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There is this obscure document known as the us constitution that defines treason as

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

He is definitely not waging war on the US and is not adhering to any enemy, nor giving them aid and comfort.

Or he is aiding enemy so secret that the government even cannot tell you who it is.
Are you planning on allowing camera upload? I can't get people using your product without it...
Governments have to be kept in check. They're granted great power and people who have power tend to abuse it. My understanding is that the founding fathers were realists and recognised this very early on.
Some older version supports that.
Maybe they changed their license model, but it definitely had support for that in the past.
AeroFS only stores data on clients (unless you run your own team server) and I think it has the option to store it encrypted there but could be wrong.
Yeah, unfortunately. I think the PP proved that there is potential and support for real change; I think they basically got elected on the platform of not being like all those other suits, and I enjoy(ed) that. But of course, that alone is not enough.
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This didn't help with the phone logging system.
To be fair, nobody thinks the U.S. has reached the same level in practice against U.S. citizens than Beijing against chinese citizens or Moscow against russian reporters. U.S. citizens are still somewhat protected by the Bill of Rights (well, other than the 4th and soon the 5th).

Now when it comes to foreigners there's not much that can be said for the U.S - although the border can be somewhat thin with extraordinary renditions and withdrawal of nationality to allow for arbitrary executions.
Also, it seems that the will to deconstruct civil liberties is nowhere as strong as it is in Washington DC (except in Pyongyang), so that doesn't help. And the american people do not seem to care at all (but then again, the same is happening in Europe to a smaller extent, and the people don't care either)

So I'd say this perception is more linked to the direction you're headed to than to the place where you are right now (although that is scary in its own right too)

Some days I just think I should move to Iceland
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Actually, I think it's more a joke about knowing HTML...
> The Guy Fawkes mask that anonymous uses illustrates what? - treason (hope that's not too cryptic)

First 100% agreed with your points.

As a tangent.

BTW, if I ever start a hacktivist group I will use a medieval split tally stick for a logo.

Why?

In 1834, the humble tally stick accomplished what Guy Fawkes was unable to. Look up "1834 parliament tally stick" to see what I mean.
Pretty much every place that ever one it's independence did so through violence or the threat of violence (yes, India very much included).
it's more about the perception than actual levels of freedom,
the US is a country that tortures, detains people from all over the world indefinitely without trial in an offshore location, bails out bankers while promoting austerity for everyone else, spies on people worldwide, starts wars all over the world, uses remotely controlled killing machines

and most of that isn't even new, the veil of the american dream has been ripped apart.

what is most depressing is that in the next election cycle, the american people will just run back to the republicans instead of finally giving up on the charade that are political parties
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I doubt there is a country on this planet the US government can't strike a deal with to get his ass back and into prison.

However we all have to be grateful for what he did regardless I sure it wasn't an easy decision to make.

Good luck Edward and don't make any mistakes.
Yes, but in the US saying anything that would even remotely criticize Israel is an automatic anti-semitism case. So, don't expect too many comments.

Ah, Land of the Free!
IMO, its the best thing to have happened to PHP in the last few years. It certainly makes me want to code in PHP again.
because they are uninformed
Then again, if Snowden were hypothetically spying for the PRC, Hong Kong would be the most logical place to seek protection. In this scenario the PRC would credibly protect him from the US, and European liberal democracies would not.
Because the things you mention are both legal and lawful. Bearing false witness (lying) is unlawful [and therefore can not be legitimately legal, although people will claim that it is].
How was it possible to post the exact same link multiple times?
I can very much relate to this text as I also studied CS as a save choice and rebooted my creativity after the time-consuming beginnings, which is quite hard, because I noticed in the SAP sector creativity is rare.

