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Very, very few people would through themselves in front of a bus the size of the US government to save an honest stranger.

That's exactly my point. This is not a situation he should have been in. In our current political environment, absolutely, his actions were heroic. But all he did was what he should have done. That the potential consequences for that are so horrifying is what makes this entire situation incredibly wrong.
Honestly I don't see much merit in this suit and suspect nothing will come of it. No human is "reading" your email in so much as an SMTP server "reads" it to know where to route your email next.

Automated scanning is inherent in allowing gmail to be free. You submit to this when singing up for the service. 3rd party users emailing a plaintext email across the internet also have no expectation of privacy, just like mailing a postcard to someone across the world.
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I doubt they expected him to shutter the entire site. I'd imagine they'd rather have had Snowden's email.
exactly. did you even read my paranoid theory? :)

all they want is that FF and IE be as permissive as Chrome so they can track everyone via cross-domain font requests. As they already do with DNS and free CDN for js libs.
I've donated. It's a very honorable thing to do, stand up for other peoples freedom in the face of personal losses and pain. Such an act should be supported and praised.

Although there is a very long way to go, America currently seems to be on path towards East Germany or China style surveillance.

”Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.“ - Lyndon B. Johnson
> There is no such conflict in the Mega emails. Kim Schmitz is show repeatedly to be concerned solely with maximizing the value of the content Mega stores to users. The operators of Megaupload are repeatedly shown to be aware of specific infringing content --- sometimes because they themselves used it, sometimes because their users pointed it out, and in some cases because they paid to have it put there.

Agree with everything you wrote except the above. Basically the disagreement is on the source materials - one is a naive Viacom and the other is an indictment. So I think the indictment is cherrypicked "better" than Viacom managed.

If e.g. the FBI/DOJ were going after youtube I think they would have quoted more selectively than Viacom did.

Unless the full text of Mega's emails are out there - I can't be sure there's no conflict, I'm sure someone could dredge up him ordering something taken down.

Again with "repeatedly" and "specific" - the youtube emails, for all their conflict are repeated and specific, many times. There's also instances of youtube employee's grabbing stuff from other sites and putting it there themselves, which mega are accused of. I'm pretty sure with youtube's channel system, copyrighted content is paid to be put there in the same manner, though I'm not sure how youtube's early users were compensated.

I doubt the thought occured to them to bring a criminal case against youtube - that's one of the points I'm wildly speculating on - or if it was the case, lobbying stemmed it.

I'll have a read of the ruling:
(PDF) http://www.legalbytes.com/uploads/file/Viacom-YouTube%20%28G...
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For a moment, I thought about what might happen if I donated.

Then, I thought about what might happen if I don't.
If everyone thinks like you then there might be consequences.

But, if everyone donates without regard of consequences then there will be none. So just donate!
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>> art of what distinguishes libertarianism from anarchism is that it does acknowledge the utility of a government, and very few libertarians would deny one of its primary, legitimate duties is public safety.

No true libertarian...
Neat, how does this work? It seems to violate the idea of the internal Tor web.
If I read the article correctly, the Lavabit founder was unwilling to give up the private key because it would compromise all users, not just Snowden.
I like it. Could you possibly add functionality to break it down by topics? For instance, searching "government shutdown" would produce top trending relevant shares.
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That's the thing though. We know that as of very recently the NSA is helping other alphabet agencies construct cases in parallel. If you knew the guy's name or handle or whatever information the NSA could have given the FBI then coming up with an alternate story of how they ID'd the guy (page 24 onwards in the criminal complaint) would be incredibly easy. The point is that we'll probably never know either way.
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Well, theoretically you could make an implementation which reads the QR code then displays what would have been posted to the server. Via a web-browser extension, you could then type this into a form field and have that log you in. You could base<something> encode it to make it a little easier.

So, it seems feasible offline with online required only for convenience.
Personally, even if the design is ok, I don't care to give this chucklehead any publicity. Maybe the blind squirrel found a nut (see what I did there? SQRL?) by getting a design right. Doesn't mean it's anything particularly clever, or that we should use it and give him something to base his incessant self-promotion on for the next 20 years.
Ok, One or two $100+ trackballs have it. While all sub $50 mouses are over 3000DPI...
How is SimplyInsured going to deal with the long-term move of health insurance towards single payer?
If you start from the premise of not accepting an answer like "no, not under any circumstances", then the request certainly seems like the logical escalation.

Hence the need to develop systems for which the first "no" is the only "no": "no, we don't have the client-side encryption keys, and there's no way for us to give them to you, nor is there any way for you to surreptitiously insert them into the Open Source client software without being noticed, nor are we obligated to accept your patches introducing security holes which will effectively destroy our entire business/project credibility".

It needs to be more difficult to use your project as a tool for surveillance than it is to personally compromise a specific end-user system.

(That's not to say we shouldn't pursue legislative solutions eliminating the requests in the first place: we need to fight surveillance capabilities on both fronts, legal and technical.)
>"As someone in the same position that has debated this endlessly in their own head -- its not going to be really 'worth' it. VZW has the best network around, being grandfathered in on unlimited data is a serious boon."

