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The moral 'value', which asserts 'obligations': "musts and must nots".

Notice that I have insisted on the balance (there may be times when you do not have to do something or simply you cannot do anything reasonable: f.ex. 'give all the money I earn to fight poverty' or 'give all my time to the needy', these may be or may not be done, it depends).

In the end, the people who make these kind of decisions are mostly called heroes.

I cannot explain it better: morality is all about this: what must/must not and what can/cannot be done. Otherwise, there is no 'morality', just 'feelings'.
That's no longer the case. Apple was interested in HTML5 when it was advantageous to do so.

Now, it's in their best interest to have developers build native apps in order to charge 30% of the money made from said apps.
Who's to say they can't be convinced to push a one-off update to your account/machine. Perhaps a transitory one, to help cover their tracks?

The underlying problem is that you're trusting closed client software from a third-party. Once that is running on your system, arguably it's game over as far as what Dropbox or its like can and can't do to you.

(If you trust them, ok. But when documents state that "they're next", many of us start to wonder. And again, this isn't just access to a server. Through their client software, this is access to your machine, that you've already granted.

Admittedly, I'm describing the typical Dropbox user scenario and not where the client is manually applying -- or not -- each update, and somehow supposedly gaining insight into the capabilities of each update/version before doing so. And I'm also ignoring various forms of restricting the access of the Dropbox client, although if they really want you, they and parties using them would have extensive resources to apply to breaking out of such constraints.)
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Anyone has more teaching resources like this?
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That's only if the traffic does not flow through the US which, given the way our current internet infrastructure is setup, is very possible
You can still help people if you ask whether you're going to or not. Presumably you wouldn't go around helping people commit/get/achieve evil things. It's just another selection criteria - what's your risk in all this?

Maybe that seems a self-centred way of thinking to you. Most people seem to want to believe that their actions are motivated by compassion. However, I don't think this is incompatible with a compassionate system of thought: if you're in a situation where people love you and vest their trust in you... where they invest in you in other words... do you really have the right to take a high risk on yourself?

Maybe you have children or a job or something - I don't know. It would seem kind of selfish to risk the welfare of your kids to help one person right in front of you. To risk, beyond just your kids, all the others who are networked with you and benefit from your presence for the welfare of one person.

You can stand to lose those relationships if people attack you socially, and those people can stand to lose you. The cost of helping the wrong person is potentially all, and to all, you love and/or invest in.

From a compassionate standpoint I'm not sure that's a trade-off that makes sense anymore than it would from a purely selfish standpoint.
Same here. Not only do such comments serve no useful purpose, but they are actually negatively impacting the "cause" to change things, because such comments are basically saying "relax people, this is old news...".

NO! Now is not the time to relax, and it really doesn't matter if it's 1 week old news or 10 year old news. If it's that old, it's much more important to finally have the debate about privacy, which Congress and the nation as a whole mostly skipped over it because of the fear or terrorists.

It's about time that discussion started again, to see if things like the Patriot Act and FISA are first of all, constitutional, and second of all, if all the privacy breaching is worth it to Americans, and only if there is real proof that it works not based on feeling and security theatre.
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Why is it sometimes asymmetrical vertically? Is it just a slight variation where the plate isn't perfectly square or the bolt not in the exact center?
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While being an interesting read, the "old world" scenario was kind confusing me every couple of lines. (Could be because I'm not a native speaker.)
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Wow, this is a sweeping generalization in all the possible senses of the meaning of the word sweeping.

Also it helps the dialogue because?
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That's been one of the best quotes I've heard throughout all of this...
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Can you cite a source for this information?
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> It's not a meme. It's fact.

Those are not mutually exclusive.
If the NSA is monitoring these channels already they probably have already dealt with a volume of traffic equal to what this individual proposes.
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Even a static site can be structured so that the .git directory is outside of the main public mount.

This gives you a natural place to store notes, documentation, and other non-public content.

It's not about screwing with the server config, it's so that it takes several stupid mistakes before your .git folder is flapping in the breeze, not just one. Being one configuration directive away from embarrassing failure is not a good idea.
Alan Kay has been calling for this for a long time now.
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The hash collision exploited by Flame was in MD5, not SHA1.
This is too much of blanket statement. As long as there's nothing secret in the repository, serving up .git is perfectly fine. Both http://codemirror.net and http://ternjs.net (projects by me) have websites that are simply checkouts of the projects' repositories. Which were already public.
That is a statement that can't even be backed up with anything but conjecture.

