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Ask HN: good, secure, easy to use PGP / GPG graphical user interface?
The command line tools are fine for people like us, but I'd like to encourage some of my less technical friends to start encrypting their communications.

What would you suggest is the most straightforward GUI frontend to PGP or GPG?

Not looking for a plugin to a mail program as I'd like it to be more flexible than that. In particular, a nice feature would be some sort of "quick encrypt" where one would paste the recipient's private key and the text, and it outputs an encrypted message without having to import keys.

Suggestions of existing good open source programs that I could modify would be good too. Thanks!
Have you actually used the beta or are you another person basing opinions about an operating system based upon screenshots?
Data acquisition methods in order of highest probability:

1. ^ This.

2. Was actually public information; story details lost in transmission or translation.

3. Her phone was still logged into Facebook.

4. They gained access to Facebook via links in e-mail.

[...]

10. Normal federal law enforcement powers.

11. Special federal law enforcement powers, e.g. Patriot Act.

[...]

100. NSA data that requires TS/SAP + full-scope poly to access.
I have a nerdish interest in the Stasi for reasons I can't quite explain. I've not seen the movie, but I'd recommend Stasiland:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasiland

as an account of various people who lived under the Stasi. Also, The File:

http://www.amazon.com/The-File-A-Personal-History/dp/0679777...

The (again, factual) story of someone uncovering their own file and researching its history.
yes, this occurs in firefox and safari.
Except it isn't that simple. Your definition of an outlier may be completely different from some one else's (95th percentile, median/regression method, or simple max/min, some of these are already possible in excel). Then, how is the information displayed? Highlighting cells? Well if you have +10k rows of data, than that won't be too useful. Creating a summary in another column/sheet will add to the already cluttered 'results' spreadsheet, etc...

This is why I recommend using programming based tools for data analysis. Any non-programming tool has to find a balance between the number of features offered and the complexity/ease-of-use of the tool. With programming tools, you merely have to find the right package (or build your own) which essentially results in getting the exact set of features that you need to solve your problem.
I bet Apple filed patents for App Nap already.
If you think that was a substantive comparison, you are a fool.
Sound missing for me too, Chrome Version 27.0.1453.93 on OSX
It's an automatic translation, so wording may be haphazard. I note that "offenbar" (from the original article) can also mean "obvious", as in "It was apparent that the authorities had read her correspondence."

Edit: just noticed you had written "my translation", not "the translation". My German is nowhere good enough to translate the article, I'm just working off Google's.
Right time. :)
yep, I remembered that same story.

Is it still far grasped to assume US agencies have a file on "everybody" digital present which gets automagically filled/flagged with US-related facts?
iOS 7 will hop from one Wi-Fi hotspot to another, no password needed
I've used a iPhone since 2008, starting with the 3G. It wasn't until yesterday, after loading iOS 7, that I noticed the keyboard was always in caps. In fact, I thought it was bug in iOS 7. "Why in the hell is the keyboard all caps now? Surely it won't ship this way." Then I used my wife's iOS 6 phone and for the first time noticed that it's always been that way. There's something about the new UI/color scheme that brought this to my attention. Or maybe the shift key state isn't distinct enough to tell me whether it's caps or not (and hence I look at the keys to discern the difference, and they're of course no help).

My point, on topic with your objection, is that I never even noticed the lack of lower case keys before iOS 7. So for me it's not something high on the list.
Facebook asks to share "complete picture of the government requests we receive"
The length of this debate is the reason that I love HN and the reason that I hate HN
AFAIK, it wasn't an arrangement she'd been in for a long time. I doubt she'd hit the six month point, and had been hoping to secure a visa to stay in the country legitimately.
The headline sounds like an official government statement but then this guy is no one I ever heard of and the only quote I could find does not even mention the word Stasi.

American surveillance (literally: compulsive checking) goes definitely to far if
it interferes that much with the privacy of internet users. Something like this is
unthinkable here. I thought we had overcome this era with the downfall of the DDR.

It is just ridiculous what they made out of this (unless I just failed to find the complete statement).
I noticed, that another user is logged into the same server before me from IP 50.16.x.x. If you are monitoring sessions, you should disclose so.
I ran a clean installation of Opera 12, and there was no e-mail client. It is actually there, but you won't even notice unless you set up an account. So to anyone who doesn't make an account it's exactly as if there was no email client.