I felt the same way until I used a T-Mobile Nexus 4 side-by-side with my Verizon GN for a while. At least where I live and work I get consistently better speeds with the Nexus 4.

I can't say for certain, but it feels like Verizon service has gotten dramatically worse over the last year or two. It's not the phone as I have access to dozens across multiple carriers.

I've been telling myself that unlimited data will be valuable going forward for years now, but looking back I rarely crack 2-3GB in a month.

I expect that I've only gotten real value out of the unlimited plan and Verizon coverage while traveling.

For now, I plan to switch.
Finally, a way for people to choose which jobs are "non-essential."
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I want to help, and am not afraid of the consequences. The government is not going to go after an individual for funding another's defense fund, and if they do, I guess I used my life for the right reasons.
Totally agree, these all fit the bill far better and with far less opacity than SOAP and it's ilk.
I don't quite see what part makes them terrible here. Could you elaborate a little on that? Is it just that they never got back to you?
No, the dichotomy between incompetence and evil comes from the situation. The Razor is just an illustration.

There are only two choices here. Either they want people to read their articles and are doing a bad job of it (incompetence) or they are luring people under false pretenses and preventing them from doing what they want (evil). There is no third way.

"Motivations perhaps not understood" is just a way of saying that we may not know why they're being evil.
How does the feds kool aid taste dude ? " they tried to do it the "right" way "... there is no right way in tyrany.
this has nothing to do with 1984 -- DPR was very sloppy, this is an indication that TOR works.

I'm betting a dozen entrepreneurs are looking at this right now thinking "I can do this better" and are designing their systems as this is happening.
It would be awesome if ascii.io could be integrated with this
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I agree there; asking for the SSL key didn't work and it created bad PR for the government.
As the old adage goes: freedom ain't free. There is fear either way - the real question is what do you want the fear get you?
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So, does Xtreme Labs build custom mobile apps for enterprises? It is sort of hard to cut through all the buzzword bingo in the article.
How do you log in to a mobile site if you have to use your phone to scan the code?
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I didn't mean "amoral" as an insult, and I don't think you're amoral. You just seem that way sometimes (to me) in your apparent reluctance to view things[1] from the perspective of how they might be improved (i.e. how they "ought" to be), and rather argue about consequences (the way things are), with little regard for the justice of the larger machine that generates those consequences.

[1] Social / political / judicial / law enforcement things in particular. You've argued lots of times about how things can be positively changed wrt crypto, security etc.

PS: I don't think it's bias. Your perspective is also biased; it's just differently biased than the group average here. Your perspective is welcome and often refreshing.
I actually think that if your focus is PhD/academic research positions, you're not so much taking a different angle as having a different conversation. The attractiveness of a post-doc in biology is barely relevant at all to the attraction of a dev job at Google or a Silicon Valley startup, for instance. And I might be biased because I am a professional developer, but that's the context I've always thought of for these conversations.
Here my biases as a secure software engineer may be coloring my comments, because to my mind, building an architecture which solicits sensitive data from clients but fails to preclude the disclosure of those secrets without enormous engineering effort is the same thing as conceding that such disclosure is possible.

Imagine a mail service that operated solely as a Tor hidden service and required all users to use PGP --- for instance, by checking the contents of mail messages to ensure they were encoding them, and rejecting them if they weren't. That's a service that might reasonably make a promise not to cooperate with a court order.

Lavabit didn't have that system and instead had to make a difference promise: that they would shutter the enterprise before cooperating with a court. And so they did.
So if a site shows ads for its sister sites it's less intrusive then an ad for a pizza?
Sure. I'm not a definition Nazi; you can define it how you want.

I'd say something like "any start-up focused on innovating in journalism."
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Seems co-incidental and not totally unrelated to the general panic in the markets this week as we near the debt ceiling deadline. I personally am quite bullish on Tesla.
The full text of Mega emails are included in the indictment. If Viacom could have quoted anything of a similar magnitude, they absolutely would have. You should read the indictment. It's damning. And fun reading!
> I'm saying from DPR's point, was it that bad of a move?

I guess it depends on whether you're factoring in the "on trial for attempted murder" angle.
I have no idea, I've never actually uploaded anything to youtube.
It is certainly a marketing gimmick to call this a MEMS camera. MEMS here is used just to move the (usual) lens around for focusing the image on the (usual) sensor. Agreed that this may bring advantages, but "MEMS camera" may now deceive thousands of people into thinking it to be a fundamentally different type of camera, which it is not.

This is no different than LED TVs where the fundamental component that actually synthesizes the pictures is still LCD, just the back-light uses LEDs instead of CFLs.
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Maybe. But intelligence is an odd enterprise.

Two hundred years ago, intercepting signals was extremely difficult. They were sent by courier in envelopes. Couriers are crafty and the backwoods perimeter long.

150 years ago, they could be sent by wire and this meant both an explosion of signals, but also a corresponding ease of identifying the route by which they would be passed.