But I'd like to add something to the mantra: Creativity should be not measured by pure outcome. One should be more observant of one's own ability of interaction and choice. When I try to simply produce something everyday, I see myself restricted to the easy, the obvious choice, and I am oh so curious in pushing something to the net, and be happy. But if I take care to paint, maybe not everyday, maybe sometimes the whole day, the outcome has much more to say than just an objectified output of a basic human condition, namely to create art.
Even if we are hyping or sensationalizing this topic, current behavior is a very good indicator for future behavior.
Exactly, running your own team server and backing up your own data. I'll have to contact them regarding the encryption options: if the team server can have the data encrypted it would be a winner for us.
Nukes are political/psychological tools. You'd rather be the guy with nukes, then without in my opinion. I'm sure you'd love every country simply not having any nukes, but I'm afraid this situation is impossible.
If he was spying, then why Hong Kong, and why not Beijing directly?
One must always have at least two copies of any data one cares about and at least one off-site copy.
Having guns does little to hold government in chech. A well educated, well informed, and politically active populace on the other hand is a strait jacket. Which is why free assembly and free speech are so important.
It's one based on examining the history of governments.
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No, it really isn't. If you are using Facebook or Twitter with anything other than an expectation that the information is public (in the sense that US law enforcement can look in), then frankly you deserve everything you get. These are networks that exist for the sole purpose of sharing data. They are optimised for sharing, not for privacy, and this is how it should be. If you don't like it, don't put sensitive information on social networks.

The really concerning news out of all of this is that services like Gmail, Google Docs, Dropbox and other services that are more aimed at synchronising data than with sharing it are being targeted by law enforcement. In these cases we have a much more reasonable expectation of a certain level of freedom from governmental scrutiny.

Even more concerning is the invasion into the privacy of point-to-point communications, Skype, various chat programs etc. Obviously there are some grey areas in this distinction - where does Facebook chat fall for example. My personal feeling is to go back and look at the main purpose of the site in question - when I am on Facebook I feel like things are public. When I'm exchanging emails with a friend, it feels much more private. An email to a group of friends on the other hand does not feel anywhere near as private as a one on one exchange. Meh - these kinds of distinctions are precisely why we have human beings known as "judges" in the legal system.

At any rate I for one would not feel any more secure and private when using a Diaspora-style architecture than when I'm using Facebook. Why? because the whole point of social networks is to share, not to hide. If you really want to hide stuff, use encrypted point to point communications methods, preferably buried in a near-constant traffic stream that ideally bounces off servers in several different countries. You'll note that this level of security is many many orders of magnitude more difficult, but that's normal - sharing and security are diametrically opposed.
You can regard the publishing of the Pentagon Papers as treason as well. Maybe this is why Nixon was so furious about it.
Due to the manner in which data is client-side encrypted (password-based keys, password not stored on their servers), they can hand your (encrypted) data to any government with no ability to decrypt it. Now, depending on the outcome of some cases before US Courts right now, you might be compelled to provide the password to unencrypt the data. It's also worth noting that the password-based asymmetric encryption schemes are less secure than the arbitrary key based ones, but still it's better than nothing. In my case, I'm sold by the fact that they provide more free storage than Dropbox and have a much better Linux client (based on a FUSE plugin, a much nicer architecture in general).
Seriously HN, this is the top comment? Using a political controversy as an opportunity to dismiss some unrelated political topic is about as low brow as you can get and contributes nothing to mature discussion.
Seriously? Wuala is a service run by LaCie. LaCie is owned by Seagate, an American corporation. It doesn't matter where the servers are, because all the important decisions will be made in Cupertino, California.

http://www.lacie.com/us/company/news/news.htm?id=10722

Now, client-side encryption is a much more interesting aspect of their service, but is it worth the trouble if Wuala's clunky client takes 100 times longer than Dropbox to sync a file between two devices? Ditto for SpiderOak, JungleDisk, and every other backup/sync solution that I've used so far that boasts client-side encryption. And it wasn't due to Dropbox's deduplication, either. Some of them just talked lazily with the server for several minutes before they even started to upload/download any files.
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>> don't even pretend that they encrypt your data.

would it make you happier if they kept their services the same, but just pretended to introduce encryption? ;-)
Beijing woud look incredibly suspicious wouldn't it? It would be hard to buy the "strong freedom of speech tradition" story.
So is the 4th amendment, and look how much that one is abused. In the end the Constitution really is "just a piece of paper", if not the government, not the judges, not the media, and ultimately not even the people respect it, live by it, and try to protect it as soon as it's endangered by people trying to accumulate too much power. Where are all the street protests?!

I also fail to understand people who so viciously defend the 2nd amendment "because of potential tyranny", but don't try to defend the 1st and 4th amendments with the same aggressiveness, when in fact those amendments are the first line of defense against that encroaching tyranny, and if they fail, it's the first clue the country is slipping into tyranny. Would you rather wait until the very last moment, until people can't take it anymore but to rise up against the government with violence and starting a massacre, all just to remove the government? Or would you try to fix things while you still can do it peacefully, by protecting the 1st and 4th amendments, so it doesn't have to come to "using the 2nd amendment right to defend against the government with guns"?