How would you even start measuring the cost/benefit ratio? What monetary value do you assign to things like privacy? How do you know where you're moving things to doesn't have a "better hidden" equivalent to what the US is doing? Do you even know if it would be worth moving things? What is the opportunity cost to moving? What is the cost if you're wrong?

As much as I'd love to agree with the pathos response to these things, its better to see and wait than to kneejerk react to things.
The richest country in the world, by far, and you think we lack the resources to give fair trials and humane prison conditions to the people we accuse of crimes? You do know that innocent people get arrested sometimes, right?

> As in all things in life there's a tradeoff between "justice" and "security"

Some amount of tradeoff between freedom and security, I will grant you. But I can't see how strong security precludes us from actually bothering to properly investigate, try, and incarcerate people. That's just laziness, if not pure malice.
The first rule of PRISM is you do not talk about PRISM
Yoda would be the ultimate on that list too, bro.
Or you could set the web root to be that directory.
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You should do what everyone else does and use GPG, on your actual computer, not some hinky web application someone built.
Then hollabackbytes, then yolobytes.
Because it takes developer time and other resources to develop tools for iOS development on other platforms. Apple hasn't done it (and they don't have any interest in doing so), they focus all their efforts on the tools within their own environment.

If not for other people's efforts with Mono and such [1], C# would be equally Windows/MSVC#-only.

[1] I'm not sure if this is completely accurate.
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I think you miss a big point by concluding that Costco is just looking for a way to save on MBA wages. I see the internal recruitment as a way of ensuring that management is comprised of individuals who deeply understand the mechanics of the company. Someone like that, who then goes on and learns a number analytic techniques/philosophies as an MBA is more likely to apply them with insight to where they break down vs reality.

Personally, I'd be terrified if a new engineering graduate who might have excelled on designing structures in a CAD program, went directly into leading a bridge building project. But, I think that's the track that some MBA's follow - especially from well regarded business schools.
No it's something that comparing, say, not having the right to vote (in South Africa) vs having Palestinian supreme court judges (Israel).

I'm guessing that during apartheid, South Africa didn't have black Supreme Courth judges.
China is also not afraid of the US. That does help a bit. If he was working for the PRC. His safest bet would be China.

Next would probably be the middle east or Korea.
If I have my datacenter in Iceland and you connect from France, I really doubt you'er going waste valuable transcontinental bandwidth with high latency and extra hops by routing through NYC first.
Ever been to Congo? Either one? It's fine. And this is coming from a white man who spent a week hitchhiking and walking around with zero security.

I get hassled a lot more by LE in the US on trips there than anywhere else. Hell, I made it across eurasia with a grand total of one brush with the law, which went away with a bribe.

I feel unsafe in the US. Not because of "the terrorists", but because of the jackbooted thugs that you call your government and her agencies.
Well, in Texas (and other states), there's Castle Doctrine, that would have allowed him the right to fire, wield and use his arms with lethal intent if in fact those FBI agents didn't have a warrant, which provides some protection that the agents would at least have to prove to a judge that there was reasonable cause to arrest him.

Of course, they likely would have had a warrant, and if not, might possibly have gotten one from the FISA court (I'm not sure on the process there) which pretty much always issues a warrant, so it still wouldn't have been great for him.
These are different kinds of statements that require different kinds of knowledge.

Israel clearly has two categories of citizens within its borders defined by tribal distinctions (race/religion). Whether this is formally 'apartheid' is an arguement worth having, since we can look at the UN definition and Israel's actions and have a meaningful discussion from an external perspective.

Comparing the subjectivities of the lives lived under the two regimes necessitates experiential knowledge that is most likely lacking in this audience. I don't find oppression olympics arguments to be fruitful. The moral calculus of today's actions does not depend on the price paid in South Africa, The Congo, The American South, or in Revolutionary China.
The US was already able to force the Swiss banking system open, so I don't see how this would protect anyone's data.
Maybe because he knows what the NSA capabilities are in Hong Kong?
This is pretty much a public secret, including the location (there aren't that many potential secure locations in NL).

I vaguely remember protesting against this back in the eighties.
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I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few days. It's been reasonably obvious that a lot of online behaviour has been tracked for some time (for example, Wired had a story about the Utah data center in March 2012[1]), but the sheer extent of the recent revelations makes one think.

