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fandroid

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    Comment #26448035

    No, because he is without remorse and his ideology doesn't support reparations for his crimes. If Mr Ulbricht were so motivated to make amends for his actions, he would offer solut…

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    Comment #26443623

    We dismiss a felon's voice at the polls for life. I don't agree entirely with this as they did their time, but that's not the case here. In this case, Mr Ulbricht is doing time, do…

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    Comment #26443470

    Not sure why a convicted felon away for life gets any credibility in the tech community. Yes, many in these parts think he was just "running a website", including his mom. Tells yo…

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    Comment #24874858

    Do tools such as Ionic allow platform-specific native code overrides for such scenarios? Is interop with the cross platform codebase infeasible in these cases? One might expect to …

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    Comment #24874390

    As it turns out, a few days ago, I was reminiscing with an old school DJ about sample-based music production. My argument was that all one needs is a DAW and youtube-dl. It seems t…

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    Comment #24863295

    McDonalds declined to retain me as a consultant when I reported issues with their Mary AM Johnson API holes. I probably should have marketed myself in a more formal fashion.

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    Comment #24860988

    No mass surveillance is similarly irresponsible, albeit in an entirely different manner, to unchecked mass surveillance. The sweet spot is to have mechanisms and institutions in pl…

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    Comment #24860891

    He could have stolen only the docs related to domestic surveillance. Snowden could have handed only those docs to his media handlers who would then vet them with the IC.

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    Comment #24860849

    The IC does their job keeping us safe precisely so we don't have to concern ourselves with things such as: * Which servers in China we are hacking * Foreign surveillance * Joint CI…

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    Comment #24860787

    Power vacuums get filled. NSA was largely torched to the ground. Good or bad, there was a counterbalance between big tech and the NSA that is now gone. SV snatched up the power. Ev…

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    Comment #24860640

    Due to the extent of mil intelligence docs stolen, and since the domestic programs deployed were lawful at the time, whistleblower is a disingenuious title for Mr. Snowden. Putting…