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Shaketime is revolutionary gesture based iOS timer app. Incredible simple and easy to use.
At least in Germany a lot of people have become disillusioned by the (german) Pirate Party.

They seem to have degraded into a mix of ridiculous infighting and traditional political party stuff.

I'd much rather see them to push for just one topic: Getting direct democracy.

Right now they are just dispersing all the resources they have (in mind and matter) towards hundreds if not thousands of different topics and don't look like an efficient agent of change at all.
I don't think it's a matter of discrediting or condemning anyone. He's simply providing an alternate perspective on what might be going on, whether it is true or not is anyone's guess.

I personally don't think he has any PRC ties, however it does foster an interesting discussion, and isn't that what HN is all about?
Well, they should have replaced the drive if it failed within 6 months. But expecting them to go to the lengths of recovering your data for free is a bit hopeful.
> The interviewer told me at the end - "Plenty of other interviewees have answered that question, but you're the only one who got it right."

Thanks for sharing that story. It was very instructive.
Company may be in Europe, servers might be in Europe, you might be in Europe. Nothing guarantees you that your data won't be routed through US where it can be tapped into. That's the primary issue for me with the whole PRISM scandal.
It doesn't happen if you use a local account but you can login to Windows 8 using your Microsoft account (from Hotmail or whatever). Of course they store those credentials on their servers.
Exactly, this is the point. If privacy is important for you, closed source software is not trustworthy, unless it's placed downline of encryption.
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Sorry about the hyperbole. As you probably guessed, I was lightly trolling in order to provoke a response. Whilst we do better than the long-term historic average, our societies are still deeply flawed, whilst we, as individuals (myself included) sit idly by slinging insults from the sidelines.
I still feel that this title is misleading, since I understood it to mean "there is a backdoor in Flask, and here is the evidence" before I clicked through.
Switzerland is a non-EU country. Switzerland has a long tradition of civil liberties, rights and participation. This results in regular legally binding referendums on the one side and tax evasions from civilians of other countries on the other.
Am I the only one who sees a tech-war coming in the next 10 years?I always suspected that as new tech arises the chances of seeing a war rises too.
As a note (too late to edit) it is possible he could be gambling for example that if the US asks for extradition the Chinese will come asking for classified information or better yet, that the fear of the Chinese doing so would be enough to keep the US from asking for extradition.
Right. Speaking as an ex-happy-palmos and ex-angry-winmo user, what the iPhone introduced was the finger-usable (i.e. capacitive) touch screen, rather than the stylus-based (resistive) one - which genuinely was a paradigm shift.
"Since more or less all software encrypt their traffic."
Just not true.

However dosn't matter in the context of the fra law as it only allows meta data to be taped like somthing like.

{
from:'145.23.45.34:89047',
to:'214.56.4.67:443',
size:23456,
when:'June 9 2013 12:34 13.234'
}
I'm surprised that there isn't a "cloud encryption" software available yet. It shouldn't be a complex project to encrypt & rename -> upload // download -> decrypt & rename. You could store the original file names in the cloud in an encrypted sqlite database or something.
I don't get the wide dark static banner at the top.
Annie Lööf voted for the law in the end after some minor changes were made and "promises" where given. Didn't know about Fredrick Federley crying, but I found it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyfL4hSL-9E
Pretty funny.
It's very pointedly not their obligation (nor even standard practice for any drive company) to go through the expensive process of recovering your data for you for free. Taking backups is your own problem and responsibility.

They should have offered to replace your drive, but no more. Hardly unscrupulousness.
I think the OP is referring to the fact you can now sign into Windows using your "Microsoft Account" which is technically your ex-Windows Live account. These accounts are hosted in the US looking at the terms and conditions.

For the majority of users, they will miss the tiny text at the bottom which allows local accounts an will be put off by the big warning about how crappy local accounts are immediately afterwards.

The result is a big conversion to Windows authentication being moved to "The Cloud" and therefore under the eyes of every nefarious agency out there.
No such thing.

You connect to the internet you're going through the USA even if the company you're dealing with is based in some other place. For example, I just ran a tracert on a connection to a college located in the same city I am in, it goes through New York State before hitting a data centre in the UK.

You can install Ubuntu, use AOSP on your phone, and use Firefox for your browser. But as soon as you connect to any service, including Hacker News, there is a good chance you're being spied upon.