Or maybe it all comes down to who has more money to raise the awareness about it. NRA is a powerful lobby. ACLU and EFF less so.
* The security clearance process basically looks for reasonable, honest Americans free of foreign influence.*

That might be enough for domestic intelligence, but it's really shooting yourself in the foot if you apply "free of foreign influence" to overseas intelligence operatives. (Because you'll never be able to recruit anyone whose exposure to the target culture is significantly deeper than a semester attending a foreign university ...)
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The big thing about Israel is that they allow for administrative detention without trial. It's really hard to get worked up about surveillance when they don't even have to file charges to keep you in jail.
short answer: YES
Well isnt USA the "beacon of democracy on earth"? so let's make sure every nation takes exemple on USA,in every way.
When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.

It's pretty clear from the last couple of days that the balance in the US is pretty firmly tipped towards tyranny by that definition. Certainly I doubt anyone in the government is at all worried about the people being able to do anything about this scandal. There have been several comments on here and elsewhere from people who are thinking twice about publicly supporting Snowden, or are at least aware that that support is probably logged somewhere and might have repercussions in the future. This would have been ridiculous paranoia not that long ago.
And apparently in Edward Snowden's as well as that.
I would guess that he's not even in Hong Kong anymore, nor at the time of his interview.
Yeah. I always wondered if they had actually tried using it.
some time ago I used Gnucash, it's simple and effective tool but it's has not ideal UX
This is not true. Even US citizens capptured in Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban were transferred out of gitmo.
"Aid" as in intelligence. Any piece of it you give to them can be considered treason. To make public is to yield to the enemy...
IPassword's 128bit AES. "Safe" against the NSA?
So Agilebits say this about the security of 1Password:

"The slightly longer answer is that your data is encrypted using AES, the same state-of-the-art encryption algorithm used as the national standard in the United States. 1Password uses 128-bit keys for encryption, which means that it would take millions of years for a criminal to decrypt your data using a brute force attack." (here: http://help.agilebits.com/1Password3/security.html)

Given the current discussion about the weaselly-ness of Google & Facebook's possibly scripted denials - I can't help but read that and see some obvious mis-direction. It's a "US national standard" that would take "millions of years for a criminal to decrypt".

So - if I were paranoid about the NSA - how worried should I be about my 1Password encrypted password file? How worried should I be in the future if, for example, I'd stored my encfs keys in 1Password, then stored both an encfs partition and my 1Password file on Dropbox, should I assume the NSA are reading my encrypted files now, or that they'll be able to read them in 5 or 10 years, or should I feel secure that Agilebits "millions of years" is still within 3 or 4 orders of magnitude of what even the NSA is capable of? (which'd give me well-past-my-lifetime expectations of privacy)
Dell and Amazon leveraged chef to help build Crowbar and Opsworks respectively. Crowbar ... leveraging ... get it?

In any case, noting Opsworks is based on Chef is not an "appeal to authority".[1] That knowing Chef means you have a head start on AWS's official devops tooling, seems a relevant data point for a comparison. (The officially supported devops tooling leveraging a particular CM system is different from simply being able to be managed by a CM system.)

As for Rackspace, here's the CM category of their dev blog:

http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/categories/configuration-management/

And here's "How Rackspace Uses Chef to Deploy OpenStack in the Private Cloud":

http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/cooking-with-chef4.html

Quoting a different Rackspace article from Feb 2013:

The Rackspace Private Cloud Certification team sought out and tested a number of bare metal provisioning tools. While there are a number of excellent tools on the market, none seemed to fit quite well. On one hand, some tools were all-encompassing in scope and would try to provide an end-to-end solution. On the other hand, tools were too narrow in scope and provided a solution for a specific operating system or did not provide an appropriate amount of flexibility.

Eventually, we picked a deployment model consisting of a combination of tools that would provide the right balance of features and flexibility. We chose the Razor provisioning engine, combined with the OpsCode Chef configuration management tool.

1. http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html
That was an interesting article, thank you.

Its a fact packed article and I assume the facts listed are true, although given later comments I do wonder.

However her opinion "But Walmart is not just a poor man's Costco." strikes me as being exactly opposite both in examination and analysis of the facts she provides and personal experience. She then spent most of the rest of the article explaining how reality is the exact opposite. Maybe this is a legendary epic editing mistake and she meant to write "Walmart is just a poor man's Costco." but the editing and/or ad sales team made her change it or perhaps just an honest mistake.

