Snowden is a cartoon psyop like Manning and others. They give hope to cubicle slaves.
Edward Snowden: Permanent Record
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
That wifi dongle in particular supports packet injection, and supports aircrack-ng for penetration testing.
Indeed and cheap enough to throw away after each project for improved opsec.
Given that you can change the MAC address, how does throwing it away improve opsec...?
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fair enough! I was thrown off the fact that it hasn't been released by the Worldcat page saying that there were three editions. I assumed that it was not possible to have data quality issues of that magnitude.
Oh, Worldcat data quality is definitely very problematic. At it's best, it definitely doesn't represent _every_ library copy. It requires libraries to register their copies with the central database. All of these libraries are different organizations with different software, at varying stages of 'legacy', trying to interoperate with each other, usually without very well-resourced IT teams. Then WorldCat has got to fi…
Maybe the long term solution is to put together an open source library database package that serves the needs of 90% of libraries without modification, and make it convenient to make high quality data available.
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#134I'm going to 'recycle' an older comment of mine, pertaining to the comments about the book. The original comment can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20583363 I was annoyed that someone called Ed Snowden a 'Traitor'. Hopefully it gets a bit more recognition in this thread __________________________________ For me he made the Great Game of Privacy a lot fairer. You should read the excellent entry on…
>Bill Binney[1] consistently drives his message home that the NSA's surveillance apparatus is very inefficient at foiling plots, and I agree with him.
Oh, were you also with the NSA? For how long, and what did you do there? Or is that (let's put it charitably) an "Internet agree"?
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Is it even safe to buy yubikeys on Amazon given the counterfeit problem?
Good question.
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The problem is that you can't always opt out of someone else's decisions. Example: Doorbell Cams taking video of you walking by, uploading it to a corporate database, identifying you using photo recognition algorithms and your location using the home's address, and using that information to sell you things.
Fair. But even this (at least in the US) is the flip side of the laws that in public areas I can take any photos that I want. And I generally like this setup -- I can snap pictures of friends and kids without worrying about proving my right to take those photos). This should not be taken for granted -- in the UK I was twice (very politely) asked to leave because I was taking a picture and apparently a gov't building…
Photography in public places is a separate issue from long term stocking by companies. One can enable the other, but this does not mean they are equivalent. It's a very American fallacy to overextrapolate an individual right into a justification for commercial totalitarianism. But if an individual person were to suddenly start following you around and photographing you every few minutes, you would rightfully complain to the police. That this is being done at scale and for a profit motive should make it more worrying, not normalize it.
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> He never had to pay a single bit of tax. I know a few people in Europe with higher salaries and they have never paid a cent either. He didn't say pay taxes; he said file taxes. Every year I have to tell the US government how much I made, and then explain why I don't owe them any money (i.e., already paid tax on it to the UK). It's a stressful hassle even if you don't end up owing anything.
I fully understand. I’m asking if you ever had to pay taxes? Plenty of people complain about filing paper work but I’ve never met anyone who owed anything.
I pay taxes to the US (and not to the country I live in) on the small amount of passive income generated in accounts located in the US. I'm not 100% sure if this is the Right Thing to do or not, but it seems fair. But my taxes would be a lot simpler and less stressful if I only had to report this income (and on years where this was 0, not report anything at all).
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#138I think the administration badly, badly mishandled Snowden and Assange, and allowed Russia to coopt them by isolating and threatening them. If they had treated them as whistleblowers and journalists (even if they had nefarious motivations), they could have kept them in "the west" instead of driving them into the arms of Russia. I don't believe that Assange was a Russian agent at the beginning but he was surely one by the time of the 2016 election.
There's a reason we have laws around a free speech and a free press-- they make the country stronger, even if they make it harder to govern.
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#139Any links posted to amazon.com from HN should be to smile.amazon.com -> .5% of your purchase will be donated to a clarity of your choice.
Better yet, don’t buy the book, and donate the money you would have spent to charity.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is that the case for both govt and private corporate surveillance? How widespread is the use of Alexa in your area?
The key difference is that you can decide not to buy corporate products you do not want, but have to comply with the laws. I am a lot less concerned about stupid things done by a majority for convenience (and I can choose whether to do participate or not) than about the law that forces the same stupidity down my throat. My 2c.
The two big differences between private and government surveillance is 1) law 2) quantity. Look at China how the private sector freely hands data over. But ask yourself, is it that hard for your government to obtain that data? Are they trying to access it? The answers are probably no and yes.
If you don't feel comfortable with the government having that data, I wouldn't suggest giving it to private corporations. Even if they are standing up to gov, it means things can change. I think Snowden uses the phrase "turn key tyranny".