If you want to avoid the dragnet then I'd stick to obscure sites and services (i.e. smaller providers) since the NSA likely hasn't taken the time to spy on each and every one. Also online game's interplay chat might be somewhat spy free (relative to other IM services anyway).
It thoroughly suggests and tries to make you do it at first boot though by hiding the local account option and then making you confirm it.
Yes, just installed and then immediately uninstalled after I got the 'install java' prompt :(

It's not Wuala's fault, but forcing me to put java back on my desktop is a big hurdle. It's going to take an absolutely amazing piece of software to make me deal with that horrendous bug-ridden security hole again.
Additionally consider this. The ball is now in the court of the US Government. They can ask for extradition or they can wait. If they ask for extradition, what is China's next move? The logical one is to approach Snowden and ask him to make a deal, to exchange classified information in exchange for asylum. That puts the ball back in Snowden's court and he has three options:

1. Let the US know he has had the offer and ask them to step down before he has to take it.

2. Take the Chinese up on the offer.

3. Reject the Chinese offer, turn himself in, and return to the US in shackles specifying he did not sell out his country. If he can manage to do that publicly, that might also be a great great gamble that might turn out in his favor.

The more I think about it, the more I am impressed with his choice.
You can "prove" almost anything with made up statistics as well. Which is what Yummyfajita's post is essentially.

Just curious, what do you believe I attempted to prove?
Ask HN: is MEGA safe to use? Any reasons to stay away?
Many of us are concerned and on the look out for a dropbox/skydrive replacement.

Wuala is #1 on HN right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853159 ... and I'm sure many others will follow.

In the meantime, I wanted to ask HN: is there any legitimate reason NOT to start using MEGA (https://mega.co.nz/) now? 50GB free, all data is encrypted, we hold the keys (https://mega.co.nz/#privacycompany).
Well it's kind of a joke at the expense of the people who push these things into existence on the web.

I managed OK till the js part, and got bored (I suck at js anyway)
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The fact that they have been "good guys" until now doesn't say anything about the fact that they will be "good guys" forever.
You mean the menu bar? You think it is best if it not stays on top?
By default it asks you for your Microsoft account details on first boot. It is a secondary option now to use a local account and it's well hidden at the bottom of the screen. Also, to install applications from the Windows app store, you need to register your PC with Windows Live.

SkyDrive and the Windows Live accounts have access to your local machine as well.

This inversion from Windows 7 is not acceptable in my opinion.
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IAH also happens to be the code for George Bush International Airport.
A question which is overlooked in this kind of answers is, how do you circumvent your mistrust of your own OS?

It's a foregone conclusion that Microsoft OSes have backdoors for the NSA, and it's not unlikely that they also know some exploits, which grant them access to many distributions of open-source OSes. If my OS reports everything to the NSA whenever I access it, encrypted cloud storage won't help that much; it will only make super-wide surveillance harder to scale.
... or even in the Java runtime?
At this moment, it seems a lot more like "Brazil" to me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/‎
Yes I've noticed that. It's abhorrent that they suggest that they take privacy seriously. Read their terms and conditions for Office 365 and Windows Live and you will see what I mean.

Unless someone has redefined the term privacy for the modern age that is..
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The question makes no sense, in that case. The verbatim question is:

> Does the above trigger a request for the current page (a reload without user interaction) in any of the following:

The "without user interaction" as presented describes the request for the current page, implying a programmatic reload, not "will this code run without user interaction." Of course it won't, nor will this:

function foo(){
console.log('harharhar, I won\'t ever be printed, obviously!');
}

At which point the question is really a basic/pointless JS question and has nothing to do with the concept the question is trying to address. Further, the part that manually dispatches the event doesn't quite match the spec:

> If the currently executing task is the dispatch of a resize event in response to the user resizing the browsing context

Emphasis mine. It's reasonable for an implementation to interpret this as a manually fired event does not meet the criteria and reload the page, while the same code called while actually resizing the browsing context would not.
Data is encrypted client-side before being sent so I believe this is a non-issue.
Great, can't wait to download
The incentives for (2) are reduced by privatization. Any individual prison operator can sit around freeloading while the other guys lobby for harsher laws.

In contrast, in a system with government run prisons, the prison guard union has strong incentive for rent seeking - they will capture all the rents.

Privatization has problems, but this isn't one of them.
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I think there's an analogous between power and hardware/software failure.

When power is centralized corruption effects are worse, exactly like when software is centralized failure effects are worse. Distribution is the answer. Distribute power, in a way in which it cannot be exploited.

