skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asked what about it by who? The question is too broad to admit of a proper answer. Realistically, this question would have come up during the discovery phase, at which point it would either be the subject of a motion to seal or withhold evidence (possibly without the knowledge of the counterparty, but between your attorney and the court). If it were asked out of the blue it would be objected to by your attorney, most likely; or you could plead the 5th, since answering questions about the NSL could indeed incriminate you. IANAL, mind.
I don't think we have enough information to come to that conclusion. Plain old FISA orders are lawful and constitutional. There's no good reason to disclose them, but there is a good reason to push for a limited term on their secrecy. As described, PRISM is far from a plain old FISA order. It sounds like they're collecting data broadly. If that's the case, that's worth leaking. Someone thought so.
Great tutorial, I finally understand how Angular fits together.

I've been meaning to look further into AngularJS, and it looks like this is the weekend to do it.
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Got sick of having to go through a ton of comments I've already read looking for new comments so I thought I might scratch this itch and learn some AngularJS.

Hope someone finds it useful. Suggestions/criticisms/everything else welcome :)
What more can you tell us?
Just a reminder: we are not all US citizens. There is no American court order or warrant that makes it legal for Google Ireland to hand over data about EU customers to the US government. They have admitted to doing this already[1] years ago. It's likely illegal under data protection laws for EU businesses to use Google services (or any other US based web service) to store customer data.

Google has sent us a statement that reads: "As a law abiding company, we comply with valid legal process, and that - as for any US based company - means the data stored outside of the U.S. may be subject to lawful access by the U.S. government."

[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Admits-Handing-over-Eu...
Hey, please shoot me an email at alex@soulmix.com.
If you had Google's certificate private key, you can pretend to be Google. It's undetectable from the user's perspective. I think we should trust Google to keep their private keys safe, although it would help a lot if the published in general terms how they accomplish this.
Which came first? The name or the product? Both are outstanding.
People are merging two different mechanisms here, and its important to distinguish between the two.

1) Access to users when provided with a "warrant" or someother legal instrument. This is where for example a divorce court orders the message history of a person from facebook to confirm/deny infidelity. This is your "Facebook secure room/portal" business. You don't want any tom dick and harry having access to this as its a massive security hole.
2) Snooping. This is where apparatus is placed between the public and a company which allows the interception of all data.

These are two very different mechanisms, 1) is a precision tool for getting information on a small amount of users. 2) is a blunt tool that allow people to stuff themselves full of information, it is also inherently very expensive(both in time, resources and analysis).

both method 1 & 2 have been going on for many years. Its also been fairly well known for many years (schneier and crytptome have been saying this for a very very long time)

So why did the NSA ask verizon (and most likley all the big players) for this list of who phoned whom, if they have all this information kicking around? two reasons: Its dirt cheap, and accurate.

Instead of having to infer who was on what IP at what time, you have the canonical proof.
Y already exists. It was written 10 years ago, but failed to gain traction and stalled.

http://developers.slashdot.org/story/04/02/19/1628204/y-wind...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Window_System
The secure "mailbox" from the NYT article isn't even news. I'm sure I read articles more than a year ago that described Google and others using exactly this type of set up as a way of streamlining subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders.

It is unsettling, but it isn't anything like what was detailed in the PRISM leak.
DES has been obsolete for a long time now already, AES is the new standard.
Looks cool! The UI could be a bit cleaner, but it definitely works! I starred the repository on Github. I'm interested to see if you take it any further.
Sorry to go OT but those lines are not Oppenheimer's originally. They are from the Bhagavad Gita.
"oh, you're drawing a window, lemme put a nice border on it for you!" -- That is tragically one of the worst, most useless, and rarely used examples you could come up with for something the X server is capable of doing for you (at the expense of a lot of complexity -- read the X SHAPES extension documentation about how it supports shaped window borders) ... as long as you like black-and-white tiled 1 bit deep pixmap borders.
If you were Japanese-American, wouldn't you agree that we need to roll back mistakes NOW and not wait?

I'm responding to the "Eventually" you wrote. When you're digging yourself a grave, the sooner you put down your shovel and get out of the hole, the better.
Various well informed parties (https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/66237140035579904) have been advocating DHE ciphersuites for some time... but they aren't widely used. (Though Google is— now— a major counterexample)
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Love it. This is a great app!
One thing I'm missing though - settings for colors. I have color vision deficiency and it's very hard for me to see which element is selected.
What will it cost?
Who Cares if NSA Snooping Is Legal? It's Still Disgusting.
It's getting to the point that there is no the business case for Google to stay in the US.
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There is no evidence of anyone taking longer term approaches. There is much evidence of Zuckenberg, Page and other just surrendering.

