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I dont get it - every one of those factors is present in India as well (with a few compromises on bandwidth I'll admit).

If the article makes a case that in Hong Kong people can take to the streets, it so happens that they did in Delhi [1]. Hell, India has a superior record of amnesty than most other countries [2].

Plus, the tech work scene is undoubtedly better in India as well as .... um... not being 100% undemocratic.

I personally am of the opinion that one of the big reasons could be that the pay is potentially better in Hong Kong - especially for someone from Booz Allen.

[1] http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0315/Reacti...
[2] http://www.unhcr.org/50001ec69.html
"We don't offer backdoor access for our hardware either."

whew... so glad to see that in there :)
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On this subject, sort of, if I want to dump the commercial routers and replace with eithe a Linux install on a commercial router or a x86 box that is not too chunky / loud
Where do I go for readme and instructions and community?

I can find some old Linux on linksys sites but not a lot recently
Does Sweden frequently issue international arrest warrants for rape suspects?
I started a thread about this exact topic on Quora, which has 26 answers now: http://qr.ae/pcIQa
The pay is awful for the average Hong Konger compared to cost of living. Minimum wage is $30/hr, which is ~$3.75 USD. That doesn't sound bad for China until you factor in rent; 800 sqft apartments cost upwards of HK$20,000 - HK$30,000/mo. Hardly affordable on HK$60k/yr, and many young professionals live with family.
And conversely I saw someone get stabbed in the stomach at Waterloo. I was the only person out of at least 200 witnesses who did a thing and to be honest I have no idea what to do so could only apply pressure and call paramedics.

Same with an old woman I saw faceplant on the pavement. I was on a bus that was moving. People just stepped over her.

The worst thing: a guy got pushed in front of a friend's tube train (he was a tube driver). Immediately after he got out of the cab, some platform peon started shouting at him saying "how fucking long is this going to take?". The guy was pretty much screaming his head off on the track under the train dying painfully and slowly.

Good for that heart attack guy, but he must have been lucky. It isn't the norm - and the police I've spoken to over the years confirmed it.
Yes. As the GP answered already, it's just another input device. I use it exclusively and turned the touchpad completely off on this T520.

The 'flavor of Linux' should be irrelevant.
It just seemed like a lazy attempt to somehow slur those kooky libertarians, god bless 'em!

Guilt by a vague association:

* Some libertarians live in the Bay Area

* Some people in the Bay Area worked on projects, companies and systems being exploited by the NSA

* Therefore ... wait, huh?
Okay, a few things I'm just plainly getting pissed off about every time I see these threads.

* Bitching about the words "direct access": Guess what, these are words, they have a meaning. They're saying that the government can't view the database directly, they can't determine what they get to see, and they don't get to pull it up whenever the fuck they feel like it. And guess what? That means something. I swear, everyone obsessing over the words "direct access" goes on record as one of the most idiotic things a lot of really smart people get obsessed about.

* Most of these companies are effectively saying they're agreeing to subpoenas, with the one difference being that NSA warrants can't be reported by the companies involved. This is still infinitely more tame than the previous claims that the Guardian has been walking back this last week(let alone the entirely ridiculous argument Snowden put out there saying they can 'watch your thoughts form as you type', which gets even more funny when you consider the only service listed that transmits your typed data is GMail).

* There is a lot to be concerned about here- no mistake about it. But right now, there's a lot more holes in Snowden & Co's story than the opposite. It's still troubling, the attitude taken by some of those at the highest echelons of government, on the whole subject- but the accusers have a lot of explaining to do, if you've been paying attention.
I have lots of experience with python (>5 years, and +5 years of web-dev before that) and I have no problem reading some of challenging source code out there of course. I'm rather referring to quality of code itself from the perspective of Robert Martin's "Clean Code". I can't remember concrete bits of course, but it sure happened in past.
I find it interesting that last year the US gov just blew whistles on Huawei and ZTE about 'security concerns'.
I've never had any luck with anything Samsung. Their stuff never seems entirely finished or entirely tested.
I wouldn't not hire him for it.
It's not the size, it's the footprint. And it very much matters on mobile.
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"Our balloons’ electronics are entirely solar powered." I wonder if that means there won't be batteries. But no batteries would mean no service at night. Also, no navigation at night.