I'm not an expert in politics, but I guess that communism had this kind of principle, but it totally failed in implementing it.
This is child's play compared to the information they will gather from Google Glasses...Imagine what they could do with that...
>Donating to a third party, or even a major party that happens to lose, could one day become "aiding an enemy of the state."

Everyone has lost their minds.
What you quoted is actually the Silver Rule, which deals in negatives. It's also much easier to consistently apply without people hating your guts for being a condescending, paternalistic imperialist.
I built this over the last few weeks with Meteor (JS framework) and I would love to know what you guys think! If you have a Raspberry Pi, how often do you use it? Do you think a web ide like pijs.io would help you use it more often?
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pretty cool concept. would it become a trend to use gestures over 'clicking'?
Oracle is supplying enough zero day exploits to have no need for backdoor.
Buy WD, Seagate, Samsung drive and have it fail, then try and ask them to recover your data for free.
Like the time when Swiss banks conveniently decided to forget their tradition of "civil liberties and rights" and en masse turned over their clients confidential personal information and financial records to the US authorities? They've already acted like America's little bitch once, what makes you think they're not going to do the same again?
Spideroak or a private BitorrentSync setup are both good choices imho
Even the misspelling? :)
The Guy Fawkes mask that anonymous uses illustrates what? - treason (hope that's not too cryptic)

I strongly agree with you that I too am impressed with each calculated decision he has taken...even down to the press release.

The press release is also key in his decision to reveal him self. By doing so, how suspicious would it be if he "committed suicide." An example of how the press can protect him, you need not look farther than Julian Assange.

And even when it comes to the initial press release, the only reason I believe that it was revealed in the order that it did was for competition. He seeked the Guardian (in England), and compelled the Post (in the US) to publish. In media, it's all about being first, royalties, and copyrights. Check the link below.

I'd have to say, his execution of his plan, was very well calculated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853496
I don't trust the Java sandbox to protect me while running arbitrary code. So I don't use the Java browser plugin.

But I don't see how the desktop runtime is a security hole (you're running binaries you trust outside a sandbox) and I very much doubt it's any more buggy than your average Python, Ruby, Node.js, etc. runtime. Or, for that matter, your average native library.
There was something ironic about playing Missile Command at the height of the Cold War. No matter how well you did in the end you always lost all your cities.
Same with c3 in berlin.
This is normal for Lacie. I've dealt with them in the past. They are a premium repackaging outfit of some of the lowest grade hardware you can get. They used to prey particularly on Mac users in the early 00's.

However, you should have backed up your stuff in more than one physical place and never assumed that the disk was entirely reliable.

Buy a quality drive enclosure and a quality hard disk, put them together yourself and make sure you have a half decent backup strategy.
Michael Moore and Glenn Beck both call Snowden a hero
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Indian Government is not known for strong IT security on it's servers. I have a strong suspicion, this data would be brought out very easily.
You'd have no more campaign promises. And truth be told, what you suggest is dangerous. In fact, it would create a situation worse than the one we have now.

I'd rather our politicians tell us what they want to do. Then, when they are in power, and have the means to do those things, balance it with the knowledge they've gathered from having access to all that power.

Maybe the issue is that politicians too easily make promises they cannot make. Maybe it's our problem for demanding politicians keep promises despite new information.

How many lives is a promise worth?
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This term will be assimilated into my vocabulary.
I think this is actually not as funny as the real thing. As far as I can gather, FISA 702 orders http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text , used to target non-resident aliens, don't require the NSA to state that "I think they are a terrorist" or give any reason or justification at all for wanting all your data to the FISC court, let alone to the website operators.
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You gave me some insipiration for my holiday booklist! Thanks!
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Ask HN: Anyone been able to build a seamless OwnCloud Dropbox alternative?
I've been looking into OwnCloud (http://owncloud.org/) for over a year but I read mixed reviews. Has anyone here got experience in rolling their own secure version with their own secure keys and server?
Snowden pushed Washington Post to publish PRISM by revealing to Guardian
This applies to good guys all over the world since ever.
Btw, I did not state anywhere that I consider Switzerland as being the good guys. Applying qualities of character to a state is misleading IMHO.
Wuala has been around for years. Like 5+. Lacie just bought it. Don't conflate.

Edit, 4 years 10 months. Lacie merge in 2010
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And what would having the source code change?