It works the other way around than you say. Surrendering is short term win at the price of long term loss. Taking short term win at price of dooming us all is not nice behavior, even if being a dick might be intelligent.
This is low-quality Ars Technica blogspam. Don't submit a link to an article briefly summarising another article. Submit the article in question itself.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targ...
Yeah, well, sometimes you have to bury the <sarcasm> tag a bit if you want to goad people into responding...
I'd love to see someone check the Takeout logs and look for anything which seems out of place. Requests for user data which aren't correlated with normal user activity would seem mighty suspicious to me.

Go on, someone, make it so. Then leak it. Let's do this thing.
> “X is Network Transparent.” Wrong. Its not. Core X and DRI-1 were network transparent. No one uses either one. Shared-Memory, DRI-2 and DRI-3000 are NOT network transparent, they do NOT work over the network.

This is not true. X11 is network transparent, poorly designed toolkits like GTK are not. So essentially they are writing a new graphics server for Gnome/KDE. But those have never been good X11 citizens anyway.
Yes, if Google don't stand up to the US government over this blanket gag order, it sort of invalidates their efforts over censorship with the Chinese government.
>>60 years is the blink of an eye in world historical terms.

In world historical terms, yes. But not in US historical terms, which is what matters here.
I pasted just the part about ICCCM, because it directly addressed the point I was trying to make, and it doesn't have link anchors. I didn't assume everyone would want to wade through the entire document to get to the part about ICCCM. If most people already read all of that Unix-Haters chapter which I wrote in 1993, then that's news to me. Obviously the guy who repeatedly parroted the 20-some-year-old discredited "Mechanism not Policy" line hadn't read my criticism.

But don't lose any sleep over it: computer networks and storage devices are fast and large enough these days that it's not going to cause any meltdowns, so it's more important to save people time, than to conserve the bandwidth and disk space consumed by a few lines of text. Sorry to have wasted YOUR time that it took you to post a complaint.
The way NSA and FBI have operated is that they do something illegal/unconstitutional, say like wiretapping phones from people without a warrant, for a few years, and then they lobby for it to become legal, so they can do it freely, and also be able to use it in Court. They succeed "because terrorists", and then they can say "everything we're doing is legal". That law may also be unconstitutional, but by the time it reaches the Supreme Court, it could be decades, and the damage will already be done.

So yes, it is disgusting. Some of these laws get passed with maybe 1% of the population being aware of them or what they really mean, because they obfuscate them so much in their public statements, and the media has been very complacent about it.

I don't think the media even reported the FISA renewal last year, or they didn't do it much at all, at least. As if it wasn't even a big deal. That's what makes it all so disgusting.

Then the administration has the nerve to say "there has been oversight", even though that oversight, besides being hidden from the public, is also very limited:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/07/o...
Interestingly the house where Turing lived and died is up for sale:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-383496...

(source: you can see the plaque in the first picture, I attended the unveiling at this house)
The timing of this is interesting because President Obama is going to be meeting with the President of China Xi Jinping this week. The US has been quite critical of China's cyber attacks in recent times.
Meanwhile you still pay your taxes and you vote for your sitting senator. Where's your responsibility here? Maybe you'll hate them so much over the years and as soon as a decent competitor is around, you'll vote for that guy?

These are big companies and putting pressure on them like this is both practical (just pick your data-hosting European country carefully, though) and could create economic leverage on Congress, but I think it's kind of bullshit when these transparency reports mention receiving between "0-999" National Security Letters, and Eric Schmidt is telling people about the PATRIOT Act requiring them to hand over information, and now you're saying "what?? they're handing over data because of an order that doesn't require probable cause established in front of a judge?"

I don't want to come off as too harsh here, but, yes, this is what we've been banging the drum on for years about. Jewel v NSA[1] is very nearly 5 years old now, and the executive branch is trying to drag it out even longer. Welcome to the fight; let's try to make our country livable instead of dreaming about jumping ship but doing nothing in the meantime.

[1] https://www.eff.org/cases/jewel
Bull*.