And your comment about slimming down Opera is quite funny considering that Opera 12 with a full mail client is less than half the size of Chrome...
I worked in a similar environment and came to similar conclusions. In my view, your three requirements (usable without a big learning curve, intuitive to non-programmers, equally or more efficient than Excel) point directly back to the spreadsheet UI. Spreadsheet users get spreadsheets in a way they don't get anything else. It's their mental model and they love it and there's no way they're going to give it up. (In particular, there's no way they're going to migrate to even the simplest of general-purpose scripting languages.) Therefore the only thing that will get them off Excel is a new kind of spreadsheet. The question is, what would that look like? If it's too different from Excel, it won't meet your three requirements. But if it's too like Excel, there won't be any reason to use it, nor will it address Excel's limitations which are the subject of the OP. I've been thinking about and working on this ever since—it's a deeper problem than it appears to be!

Edit: by the way, you're right (in my opinion) to emphasize barrier-to-entry as a great danger in this area. If you look at the history of attempts to innovate in the spreadsheet space (most famously Lotus Improv), that is the reef on which they tend to run aground.
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The only part open to debate is the suggestion of monitoring private Facebook communication.

No, part open to debate is whether they'd risk getting the project discovered by giving a bunch of border officers (probably without any clearance) the tools for accessing, printing out and showing to travelers their private Facebook messages, when they could have:

1. Not use it for visa clearance.

2. Use data-mining to create no-entry-lists without exposing the source.

3. Have secure facilities (rooms in some building, not necessarily Top-Secret hideouts) where the PM investigation would happen, to avoid leaks like officers showing evidence to regular civilians.
three projects: Homenet a closed source home networking system, multimedia, it's own TV stack. Currently re-writing as i thought the networking was a bit weak, and the android remote control/EPG was UGLY!

Also playing with some vimscripts https://github.com/PAntoine/vimgitlog, and https://github.com/PAntoine/timekeeper.

also, just starting a project planner vimscript, ms project style, with project diagramming.
Should the government know less than your therapist? Your spouse? Your family doctor? Your priest? Your rabbi?
This suggests that the story about moles is true.
What do you mean by "what mail providers they support"? Opera supports POP and IMAP. That basically means any email provider out there.
being very heavy excel keyboard shortcut user, assumed it wouldn't be the same in mac. never tried it.
When my partner (who is from the EU) got to the US this most recent time (she visits here for 90 days at a time, as allowed under VWP rules), immigration pulled her aside with a printout of (public-facing) facebook pages on their desk. Interesting only in that her face book is not under her official name. They had pages and pages of printouts that they thought proved she wasn't simple a tourist, and that she was working here, etc. Note, it was all public (or semi-public with a lot of crawling around under alternate emails, leading to other names, etc etc) so nothing "intercepted". But still a bit worrying when you get pulled aside and someone has a folder ready full of pictures of you, your business website (freelancer), your facebook posts, your tweets, etc
How do you know this if you haven't physically used it?

And why on earth do people assume Apple hasn't thoroughly tested this? They may get many things wrong, but it's insane to thing they overlooked that part.
Why do you think Opera self-destructed? They announced their quarterly financial results a couple of weeks ago, and they set another revenue and profit record. They're basically growing on all fronts, have plenty of cash in the bank, and are growing their profits.

So again, what self-destruction are you referring to?
Where oh where did Microsoft get the idea to totally rebuild their mobile OS around the concept of a full-face capacitive touch-screen?
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disagree completely. MS Excel is a masterpiece in software engineering, definitely the best piece of software MS ever created. Large pieces of the economy run on Excel, finance, controlling, etc. are unthinkable without it.

the flexibility, ease of use, speed is astounding. applying colors to cells and then being able to sort by color still blows my mind - not the feature per se, but the fact that they included it and solved a common problem (how many times did a client mark something by color in a big spreadsheet...).

excel is mobile, works offline. replacing it with some webapp or too much logic just shows the complete misunderstanding of its appeal.
I think the biggest fear with using Tor, Onion Routing and the Darknet is that it was all sort of developed by the Navy. I think it provides pockets of government pretty easy access to treasure troves of data.

If you are doing everything bootable, javascript turned off, pgp, encrypted hard drive...I would imagine you would be "okay"...I am no expert. However, I have done a significant amount of research on Tor. It seems that as many here mention, the Exit Node can potentially be identified. Also, if someone was determined, had enough resources, they could also "possibly" "sort of" trace the traffic route. But this is very very hard to do (according to what ive read), and would require a vast amount of resources.

SWIM has been on Tor a few times and found it to be a neat, very useful tool, in and of itself. The ability to essentially obscure your traffic on the ClearNet (regular internet) has alot of potential uses, both good and bad. That said, if you access the DarkNet, there is alot of things on there that people should question who is putting it there. Seems like a very easy way to find people who want to access that stuff, especially if you can only access it using something like Tor. Makes it very clear who is seeking that stuff.
I know this is not the intended result, but my take away from this is that a majority of Republicans continues to support NSA surveillance no matter who is in office.

