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July 4th Protest-Washington
We (The United States of America) are a country riddled with issues. We have become immune to a corrupt government fueled by cash from large corporations who only have their interests in mind. These corporations have played the game correctly and have secured their place of power, our government and our economy. From the war scandals, to the banking scandals, to the recent privacy scandals, our government has shown that they do not and should not represent We the people. This forum, (HN) has many hard working people, in America and abroad, trying to make the world a better place. And I believe America is doing the opposite. I believe it is time to take greater action than online bantering and petition signing, and I believe there is enough support to make something happen soon. We voted in Obama on his slogan, "CHANGE we can believe in," he did not deliver. There is no reason for us to sit by patiently waiting for something to happen. There is no party that represents us, and the majority of Americans fear the government. It is time the government fears us, the people. I'm writing this post to hopefully be a launching point for change. Please share your thoughts and ideas.
FUCK enough already.
This looks more like an acquisition to keep Waze out of the competitors' hands than Google needing it. Sure, having the platform will enhance Google maps and also probably be enhanced to get other POI data as well over time (if they are not already getting them) but Google already spent a lot of money getting that data.
Although this is off topic, I'd argue that there are indeed literal slave masters in the United States today, and they are the private prison owners that profit off convict laborers that are forced to work and earn orders of magnitude less wages than minimum wage.
Brilliant. From the live office webcams page (where you have the option to taunt specific employees):

"Are those traffic lights real?
Yes! There is another set of traffic lights, hidden to the left of the camera, too! They keep my staff awake with visual stimulation in the same way that my website invigorates my visitors!"

The office looks just like the website.
> Doesn't the 4th amendment say you need probable cause before spying/searching on someone?

Nope.

That's a valid interpretation, but that's not what it says. To directly quote Wikipedia (yeah, I know; IANAL): "the Court ruled in Dumbra v. United States, 268 U.S. 435 (1925), that the term probable cause means "less than evidence that would justify condemnation," reiterating Carroll's assertion that it merely requires that the facts available to the officer would "warrant a man of reasonable caution" in the belief that specific items may be contraband or stolen property or useful as evidence of a crime".

Your problem, really, is that you disagree with the government on what a "man of reasonable caution" would do.
What about the SANS SEC542 + GWAPT certification? It looks like Cody's course covers a couple areas that don't fall under the SANS one, but the high-level overview appears to be pretty similar.

Or, would you be willing to speak more generally about certifications, and which, if any actually DO get attention from hiring managers in the security field?
I'm not saying violence and terror is the answer. I believe the answer is we have to infiltrate the government itself. I don't want to be a politician but I see no other way to fix the US at this point.

As many of us as possible need to join the ranks of governments and start slowly making changes. Some of us will be voted out quickly, some of us will fall to corruption but if enough of us can keep our ideals we could turn this around. But voting and protesting aren't going to work.
The article can't really argue that his girlfriend is interesting or at least entertaining. It ends by saying, it's ok to enjoy this but don't forget what's really going on.
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OK, then, how does your "neotribalism" theory explain the very sudden dissolution of three tribes into just one, while at the same time casting the original three tribes as "neotribal"? I don't see how you can call the original situation A, then insist that the exact opposite occurring is also a case of A. Or at least not without a great deal more justification of that than just tossing out a single word.
Yes, I know, we've all read Jeff Atwood's article on it.

That's not my point. I get what you're saying, but we have informed opinions. To the public, with no technical background, it is very reasonable to question someone's opinion in a domain they have no certifiable expertise or experience in.

EDIT: I can't reply @sillysaurus, "I'm submitting too fast", so here's my reply in the meantime.

I know...you're missing my point. It doesn't matter if a college degree or a high school degree gives you the experience I need. I can attest that you don't need one to have expertise in your domain.

What I am saying is that the public associates a college degree (and awards, other prestige, etc.) with credibility. To a great extent, this is true in most industries - this is why it's reasonable for non-technical people, people who don't know better, to apply this sort of safeguard to all "experts" they see. It doesn't diminish his actual standing, it's just a cursory glance that tells them if they need to find alternative routes to check his credibility.

I'm sorry if I'm not being clear, I'm not trying to say you're regurgitating anything, I was showing you that I'm well aware many CS grads can't code for shit. That's true. But it's not part of what I'm arguing. I'm talking about credibility and public perception, not actual ability or skillset.
Not too surprisingly, that's already been done. http://play-ttd.com/ Additionally I think this has been around for about a year at this point :)
>Which is true but a little myopic. Until the Warren court decided that wiretapping required a warrant, law enforcement could surveil your communications at any time for any reason.