Here you can find links to sources of all those "top-secret" documents: http://blog.pawelk.pl/post/52419889998/anonymous-lie-and-try...

Almost all are publicly available on USA government sites.
Cyberbullying - it's not just for Facebook.
Then if they get hold of your number, they can ping your phone so that it comes up on the radar, and track you hourly for example.
The possibility of enforcement for the example of PGP encrypted email is pretty obviously real: just throw anyone who is found to use PGP in jail for 10 days.
> use GLX

Actually don't :). Eric Anholt of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center recommends stopping the use of GLX, use EGL instead. Source: http://gstconf.ubicast.tv/videos/opengl-and-mesa-development 18 minutes 50 seconds. Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lwZdprMC4o#t=18m50s
Obama prosecutes whistlelblowers at double the number of all previous presidents COMBINED (emphasis mine)

and this is after Obama promised he wouldn't in 2008.
Google Takeout means something else in light of PRISM
Just so you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
Is this mbed for Arduino?
Over 1 million people were killed in Iraq, with 1 in 4 dead, injured or a refugee.
My point exactly. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No,_you_can't_have_a_... and http://i-want-a-pony.com
> Why should Mark Zuckerberg, et al., know things about you that the government shouldn't?

1. Because the user decided to give their own info to FB, but not to the gov.

2. The gov has many more powers than FB. If FB knows something about you that "may be suspicious" they can't put you in jail for it, maybe even without a trial.

3. If some FB employee is able to steal data, it would have bad consecuences for the FB stock, so there is probably all kinds of barriers in place to stop employees to do just that. If some bureaucrat manages to sell off you data there is no consecuene for them.

etc.
If you hold the theory that the traffic is being intercepted and the parties have compromised the TLS keys: The test for complicity is obvious: failing to rotate out the TLS keys, failure to HSTS, and failure to switch to EDH ciphersuites everywhere.

These are all moderately 'cheap' steps if you believe you're being compromised in this manner.
Additionally you have the problem of cascading intervention. Every use of more government power both solves problems and creates them, and those new problems require more government power to solve, until you have so much invested effort the next step causes the whole thing to collapse ;-)
one thing crossed my mind : could the fact that this things blows up right when china's president is coming to the US to talk about cyber espionage and individual liberties be a coincidence ?
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"First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me."
there are other ways to handle a lone wolf, even if powerful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

The whole premise is that the NSA is protecting the USA of terrorism by spying and that the USA is in a war against terrorism. Then the one who go against NSA is a traitor in a war time. Stop any rational argument here. BTW, I think you look slightly traitor to me...

On a side note, I see the whole xenophobia that's implied by all this. The NSA exists only to strip foreigners of their privacy, without any due process or supervision, and the only accusation here is that they might have stripped some of the 5% of the global population of their privilege of due process and constitutional rights. And there is a lot of suspicion that the NSA was used for economic spying in the war between Boing and EADS, and probably other cases.
I promise you this is true. I can not confirm specifics.
how can you possibly think that a terrible techcrunch post poorly hashing together parts of this story is a good argument here? ugh.

If you're actually interested: the only source of facts on that whole page is the NYTimes piece they link to: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/08/technology/tech-companies-...
Coordinates in the X protocol are signed 16-bit so a screen can run from 0 to 32,767 along an edge. I agree though, the initial complaint is unclear and may be about something else.
The name prism is not a coincidence.
About whistleblowers, The Guardian[1] warned:

...the tactic of the US government has been to attack and demonize whistleblowers as a means of distracting attention from their own exposed wrongdoing and destroying the credibility of the messenger so that everyone tunes out the message.

According to the same article:

...Obama prosecutes whistlelblowers at double the number of all previous presidents COMBINED

The US government could easily and expertly discredit any whistleblower CEO with trumped-up tax evasion charges.

[1] http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/07/whistleblo...
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Dear colleagues,

Recently I found myself practicing handwriting skills in different fonts (helps bringing mind in order), and wondered how often do successful, high-qualified professionals write things by hand? Especially things for other people, where skill is important.

Could you please share your experiences?
If there are multiple highlighted elements on screen, Ctrl-Letter lets you select which element is highlighted green. The green element can then be activated/selected with Enter.

As others already suggested, the possibility of directly activating a specific element by shortcut would be great. Awesome app nonetheless!
But of course only the other countries are the evil ones.
This is a bit misleading because the RPi X drivers aren't very good and the performance is awful.

