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I think they wanted hardware support, which means that much of it is set in stone.
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We aren't even sure if the encryption algos are even safe.
This book covers a lot of the material: http://www.amazon.com/The-Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook/d...
As an ex military & civilian space contractor... there are people perfectly capable of developing slides similar to the ones posted. However - you'd be blasted by the (client) for the lack of the agency logo, program logo, and colors. The usage of colors can even be an issue. Depending on the audience the color red and variations of red will indicate that the line of communication is classified, as does purple depending on the system. For example - the army would hate the use of blue because it's an Air Force color and Navy color.

I use to try to make my slides and diagrams pretty and every time I did I was blasted which led to my disgruntled feelings towards my job. Hence why I'm no longer in this industry.
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Minor correction, it was not attacked to access accounts of human rights campaigners. It was leaked 2 months ago that Google lied about this and that the actual purpose was to see which of China's spies google were watching under NSL/FISA orders. So yes it was clearly Prism that they were accessing.
So what's the link here? Are these reporters actually agents? Are they in the pay of the security services? Are they being blackmailed by the security services? Are they doing it voluntarily, but in partnership with the intelligence services, out of an IC-cultivated sense of patriotic duty? Or is it all just coincidence and these reporters all genuinely think like this of their own volition?

I mean, obviously the answer is "all of the above," like it always is, but I'd like to hear some informed speculation.
And what if quite simply Snowden isn't the leak, he's a character created specifically for this to occur. Whether you're defending or attacking "Snowden", the reality is you're not focusing on the bigger issue at hand.
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>Sorry to go slightly off-topic, but what is the evidence that the FISA courts are rubber stamps rather than really doing their job? I'm not being snarky, I just haven't seen any (but I have heard FISA called that a lot)

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin...

There have been nearly 34K requests to the FISA court. It has rejected 11.
Speaking of ad hominem attacks ...
All representatives support these programs, they're all part of the state; none of them are striking against it, get your head out of the sand.

Unless you're ready to remove the power structures, you're as much a part of the problem as any other taxpayer.
Catch 22. Worth remembering that this is a secret program, governed by "secret law", run by secret police, with strong penalties (including international manhunts) for those who expose abuses. You want us to rattle off incidents? Then start by giving whistleblowers immunity to actually report abuses.

The "secret law" part is the one that really floors me. The FISA court orders are themselves secret. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. But knowledge of secret law is itself a crime.

America is now watched by secret police.
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The parent's second paragraph addresses that. He may have misinterpreted or not have understood what he was looking at. As the above noted, some of his remarks already seem questionable.

How would that be any different, even if he had, say, a Ph.D. from Harvard? "Paper" credentials and knowledge/talent/wisdom hardly have a guaranteed correlation. Anybody can misinterpret or misunderstand things.

Sorry to go slightly off-topic, but what is the evidence that the FISA courts are rubber stamps rather than really doing their job? I'm not being snarky, I just haven't seen any (but I have heard FISA called that a lot)

Well, I'd take it as suggestive that they only deny .03% of the requests they receive[1].

Also, there's a fair amount of additional information on FISA/FISC here:

http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/fisa/fisc.html

[1]: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/fisa-court-nsa-spyin...
For that low taxes you get:
1. Awful state clinics
2. Corrupt police
3. Poor public infrastructure
4. Irresponsible government
So, you have to pay separately for security, for medicine etc.
Post author here. If you tell me where you're stumbling, I might be able to fix it.

You could also check out this post by sigfpe, one of my favorite posts on monads: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monad...
> The fact that he didn't have to complete high school, (he does have a GED) to get a job at Booz paying $200k/year should be speak to his intelligence.

Alternatively, I'd read the smear this way: A guy who could not even finish high school could do this much damage to the NSA, which speaks to how broken the leadership is there. Many heads should roll.
He also had access to the FISA court order. And Greenwald says he has been given "thousands" of documents.
Having a degree I can attest that formal education contributes very little if the student is unmotivated.
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>The site is really cool but to me feels too much like a fancy Flash page of old, just made with HTML. It's simply not as effective at presenting information as a traditional, scrollable webpage, for instance you can't use your browser's in-page search to look for keywords.