Pulling them out of the deep ocean would likely be infeasible. They might be able to make them float, though, and get them when they wash up on a beach somewhere.

Edit: there are some answers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887330 They do have batteries.
Please, know what you're doing before "doing a startup"
Why is that so suspect? That's just TNO-style encryption- as in, you encrypt it going up, and download the encrypted chat history, before decrypting it using your login information.

Now, if they're sending it back to you as plaintext? Sure okay, that's reason to be concerned. But simply getting back your chat history isn't any reason to doubt the end-to-end encryption.
It's really not that simple. There's a lot of money to be made in the upper levels of a university and nationwide administration has been growing relentlessly. They may not officially pay dividends to "shareholders" but they are nevertheless very politicized institutions with the same grab for power and money, just on a scale smaller than Goldman Sachs, the US gov't, etc.

Edit: For example:
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/university-of-hawaii-procureme...
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/university-it-manag...

Isolated cases but as with all systems with twisted incentives, I'd bet there's a lot more subtle corruption going in universities than we think.
It should all be done via apt-get's after-install hooks of your software. More on that, you can do things like supporting any of mysql or postgresql if they're already installed.
I read that as. "The US government told us to say this (in order to reassure our customers...)"
I am rolling on the floor and laughing so hard !

In my past threads, I have been trying to say how atrocious root user
privileges are ! I was down-voted to oblivion.

Jesus Fucking Mary !

Downvote me you karma rich twats ! There click it, I can clearly see that you people deal in superlatives than obvious facts.

All I expected was some "Gee, I use Linux and I know how fucked up the super user is. He is a man of steel and piss ."
>why when I do an iCloud restore on a brand new device, all existing messages are recovered

Because they're stored locally on your phone, and then encrypted as a backup file. The statement is saying that the messages aren't sent in the open, so no one (including Apple) can eavesdrop. Of course you can get them from your backup, if you have access to a password, you can always access encrypted data with it.
Yes. The footprint matters. All that JS has to be parsed by the browser. The difference is not negligible.
This comparison is uncalled for and demeaning. Please refrain from posting sexist jokes which add nothing to the discussion.
No, you just install single software, and dependencies like mysql or postgresql are installed automatically as dependencies (just as other libraries).
Is there access to uninterrupted electricity?
The following support document states that you get 5GB of free iCloud storage of messages in the form of iMessages, SMS and MMS.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...

It doesn't state how the iCloud backup is stored however.
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1) go online for project management and responding to emails

check

2) call my clients using their preferred VoIP service

Skype, GoogleTalk maybe? Go2Meeting crashed like a bi-atch on OSX for me.

3) run text editors, IDEs, and various virtual machines, interpreters, compilers, and servers

complete nonsense if you're insinuating that OSX has better support for the above than Linux (you guys just got a non-archaic JDK for example, curious which compilers you're using, the Ruby "compiler" ;-))

4) hook into an iPhone or Android phone and load software onto it

Can certainly do that with Android; OSX VM for iPhone

5) quickly and painlessly install libraries, software, and developer tools

yum, apt, and so on

6) edit video and audio

Macs are great for artists and musicians; case in point, my dad's had a Mac since the early 90s, he does video editing and audio editing (producer and drummer)

7) if I had to learn a new skill or assumed a new responsibility, I'll spend most of my time learning rather than setting my system up.

I mentioned passive non-learning in regard to the OSX experience in another comment. I'd argue that, on the contrary, Linux users, having an understanding of their system beyond the GUI, are actually better suited toward learning new skills, assuming that skill is systems-based of course; if it involves click-click-clicking things, that's another "skill"
Ad. 1 I think you are missing the point - "not providing direct access" is a bit like Bill Clinton saying he did not have sex with Monica Levinsky, if some company sends some institution a complete database dump of all customer personal data it is not "direct access to the servers" but it is just as bad in terms of privacy implications, so the phrase means nothing in the end.
Of course, if you're concerned about privacy, it may be a good idea to abstain from iCloud backup/sync and not send all your notes, contacts, etc. to a remote server in the first place. iTunes backups may be relatively clumsy, but they still work.
Your making the assumption that a government could accurately predict what would happen within certain parameters and make good decisions based on that.

