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> Parallel construction does NOT allow law enforcement to I think we're beyond this point now. There is no "what we are allowed to do" vs "what we are not allowed to do". From what…

See the comments above about mobile networks and persistent sockets.

Because AFAIR, you need to point to two working implementations of a spec before turning it into an RFC.

No Google-snooping, and there never will be.

Wow, great comment. That's the first time I've wanted to buy someone Reddit Gold on Hacker News!

I've read a few and they have been really good reads. If there were more swear words, I would have said that Zed Shaw was his ghost writer.

I just have to say that you're one of my favorite bloggers. Thanks for all your posts.

Thanks cypherpunks01. I flagged it for my to-read list for after work. I'm an idiot and didn't RTFA.

Did your post have to go through some sort of internal review before you were allowed to publish it? I find it weird that you're allowed to blog, let alone blog about the NSA.

This reminds me of: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp

"You mean everybody had to sit down and watch the same thing at the same time?" -- kids of the tomorrow

This isn't where the line was crossed. Far from it. Even though eavesdropping on the everyday citizen is a pretty damning thing to do, in their eyes it isn't illegal so they can't …

When someone without knowledge in the markets tells you to buy something, it's time to get out. They either heard that golden advice either on TV, the radio or read it in a newspap…

> These sorta articles invalidate what I make just because I FEEL like making them. Not sure what to feel about that. Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but I've learned something…

Without a doubt turning on the following was the biggest win for me and Vim: set relativenumber

Gee, she is pretty hard on herself in the post. “Right, well, it’s because you’re young and female.” But I don't think that was the reason... "After lengthy negotiations including …

We're already in Iceland - from http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/07/03/a-story-of-leaping-second... "We have a complete live-spare datacentre in Iceland. Eventually it will be a fully …

Like what Bron mentioned above: 'Which comes back to the point I've been trying to make all along here. In the most serious extreme, nowhere in the world is "safe"' Do you have any…

"I can only imagine just how incendiary such headlines might become: US Seizes Australian Servers in NSA/FBI/Scary-three-letter-name US Agency Sting Operation. That'd go over real …

We're no longer Norwegian :) http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st...

A 14 minute video on how to wake up early? Without watching it, here's my strategy: 1. Set alarm 2. Wake up

Before deleting my account, I unsubscribed from several groups. Yet two weeks later I was still getting daily updates from the unsubscribed groups. Also, even though I had unsubscr…