I'm a non-US citizen so any modicum of protection Americans get doesn't apply to me. The NSA can data mine my activities all they like and share them who god knows who, and no-one is going to to defend my interests (I expect the EU to not put up much of a fight somehow).

Specific areas of concern:

- Google searches, taken out of context. Say for example you like the TV show Breaking Bad, and search for something with 'cooking meth' as a google search phrase. This could look really bad taken out of context. Maybe you lost your car keys, and search for 'break into car without breaking window'. I'm sure you can think of many more examples.

- Dropbox. I've got my CV (resume) in there for quite some time, work documents, code projects and so on. Nothing incriminating, but I'm really uncomfortable with the idea that someone could be looking over my shoulder at this stuff when I've done nothing wrong. I'm even thinking of using the likes of Owncloud (hosted locally on Raspberry Pi & a NAS box) and migrating completely off Dropbox.

- Bittorrent. If you were accused of a crime at some point, could past online downloading activity come back to haunt you, since so much activity is logged?

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

Will these revelations affect how you use different online services? Will being a US-based cloud service be seen as a black mark against your company?
Makes me think of the ramifications of false positives.
That's why you don't care about liver cancer when you use the cloud.
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I disagree. The world needs a 'data safe haven', and it is much better for everyone if that haven is a strong country like the US. Distributed/Piecemeal efforts to maintain data security will be easy to kill.
We can do one better. Why don't the site just run that through google translate and we just play it back. Yeah that sounds better. The pronunciation would work quite well for the speech recognizer.

So doing the basic math in my head, the chance that this will succeed is... trolltastic (means like 0, since even if it has a chance of succeeding, they could ignore all phone calls from that one hour, also if this is written well, and scalable they can just spin up more workers -- so unless you can get like 20 billion phone calls I doubt it'll be an issue)!

However let's let the fun begin!
EncFS + Dropbox

Although this won't help if you get a rootkit in an update, since the source is closed.
but if the links are <em>exactly</em> the same, shouldn't that still match it as a duplicate?
Same here.

Ill be looking to expedite my move off of gmail, yahoo, rackspace etc. It's a shame , but it has to be done.

I'm doing some active research into sending an effective letter my my MP as well as I would like to have it as much weight as possible.
he set the private=true meta tag on the site. YESH!
ECC is the emerging new standard for asymmetric crypto. It's misleading to say it's not widely used. It's not widely used in mainstream protocols, because those protocols were almost invariably designed in the 1990s. During the '90s, ECC was both patent-encumbered and a less conservative choice than RSA.

In 2013, the scales have tipped. RSA is now the less conservative choice. Classical number-theoretic asymmetric cryptography has been getting weaker and weaker with improvements both on factoring and the DLP. ECC has been deployed in more and more systems without patent debacles. Research has firmed up our confidence in ECC.

You should generally be distrustful of any new system that uses asymmetric crypto of any sort. Asymmetric crypto is very difficult to get right; it has more corner cases than AES/SHA constructions do. But you should be especially distrustful if you see a new system that uses RSA.
So, who out there in HN land has tried putting their PHP site on top of HHVM? Was it faster?
If the NSA required a copy of every bit flying around the Internet, wouldn’t the amount of traffic caused by Akamai remain the same, percentage wise?

(15 out of 100 is 15%. 30 out of 200 is also 15%.)
Writing web apps involves wrangling a lot of warty technologies. If you try to grapple with them all simultaneously, it's going to feel like a quagmire. You should try to limit the number of unknowns and leverage the thing you know, Python, in order to start getting some positive reinforcement from success as soon as possible. So do the Django tutorial: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

Then explore some commonly used Django apps (the Django term for reusable modules) at https://www.djangopackages.com and make something simple. Add easy user accounts with https://github.com/bread-and-pepper/django-userena or https://github.com/pinax/django-user-accounts.

Other people may point out that Django isn't the best framework, and they will be correct, but I don't think that matters right now as much as working in a language you already know. If you said you already knew Ruby, my answer would be different.
With Google behaving like a phantom lately it will be nice to use this tool to keep an eye on what they’re up to. Thanks!
Depends on the labor camp I guess. Gulags were meat grinders, especially during the war and famine years in Russia.
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looks intersting, how did you come up with this
In additional to the NFS algorithms, we also have the index calculus algorithms for DLP; see Joux this year.
Aaron Swartz decided it wasn't worth fighting the good fight. I hate to speak ill of the dead, but it was his decision to give up, not his defense team's. It is very difficult to call someone who commits suicide a Martyr. I'm sorry, but that is how it is.

