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And yet there are millions of people using the Internet and we have to protect them with the army we have.

And yet there are millions of people using the Internet and we have to protect them with the army we have. I hope we'll see something like Marlinspike's Notaries becoming widesprea…

Have you considered generating these screenshots automatically? It seems like if you did, this would protect you against both typos and insiders.

When will it be?

I think the solution is to formally verify your hardware with a prover that is aware of electromagnetic forces. Software has to assume correctness of hardware (rad-hard application…

"Formal verification makes your code invulnerable against a very specific (though very powerful) attacker"

> Extortion in the form of ransom-ware, theft in the form of stealing bitcoin from exchanges. (Mt. Gox, and a more recent case.) This is exactly what I meant. I guess I could have …

It doesn't have to become public. It probably shouldn't.

Perhaps the DNI should consider offering some form of clemency for other people who brought "homework" out of their SCIF to turn themselves in.

People are scammed out dollars, bitcoins, and iTunes gift cards. Ponzi schemes happen everywhere. The real money in bitcoin-denominated crime is in theft and extortion anyway. If p…

For a sufficiently large monitor I'd expect you to generate multiple five-pointed stars on the first try.

Regarding your first point, the trouble (at least in this instance) is that this logic doesn't apply when you're looking for Roger Waters and calling everyone in the phone book wit…

The correct answer would have been to pick a reasonable assumption (before you ask, your own judgement determines what is reasonable) for what "useful" is, and to clarify that that…

Was the service you were receiving before they offered two-day shipping any better? Or just more consistent leading to less disappointment?

Saying "something is weird" certainly implies "this does not match my expectations."

This has been SOP in certain places for a long time.

Extraordinary claims don't require more evidence than other claims. A more accurate statement would be, "claims I'm skeptical of will require convincing evidence for me to be swaye…

Which is a pretty flimsy reason to believe an adversary might find leverage against you. But hoarding is a force multiplier in the adversary's favor.

I agree, I never meant to imply that I thought contractors were less loyal. I appreciate the depth of your responses and hope I haven't given offense. There are just so many of the…

He must've hidden it in his Rubix cube.

As an outsider looking in, it seems like there have been a lot of DLEs due to contractors though. Theres the obvious example of Snowden, but also the QinetiQ breach ( https://www.b…

It seems like contractors are a massive attack surface for the DoD. I do wonder why they gave a clearance to someone who was apparently a hoarder. If collecting things that interes…

Active publishing contemporary historical smut fiction, it would seem.

How principled of you to ruin someone's career and let them spend the rest of their life in prison.

I'd love to hear more about why.