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Launch aborted due to high meth concentrations

about 4 hours ago on Watch Anamanaguchi send a slice of pizza into space in 'Endless Fantasy' 1 recommend

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If there’s ever been a time to stop listening to the myopic voices who scorn any political discourse that’s not framed within the two-party status quo, it’s now.

8 days ago on Metadata matters: how phone records and obsolete laws harm privacy and the free press 1 reply 15 recommends

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You should consider individual writers. Speaking only for myself, I have never given the Obama admin a free pass on anything, and I don’t ever intend to do so. It’d be the same way if it were a Republican administration — it’s almost impossible tell the difference these days anyway.

8 days ago on Metadata matters: how phone records and obsolete laws harm privacy and the free press 1 reply 15 recommends

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Are you guys at The Verge considering implementing this or a version of this in the future?

I for one think we absolutely should. Have not reviewed the code yet, however.

9 days ago on The New Yorker launches Strongbox, an anonymous inbox developed by Aaron Swartz 1 recommend

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10 days ago on Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls 11 recommends

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^I laughed out loud, hard.

21 days ago on Tears in rain: how Snapchat showed me the glory of data death

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Much appreciated!

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21 days ago on Tears in rain: how Snapchat showed me the glory of data death 15 recommends

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Just let me know when I need to start looking for black market ocular implants taken from a Japanese businessman.

22 days ago on We know who you are: the scary new technology of iris scanners 2 recommends

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This is just another arbitrary hurdle for public interest journalists working to uncover abuses at the state level. Confusing and sad to see so many people condoning this; the decision does nothing but encourage pointless limiting of a process that’s already plagued by bureaucratic slowness.

25 days ago on Supreme Court rules states can deny information requests from outside their borders 1 reply 3 recommends

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Welcome to the Austerity State, where we balance budgets on the backs of the poor/sick. Don’t worry, I hear it’s going over real well in Europe!

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/spain-is-beyond-doomed-the-2-scariest-unemployment-charts-ever/275324/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10025126/Cost-of-austerity-measures-is-poor-health.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/04/09/germany-cant-escpae-its-own-crushing-austerity-as-exports-fall-and-imports-tank/

25 days ago on Emergency treatment centers closing as visits increase 1 reply

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Police unconcerned with respecting civil liberties? I am just shocked

“Unconcerned” is one thing. “Openly hostile” is quite another. NYPD very much fits into the second category.

It isn’t so much their desire to increase surveillance as it is the extreme arrogance, blatant opportunism, and wanton disregard for public opinion with which they pursue those goals. The city’s government and police force serves the people, and the people don’t take kindly to having this kind of thing shoved down their throats “for their own good” — especially not after tragic events have made those pills even harder to swallow.

28 days ago on Privacy is 'off the table' in a 'post-9/11 world,' says New York City police chief 1 reply 5 recommends

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Another important distinction is that malware is typically bad for everyone’s security, regardless of who’s deploying it and for what reason. Hence the name.

If, for example, the payload is delivered using a zero-day exploit that only law enforcement knows about, that exploit can eventually be discovered through reverse-engineering and usable for nefarious purposes once it;s is in the wild. Plus if the code is sloppy — as it was with the German police malware mentioned above — it can also open up all kinds of attack vectors and compromise innocent peoples’ systems.

28 days ago on Judge denies FBI request to hijack suspect's PC using spyware 3 recommends

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Some people do have that immunity — They’re called Goldman Sachs executives.

about 1 month ago on AT&T getting secret immunity from wiretapping laws for government surveillance 2 replies 5 recommends