As a market positioning technique all you need do is find the bottom of the barrel, like Walmart, and position yourself as 10% better. Ta Da instant free positive press. You can make a 5000 word article about it, but this TLDR summary is just as good.

I also thought the juxtaposition of the article vs the delivery mechanism was weird. This is a website full of chewing gum for the mind. Linkbait. "Your Tango Finding Nemo: The 10 Most Ridiculous Nicknames For Self-Love". So they're intentionally aiming for the shallow end of the socio-economic pool. And thats perfectly OK. Weekly World News readers and high school dropouts need websites too, the world is big enough that everyone doesn't have to visit HN. However the article author is incredibly condescending to the website's audience and spends a lot of time making fun of their concerns and distancing herself and her twitter feed from what she apparently views as lower class scum, which probably would sound about right in an Economist article (LOL I looked and she does in fact write for the Economist LOL) but why you'd put someone like that on the Daily Beast, which kinda puts the lower in "lower class", mystifies me.
I believe it's out of reach from the NSA letters. If it's encrypted and they don't have the keys it doesn't really matter, but I guess it looks good on a feature matrix.
>Makes me think if the US project to place a rocket-shield in Central Europe has anything to do with Russia re-activating it's cold war methods.

Yes, in the same way the US invaded Iraq due to weapons of mass destruction :)
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How is that different from the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp#H...
Why not? They're both in the sovereign territory of China.
Stackexchange is using the same approach to get rid of trolls.
Dropbox's client is not open source by any stretch of the imagination.
I agree, as a New Zealander living in Spain. I've been staggered over the last decade or so to hear of the USA performing:

* "extraordinary renditions" (kidnapping), sometimes of the wrong person who after months gets dumped in Albania.

* "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding (torture)

* holding people indefinitely without charge or trial in Guantanamo Bay

* killing people remotely in foreign countries, including their own citizens based on the president's decision. Sometimes through mistaken identity or bad intel or pure human error the wrong person is killed, or the right person is killed with their children

* The "Kids for Cash Scandal" where a judge received kickbacks from a prison owner to give juveniles harsher sentences.

* And finally, spying at an enormous degree on the US population at large.

These are astonishing things and I'm even more staggered that people en masse don't get outraged by these things and demand change.
Protection, balanced with plausible deniability.
Probably a large volume of the link being shared, triggering the anti-spam filters at Facebook or something...
It's also much less clear a statement, as there can be other reasons not to prosecute (lack of evidence, for instance).
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Nor is snowden going to be tried for treason.
My overall, fact-less impression is that the UK has already cast a pretty wide public surveillance net. They don't seem to be actually using it for enforcing anything, however. I don't think I would blink twice if it turns out they have a PRISM-like operation going on.
Journalists are starting to be arrested, protesting is becoming increasingly harder, when the police starts arresting them as soon as they seem them, on BS grounds, and as others mentioned there's Gitmo and the torture, and the CIA kidnappings.
This is the first one that comes to my mind: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al...

But “this is more than just a data center,” says one senior intelligence official who until recently was involved with the program. The mammoth Bluffdale center will have another important and far more secret role that until now has gone unrevealed. It is also critical, he says, for breaking codes. And code-breaking is crucial, because much of the data that the center will handle—financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications—will be heavily encrypted. According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”
There's also the security card in Israel, which is pulled by the government every time people start to get excited about something. Economy problems? Security! Privacy concerns - shut up - Security! Administrative detention - Secu... you get the picture.
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Tell which enemy was aided. And also tell where this entity have been defined as an enemy?
* correction *

It was 180 days that was changed to 5 years.
Maybe he was ignorant, maybe he was spot on.

Maybe his hypothetical extradition will cause a sort-of diplomatic "mess" between Beijing and Honk Kong, leaving him a limbo where neither HK nor China will grant him total asylum but wont extradite him either
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Ha? Administrative detention is legal in the states, under the USA PATRIOT Act - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_detention#United....
I think that invalidates your argument.
Who is funding him?
I'd say the best places to learn about surveillance are China and North Korea.

I lived first 7 years of my life under the Romanian communism - they also could teach best practices in surveillance, since my parents were always careful what they said - in an era without too much electronics.
That was very interesting - thanks for sharing. Browser-based DAW, here we come?
Exactly. Israel is in a unique situation and has been on high alert since the inception.