In the early 20th century, radio increased the volume of signals, but again interception became easier to the point that there were many so many locations from which an antenna could be used that the development of encryption and decryption methods became the most important task in signals intelligence.

Today, anything could be important. And the NSA, being charged with national security assumes that you and I may very well be up to no good. There job is to be paranoid, and they are good at it.

Building a massive security apparatus, so far as I am aware, has never led to a more liberal political regime. While anecdote is not evidence, I don't see how one can make a strong case that the current state of affairs is the result of increasing liberalization.
Thank you for your suggestion! Yes, I am introducing these features very soon :)
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Idealism, maybe. His discourse is pretty self-consistent, he may actually believe it.
Being in San Francisco is er kind of stupid...
I remember enjoying reading the indictment, but I don't recall all of Mega's emails being there, that's what I was getting at. Given a sufficiently large sample - I'm sure you could find exonerating material.
Well, once you know, then it's 'obvious', just like a good murder mystery is obvious in retrospect. But that's hindsight bias talking. If you don't know that he's DPR, he just comes off as another libertard, of which there must be hundreds of thousands online.
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It seems like the basic idea isn't unique. I was thinking of something similar a while back and found https://tiqr.org while looking for similar ideas.
I'm failing to see what this has to do with the threat model that port knocking addresses. Suffice it to say that an attacker who has access to your SSH identity file has with virtually total certainty access to your SSH passphrase as well.
Why would you believe that someone has compromised thousands of your users without evidence? It's the sort of thing you'd naturally expect someone to lie about. Furthermore, if such were the case, it would be egregiously stupid of Ulbricht not to change the way he protects user identities, and there's no indication he did that either.

After all, if friendlychemist did in fact have information on thousands of drug dealers, he ought to be able to get a pretty good asking price from the government, so why would he even contact Ulbricht in this scenario?
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I agree with both answers.

I think that UML is one of many available options to document your stuff. The funny thing is that, like many other things, UML was specified in a way that is not practical to be followed 100% so people use it as they see fit and that's ok.

The other important point is to take into account your stakeholders. Developers (myself included) are also stakeholders so in many situations I create documentation for my future-self since it's the best way to remember that was the context at the time or how that weird stuff that is ran once in a while is done.
California legalized medical marijuana and has reduced overall penalties, so I don't see how your comparison is remotely relevant.
If you want two factors for SSH authentication, you can and should set up a two-factor auth system, like Duo.
Presently no, as we use google hangouts to do most of the video chat. We have plans for our enterprise clients to provide straight email sign up in the future.
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So like Google Drive?

Not to incriminate myself or anything, but I have been given copyrighted documents with Google Drive. (Though I've ingested many orders of magnitude more copyrighted documents through youtube...)
What? So then when I log in to my bank it's really 3-factor?
In further keeping with the truly bizarre nature of government shutdowns, the O.M.B. also reminded government officials that they should pay no attention to whether it will cost more to shut down their Web site than it does to keep it going
Then the US could have simply moved up to asking for the private key to the wildcard certificate or certificate authority to do the requisite MITM.
A mirror and a front facing camera :-)
Hopefully they figure out how to stop it. Single payer is a horrible idea and generally lowers the standard of care for everyone.
I assume that in addition to the QR code there would be a link that would trigger an intent to open the authentication app with the necessary data. At least on Android that's how it could work.
How do you exonerate the guy who has one of his users complain that a pirated Dexter video has poor quality and then complains to his team about the low quality of the pirated Dexter videos on his site? He's been caught red handed.

The only argument I've ever heard that could exculpate Schmitz is that "perhaps the video uploads could have been authorized." But that beggars belief. No reasonable person on a jury would buy that Schmitz seriously entertained the idea that those videos were authorized uploads.
>his bitcoin holdings will be presumably appreciating in value

That would be quite the presumption.
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Sign in with Google? Yeah, why not. Sign in with NSA?

Sounds like a good idea, the guys from techzing were trying to build something similar. I can really use a CSS expert right now to polish my web site. Any alternatives to airpair.com outhere?
Why not pay the workers on mturk a reasonable rate of $12 - $15 an hour?

Isn't the wage set by YOU, the employer?
Good to hear, it would be nice if I could subscribe to some sort of newsletter to be alerted of your updates.
Thing is, cars catch on fire [1]. I'm not really going to panic about TSLA stock until there is more evidence of it being an unusually high incidence rate.

[1] http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?5139847-Worst-exot....
>> What's really fun is when you need to start accounting for, say, the electrostatic interactions between atoms in your gear design!

They do, though often to avoid device failures. Search for "MEMS Stiction"
His idea as it is now is new (at least to me) and practical. Most people don't have the time to care what he said or did before.
And giving up the SSL key for Snowden wouldn't give them anything useful, since he's probably not checking his US-based email anymore. (And SSL should be in perfect forward secrecy mode, so the private key can't be used to decrypt past sessions.)
Currently: heh, good point.

Future: bookmarklet / plugin / browser support that detects the code on the page.