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NullCharacter

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    Comment #13638910

    You can extend this logic indefinitely. From the Futurama episode I Dated A Robot: > All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex.

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    Comment #13134715

    Completely agree with you. I fly tons for work, and was just fine until I got into my mid-late twenties when I started to have horrible anxiety. And like you, I don't necessarily f…

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    Comment #13066190

    Thank god for the military, America's backdoor to the middle class. Best decision I've ever made.

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    Comment #13027366

    Kinda not within the spirit of the exercise don't you think.

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    Comment #12805728

    Totally agree with you. I struggle to write a bio for companies I work for, can't imagine dedicating an entire website just to memorialize myself.

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    Comment #12511151

    He asked a general question regarding authorities to OGC. What's the bar of "availing" himself to a channel? If he sent an email to OGC asking how their weekend was, he would have …

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    Comment #12511122

    > If he was under duress he probably didn't have time to filter through the documents. Even if he had a bit of time, it's difficult to know what would be relevant as events unfolde…

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    Comment #12511027

    My point is how do you pardon someone for whistleblowing when literally 99.99% of what they took from a classified space has nothing to do with what they were supposedly blowing th…

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    Comment #12510968

    If you're going to leak 1.5 million documents and flee to China on the grounds of being a whistleblower after following proper channels, wouldn't you want to display some , any sor…

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    Comment #12510891

    > Is patently false. He did attempt to use those channels and was ignored [1] - at least once as confirmed by the NSA itself, and many other times according to him, which the NSA d…

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    Comment #12510855

    > WRONG - He has stated many times that he did approach all manner of "Oversight" people who basically told him to shut up. What happened to Tomas Drake and the others who tired th…

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    Comment #12017629

    IIRC, in this case the FBI served up a "diagnostic" executable to users. Since they're using Tor browser, in general, simply enabling Javascript won't do anything to de-anonymize t…

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    Comment #12011688

    I'd totally move to Transylvania. Wonder if I can still work remotely from there... I mean they're only 11 hours ahead of PST.

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    Comment #11979060

    Other guy in the video was Chris Hadnagy who literally wrote the book on social engineering. Cool dude, too. Great class if you ever get the chance to take it at Black Hat.

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    Comment #11955515

    I love how headlines like this are supposed to incite anger and fear. The article mentioned nothing about manipulating "social media" (like reddit or HN as the headline would lead …

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    Comment #11852834

    I'll weigh in; work (remotely) for a startup in the Bay Area, around 100k salary with .5% equity. I'm hoping to have more equity granted to me in the form of options in the coming …

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    Comment #11757488

    Firetrucks carry water.

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    Comment #10472009

    I can almost guarantee the people against ALPR are most likely the same people who have no problem throwing a camera in somebody's face in your local Starbucks or something, and th…

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    Comment #10416705

    As someone in the computer science/cyber security field who didn't go to college, I tend to agree with this article in a few ways. Having no college degree has really hindered me i…

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    Comment #10406970

    But the point is a botnet could, instead of mining bitcoins for example, stream content of which the rights are owned by the botnet operator.

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    Comment #10400178

    If you had bought this picture for $2 later to find out it's worth $5,000,000, would you feel an obligation to share some of the proceeds with the shop from which it was purchased?…

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    Comment #10298532

    I used quotes because I don't know if it's actually possible to assassinate the character of a government organization, in the sense that I'm not sure if a government organization …