This makes the assumption that the raw details is the only information they want to convey.

Communication works in many levels. The presentation (form) level is just as important. The designed this way to communicate inside the very the design of the page ideas about the exclusiveness, high-techness (sic), etc of the product.

I'd say this implicit stuff is even more important to them than the actual raw information.
While this is off topic from the NSA story, and the article I'm linking to is from 2009, the conditions for tomato pickers in Florida could be described as slavery with slave masters in the United States. I don't believe things have gotten substantially better for them.

http://boingboing.net/2009/02/26/slavery-among-florid.html
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I'm the creator. I didn't want to use a captcha, but had to put one on with all the demand. I'll switch to an easier one, if anyone has any other ideas let me know! Requiring signing in with a google account would also stop abuse, but that seems equally annoying.
7digital have a few too, I made a list here: http://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2012/02...
You are right in some things but lack the proper balance. Because...

Do we know what clearance he had?

Yes, he was a sysadmin. But, at what level?

And again, the fact that he did not have an "education" but was granted a $180K job speaks for itself on his professional capabilities.

So, balance is needed. Yes, on the two plates of the scale.
you can also rewrite `half . half $ 8` as `half <=< half $ 8` in the identity monad. So if you aren't sure what monad you need, you can write the code against the identity monad and then change the monad later when you need to add logging.

An example where this shines is writing interpreters. You can write a "calculator" interpreter in identity monad, then add an environment (functions and lexical scope), then add errors, then make the environment mutable, then add continuations and try/catch. The core eval loop does not change as you implement new keywords like 'def' or 'throw'. In an imperative interpreter, each feature is coupled with the interpreter core.

I've done this in python but writing pure code in python is so crappy that it's not even worth sharing. Here is a short blog post though with code samples:

http://www.dustingetz.com/2012/10/02/reader-writer-state-mon...
I guess this will be a test to see what Americans are made of... or rather what they've been turned into...
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Manning was an intelligence analyst, not a sys admin. He leaked materials which were given to him. Under what scenario is it imaginable that someone like Snowden could actually access the things he's mentioned?
That's not actually what he said.

I maintain that there's a meaningful difference between "often wrong" and "almost all" wrong and "assume all claims are bogus" and "view claims skeptically." One approach is a license to intellectual laziness (defeatist) and the other requires effort but can reap benefits.
Just to play devil's advocate:

We don't really know much about this situation. Just what Snowden (and the press) have decided to tell us. This could be "Collateral Murder" all over again, a decidedly one sided view of the situation (after all, it's a bit far fetched to think the NSA is monitoring basically all US Internet traffic through some backdoor program that would be difficult to implement secretly). If you buy that we can't possibly know the whole story, his character and motivation is definitely worth exploring.
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Reading this thread, I see that it works very well :)

People arguing, dividing, burying themselves into the details of exact salary figures and GED scores.

Spies, they know their craft :)
Thanks for the clarification.

But now that I think about it, when I'm walking out of the office, I want to know whether I should take "Route A", "Route B" or "Route C" to get home.

What causes the traffic whether it is construction, an accident or plain old traffic doesn't matter to me. I wish Google Now (GN) would tell me that instead of me having to double check by clicking the alternate routes button in navigation. Sometimes GN does not suggest the quickest route for me even though a $1.33 toll road may save me 20 minutes.
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I believe part of the thinking was: the leaker will be found eventually, who do you want to start the story about the leaker? If some government agency were to unveil Snowden's identity they could cast him in whatever light they chose from the very first image (who looks like a defender of freedom in a mugshot?)