Only they couldn't do 1/100 of what they can now. Even wiretapping a single person required a few days work, people listening, unwieldy tape machines to record and replay it, etc. No AVR with stop words, not automatic routing, no DSP etc.

Not to mention that people didn't share 1/100 of what they do now over then snail mail and telephone.

Pragmatically, logistically, and by the norms of the era, only few people were eavesdropped on. Communists, politicians, industrialists, journalists, etc. Now it's everybody.

>For the individual the legal situation is much better now, in spite of the obvious erosions of protection and regressions, than they were "back in the day."

How is it better? The individual can be crashed now under the Patriot Act, various child porn laws, and whatever they can come up with. That a few laws also pay lip service to individual privacy I wouldn't count much on.
Seems like a pretty good deal! Do the memberships automatically renew?
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> which grants certain rights and privileges not normally legal

Please enumerate the actual rights and privileges not normally legal.
I suspect that the type of person who is capable of becoming a whistle-blower, is also a lot less institutionalized. I'm not surprised that he didn't finish high school, if he is an extremely critical thinker. There are a ton of things that don't make sense about our education system. It certainly doesn't make him dumb.

Whistle blowing can be considered an extremely irrational act. It is basically ruining this guys life. Most people would never accept that sacrifice on the off chance that their small action might contribute to positive change in the world, for future generations. It takes a certain type of person to do it. Someone who is so irrationally devoted to the truth that they can't help but ruin their own lives in the name of what they perceive as the truth. If he is sincere in his motivations, then I'm sure this isn't the first time that he has bucked a system.
I even remember using Time Machine with an SMB share in Tiger. You just had to enable a configuration option to make it work. Did later versions of OS X break that functionality?
That's not surveillance though.
sometimes I text or check email while driving, which I know I should not do

I don't mean to pick on you here. You are clearly aware, but it still needs to be said:

Please do not email, text, or even talk on a cell phone while driving. Driving is the most dangerous task that is socially acceptable for nonprofessionals to perform. It is very irresponsible to make such a task any more difficult than it needs to be.
Do you disagree? Let's discuss instead of downvoting.

Additional point: some think Assange's INSURANCE.AES256 was encrypted with AES-256 specifically because he knows that the NSA can crack or force this encryption method, so the US Government got a tipoff as to what Assange could release if his situation became dire.

What do you think?
I'd imagine they intend for a passenger to use the app, as for productionized self-driving cars -- I think the obsolescence of Waze is the least interesting thing about that scenario. :)
Waze actually has several features in place to make it safer:

* Waze is designed only to be used by a passenger. Any field that requires typing, etc. warns you if you're moving and makes you acknowledge that you are a passenger to continue.

* Waze has a hands-free capability where you can wave your hand in front of the phone and interact with Waze via voice. It actually works pretty well.

* The UI is designed with big buttons, so even if you choose to interact with Waze regularly, you can usually complete a road road report, etc. very quickly (1-2 seconds).

Regarding its "encouragement". I think alerts and the fact that they're available via audio as well reduces the risk. In the end, it's up the user to configure Waze according to how safe they want to be (which, hopefully is pretty safe).

(I'm a huge fan; I've been using Waze from the beginning. No attachment beyond that though)
These are not differences, these are similarities. Think about it for a second. Soviets had you register with the police where you were going, because there was no centralised database with that information. Today, the US government achieves exactly same result, but without making you go to the police station to register. Wherever you go, they can access your location on your phone, read your licence plates with street cameras,and do automatic face recognition in many cities. Do you see how this is a similarity, rather than a difference now?

The same with passports - they don't need to hold on to your passports, because they can just block you from going out of the country using a centralised system. Also, they can block you from coming back to US by placing you on a no-fly list, without any explanation - making you take a very long and expensive ship journey.

Telephones - soviets would openly monitor your phone calls. US government does it from hiding, not telling you that you might be wiretapped. Again, different method = same result.

Letters and Parcels - only letters are protected, parcels can be opened at anytime by any postal office worker, if they have a "reasonable" reason to.

Censorship - not done openly in the US, but again - there is no need for it. They keep everything you write saved for future use, so even though you can write whatever you want on your blog, it can still be used to prosecute you. It effectively is censorship in my opinion, even if it's not censorship per se.
It depends. But good point, I'll add this to the redemption key page on which providers automatically renew and which did not.

Thanks!
We pay absolutely zero attention to certifications. I literally don't know what's in the SANS program.