However, making long-term predictions on the evolution of an economic system is impossible, as the number of parameters you have to take into account is huge and the complexity growth is exponential for every new parameter you add to your equation and the variation is theoretically infinite. Mandelbrot's study of price changes in financial markets should shed some light there, if you're interested. Not only that, but those in power even with enough knowledge do not necessarily make the best decisions for their country if it goes against their own selfish objectives and that's just human nature.

This is one of those cases where (uninformed) theory is very different from practice. Yes, on paper communism was perfect and those that still defend it always come up with the excuse that "it wasn't properly implemented".

Also, China is special. China has always been a superpower. They invented paper. They invented gunpowder. They have probably beaten Columbus to discovering America. The area they occupy is bigger than Europe. They've got all the natural resources they need and plenty to spare for export. They have the world's biggest population. Why is it any wonder that China can still grow, in spite of their failures?

On the other hand, the biggest mistake one could make is to assume that what works for China can work for other countries.

If anything, to me it's a wonder how much smaller countries with no natural resources to speak of, like Japan, managed to stay ahead for so long, being a testament to how disastrous and inefficient the Chinese government has been over the course of hundreds of years.
>Like newly authorized devices being able to somehow retrieve the chat history.

That's like saying it's suspicious that I can make an encrypted backup of my laptop, and then "magically" get that data unencypted on my new laptop.

There's nothing weird about being to access your own data, even on a different device.
Given that you send your password in platin text to Apple whenever you login this does not seem like a particularly interception resistant protocol. Apple just need to wait until you login again and then send the encrypted data, and your password to the intelligence services?
It means Apple doesn't have access to the encryption keys, as it's done peer to peer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol
"You'll have to find it yourself or get a court order." :)
> "Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC"

> According to the directive, member states will have to store citizens' telecommunications data for six to 24 months stipulating a maximum time period. Under the directive the police and security agencies will be able to request access to details such as IP address and time of use of every email, phone call and text message sent or received. A permission to access the information will be granted only by a court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive
I think that chat history is actually only retrieved when you restore from an iCloud backup (which backs up everything on the phone, and can be disabled), not when a new device signs in.
> For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data.

I don't see how this can possibly be true.

I can sign into iMessage on my MacBook, and then into the same account on my iPhone and see the same messages. The only shared secret between the devices is my password, which means that the private keys must be derived directly from them. As Apple sees my password in plaintext fairly regularly, this is almost next to useless in situation where they are forced to reveal private messages by a government.

Given that the client still can't even keep messages in chronological order (even after the update), I severely doubt their encryption is implemented correctly either.
I guess my point is that there would be severe ramifications if the US deployed its military to retrieve Snowden within Chinese territory.

Whether they'd do it or not is not the issue - Snowden is a whistle blower who's had a peak inside the system, and is paranoid (perhaps justifiably given what he was leaking) about his safety. We're only trying to explain his choice, not whether it was a good one.

edit: also, the US has already killed its citizens without trial using drones in the war on terror. I think it's a pretty thin line between "enemy combatant" and "treasonous spy", slippery slope and all..
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To be clear, while I'm not disagreeing with you about the meaning of "direct access", in this case, the rest of the statement clearly states that Apple is not doing that:

"Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities."
Because they are minor targets.
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Openwrt https://openwrt.org/ is where most of the docs are, though there are other similar projects. The most supportive vendor is probablr Netgear now http://www.myopenrouter.com/
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There are a couple of things on that list I'd niggle with.

* Single vs multi-track. Personally I like both kind of events depending on the what and why. You get a lot of energy by everybody being in the same place. Equally sometimes there's a lot to be gained by splitting things up so people can explore different ideas then come back together again. You can use multiple tracks to get folk to think about different things - then come back together to cross pollinate ideas. It can be very energising if done right.

* 30m or less is just wrong as far as I'm concerned. You can certainly have an excellent event that just has 30m or less talks - but that's going to exclude some topics and some methods of presentation. So you need to be aware of that. Instead I'd phrase it as make sure to get the right length for the content. Push presenters hard on how they're going to use that time. Sometimes you'll find that 90m workshop is better as a 10m lightning talk. Sometimes you'll find that 30m talk is better as a 90m workshop.

Other random tips that I'd add in:

* Think about accessibility issues for those with wheelchairs, crutches, etc. and stick something in the publicity about it.