Look what happened to Bradley Manning, the first public image of him was his chat confession and a huge amount of deeply personal details that really had nothing to do with the leak.
Great for Waze, good for Google, but I feel like a lot of the value (from Google's perspective) is stopping Apple (or FB) getting Waze.
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It's true that Orwell was a much better writer of nonfiction than he was of fiction, but, oddly, reading Burmese Days is what made me realize that. I think it's my favorite of his novels because it's so personal. (Although you can almost get everything you need to know about Burmese Days in much less time by reading "Shooting an Elephant.")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_an_Elephant
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Wikipedia lists a few cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto#As_plaintiff
Or NPR, The NYT etc. aren't as good a sources of news as you think, and you just haven't noticed until they covered a story in your domain that you are passionate about. I used to listen to NPR everyday. In my opinion they are one of the better sources of news in America, but they are far far far from unbiased. They are very good at making it look like they are showing all sides, but they are in fact presenting things in away that supports their ideological bent.
His lack of education is relevant because when you have at least some understanding of the depth of complex systems, it becomes very hard to imagine that a self-taught person has enough knowledge to speak competently about multiple such systems.

No it isn't. I know plenty of self-taught people who are highly skilled and understand very complex systems. In this field more than probably any other, there's less reliance on "paper" credentials and formal education and people routinely achieve high knowledge/skill levels without all the formality.

As far as I'm concerned, his high-school education, or lack thereof, is a total red herring.
To quote jessedhillon from another comment on this article:

Snowden did have a difficult time in HS and he does not possess a formal CS/technical education. He was a sys admin, not an engineer. His claims, in that light, do seem bizarre and uninformed. I mean, ffs he seemed to insinuate in the Guardian interview that the NSA keeps a list of undercover assets and he had access to it!? These are the people who created selinux -- if I extend him some credibility, I doubt greatly that he had any real idea what it is he was looking at.
Elsewhere he talks about every machine being bugged and things like that. And the tapping he claims to have intimate knowledge of -- that kind of stuff would be happening inside of some kind of data store, maybe like Apache Accumulo which the NSA also developed. Let alone the implications of what he's saying on the security of all crypto systems everywhere -- how many uneducated sys admins do you know who can inspect a data store and actually understand what they're looking at, and also understand deeply how consumer encryption works.
And this all presumes that the NSA's systems are so poorly configured that a contractor in HI could access all this. My verdict is that all he had was some slideshow that he turned over to the Guardian, the rest is a bullshit story.

Personally, I don't think what he's saying is 'a bullshit story', I just know the only definitive facts we have right now are the PRISM slides.
They'd allegedly get lucrative govenment contacts cancelled:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying

It has also been suggested that the insider trading charge were trumped up as retribution, in that the CEO was accused of purchasing shares with 'insider' knowledge of government contacts, but that he was prohibited by law from publicly disclosing those contracts.
I disagree with you that flying is a "choice" that turns airport security into an opt-in procedure.
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I wonder what these idiots throwing around the commie card think about the fact that Snowden donated money to Rand Paul.
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There's been a lot of concern about NSA and general government snooping on our web traffic, including Skype and various forms of communication.

What is your preferred method of encrypting browsing, Skype calling, email, etc? What methods do you use to keep your information safe?
No, you're missing the point. It's not about obscuring anything from SEC scrutiny. The SEC sees everything that is going on. You don't even have to have used insider knowledge to be tagged with insider trading; the SEC says that it's enough to have had access to insider information to be guilty of insider trading. It does nothing about it because it would render Wall Street moot. Insider trading is so vaguely defined and broadly applied that it is a rule meant to be broken so they have something to blackmail you over when they decide they want to shove you around over something else.
Downloads are not illegals. Copyright-protected uploads are illegal.
How would you use lots of bandwidth after you created the servers?
This is purely a hypothesis, but our generation has been raised to believe that failure is a bad thing, that must be avoided at all costs, rather than something that happens and is learned from.

Having a successful career meant going to a top college, which meant getting straight As in AP classes in High School. This mentality continues through college. Want to be a lawyer? The only way you are going to do that with any success these days is to go to one of about a dozen law schools, which getting anything less than a 3.5 GPA pretty well disqualifies you from. Want to be a doctor? It takes a similar GPA to get into med school.
The FISA cases that authorize surveillance are secret. Laws used to prosecute people are not.
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No, you really can't. Plan 9 wasn't a modification of the Research Unix they used at the Labs, it was a new operating system because Unix couldn't implement the required abstractions in an orthogonal way. Plan 9 replaces the abstractions offered by Unix with different new ones; you can't just add new abstractions on top of old ones. It's a completely different world, different process and security models which are incompatible with the old models. Linux wouldn't be Linux anymore. One reason why you would want Linux with Plan 9 semantics instead of Plan 9 is because Linux has a lot of drivers. Unfortunately, the I/O model is a consequence on how Plan 9 does things, and if you want Plan 9 semantics in Linux you'd have to modify all the drivers. Every driver that uses IOCTLs would have to be modified, which is pretty much every one of them.