No one knows how Aaron Swartz's case could have ended up. All we know is that he gave up... in the way that hurt his friends and family the most.

Prosecutors push for the maximum because we have an adversarial system in the USA. It is the prosecutor's job to push for the worst, and it is the Judge / Jury's job to decide when the prosecutor has gone too far. It is the defense team's job to argue against the prosecutor.

If you don't know what an "adversarial system" is, start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system

It is the Judge and jury's job to give the correct sentence, not the prosecutor's job.
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I'm always astounded at just how much effort Facebook puts into trying to keep PHP usable compared to switching to really almost anything else.
It is common for Administrations to make declarations implying something can be, could have, or should have, knowing full well it cannot, could not, or would not, ever been able to be done. They simply rely on the general ignorance of the public. The public is inclined to believe the simplest of explanations, they don't want to really know how the sausage is made.
Parent post was asking about static content, not dynamic. No code to keep secret.
I am more or less aware of these scenarios and they certainly raise some concerns about potential for abuse, but the problem is that the opposite scenario where federal agents or LEOs of any kind can not lie is not feasible.

I asked another commenter below for an example of someone being convicted of making false statements when they did not know they were speaking to a federal agent, I would like to see one as the lying in the example above was during a formal interview process.

I also find that a lot of these sorts of scenarios assume that the courts are incompetent, that the burden of proof does not still apply. The judiciary has a duty to apply the law in a reasonable way that complies with its intent - I doubt any judge would regard the intent of the false statements law to be to allow an FBI agent to tell someone to lie to them so they can then catch them lying and convict them. (This of course is why if you undermine the courts you undermine democracy.)
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They left out the word "jihad".
(1) Well, Chomsky is doing alright.. And I wouldn't say The Nation or the New Yorker have any qualms about criticizing Israel (and they shouldn't).

(2) I agree, the situation is represented in the US in very simplistic terms, by both sides.

(3) IMHO Israel, along with Pakistan and India, took the only respectable option by not signing that treaty. When my wife was doing her MA she'd often tell me how her professors mentioned various UN human rights treaties the US didn't sign and which many dictatorships did sign. It amazed me how her ivy league teachers didn't realize the signature of most nations is meaningless, as they have no intention of committing to it.
Just two serious reactions!? Come on people! We want to see a flame war apocalypse and we'll never get there at this rate! Surely there must be some deep seeded angst-ridden phrases you've been saving up for a rainy day! Now's the time to use them! :) I'm thinking of phrases like "the nerve!" and maybe "freedom isn't free. live free, die hard (TM)" and "this is no laughing matter", etc.

Also, NSA, if you're listening (and, let's face it, that's your thing) - I'm going to need a cell room with WiFi - is that ok?
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Just so that the [unbelievably naïve and insultant] other side is heard on HN.
You can always go back to school. But nothing beats real industry experience specially if you can work at one of the top tech. companies. So I would say go get a job, work for a year or 2 and then decide if you still want to go back to school to continue research etc. You will have a much better idea.

On the other hand, if you feel that your chances of getting into one of the top. tech companies is not that great right now but you can get into a top grad school program, then go for the grad school. You will connect with top companies there.
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I do believe there are sets of laws and circumstances which logically or even ethically permit it, but I think in the end The Man wins.

In this case, I suspect there are federal laws against shooting FBI agents, which would trump state law.

Even if there weren't, well, suspects aren't always taken alive to be vindicated in court.
So could we spoof bogus metadata to hide Paul Revere?

In other words, if a large enough number of people started start calling and texting random Verizon customers, tweeting with random people from the middle east, inviting random people with Muslim-sounding names to Google+ Hangouts, and commenting on every Facebook like with "This ____ is the bomb!"... could that tip the signal to noise ratio enough to defeat this type of analysis?
Just because it's printed on the internet doesn't make it true.
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Of course, on your second point. I think one way to peace would be for Israel to simply annex the occupied territories. It's preferable to the BS situation that exists now.

Both Israelis and Palestinians have a right to (literally) the same land. I would like to see Israel extend it's democracy and rights to the Palestinians instead of putting them in open air jail (the West Bank wall reminds me of Escape from New York).