This is not to say that Wayland isn't an improvement, but with the RPi drivers it doesn't take much.
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Yeah, but you'd need a Dynamic Tasking Control Protocol. A big mirror makes a big beam.
Because CEOs need to act like adults not petulant little children.

You obey the law. Period. And if you don't agree with it you lobby directly or encourage your users to do so.
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"Or to put it another way, who the hell needs “direct access” or “back doors” when companies are building “secure portals” for them instead?"

The extent of his confusion is breathtaking. Apparently very few people get what this is all about. The real question is this:

Does the government (a) mine content and/or metadata in these service providers' databases for suspect activity, or (b) can it only access specific accounts after naming the account holder?

What happened at Verizon is (a). Page and Zuckerberg say it's not what happens at Google and Facebook.

What Page and Zuckerberg meant when they were talking about "scale" is that the government cannot mine their databases for suspects. Not directly, not indirectly, not through a secure portal or in any other way.

The government can and does make requests (lots of them) to have specific accounts opened, and what Google/Facebook apparently do is to make that process technically more efficient via a secure portal.
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How is this different from PRISM?

I remember reading about this in 2600 magazine a decade ago. Is anyone actually surprised or is it finally just going mainstream?

Also see:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70619
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only the slides? audio or maybe a video available?
from the description: http://vimeo.com/54990931
1. You also chooose your participation in government.
2. Right, so because Mr. Z. et al., don't have a 'license to kill', there is a difference. This is the only difference.
3. Which do you trust more, McDonalds or Congress?
I missed the article/story behind PRISM and who unveiled it. Too much noise right now to find it.

But what makes the person who unveiled the PRISM more credible than all of the Tech companies?

Also, I don't think they are playing with words or intending to do so. They are making it quite clear in my opinion.
"I think what you can do is specify identifiable populations which share some identifiable genetic markers (say, Chinese vs Mongolians, or Scandinavians vs Mediterraneans)."

Yes, and likewise you can further extend it - grouping Mongolians & Chinese into one group and various sub-Sararan tribes into another. And voilà - you've got yourself nice Asian and African races. Because they will still share these distinct identifiable genetic markers.

"This doesn't mean one cannot come up with a biological definition of race, but I don't think it will match our social definitions very closely."

Our social definitions are pretty spot on, if you don't try to come up with exceptions (ie Barack Obama et al). Jay Z is black and Seinfeld is white - how complicated is that?
You're a perfect example for his point.
If someone has your private cert and keys, that is irrelevant - they can fully MITM you. Forward secrecy only ensures that a compromised key doesn't compromise data collected in the past.
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> Do you have any idea how much data Google produces? How complicated their infrastructure is?

For a continuous activity stream, a single fiber would do. How many queries and mails do you think google processes per second?

I found somewhere that they have 4 billion queries per day. I put 100 bytes per query, that translates to a measly 5MB/s. For emails I estimated 10% of 300 billion (some figures I found somewhere), with 10KB/email that translates to 3GB/s.

A single fiber optic cable contains many fibers each carrying at least 1TB/s. It's easily doable in a stealth way. They don't need to use more than 1% of a single fibre.
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LocalBitcoins.com might come in handy here.
Anyone else thinking this could be a coordinated effort by Chinese intelligence to discredit the USA?

Not passing judgement, but as a outsider this looks like a full fledged cold war.
> Because the user decided to give their own info to FB, but not to the gov.

This is not quite true. Facebook can make profiles even on people that don't have facebook and that have never logged in to facebook.

The tracking works just fine on a per-browser level. The practical upshot of this is that there is a good chance that facebook has data on you from before you joined and is able to track you after you leave.
This is modern doublespeak in action, the actual inversion of meanings. Translation: "Government has all access to our servers."

The message is loud and clear from Google that we need to know doublespeak when we hear it. Class is in session!
That's a reply to who you should fight for things that don't effect you (or your group), not for when individuals don't want to join a greater fight for the sake of their dependants.
Not if the law is immoral, but run along little authoritarian.
I think the whole thing becomes even more of a farce when you read quotes like this on the BBC news

> Meanwhile, the BBC has learned that Twitter was invited to join the Prism programme last year but rejected the approach from US authorities.
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In all it was a slow day. It appears all IO domains went down for a few hours but other than that not much.
Any chance of this being made/ported for Windows platform?