Plus, whatever you did, there's the small matter of Linux people accepting you changes. A Linux fork is useless; if it's not in mainline, it doesn't exist. Historically the Linux folks haven't been very happy with these kind of changes...
I don't see how fleeing tyranny is more American than standing and fighting it.
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Quite a bit - not total kernel access, given the GPL symbol table export restrictions, but at least as much as a process running as root in user space.

That said, it's quite likely that such malicious behavior would be detected by somebody.
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I'm excited about this. I actually wouldn't mind if Waze was shut down instead of the 3-year period, as long as Google assimilated all of its technology.

It would be fantastic to have Google both data mining traffic data (as it does now) and also combining this with user-volunteered traffic reports. Each technology has something to offer the other, and it will be really cool to bring in the best of both worlds. I'm very confident about this acquisition, it feels like it wasn't just an acqui-hire.
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Long time member. Today we've begun pushing weartolook, something we've been working on now for a good couple of years. Its been a crazy journey, we could probably write the book on how not to launch your startup.

We're 2 London based founders that are totally self-taught programmers, we have over 300 of the UK's (and some from the US) best stores on board: Topshop, Urban Outfitters, Harrods, Saks Fifth, Net-a-porter to name a few and today we have >3m products.

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Probably because SysAdmins are fervent about customization. If a simple tool pops up like this, the demands for complex features overwhelms the product and brings it all the way back to the complex nightmare it's always been.

Developers are more accepting of "Sane Defaults" as Rails has proven, but not enough hosting providers are interested in selling to developers. I have a feeling this will change sooner rather than later as the fields continue to merge.
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This is the first public showing of my MVP, so its obviously not completely polished. I have been busy over the last couple of months beavering away to get this from concept to creation, and so far I am fairly pleased with the core workings of it.

As an avid web developer / geek / gamer / tech lover I find myself constantly finding projects or products I am interested in and want to follow. Some have social profiles, websites and blogs, but for the majority these are often left untapped in letting the public know about what they are working on. It becomes difficult and time consuming to follow so many different things manually, especially with the likes of kickstarter, indie developers, fast moving technology, and the current trend of innovation announcing awesome new things at a lightning pace.

Eventually these things get forgotten or fall into a mass of other saved links and rarely if ever get found again. I therefore tasked myself with creating a web service that would track those projects and then remind myself / the user about them at the appropriate times.

Thus, Hype Badger (http://www.hypebadger.com) was born

Initially I am looking for some feedback from the community, so ideally if you could let me know:
- what you think of the concept of the site / service
- what you like best
- what you like least
- what you think its missing
- if its a service you would / could use

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Is there a good beginner's guide to learning about that sort of thing? I'll use whatever works, even arcane and ugly landing pages.
If they have time to find phone sex/salacious/tantalizing calls, they have time to find "the dirt" on Representatives and Senators. No wonder the NSA/"intelligence community" gets their way every time. Vote against it, and some weird dirt from your past comes up.

Google "jane harman alberto gonzalez" for just one public example.
>At any rate, we know the basic details of his story are true, as BAH confirmed that he worked there, and the government has not denied that the PRISM slides and the FISA court order are real.

They have said there are inaccuracies in the PRISM report. As have all the companies allegedly involved. It doesn't take a CS expert to look at PRISM with some skepticism. All we have is a powerpoint and a guy who claims to know stuff.
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Elsewhere it's been put forward that his actual salary was $122k.

You are making my point -- we know nothing, very little, and what is known has numerous large red flags. Those flags would be obvious to most HN readers in another context, but emotions are high on this one -- it presses all of this crowd's persecution triggers.
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