I suspect it was an inside job. The NSA.GOV site is down ATM probably as they do a sweep. A Twitter user inactive since 2005 said it was an inside job and the file naming conventions in the leaks are internal only.
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#182There are a lot of little gems in the wording of the auction message.
(http://pastebin.com/raw/JBcipKBL) If it is Russia there will be some content that only the US gov will understand. I wonder which portions those would be.
The "message to wealthy elites" portion of the auction message is also interesting.
"Do you feel in charge?" in quotes suggests a reference with a pretty relevant top hit (https://www.google.com/search?q="Do+you+feel+in+charge")
Re: Snowden: Hack of an NSA server is not unprecedented, publication of the take is
#183There are a lot of little gems in the wording of the auction message. ( http://pastebin.com/raw/JBcipKBL ) If it is Russia there will be some content that only the US gov will understand. I wonder which portions those would be. The "message to wealthy elites" portion of the auction message is also interesting. "Do you feel in charge?" in quotes suggests a reference with a pretty relevant top hit ( https://www.google.…
> Elites call top friends at law enforcement and government agencies, offer bribes, make promise future handjobs, (but no blowjobs).
That also feels like a pretty thinly-veiled reference to current events in the US election cycle.
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
Career politicians, special interests and tons of money got comprehensively spanked in the Republic Primary process. Trump is an even worse choice - but he demonstrated that it is possible to beat the machine. Sanders came very close to doing exactly the same thing. The US system is significantly more favourable to insurgents than many.
It was interesting to see how the "establishment" Republicans tried at every turn to thwart and remove Trump from the process, but in the end relented (however much it pained them) because that's what the voters said they wanted. The "establishment" Democrats were the same except they succeeded in placing their candidate ahead of what many believe their base really wanted.
Given the outcomes of these scenarios, it's hard to see pure democracy as an advantageous model from this example.
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Slightly off-topic but I also tried to watch "Zero Days" since the subject interest me. But, with the constant exaggeration and dumbing down of the subject, I could only watch about 20 minutes before I turned it off. If you want something technical that is not exaggerated, you better watch something else. If someone have an recommendation, please share.
The book '@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex' by Shane Harris from The Daily Beast is very good and talks about the obsessions with offensive weapons. And the embarrassingly bad defensive posture the US has via policy failure (ie: focusing on private-public info sharing deals that do nothing, instead of real defence) and inter-agency fighting. https://www.amazon.com/War-Rise-Military-Internet-Complex/dp.…
> focusing on private-public info sharing deals that do nothing, instead of real defence
Can you elaborate? I haven't been exposed to any ideas that address this without compromising civil liberties.
That is, "real defence" sounds like the government monitoring internet connections to my company for malicious activity. I don't think that's good for business.
I might be thinking a little close-minded about it though. Please share what you mean.
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Because it is a democracy. When you democratically elect representatives, it's a democracy. If you elect incompetent, or corrupt, or evil representatives, it's still a democracy.
The law of the land is the constitution. A Republic is a land of laws. A democracy is a land of majority rule. Democracy is a tyranny of majority. The founders did NOT want a democracy.
> A democracy is a land of majority rule.
How can you have that without at least a one line constitution that says, more or less, "The majority rules"? You beg the question, sir.
You very narrow definition of "democracy", majority rule without a constitution, isn't possible. Thus your definition is useless and therefor meaningless.
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Alright bud. I don't have a facebook, twitter, instagram, or any of that other stuff, so I'm not sure how to refute your claim of anonymous. I can say that anonymous hostile replies sure don't do much to further the conversation. What do they say, something about pots and kettles?
A year ago you said you don't work for the NSA or DoD but know one person who does: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9297990 Are you seriously expecting us to believe that your friend is telling you how the NSA is internally structured and how sensitive foreign operation intelligence programs work? Plus in another comment of yours you claimed to know how General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle worked behind the scenes b…
I think his username explains the driving force behind this inconsistency. I posted a lot of BS on the internet while drinking in the morning.
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> I'm only interested in doing what pleases ME (as is every other person on Earth, although most will never admit it out of cowardice). This simply isn't true. Humans engage in many self sacrificing behaviors for a variety of reasons. We're a social species with complex instincts and tendencies in how we form groups and collaborate. People who understand humanity is not a cartoon of individual self interest are not c…
Bullshit.
Quite the eloquent rebuttal. You've swayed me with your words.
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Tying them together wouldn't be very interesting. Am I wrong on this? Don't we already "know" that the US is behind stuxnet? I don't think that makes the front pages. Struxnet was used against a foreign adversary to disable nuclear bomb-making capabilities. That sounds pretty useful to me. What would be interesting is learning where these came from and how they were used. If Ed's musing is right and there's evidence…
I logged back into this one just for you! That is a big no-no, so I sure hope I don't go mysteriously missing after this! Anyways, I don't "know" anything that isn't out there to be found. It's a reasonable assumption to assume that you've already assumed that I work in/around the intelligence industry/community, but this is hardly the reason I'm so interested in all of this. Anyways, to your remark, yes absolutely S…
Cheers indeed! Thank you for the response.
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I think people fear the rather nasty experience of embedded webview when you click a link. It seems to be a bit of a barrier to entry.
What is that? On both TweetDeck and the normal Twitter page, when I click a link the target opens in a new page; nothing embedded.
It's on Twitter for Android, which falls back to the system webview (on my old-ish phone, IIRC Chrome v30), when you don't have Chrome installed.