This is ironic considering how much they hate the government...
Yes, I expect if I were to commit a murder, the NSA would sit on evidence rather than deal with figuring out how to admit it into court and deal with revealing the program.

Oddly, now that the program has been exposed, the "cost of revealing the program" has already been spent.
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Canadian Petition: No Secret Spying
Case law? Precedent?
Bull. They aren't even real words.

Edit: Downvotes != disagreeing. Captcha is a serious fucking problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laEVYBxLfF0 I know the video is satirical. That's the point. There needs to be a solution that doesn't involve photocopying sodden pages from Mathematica Principia and asking users to take a guess at what on Earth the stupid squiggly lines are supposed to read.
"offenbar" can indeed mean "obviously", but in the context of a news article it's a weasel word more close to "apparently". To a native speaker, this word sounds as though they are presenting facts, but reading closely they are only assuming, just like smartician said.
From a viewpoint outside the US, I think most people would agree with the parent. Clearly, if the rights of Americans are being abused, sod knows what that means they're doing to rest of us.

Your elected official are simply not going to help us, please understand this is a very 2-sided issue. Those in the US can try the political route, those outside, the routing route, i.e. we need to avoid our Internet traffic going through the US.
that faith has been dramatically eroded over the last two decades...

In hindsight Bush. vs. Gore did a lot to erode this faith, and the ruling was probably a mistake.

Although, to it's credit, the court did not overturn Obamacare, probably because deciding such a partian battle would have further eroded this faith.
Oktoberfest in the South?

/j
VBA, which was removed in Excel 2008 and returned in Excel 2011, is not fully compatible with Windows versions, where most users author code.

Backend data connectivity options are virtually non-existant. Excel 2011 has what appears to be a 10+ year old version of MS Query.

Some 3rd party financial plugins are Windows dependent, and I believe some of the Microsoft analysis additions are as well.
officers showing evidence to regular civilians

Not even American citizens, at that.
Speaking as a leftie, we haven't had an "our guy" since maybe Carter. If you think Obama is left-wing, I have some nice beachfront property you might be interested in. He talked a good game in 2008, though.
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The US and UK military are usually stationed in somewhat small cities and are a very important part of the economy in these areas. Most people don't care about the fact that they are still here in Germany and those that do care are happy about the income they provide.

Everytime they leave somewhere it's usually a source of great concern and not at all something to celebrate.
I couldn't care less how original or unoriginal something is, I mainly care about how good it is functionally and less so how pleasing it is visually. I wish more people paid attention to that rather than who created what first. All ideas are based on some other ideas to some degree.

I guess that's the difference. If Apple implemented something I created in their products, I'd be super happy that my idea is doing well and will benefit more people. I care about the ideas themselves, not about receiving credit.
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I found this story several hours ago, as well. I found the news to be a possible sensationalist story and didn't even think about posting it on HN. Yes, it is a very interesting story. But it a speculative story. You never know if the media did their research properly or if they just wanted to have more readers. There are other more reputable and trusted news sources in Germany than this one. I don't say it is made up, but some facts could be wrong.
You obviously have not used modern Android, or are ignorant of Android's own innovations and design language. See here where iOS7 "borrows" a lot of stock Android features and design language.

https://securecdn.disqus.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/516/5...

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/06/10/ios7-vs-android-a-quick...

https://plus.google.com/112995668742108647641/posts/dmSKzTwC...
As a recent grad, I'm glad to hear that InternMatch is gaining more support to help provide students with job and internship advice and support. Keep up the good work Omar!
WebOS doees it and it's incredibly distracting; it looks like every key jitters slightly every time I hit the shift key.
Seems to me that a blackmail operation
would be fairly easy:

First, get the data from the NSA, IRS,
Treasury, etc. Second, find someone
where the data shows that they have
been doing something they don't want
to become public. Third, go to that
person and "make them an offer they
can't refuse". The offer? Sure:
become an informant, become a mole,
do some dirty work, say, hand over
some data, get some dirt on someone
else.

The "can't refuse" part? Fairly
easy: The government doesn't have
to release the embarrassing data
directly. Instead, the government
could just have someone, maybe
anonymously, give some 'tips' to
some local, dirty politicians
or some reporters looking for a
scandal and then just let them
follow the person, get the data
themselves, and then go public.

Or, if prominent citizen Joe
is a political opponent of an
Administration, then poor Joe
would have to be 100% totally
clean of anything embarrassing
or questionable or he could get
some nearly anonymous communications
that he might want to cool down,
back off, and get on the team of
the Administration.

The blackmailing doesn't have to
be for money. A big thing about
blackmail is that the victim
very much does not want to go
public, not even after they are
being blackmailed.