Not taking Cody's classes wouldn't harm you here, or at any other high-end firm that I'm aware of. But actually taking it would signal a particular interest and engagement with appsec, which is something I would pay attention to.

If there is some other forcing function you have to get you to actually practice software security and find vulnerabilities, that too would be valuable.
"Oh, fret not. It's a double encryption. See, if the first letter is a consonant, then what follows is the mirrored truth."
> I don't think men in suits with dark glasses popped into NYT offices with a pre-written story in hand.

Funny thing is that they probably did. They get there every day, with pre-written stories from several different sources. You can hire them for some $10k a month if you want. (I'm just not sure that they use suits.)
I agree that NPR is more reputable than most US news organizations (and I have pledged money in the past), but there was at least one incident (in the late 1990s) of Army PSYOP soldiers "interning" at NPR and CNN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_%28Un...
In my experience, Google Nav already does a wonderful job of noticing and routing people around "not moving" without Waze, so I'm not sure what the acquisition is about if not for the feedback channels which I do think are unsafe if not explicitly illegal to actually use in a lot of places unless you are a passenger and not the driver.

But also, I live in Southern California where car passengers are as mythical as unicorns.
I think the assumption here is that PRISM is just the reporting front end that handles dissemination.
Not true. If they are a dealer, then paperwork is required.

If they are a private individual (not in the business of selling firearms) then yes. But that's no different than buying a used deer rifle from your neighbor.
I hope that someone will make a OpenStreetMap version of Waze. As a project already based on user generated information, it seems more sensible than sending everything to Google.
As a someone from Europe (Germany), I can say that this whole affair is definitely a public relations disaster for the US over here. In the beginning, I was really unsure if regular people who are not members of the tech community would become aware of this or if it was perceived as to much of a niche topic.

Well, I guess that question has been answered: Yesterday tagesschau[1], the biggest and most trusted evening television news show carried a short segment about it. Today I read that Merkel herself wants to bring this up at her next meeting with Obama.

[1] http://www.tagesschau.de/multimedia/sendung/ts42578.html at about 7:30
The question isn't the authenticity of that document, it is the interpretation of that document. The only people who have seen the full presentation and are speaking about their interpretation are people who may not have the expertise to interpret it properly. That is where people can start to question Snowden's intellect or education.
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Is the "Early Bird" price sold out? The only available quantity in the menu is '0'.
If you have no way of recouping the cost of the class, the class isn't targeted at you. The most common pricing fallacy on HN (perhaps after cost-plus pricing) is the idea that every product must be targeted at all people to make sense.
You might try The Tangled Web. I've only read a few of the early chapters, but those at least seem good.

http://nostarch.com/tangledweb
btw, Snowden didn't work for the NPR. He was a contractor.
Who said that the cloud was dead in the first place?

The article title implies that you believe that the "cloud" is dead.

Too many dollars are flowing over that "cloud" for anyone to put it out to pasture.

I don't like the fact that transactions are being tapped either but implying that the cloud is dead...

Nope. Linkbait title.
"imagine if you could see real-time traffic updates from friends and fellow travelers ahead of you, calling out “fender bender...totally stuck in left lane!”"

Yandex Maps do that, like, forever by letting users to mark accidents, road works and other events on the road as they drive - for fellow drivers to see.
Works pretty fine and sometimes even a bit socially.
Really? Because AT&T went with Tropo over Twilio, and Tropo isn't nearly as big as Twilio.

What you'd do as an enterprise and what real enterprises would do are two different things.
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IANAL, but I'm pretty sure if any member of a conspiracy commits an act, then everyone in it can be held liable.
I am not a design expert. Far from it. I don't know shit about design. You know what I AM an expert in? What I like and don't like. You don't have to be a design expert to love something or hate something. You just need to know what you love or hate. I don't know who Andrew Sass is and don't give a shit how many awards his designs have earned... fuck him for telling me I can't have an opinion of what I like or don't like just because I'm not a design expert. You don't have to be a chef to know when someone is feeding you shit.
Exactly this. The most astounding difference between MP3 and FLAC I've ever heard was Teen Spirit by Nirvana. In the opening riff there's just such a huge difference in depth and clarity. On the MP3 everything sounds flat and lifeless, on the FLAC recording you can hear each individual thrum, every single vibration as the song spins into life. There's nothing quite like listening to lossless Nirvana through some nice headphones/speakers.
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In regards to his salary, isn't it possible that the 122k is his base salary? Perhaps he gets significant bonuses, stock options, etc. to the point where he and others would round up to "around 200K." It sounds like they are just doing whatever they can to put anything he says into the tiniest amount of doubt. Why would he lie about that? 122k is still a good salary for a sys admin,and I'm sure it would still impress most of the general public.
>You know, when you guys speak in literal terms of "chattel slavery" and "masters" it becomes very hard to take any point you're making seriously.

