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The long term strategy of the US is to provide energy security to Europe between tar sands, crude, gas and oil. It has multilateral plans with Canada and Mexico to build North-Sout…

The United States has been working on a coup for Maduro, since its coup of Chavez hasn't worked out for it. This time it would really like to install Leonardo Lopez as he's willing…

Like China's "One Belt, One Road"?

I bet corruption will remain. But it's my understanding its been drastically reduced. No positive news of China gets upvoted in America though, because we are burned that they are …

Can you document that for me, and for HN?

They've been purging corruption for the entire Xi Jinping's administration. Not that it isn't there. They would also have to disrupt the world reputation of China - not just its do…

Right but 'they reached too far during Windows 8' isn't an argument for reaching too far on Windows 10 (plus, Windows 8 really wasn't that long ago so it's still a pretty new polic…

> shouldn't include the full contents of emails, just telemetry on how they were typed. Can you explain how you got to this from what you asserted before? Autocomplete data should …

The fact is that there is a greater East-West struggle going on right now. It was Saddam. Now it is Assad. Next it may be Rouhani. The Middle East is caught between Eurasia and Eur…

Israel, especially with its technological superiority, Western backing and Iron Dome, would most certainly win. Would still be quite costly.

If the downvoter needs help understanding the historical analogy that makes this above comment make sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...

Inalienable rights. Not civil rights. Inalienable rights are human rights - which extend (at least in theory) to foreigners. I read the story. But anyway if the Supreme Court rulin…

Aren't cyberarms arms? Isn't the right to bear arms an 'inalienable right'? I don't get it. And I don't get why this is a 'privacy' or 'free speech' issue or why corporations, as G…

Well they are trying to destabilize the regime - I didn't provide data on that. (Would you like some?) The anthrax thing is reporting facts. I didn't say that the US IS organizing …

How difficult is it to configure this? Users should definitely choose passphrases of sufficient length and sufficient types to be secure. This is unfortunately an infamously tricky…

Nice! Of course this isn't ever actually used - in practice users choose four to eight digit passcodes. Users should, if they want to secure their information, use a randomly chose…

I see. Is there a limit? Does it approach 128 bits?

Four digits, choice of 10 for each digit. log(10000)/log(2) ~ 15.

Giving your data to a third party is a very difficult thing to do. Either their policies and heuristics are not perfect (like this article), they go under and you lose your data an…

Yes. Sure. The US arrested hundreds of journalists from covering Occupy, leading to a sharp drop in it's Freedom of Press score (I don't trust that metric, but other people seem to…

The US absolutely does censor group organization efforts in the US and political speech as well. What the US does is quite different than China and it faces quite a different set o…

The ISIS example is far more complicated. It's part of information warfare. ISIS is of course partially supported by the US government for the purposes of destabilizing the Assad r…

The political elite seriously see absolutely no difference. There are a number of directions we could go to expand on that.

A Russian spam site called StopFastTrack? The US use the term 'spam' and 'trolling' as code to mean foreign propaganda. I can get you more information about that as well.

Well it's not irrelevant tu quoque. Telegram is like ZunZuneo and other initiatives by Western governments to force their adversary to choose to either censor something and take a …