* Provide space for socialising during the event. Not everybody will have the energy or the interest to go to every session. Have somewhere for them to hang out and talk.

* For tech events especially - have caffeine available mid-morning, lunchtime, and mid-afternoon. People need their coffee/soda fix. If they can't find it onsite they'll wander off to get it. Keep people at the venue.

* Plan for smokers. Some people smoke. Make sure you know where they should go, and how to let them know when the next sessions are kicking off.

* Give some space for people to decompress, talk and socialise between sessions. Schedule in more than change-over time between sessions. Allow space for people to get up, stretch, and talk. They come back with more energy and enthusiasm.

* It's impossible to please everybody. Whatever you do some people will like some things and hate others about how you structure an event.

* Follow up with attendees after the event. Try and figure out what worked and what didn't for next time.
Apple's statement about iMessage security is inaccurate.

Apple signs your device's certificate used for secure iMessage communications. Apple can always generate a new certificate for you and provide access to its root keys to impersonate you and read subsequent messages.

While it has forward secrecy, iMessage, and indeed no PKI encryption system, is secure from a rogue root authority.
That sounds unlikely, the switching between integrated and discrete GPU -- which distro are you running?

Definitely not happening in a multi-monitor setup without Bumblebee or other workaround.
We have literally no reason to believe that they are doing a database dump. And I'll also refer you to point 3 again- if all they're getting is database dumps(even if daily), why are the claims so much more?

I also have a hard time believing they're getting DB dumps, even so- Facebook alone would be a DB dump at an insane scale. Unless they're only taking in textual data, which of course could be a lot more manageable.

I also have to wonder what one of the slides means(and maybe this is an opportunity for someone to enlighten me): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prism_slide_5.jpg

What is it referring to as the 'cost' being $20m a year? There's no way that could be the total program cost- that'd barely employ the engineers required to build out the system, let alone the data scientists, analysts, and more that would have to support the system. Nor could it count for hardware costs.

So then in that case, is it an advertising packet for other agencies to hop on? Only $20m to have access to their firehose? Genuinely curious here if anyone's figured this one out.
Someone went to an event and posted what he learned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887330

It's good to see the hard information, because this site is all marketing.
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> I assume that when you change your iCloud password, the old messages are not visible anymore.

I'm not sure why that would be true.

I posit that such a system could work like this:

* An asymmetric keypair (e.g. RSA or ECC) is generated and stored on Apple's servers. The private key is encrypted with the user's password, which is not retained by Apple except in a hashed form.

* When a device is added, the private key is decrypted using the password and sent to the device.

* When your password is changed, either A) the private key is decrypted with the original password, and re-encrypted with the new password, or B) the private key is decrypted, used to decrypt all data, thrown away, and a new keypair is generated, with which all data is then re-encrypted.

It is, of course, obvious that Apple could, in theory, capture your plaintext password somewhere in there and use it to decrypt messages.

There are ways around this, such as devices doing the key decryption locally and only ever sending a derived/hashed form of your password to the server, and using a different derived/hashed form for encryption.

However, since you can log in to iCloud and Apple's store with your Apple ID in a browser, there is still no effective defense against Apple capturing your plaintext password (unless you care to perform a detailed inspection of a bunch of JavaScript every single time you load any content from Apple's servers).
Are you bothering to read these things, or just searching for the term "direct access" and calling it a day?

From the statement:

"Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from time to time when we see inconsistencies or inaccuracies in a request, we will refuse to fulfill it."

From Google's:

"Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false. "

What about that is weasely or unclear to you? They categorically deny providing broad data to the government. Of course they can't say they don't provide any access, because they're obligated by law to comply with warrants. But the accusation was that they provide direct access (those words that you all are so obsessed with appear in the Guardian article), with the implication that the NSA can just go and take whatever data it wants with no oversight.

Unless you believe that Apple, Google, et al. are just plain lying, that is clearly not the case.
Same in Sweden, it's only really used for sending wedding greetings.

The reason is that telegrams are seen as the most formal mode of communication, because once upon a time it was faster delivered and more expensive than a hand-written letter. Although there now exists many modes of communications that are way, way, faster, it retains the traditional formality, and is therefore used in traditionally formal settings, such as weddings.