuels have some key advantages.
1. Portability. You can take it, put it in container and ship it anywhere, or store it when you need it.
2. High Energy. You can get a good bang for 1 kilo of Fuel. Vs. batteries, or other forms of portable energy
3. Low tech maintenance. Fixing a problem in a fossil fuel engine is much easier then fixing a power turbine or a solar sell, we can use alternate parts if needed to.
4. Out of Sight or of Mind. Large Windmills covering the landscape, acres of solar panels, large dams... A lot of big infrastructure projects
It isn't that we couldn't go, however you need to know the tradeoffs and find ways of dealing with them.
Just a wee rebuttal to your comments:
1. Since when are solar cells non-portable? Small wind turbines you would use for your individual home are not that non-portable either. You just need to take the tower down after removing the turbine and unhooking everything. Can be moved.
2. Energy density is higher in fossil fuels when compared to current alternative technology, yes, but if we don't research new ones we will never make that better.
4. Yeah and those oil wells, refineries and gas stations are sooooo attractive and environmentally friendly, puh-lease.
We know what the trade-offs are and they are no longer acceptable as the cost to continuous fossil fuel use may be the death of our biosphere at our own hands. That is unacceptable, even criminal.
I don't know if anyone else in the thread has pointed this out yet, but if you're worried about the NSA, going outside the U.S. is NOT the answer. Their mission (before the Patriot Act anyway) was to monitor ALL foreign communications, not domestic ones.
All these comments so far are missing the K.I.S.S. ( Keep It Simple, Stupid) option. There are physical ways to send electronic data, you can even encrypt it if you wish and send the key and instructions via email, but burn it to a disk or put it on a cheap, small USB key and mail it, duh! Problem solved. The data is still electronic and can be accessed from the media as easily as from an email attachment. What they do with it after that is still bound by the privacy regulations of your country and if you encrypted it to send to them you did your part to keep the data safe. He did say he trusted the recipient, but if they don't know how to use encryption that trust seems a bit misplaced if you ask me.
If you're going to do that then why not go to a children's burn hospital and start pulling fire alarms. Or start making bomb scares at amputee clinics. Please let's not dress up this professor's idea as "civil disobedience". Civil disobedience would be sit-ins at the NSA or CIA headquarters. What this professor is instead suggesting is a destructive act which could endanger peoples lives by sending out false alarms and distracting law enforcement.
Lmao..sit in at an intelligence gathering organization. You wouldn't be able to stand at the gate as a single individual and you would most likely be arrested (or even shot) if you tried to do it en masse. But, go ahead, have fun with that. Try a legislative office because they are the civilian authority these guys have to answer to and get funding from. Sit in at the CIA, that's comedy!
For those that don't care to take the links, the point is that the sum of fatalities of the 30 worst attacks (in the world), isn't as deadly as two months on the (american only) roadways.
True, but the average driver doesn't have the intent to kill or disrupt commerce or scare the ever living fudge out of people to make them turn their free country into a police state. Personally, I would have preferred a war on street gangs to the two wars we fought over the past decade. They have CERTAINLY killed more people than Muslim terrorists.
Except the system has nothing to do with protecting us from attacks, it's an offensive tool to take over foreign countries. What's called "terrorism" is just minor blowback from these campaigns, and is mostly shaped by the government to help continue it's operations. Bin Laden was a dedicated CIA field commander, but independents like Tsarnaev are usually also the CIA's patsies. Occasionally "the enemy" actually attacks, like the CIA operation center in Benghazi, but the propaganda response is almost comically muted because something real and unplanned by the Agency happened for once, hahaha!
What color is the sky on your planet, and does everyone there get to smoke the same drugs you're smoking that make you think that all governments don't spy on their neighbors clandestinely?
What's the difference between a broken snoop and one that's turned off? Put another way, 'OMG HAPPENED BECAUSE YOU MADE US TURN OFF PRISM & ETC!' is just as easy to fearmonger as crapfloods, isn't it?
