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You can't be serious? Here's them asking for regulation of digital arms: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/03/zero-day-exploit-sales...

John's blog post sure has a hell of a lot of conjecture and opinions in it for someone so hellbent on discrediting closed source forensic tools for doing the same. John would have …

Why did anyone need this challenge in the first place? Couldn't someone have justed ASKED a good exploit developer what they would do and what the impact is? No, I guess we're all …

What in this article associates USAID with the intel community? The fact that they both use technology?

Ask any random person what they think of when you say "hacker." PROTIP: it's not your typical employee of some random consumer web startup, working 12 hour days and pounding redbul…

NSA collects intelligence from people so that US policymakers make informed decisions (like about Russia invading Crimea or how badly Malaysia is lying to the world), same as every…

Why anyone would voluntarily MITM their own data and hand ALL of it over to a single company (and a single point of failure) is totally beyond me. It's a market failure that servic…

“When they deploy malware on systems,” Hypponen says, “they potentially create new vulnerabilities in these systems, making them more vulnerable for attacks by third parties.” Real…

Playing devil's advocate here. What harm was done by this? Was it really deserving of a news article and, further, a post on Hacker News? Now, maybe if there is a company out there…

just wanted to say it's great seeing security integrated into such a product from the start!

"Physicists and computer scientists have long speculated about whether the NSA’s efforts are more advanced than those of the best civilian labs. Although the full extent of the age…

That's a pretty amazing hyperbole from kaepora (twitter description of incident vs actual e-mail response from Apple). And later, Apple accepted the fix: https://github.com/cryptoc…

Tough talk from someone who can't even be bothered to use PGP. There are lots of people doing real good out there, like Moxie Marlinspike with BitHub, the kickstarter audit of True…

Scumbag Hacker News: Admires spies only after they're dead.