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Re: Prism Break

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Post by eli_gottlieb » Wed, Jul 10, 2013, 9:30 PM UTC

jamesdelaneyie wrote: post #181

eli_gottlieb wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The problem is that the selves bleed into each-other. For instance, making up a completely different city to claim you live in while still talking to other people from your own city is hard . If the NSA spots half a dozen people on Crypto-Reddit's /r/boston who claim to be from San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Chicago, rural Tennessee, and Miami respectively, then it knows it has probably found six actual Bostonians…

I thought about this problem, but it was more to do with soliciting anonymous feedback from a group of close nit friends. It's a hard problem to fix, but I think maybe running the text through something that reduces it to all lower case and all txtspk, with some sort of grammer-fucker-upper might remove some of the personality attached to the original text input.

Do you think that's NLP-complete, or something we can actually do?

Re: Prism Break

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Post by lifeguard » Thu, Jul 11, 2013, 4:42 AM UTC

tptacek wrote: post #180

lifeguard wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

False equivocation. A script kiddie is not the same as a three letter agency funded by a first world government.

First, I don't think "equivocation" means what you think it means. Second, the equivalence isn't false. The Venn diagram of sites that can be compromised by script kiddies is entirely contained by that of sites that can be compromised by NSA.

You are equivocating the NSA and script kiddies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation

Re: Prism Break

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Post by lifeguard » Thu, Jul 11, 2013, 4:43 AM UTC

shiven wrote: post #148

lifeguard wrote: post #73

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I know I can select a webmail provider that is not beholden to the United States of America's government. If you think Google is the only company that can secure webmail, I bet you are an employee.

I know I can select a webmail provider that is not beholden to the United States of America's government. Please do tell which one? And why you are sure they are not beholden to a government?