What does 'hats on the ground' mean?
Guessing contextually... Can they be asshat hats on the ground? Cuz I might be in favor of that...
One, the problem is PRISM is being used to spy on Americans on American soil. That is a clear violation of the constitutional mandates that the intelligence community was founded upon. It violates the Fourth Amendment if nothing else. The point being fearmongering in any sense is irrational behavior and we certainly don't want our leaders acting irrationally now do we? Two, hats on the ground = dead bodies. Google is your friend. Three, yes, but getting killed in an act of terror is horrible for anyone regardless of their race, creed, sexual persuasion or political affiliation. Finally, grow up.
I am all about civil disobedience as a nonviolent means of protest, but flooding the systems that are being used to protect against legitimate terror attacks is a woefully bad idea. I think it's better to protest publicly about domestic spying and vote out the assholes that perpetuate a police state. True, we want the unconstitutional actions to stop, but we certainly don't want hats on the ground because we flooded the systems that could have prevented a tragedy. That would send us even deeper into the hole because the asshats would then have ammo to backup their position. Grinding the current system to a halt sounds like a good idea on paper but will only strengthen the resolve of those asshats to make a better, darker system.
I am gonna up the ante a little and say that a large number of "journalists" have trouble writing in their own language properly. Now, you want them to learn math when they can't even write a complete sentence? Hahahaha Oh, and then there's the "editors" who are supposed to check these things and correct the writers. Yeah, that doesn't happen with words and you want/need them to correct (possibly) complex math equations. Puh-lease.
The load was so large that Crowd Control Productions (CCP) slowed down the game time to 10% of normal to accommodate the massive amount of activity.
"Its the same boring shit about how eve's terrible servers can't handle all the buffered state updates and slows to a crawl"
Or to see the half-full glass, it's a story about how EVE is the only MMO game that really even attempts to let stuff happen on this kind of scale; it's the only major single-server MMO, i.e., the only one that doesn't just cheat by only having as many people on any given 'instance' of the game as their server code can handle.
So, the story is their code and single-server suck because they can't handle the load, right? If the game has to slow to 10% how does that prove anything good? I can run a simulation on my home computer and have it run at 10^-100 slower than it would run on the cluster at work. It will run, but be slow as glass flowing at room temperature. When they can do that at 100%, I will be impressed.
Only ones you purchase pre-recorded, not ones you write which have a lifetime of 2-5 years.
Well, not 007 Roger Moore, I have some very bad news for you. I have CDs that I wrote in 1998 (and as early as 1995 around that I can test) that I accessed not less than 48 hours ago. I have burned DVDs from 2001 that I also went through looking for the file I wanted that also read just fine. So much for that "2-5 years" theory. The number may be correct for discs accessed daily or not stored properly, but who would want to access a CD/DVD for data daily? I have in the past. It's not fun. If I had a way to carbon date my discs or something without destroying them I could prove it.
Just did the other day. I have several that are 10 yrs. old. They still read fine. I've got CDs even older that still read fine. I've rarely had one go bad. Maybe I just don't by cheap, crappy discs.
There is NO hard drive that will outlast a good optical disc. That's pure BS. I keep backups on sync'd hard drives, but those hard drives are also backed up on optical discs.
I have discs more than ten years old that I, no kidding, just accessed this weekend looking for an old file. Worked fine. People lose data on burned discs because they don't know how to treat and store them. The dye is photo sensitive, so leaving them out in the open (even under fluorescent light) will damage them. Any moderately deep scratch on the top surface will remove data. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Magnetic tape on the other hand decays over time just sitting on a shelf in a closet!
Of all the people with their hands out, making money from music, the performers and writers are the ones creating the content and getting the shaft when it comes to getting paid for their work.
Pandora and other streaming services are doing nothing except preserving this status quo.
