I think it's insane that so many people are pointing the finger at Snowden, yet no one is pointing the finger back at the NSA / US Government.
XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
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#92Credit where credit is due - NSA made useful and usable email search. Please give it to gmail and outlook.com ... I want to be able to search trough my mail as good as you guys can do.
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#93Lurkers first post here. I always said saying "I told you so." when stuff like this started getting revealed would feel like a hollow phrase. Some of us have spent quite a bit of time talking about these issues, and were mostly rejected as crackpot "conspiracy theorists". While there are plenty of those around, maybe I could use this slight moment of pseudo-clarity to propose something. I could tell you where this is…
Happened also because some of the geeks rented themselves out to the NSA.
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#94Holy shit.. they did really write a GUI in Visual Basic to track the killer's IP
Thanks, there isn't much funny about any of this, but that got a legitimate laugh out of me. For anyone who doesn't know the reference, a clip from CSI:
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#95I don't think I have been more conflicted about this. I've just been talking to my cofounders about the technical feasibilities of XKeyScore, and honestly, our back-of-napkin engineering configurations indicate this is really an awesome project to be working on. On the other hand, this is categorically 'evil' by my and my cofounders' ethical standards, and really, no one is safe. And that bugs the hell out of me. On…
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#96A 'fun' bit of weasel-wording by the chairman of the House intelligence committee: "He's lying. It's impossible for him to do what he was saying he could do." They seem to be denying it, but all they're really denying is that Snowden had access to the system personally.
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#97Here's an interesting legal question: If a non-US resident or NSA target posts a thread on HN, and a US person replies to the thread, is the US person now open to unlimited data collection? Alternately, if you Facebook-like the same thing an NSA target has, are you then subject to unlimited data collection?
The information we have already shows that the US person/non-US person distinction is purely cosmetic, meant to allow them to pretend that they're at least trying to respect US laws to some tiny extent. It's rhetorical.
In reality you are always a valid target, US citizen or not.
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#98This is overwhelming. Even when you always hear the claims about we knew this was going on, somehow it is still shocking when you see it all laid out infront of you with screenshots and the capabilities described. I can see how they get HTTP information, since they would intercept at transit hubs - but how are they getting all Facebook private messages and Gmail? I was also looking for another unique ID that users ar…
How long has https been an option with Facebook and messages? I don't think it was always required, if ever.
Connections secured with TLS aren't effective if a) you can compromise the CA, b) have the private keys, c) have cooperation of the appropriate company (most likely), d) have compromised the server, e) are aware of flaws in the encryption algorithm, f) weak keys have been used, or g) have compromised the client computer.
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#99I don't think I have been more conflicted about this. I've just been talking to my cofounders about the technical feasibilities of XKeyScore, and honestly, our back-of-napkin engineering configurations indicate this is really an awesome project to be working on. On the other hand, this is categorically 'evil' by my and my cofounders' ethical standards, and really, no one is safe. And that bugs the hell out of me. On…
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#100Interesting; it appears someone failed to redact some data from the slides. In the Facebook chat example, the message is "to" 1536051595. Using the Facebook Graph API, we can gather information based on this ID: http://graph.facebook.com/1536051595 Which leads us to the Facebook profile ( https://www.facebook.com/arash.gorjipour.5 ) of an individual, real or contrived, named "Arash Gorjipour". His email address and p…
Probably because he has dark skin, and his native tongue is probably something other than English.
I'm a little worried now because I visited his page, and this will surely be logged, hence my past online activities may now be investigated.