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I am disputing that I broke the rules. The OP had said that tptacek was a shill. I defended tptacek by saying I didn't know that he was paid or whether he was just in the circle of…

Which ones in particular? That's just not right. Everything I said has been perfectly straightforward and honest. Downvote brigades are usually only a thing on Reddit, but I experi…

You should have posted this to OP. I am defending tptacek.

The Military-Industrial-Lol Complex, in fact - and the Build-a-lollers.

I agree with this. He has the benefit of being right, but not coming forth with his name is an 'optics' problem.

I'm not sure if he's paid, if his interests align (he's in the security contracting circle), or if he's genuinely naive in his cheerleading. I think most of the stuff he has to say…

Lol.

Yes, see the other thread. Responded there. Right, he was involved in insider trading. If you don't do anything illegal it's hard to blackmail you for it. That was the claim. Black…

You are right about Risen and Sterling. I think you get the point though. The leverage placed on Risen to reveal his sources and the placement of Sterling under the Espionage Act -…

He was charged with the Espionage Act. Please refer to the original comment to see that I did not claim the US charges individuals with treason. Risen got it better than others tho…

Not the ACLU. James Risen. Journalist.

Germany's Secret Service just charged their leading Civil Rights group on treason for publishing information about the German government's plans to further expand domestic mass sur…

Oh yeah. That's totally happening. The Sunshine Policy was ended some time ago. President Geun-hye called for international support for the unification at the UN. SK, the US and Ja…

I find this neither complete nor accurate but it's good to see a list like this. Thanks for doing the legwork. Don't forget the Japan mutual defense deal, the upcoming Korea unific…

I do not. Microsoft Research and Google Research and IBM are examples of places where some of this research is done - and there's Universities. MITRE does as well as other semi-pub…

The work that DARPA does is incredible and we should be proud, as a country, that we pursue transformational research. One of the big weaknesses of the private sector is that there…

This would be for a cryptographic attack - not someone with the hardware.

No, what my post was claiming is that the presence of malware didn't hurt my system and wasn't an issue when I browsed the files (on a practical basis). I understand the potential.…

Unfortunately it is more difficult than this. Even if you practice safe computing it's likely that your information will be compromised - especially in the long term and especially…

Oh sorry. The Stratfor leaks had a TON of shady stuff. > I missed all that–can you point me in the right direction? Sure! The CEO of SONY, high level state department officials, RA…

The emails from SONY had some controversial stuff in them. For example here is an interaction between the CEO and the State Department about setting up a group of media executives …

I really like this solution. Critics might be able to say that Wikileaks BOTH hosts malware AND tampers with evidence - but if Wikileaks has a voice to respond it has a pretty good…

It's an interesting problem: * If Wikileaks edits the content it can be criticized for tampering. * If Wikileaks leaves malware in it can be criticized for circulating malware. It …

So it looks like there's not much of a worry someone has from looking through those files themselves. Personally I have looked through these files and have not run into any malware…