What idiot would be against the writers and performers? We're not at all. ASCAP is NOT the writers and performers, they are greedy lawyers. The writers and performers can find other lawyers to protect their work. They don't need a cog in the RIAA engine to represent them. That also goes for Harry Fox and his cronies.
If you don't have a compensation model for artists outside of corporations then you aren't going to get good creative artists.
Thank the flying spaghetti monster that's wholly untrue, or we would have no artists at all. The problem is, where do you set the bar? Is art successful because it makes a lot of money, or because it's good art? Who decides? So far, the corporations that sponsor art seem to be the only ones getting a say because of the lobbying they do. Sure, there are artist guilds and such that do lobbying, but they don't bring much cash^H^H^H^H err, clout to the table. Good thing they keep making great art when they can, though. ASCAP can rot in the deepest reaches of whatever perdition they believe in along with all the other acronym-having organizations that exploit artists! [queue Charlton Heston's Planet of the Apes scene]
"Shenanigans" in college, if left unchecked, lead inevitably to outright election fraud. If you permit criminals to train their skills, operate unpunished, and indeed enjoy the rewards of their misdeeds, they are unlikely to change their ways in a hurry.
That's going on the window of my office! I work in a university.
The US income tax was a "temporary" measure. US copyrights are supposed to be "temporary".
In real life, the powers that be want the guy muzzled.
The lesson learned is to do one of three things if finding an exploit:
1: Release it far and wide anonymously. This puts people at risk, but when customers are being attacked, vendors will fix problems. However, this is a career killer, if one is found to do this, perhaps might run them afoul of the law in their area.
2: Release both a warning to the company anonymously, then release the exploit, both anonymously. Again, similar to #1, it can kill a career.
3: Have "escrow agents", and let the vendor know. If they attempt to shoo the problem under the rug, the "anonymous" posters from other countries will ensure it gets out even if the person who found the bug has disappeared.
You seem to use "anonymous" when referring to accessing the internet and publishing something damning as if it were the same magic spell that idiots use when invoking "encryption" with data protection. There are only a few sources that this info could come from (in most cases) to be seen as credible, and only a few places worthwhile to publish it and have effect. What makes you think the author would remain anonymous for very long? Certainly, not long enough for statues of limitation to run out on any legal offense made.
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FISA is way to entrenched to be simply eliminated after 35 years. Hell even when NSLs were initially created with the 1978 FISA act they were actually voluntary to respond to and there were no codified penalties for not complying. They were also extremely limited in scope for whom they could be used by and against. It wasn't until the 2001 FISA amendments as part of the Patriot Act that NSLs got especially heinous.
Just because no penalties are codified on the document it doesn't mean unwritten penalties don't exist. Any time you piss a bunch of powerful people off there is a penalty whether it is written into the law or not.
And whether the consequences are direct or indirect. Powerful people have a way of whacking you in ways you would never expect, or even see coming. Oh, that loan you wanted from Citibank.... Or, that prestigious college you wanted your son/daughter to get into... Yeah, like that. Pull a string here, or there and whammo, there goes your life down the drain.
You dismiss the article because of the source, yet offer no counter to their position or opinion.
Well, to be fair, you're offering very little in return as well. What is your answer to Schneier's, "I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight." Is that even possible? Secret orders received from secretive agencies backed up by secret courts; what's an executive able to do to fight this, other than close up shop or shift the op to another jurisdiction?
Well, it used to be called the press or The Fourth Estate, but journalism has gone the way of the Do-Do. The best way to end a secret program is to tell everyone what's going on! That's how you fight a secret.
No foreign or multinational will use US based servers and services from here on out, or very very few naive ones will. People in the US are looking to use non US servers. That alone is a telling statement.
I wonder how many of us have started to write or say or do something, then after a moment reflection, decided not to do so because.... well, you know.
Even a Wikipedia search might make you interesting.
A distinct chilling effect is occuring.
Baaa! I will not have my freedom of speech impinged! I do what I have always done and if the NSA wants to talk to me, fine, come get an earful!
Anywhere else, really.
