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Let's be clear about what the "FREEDOM Act" does. It does not make NSA Bulk Collection of phone data illegal. What it does is rearrange the laws and request process and more carefu…

To hazard a guess, no on all three. I say this only because they are not specifically enumerated. But I do not know. Agreed. These are good questions.

I'm sorry you lost the text - it is so frustrating when that happens. Getting the government to change itself is a game - and a more opaque one. Which representatives in upcoming e…

Much of what the government did (and does do) is not techically legal - in that they can not force companies to disclose or backdoor access to information beyond what is listed in …

Can you clarify what changes you would expect Felten to bring into the government? I'm a little frustrated by the lack of specifics in both the article, the Wiki page, and these co…

The US Chief Technology Officer was set up in the E-Government Act of 2002, which states the role's responsibilities as: * To provide effective leadership of Federal Government eff…

It brings in leadership that aligns with policy objectives. The appointment of Shaarik Zafar for example - they needed someone who would be on board with mass propaganda of the Mid…

Section 709 on email and internet traffic untouched, though.

Something I've been thinking about for a long time - I'll add this here because you and others at HN are more likely to be able to act on it than I am. It seems to me that hiring t…

I think we're trying to say the same thing. I am not suggesting that anyone should need supernormal amounts of merit to escape their condition.

The problem is when there are confluences of conditions that systemically prevent someone (or their 'class') from having the mobility to exit their condition, even when they have e…

No, I don't think I am. The CIA definitely has taken people from the US - even innocent ones - not necessarily 'from the streets'. It has also targeted and killed US citizens witho…

The other way to understand the present is to be read up on current events. The current DoD involvement in Silicon Valley is not a callback to the ARPANET so explicitly - the analo…

This appeals to me, but I think at this point we are preaching to ourselves. Re: realism. Some outrage is a nice way to temper realism with civility. If we temper it instead with o…

I agree we shouldn't get into a huff about what isn't reality - in fact I called for real data. I don't personally see much of a non-legal distinction between geolocations. We prob…

The thresholds needed to achieve Quantum Error Correction are extremely close to being achieved nowadays (props in particular to Martini's group - and Google for hiring him). It ap…

Can we speculate as to the timing of this with the DoD marriage with VC firms and investment groups in Silicon Valley, or is that too conspiratorial?

If QC is not possible for some new underlying principles (not lack of engineering capability) then it would mean our understanding of QM is fundamentally wrong. This could be the c…

> Are there any experts here who can give a reason why error correction in quantum computing will scale polynomially or better? Because it takes a finite number of Toffoli/Hadamard…

Washington believes, and there's probably some truth to it, that the ability to project soft power comes after, or at least in tandem with, hard power guarantees. The US utilizes s…

The US Government understands that by funding the right NGOs and CSOs, it can project power by laundering its intentions through the goodwill and civic intentions of entrepeneurs, …

It's true that there are many challenges and threats the nation faces and that it would be a trivial exercise to attempt to enumerate them all. On the nuclear front today it would …

The US exports technology around the world and the US is also wary about domestic threats (they will not admit this). Widespread access to E2E encryption thwarts global surveillanc…

A link to the DoD strategy document: http://cryptome.org/2015/04/dod-cyber-strategy-2015.pdf Amid sequestration in discretionary defense spending, cyber capabilities have been spar…

I see. I did not get that from the article (it looks like I misunderstood). Thank you for clarifying further (without more downvote nukes). It appears that adding ads, so long at t…