Very hard for the sheep, you mean.
For its traffic updates (Green/Yellow/Red) is does use some user collected data
> What causes the traffic whether it is construction, an accident or plain old traffic doesn't matter to me.

No, but knowing about what is causing the traffic can (if the analytics get advanced enough) make it easier for the central service to determine what the likely impact in the future (e.g., by the time you get to it) is likely to be, which is important.
It looks like that's the case. I only see 8 sales (out of the 10 total) but I believe that the tickets are being held pending payment. I'll update if I find out otherwise.

Hope to see you in class!
Absolutely nailed it with this comment, wish I could upvote this more than once. How is it still the case that nobody is doing anything about this? Is there anything we can do about it?

I mean, did anyone read the David Brooks article that was linked to? It was absolutely ridiculously stupid, and David Brooks is a very intelligent guy and experienced reporter -- there's got to be something going on there.

How could we all be so short-sighted as to focus on literally anything about Snowden, when anything about his personal life (which, as you mentioned, there is very little of any consequence) is dwarfed in importance by the fact that there's a gigantic network of lies around the government spying on us that still nobody has officially fessed up to?
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> how many uneducated sys admins do you know who can inspect a data store and actually understand what they're looking at

Sysadmin here. Most of the guys I've worked who lacked a proper CS education but were crackerjack IT folk. IT exists a bit between a trade and a profession and you'll get guys like me with a formal education and guys like Snowden without. For some guys, IT is their lives, its their only hobby and their only profession. Turns out you can learn a lot via practice.

>and also understand deeply how consumer encryption works.

You'd be a pretty lousy sysadmin for a NSA contractor if you didn't understand crypto on an fairly intimate level.

That said, yes, I'm sure there's some blustering here, but honestly, you don't need to be a master of everything to understand what is being stored, where, and how its being done. What the hell does Julian Assange know about fighting a war? Can he shoot a target from 1,000 meters? Does he know how to deploy an anti-tank weapon?

Sorry, but you really don't need to be the lead dev on PRISM to understand enough of it to make valid claims about it. Lets not be quite so elitist. Heck, 90% of startup culture is knocking the elites around with cheap disruptive tech.
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Ask HN: Anyone have ideas for an honours thesis project?
I'm currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Computer Science program and will be starting my final year this fall.

We have the opportunity to complete a thesis project or 2 smaller projects but the thesis project is required for an honours degree.

I would like to complete a thesis project but I am having troubles coming up with something to create.

I'm most comfortable with web development, php is my strongest server side language so far I'd say but have experience in others.

I've ordered a Raspberry Pi and have a bunch of electronic parts at my disposal, including XBee RF modules.

I've also scratched the surface of Python and Node.

I'm also not afraid of learning something completely different if it's a cool idea especially since I have the rest of the summer to learn something new.

Any suggestions would be great, even resources you may know of which have some cool ideas or content I may be able to get ideas from.

Thanks in advance!
[disclaimer: I work at CircleCI, which is in the Bundle].

Good question! I think a lot of devs get therapeutic enjoyment from setting up CI. It starts out as fun for the first few hours, while everything is new and exciting. However, it turns to disdain very quickly when:

- you need to remember how to set up postgres/rvm/lucene again

- you need to add a 2nd server and realize you now need to manage a cluster (and you didn't automate the first one!)

- you're away on vacation with your family, and someone calls you because the company CI server is down

- you realize the tests run too slowly and now need to figure out how to make them faster

- you get a bad performance review because of all the valuable engineer time you're wasting managing the CI server, which you could have outsourced for a fraction of the price

- you wonder how you turned into "the build guy" when you actually signed on to make great products.

These are the sort of problems that hosted CI like https://circleci.com solve for you :)
Brilliant. Would you like to write some slides for me?
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Not really sure what to make of this. What do you guys think?
Seconding the recommendation for both of these books. They're both sitting on my desk here and they're both excellent. Tangled Web does a great job of explaining why browser and web app security is in the state that it's in, and each chapter includes a "cheat sheet" at the end of things a developer can do to further secure his web app. Web Application Hacker's Handbook contains exactly what's on the tin: a pretty thorough explanation of how to pull of many of the common exploits, along with the explanation for how/why they work.
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