Europe seems to take this stuff a lot more seriously.
But that's not really needed. What's needed here is to put pressure on the US government, and pulling business out of the US will do just that. Even if the net is still being spied on, enough harm to US corporations will get the lobbyists' attention.
What harm comes from a corporation moving its servers out of the U.S.? Other than making them bigger targets for the NSA that is supposed to be spying on everyone BUT the U.S.A.? Vote the fuckers out that approved this nonsense and reform the system back to what its mandate is/was supposed to be! Corporations are better staying inside the U.S. with technology infrastructure than outside. They know this, mostly because they have people that work for them that know how to read!
I am all for alternative fuels, but using a food source to ALSO be a fuel source is stooooooo-pid. Have you seen what happened to the price of corn since using it for ethanol took off? Great for Monsanto and ADM, but not for people that eat corn. Sugarcane is a horrible crop for the environment, let alone the impact using it for ethanol has on sugar prices for human consumption.
Fossil Fuels have some key advantages. 1. Portability. You can take it, put it in container and ship it anywhere, or store it when you need it. 2. High Energy. You can get a good bang for 1 kilo of Fuel. Vs. batteries, or other forms of portable energy 3. Low tech maintenance. Fixing a problem in a fossil fuel engine is much easier then fixing a power turbine or a solar sell, we can use alternate parts if needed to. 4. Out of Sight or of Mind. Large Windmills covering the landscape, acres of solar panels, large dams... A lot of big infrastructure projects
It isn't that we couldn't go, however you need to know the tradeoffs and find ways of dealing with them.
Just a wee rebuttal to your comments:
1. Since when are solar cells non-portable? Small wind turbines you would use for your individual home are not that non-portable either. You just need to take the tower down after removing the turbine and unhooking everything. Can be moved.
2. Energy density is higher in fossil fuels when compared to current alternative technology, yes, but if we don't research new ones we will never make that better.
3. Huh? If internal combustion engines are so easy to fix why do we need specialized mechanics? And power turbines aren't internal combustion engines, hmmm? And it's solar CELL, not "sell".
4. Yeah and those oil wells, refineries and gas stations are sooooo attractive and environmentally friendly, puh-lease.
We know what the trade-offs are and they are no longer acceptable as the cost to continuous fossil fuel use may be the death of our biosphere at our own hands. That is unacceptable, even criminal.
I don't know if anyone else in the thread has pointed this out yet, but if you're worried about the NSA, going outside the U.S. is NOT the answer. Their mission (before the Patriot Act anyway) was to monitor ALL foreign communications, not domestic ones.
[...] the device is was built on - the Asus Prime - continues to sell and make profits to this day with an Android OS.
Uhh, a quick Google search shoots that "sell and make profits" claim completely spurious.
Damn, I wish mod points went to 11! That's the best response to a subjective point of view I've ever seen.
All these comments so far are missing the K.I.S.S. ( Keep It Simple, Stupid) option. There are physical ways to send electronic data, you can even encrypt it if you wish and send the key and instructions via email, but burn it to a disk or put it on a cheap, small USB key and mail it, duh! Problem solved. The data is still electronic and can be accessed from the media as easily as from an email attachment. What they do with it after that is still bound by the privacy regulations of your country and if you encrypted it to send to them you did your part to keep the data safe. He did say he trusted the recipient, but if they don't know how to use encryption that trust seems a bit misplaced if you ask me.
If you're going to do that then why not go to a children's burn hospital and start pulling fire alarms. Or start making bomb scares at amputee clinics. Please let's not dress up this professor's idea as "civil disobedience". Civil disobedience would be sit-ins at the NSA or CIA headquarters. What this professor is instead suggesting is a destructive act which could endanger peoples lives by sending out false alarms and distracting law enforcement.
Lmao..sit in at an intelligence gathering organization. You wouldn't be able to stand at the gate as a single individual and you would most likely be arrested (or even shot) if you tried to do it en masse. But, go ahead, have fun with that. Try a legislative office because they are the civilian authority these guys have to answer to and get funding from. Sit in at the CIA, that's comedy!