Blackmail is a very old game
and works very well, and mostly
all that is needed to have a victim
is someone who has a secret they
very much don't want to have made
public that some potential blackmailer knows, and that
situation
applies to a large
fraction of the population.

Remember the old exchange:

"If
you have nothing to hide, then
you have nothing to worry about."

with the response

"Nearly everyone has something to hide."

With the Verizon data, IRS data,
and financial record data, have a good
shot at blackmailing any of a
significant
fraction of the whole population.
As many dictatorships have shown,
with such efforts, can have a
large fraction of the population
under the thumb of the dictatorship
acting as informants, moles, etc.
in the population.

It can all be close to mafia techniques:
A low level mafia guy who has done
something illegal then has to remain
loyal to the family or face the
police for his crime. So, early
in a blackmail attempt, get the
victim to do something illegal,
and then forever threaten to
turn them over to the police.

Again, it's all very old stuff,
and the Verizon data, IRS data,
and financial data could enable
oceans of it.
They both work tirelessly, mostly for people who don't even know they exist. Money donated to them is money well spent.
"fully armed"

Right there you start going astray, a lot of them are doing logistics of one type or another, including our largest overseas military hospital, the top level hospital for serious GWoT theater injuries.

More directly, it would all depend on why they were there.
You are inventing (and then attempting to disprove) links that are no where other than in your mind. Nothing in this article or HN title mention NSA, PRISM or any thing like it.

Companies provide information to numerous law enforcement agencies all the time. Via agreement, court order, subpoena, etc. No secret NSA databases required.
They're reselling EC2; how can there be no servers available? Maybe they've bought a some reserved instances to get the $0.012 cents an hour cost and won't scale beyond those?
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Probably not very accurate (just because most movies aren't, anyway). But I think most of the cast actually lived through the GDR years (in the GDR), and I figure that's how they acted so damn well.

To anyone considering watching this, if not for the history, watch it for the movie's sake. You will not be disappointed at all.
"Mr. Obama, tear down this PRISM"
You must not know a lot of Tea Partiers. Though to be fair, they are more "right-wing revolutionaries" than "conservatives" by any reasonable sense of the word.
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It costs them somewhere between $0.01 and $0.02 for every uses who doesn't pay to get a longer session. I'd expect that cost to outweigh what the get from paying users, but of course I could be wrong.
Slightly off-topic, but "obvious" would be "offensichtlich" in German. "Offenbar" implies a higher degree of uncertainty. "Scheinbar" or "anscheinend" is even more uncertain, to the point of doubt. And finally, "angeblich" is very questionable, almost an accusation of lying.
They do sometimes ask to see your phone.
I would love to see someone try this.
He absolutely is
One year, 2010, is not long term. Germany had been heavily occupied (by several nations) from end of WWII until recently. Recently being last 20years or so.
fyi: you can re-map any keyboard shortcut through Tools->Customize Keyboard.
If you want to come to US and work illegally and get caught, what do you expect?
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There's nothing surprising about the German tolerance of the US military bases, considering that they do nothing whatsoever to interfere with our lives or inconvenience us in any way, but do provide quite a lot of jobs. These are mostly medical or training facilities, many of them operated jointly by American and German forces, not some occupying force that's intent on overrunning our government or controlling the citizenry.

As far as public opinion goes, this is a complete non-issue, and I strongly suspect that if public opinion turned so far as to make it an issue, the US would withdraw their troops before entering into a war with a powerful western nation that would almost inevitably turn into another world war. This is really not what I'd call an occupation.
Well, thinking back to my elementary school civics classes, Isn't it a 2/3 majority vote?
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I don't see what this has to do with iOS7 looking similar to Windows.

See: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
Or to summarize, you're too bothered by freedoms to worry about tyranny.
If anything this means the person didn't want to fit in the mold.
I shall remind that school first and primary purpose when it has been created was to format and mold people so that they would be more uniformized and easier to control.

Self-taught people, misfits (regardless of how that sounds like), etc. tend to think for themselves, be more creative and more critical.

Obviously,someone who's willing to risk his and his family life to testify against what he believe is wrong as such a high level is predisposed to have at least some similar past.

but then again, we do derive from the point, thus, yes,smearing works.
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An 18 year old entering the country with the intent of staying longer than a few weeks alone will raise eyebrows at the border. Next question will be regarding available funds. How can she afford to travel that long? Staying "with friends" is also suspicious, especially when she hasn't met them in person before.
Fool? What sort of word is that? I'd look it up but I don't trust wikipedia... Wait, what? Fool? Really? Did you call someone on HN a fool? My oh my... What strong words! Sheesh, whatever happened to courteous discourse? Has that gone the way of the dodo?