Unless you host the data yourself, if you don't trust Wuala there is no guarantee the binaries you use are built from the source code you have.
Switzerland recently increased cooperation efforts with EU countries on many, many issues. The geopolitical reality is that progressive (if glacially slow) solidification of the EU block is making it a politically as well as physically landlocked country. Such nations have clear limits in their independence in practice; to mention just one, any cable originating in Switzerland will inevitably have to pass through a EU country - worse, through a EU border, which allows for all sorts of shenanigans like the 2009 Swedish interception law.
That's not what I was getting at. I was suggesting that pointing the finger of blame at one person, and placing the onus on them - and asking them to resign is a little shortsighted. Expecting the problem to just vanish is merely wishful thinking.

Is he or is he not the establishment, that's probably another debate in itself.

I'm over the pond here, so I can't quite grok the American reaction to the recent news over this Prism stuff. I'd expect the Hacker news community to be pissed, but what's the general feeling over there?
Who exactly would be less liable?

The Netherlands is a country with a very high concentration of people. I would think that one of the desert-like places in the USA would be a better storage space (assuming the intent is indeed just to store them).
You make it seem as if keeping promises and good intentions are the same thing. How many lives is a promise worth?

I'd much rather have a politician that bas his plans on the latest known evidence, rather than blindly adhering to promises made. This isn't to suggest that this is what happened here, but frankly, it's too early to tell. Information is still being spilled day by day.

And for many of this, it isn't news. It's stuff we've known was going on for a long time. But shit, some whistleblower comes out and everyone suddenly becomes all for privacy, forgetting that countless times scaremongers and conspiracy theorists were shouted down.

This is what the American people voted for many times, not just in the presidential elections. And it didn't start with Obama.

So, until you can answer "How many lives is a promise worth?" you're simply playing arm chair politics. It's easy to get indignant and out of sorts when you don't have any responsibility.
I did the same switch, but didn't experience any specific problem. Actually I thought it was better done than Dropbox and had fewer sync issues.
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I really like SpiderOak I have been using them for more than two years. Resent update added a true dropbox experience. And most importantly it has a client for Linux, OSX, windows, ios and Android.
Wow, I always thought that elliptic curves were an algorithm to break cryptography like RSA.
If I remember well, RSA is based on the fact that Z/pZ is a group when p is prime (for those who don't know, it's about taking the addition and multiplications for the numbers in [0..p-1] and taking the result modulo p), and elliptic curves offer a more generic framework for that...
I use Dropbox with Boxcryptor (https://www.boxcryptor.com/). It creates an encrypted drive/folder using a key of your own choosing.
You can see the client code and confirm that it actually encrypts all of the data and use your own copy rather than their binaries.

Technically if the client is not sending not encrypted data and encrypts without a foul, then nothing they can do on the server-side can cause leaking your data.
I know, my point is that quanticle was talking about the latter, and pjscott replied with the former.

You can get equivalent experience without college, but it's still hard to get what the HR departments consider "equivalent experience". The two views are not contradictory.
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Thumbs up to this. Been using the EncFS windows port for roughly a year with Google Drive with no issues. I was previously using TrueCrypt but the lack of differential sync was a killer on my TrueCrypt containers.
Funny you say that, the same thing happened to me. Where are you located? I'm in Australia. Never ever received a Facebook captcha before when posting a link and to make it more interesting, I was posting the link in a secret group on Facebook which only the invited members would see anyway.
> Every country has different rights for citizens and non-citizens.

The rights are inherent in the nature of the situation (i.e., humans living in a social order based on equality of individuals under the law). The scope of the protection of those rights varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction (and vanishes entirely where jurisprudence is slave to political demagoguery).

The fourth Amendment isn't the source of the right, it guarantees that the right won't be abridged by government action. As the Constitution is defined by and for the people of the United States, that the protections "guaranteed" (in quotes because the guarantee has to be maintained by vigilance) don't extend to those who are not the people of the United States isn't logically surprising, but can remain somewhat disappointing (politically and ethically).
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Yeah, the secret of Costco is that they don't hire MBAs.

If you actually want to go learn Costco's "secrets" of their basic business model, inventory management and staffing, go read Megan Mcardle's article comparing them to walmart:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/11/26/why-can-t-w...

Sadly, the "secret" of $SUCCESSFUL_COMPANY is almost always far more boring than we'd like. I really wish there was a news source that would actually write articles like this which discuss staffing levels, supply chain management and the like.
Just two ideas on top of my head:

Through auto updates you can make sure that you get the backdoored version or you can have an exploit within the software to allow "silent" remote updates (good luck finding that).

So well... Either you do it end to end, or you trust the third party.
Syncany (http://www.syncany.org/) was supposed to be this locally-encrypted Dropbox-alternative. Unfortunately, it seems to be going nowhere slowly.