What hats on the ground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_violent_events_by_death_toll#Terrorist_attacks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year#2010_Detailed_Statistics
For those that don't care to take the links, the point is that the sum of fatalities of the 30 worst attacks (in the world), isn't as deadly as two months on the (american only) roadways.
True, but the average driver doesn't have the intent to kill or disrupt commerce or scare the ever living fudge out of people to make them turn their free country into a police state. Personally, I would have preferred a war on street gangs to the two wars we fought over the past decade. They have CERTAINLY killed more people than Muslim terrorists.
Except the system has nothing to do with protecting us from attacks, it's an offensive tool to take over foreign countries. What's called "terrorism" is just minor blowback from these campaigns, and is mostly shaped by the government to help continue it's operations. Bin Laden was a dedicated CIA field commander, but independents like Tsarnaev are usually also the CIA's patsies. Occasionally "the enemy" actually attacks, like the CIA operation center in Benghazi, but the propaganda response is almost comically muted because something real and unplanned by the Agency happened for once, hahaha!
What color is the sky on your planet, and does everyone there get to smoke the same drugs you're smoking that make you think that all governments don't spy on their neighbors clandestinely?
Three questions:
What's the difference between a broken snoop and one that's turned off? Put another way, 'OMG HAPPENED BECAUSE YOU MADE US TURN OFF PRISM & ETC!' is just as easy to fearmonger as crapfloods, isn't it?
What does 'hats on the ground' mean?
Guessing contextually... Can they be asshat hats on the ground? Cuz I might be in favor of that...
One, the problem is PRISM is being used to spy on Americans on American soil. That is a clear violation of the constitutional mandates that the intelligence community was founded upon. It violates the Fourth Amendment if nothing else. The point being fearmongering in any sense is irrational behavior and we certainly don't want our leaders acting irrationally now do we? Two, hats on the ground = dead bodies. Google is your friend. Three, yes, but getting killed in an act of terror is horrible for anyone regardless of their race, creed, sexual persuasion or political affiliation. Finally, grow up.
I am all about civil disobedience as a nonviolent means of protest, but flooding the systems that are being used to protect against legitimate terror attacks is a woefully bad idea. I think it's better to protest publicly about domestic spying and vote out the assholes that perpetuate a police state. True, we want the unconstitutional actions to stop, but we certainly don't want hats on the ground because we flooded the systems that could have prevented a tragedy. That would send us even deeper into the hole because the asshats would then have ammo to backup their position. Grinding the current system to a halt sounds like a good idea on paper but will only strengthen the resolve of those asshats to make a better, darker system.
I started reading the title to this post and initially got helium-lanthanum cell line and thought it was a battery story until I got to genome.
I am gonna up the ante a little and say that a large number of "journalists" have trouble writing in their own language properly. Now, you want them to learn math when they can't even write a complete sentence? Hahahaha Oh, and then there's the "editors" who are supposed to check these things and correct the writers. Yeah, that doesn't happen with words and you want/need them to correct (possibly) complex math equations. Puh-lease.
Enders Game : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/ Well, soon to be art, anyway...
Are you saying the book wasn't art? WTF? The movie is most likely going to be poop compared to the book.
The load was so large that Crowd Control Productions (CCP) slowed down the game time to 10% of normal to accommodate the massive amount of activity.
"Its the same boring shit about how eve's terrible servers can't handle all the buffered state updates and slows to a crawl"
Or to see the half-full glass, it's a story about how EVE is the only MMO game that really even attempts to let stuff happen on this kind of scale; it's the only major single-server MMO, i.e., the only one that doesn't just cheat by only having as many people on any given 'instance' of the game as their server code can handle.
