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Don't apologize - factcheck.org is right; thehill.com is wrong. Just go back to the original FBI report here:[1]. None of the e-mails were properly marked; three e-mails chains con…

This is an installation banner, as in: "You've successfully installed LNMP" From the LNMP GitHub page: This script is written using the shell, in order to quickly deployLEMP/LAMP/L…

CNN and the Washington Post both reported that WhatsApp and Telegram were found on several of the Paris attackers' phones, but that the content wasn't able to be recovered. http://…

From your link: (c) The term “confidential communication” includes any communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desi…

Absolutely. If a business is offering services that a customer is using to commit a crime, the police wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't go down and ask for logs.

That's interesting. They've come pretty close to that line in the past... https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/tea-party-taxes-and-wh...

Probably about as much as you see from him on the subject of Russia and China. The Intercept is about as unbiased as Fox News - lots of criticism directed towards the US and its al…

A gaping "backdoor" already exists in the form of the software update mechanism. By the same logic you're using, Apple can't keep their source code and signing key secure forever, …

This is more like the FBI asking the storage unit owner to turn off the security system that he installed that incinerates the contents of the storage unit when someone tries to pi…

By that same logic, Apple's source code and software update key could eventually leak, too, which would have even worse effect. The FBI is handing the phone over to Apple to apply …

Demanding keys would conflict with the 5th Amendment; in the few cases that I'm aware of[1][2] where a defendant was successfully compelled to decrypt their files, the suspect had …

I don't think that's an appropriate analogy. You may as well just say "In the 1700s, if you wrote an enciphered letter..." since cryptography isn't a new concept. Various schemes h…

First off, Martin Luthor King didn't kill himself, so you can't really say that the FBI compelled him to do so. Secondly, you're using the actions taken by a domestic law enforceme…

> Anyone who intends subversive action can be targetted. They can be approached and manipulated by an agent who knows everything about them. The would-be-subversive can be nudged, …

> The US government revoked his passport while he was in an international "no man's land" (i.e. the international side of Russian customs), effectively making him stateless. This i…

There's a huge difference between those links and showing systemic abuse. When I actually go and read the stories behind your links, what you state is that 13 people in 10 years ab…

To which I would ask "Under what circumstances would the government pay a federal agent to watch me have sex for the next 10 years?" This and the similar comparisons that I often s…

To put this into perspective, it's worth noting that this was an issue of almost unprecedented contention between the US and Israel over whether or not to lift sanctions against Ir…

If code was added to leak the state of the PRNG, then whether or not Dual EC is used becomes a non-issue. The person who created the backdoor could leak the state regardless of whi…

Is this guy sitting in a coffee shop with a 2U rackmount ScreenOS-based hardware VPN connected to his laptop? If not, this particular attack that the article is discussing wouldn't…

It's even more complicated than that - Juniper used Dual EC, and changed the Dual EC parameters, but ultimately the output of that PRNG was being used to seed a different PRNG (pro…

If you're going to use the envelope analogy, also consider that we don't put our mail in envelopes to prevent the police from intercepting it; we put them in envelopes to prevent a…