So, the story is their code and single-server suck because they can't handle the load, right? If the game has to slow to 10% how does that prove anything good? I can run a simulation on my home computer and have it run at 10^-100 slower than it would run on the cluster at work. It will run, but be slow as glass flowing at room temperature. When they can do that at 100%, I will be impressed.
Only ones you purchase pre-recorded, not ones you write which have a lifetime of 2-5 years.
Well, not 007 Roger Moore, I have some very bad news for you. I have CDs that I wrote in 1998 (and as early as 1995 around that I can test) that I accessed not less than 48 hours ago. I have burned DVDs from 2001 that I also went through looking for the file I wanted that also read just fine. So much for that "2-5 years" theory. The number may be correct for discs accessed daily or not stored properly, but who would want to access a CD/DVD for data daily? I have in the past. It's not fun. If I had a way to carbon date my discs or something without destroying them I could prove it.
Just did the other day. I have several that are 10 yrs. old. They still read fine. I've got CDs even older that still read fine. I've rarely had one go bad. Maybe I just don't by cheap, crappy discs. There is NO hard drive that will outlast a good optical disc. That's pure BS. I keep backups on sync'd hard drives, but those hard drives are also backed up on optical discs.
I have discs more than ten years old that I, no kidding, just accessed this weekend looking for an old file. Worked fine. People lose data on burned discs because they don't know how to treat and store them. The dye is photo sensitive, so leaving them out in the open (even under fluorescent light) will damage them. Any moderately deep scratch on the top surface will remove data. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Magnetic tape on the other hand decays over time just sitting on a shelf in a closet!
Of all the people with their hands out, making money from music, the performers and writers are the ones creating the content and getting the shaft when it comes to getting paid for their work. Pandora and other streaming services are doing nothing except preserving this status quo.
What idiot would be against the writers and performers? We're not at all. ASCAP is NOT the writers and performers, they are greedy lawyers. The writers and performers can find other lawyers to protect their work. They don't need a cog in the RIAA engine to represent them. That also goes for Harry Fox and his cronies.
If you don't have a compensation model for artists outside of corporations then you aren't going to get good creative artists.
Thank the flying spaghetti monster that's wholly untrue, or we would have no artists at all. The problem is, where do you set the bar? Is art successful because it makes a lot of money, or because it's good art? Who decides? So far, the corporations that sponsor art seem to be the only ones getting a say because of the lobbying they do. Sure, there are artist guilds and such that do lobbying, but they don't bring much cash^H^H^H^H err, clout to the table. Good thing they keep making great art when they can, though. ASCAP can rot in the deepest reaches of whatever perdition they believe in along with all the other acronym-having organizations that exploit artists! [queue Charlton Heston's Planet of the Apes scene]
"Shenanigans" in college, if left unchecked, lead inevitably to outright election fraud. If you permit criminals to train their skills, operate unpunished, and indeed enjoy the rewards of their misdeeds, they are unlikely to change their ways in a hurry.
That's going on the window of my office! I work in a university.
The US income tax was a "temporary" measure. US copyrights are supposed to be "temporary".
In real life, the powers that be want the guy muzzled.
The lesson learned is to do one of three things if finding an exploit:
1: Release it far and wide anonymously. This puts people at risk, but when customers are being attacked, vendors will fix problems. However, this is a career killer, if one is found to do this, perhaps might run them afoul of the law in their area.
2: Release both a warning to the company anonymously, then release the exploit, both anonymously. Again, similar to #1, it can kill a career.
3: Have "escrow agents", and let the vendor know. If they attempt to shoo the problem under the rug, the "anonymous" posters from other countries will ensure it gets out even if the person who found the bug has disappeared.
You seem to use "anonymous" when referring to accessing the internet and publishing something damning as if it were the same magic spell that idiots use when invoking "encryption" with data protection. There are only a few sources that this info could come from (in most cases) to be seen as credible, and only a few places worthwhile to publish it and have effect. What makes you think the author would remain anonymous for very long? Certainly, not long enough for statues of limitation to run out on any legal offense made.