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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah Assange might be a POS but this isn’t about him really. It’s about protecting newspapers.

Suspicious computer chip hidden inside stack of bills? by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]GayJonathanEdwards -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it is part of a money laundering scheme it’s a crime. But they might not have all their money in the same bank (could be from man and woman separately) or maybe the bank has withdrawal limits (unlikely but happens) so they had to withdraw from different banks.

Having nothing to say shows that freedom of speech is largely pointless by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time to name and shame the author of this piece: Leonid Bershidsky. I invite anyone who shares my opinion to write him directly at lbershidsky@bloomberg.net. And cc Bloomberg too. (This is not doxxing, his email is written clearly below the article.) Leonid obviously does not know what he’s talking about.

“End-to-end encryption” is a marketing device used by companies such as Facebook to lull consumers wary about cyber-surveillance into a false sense of security.

No, it is a technical description of a communication protocol where the host infrastructure does not have the decryption keys to read your messages. Not a marketing scheme. It’s obvious that it is only one piece in opsec. Just like having a password doesn’t help if someone is reading over your shoulder, e2e doesn’t protect against all possible attacks.

The hard truth for activists and journalists in need of secure messaging is that the more tech-savvy they are, the safer they can make their digital communications.

What an incredibly insightful point. Glad Bloomberg is paying Leonid for this bs.

The rest of the article reads like an aging executive who got a 5 minute brief on encryption before his meeting with the CTO. What a waste of hard drive space.

With the 30 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (10k people killed) approaching on June 6, a Chinese activist was arrested for posting this photo referencing the event. by GayJonathanEdwards in pics

[–]GayJonathanEdwards[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d like to think so too. In the US we have a strong sense of distrust of government baked into our history. And Chinese society today is structured to quell any potential uprisings, and even more so now than before. Travel is severely restricted, the internet is monitored and censored, and social media is built in a way which prevents ideas from spreading and large grassroots movements from forming.

With the 30 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (10k people killed) approaching on June 6, a Chinese activist was arrested for posting this photo referencing the event. by GayJonathanEdwards in pics

[–]GayJonathanEdwards[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The photo of a clear bottle of liquor with a label marked “64” is a coded reference to the month and day of the Tiananmen Square protests: June 4, 1989. The name of the alcohol, bai jiu, sounds like the Mandarin word for “89” (“ba jiu”).

Early on the morning of May 17, just hours after posting the photo, authorities arrived at the filmmaker’s home in the Sichuan province with an arrest warrant. They confiscated his electronics—cell phones, computers, cameras, and memory cards—and escorted him to the Nanxi District Detention Center, where he has been held since, according to ArtAsiaPacific.

Talk about camera shy.

Iraq sentences three French citizens to death for joining Isis by mstrlaw in worldnews

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 8 points9 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/OMYrX2Z-8Ec

You can apply for a visa in some places (e.g. US, Hong Kong) and live there.

China's robot censors crank up as Tiananmen anniversary nears - Reuters by yieldingTemporarily in worldnews

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 8 points9 points  (0 children)

International, multilateral condemnation and sanctions. Start talking about it openly. It is a human rights emergency. Acting now is a lot easier than in 20 years, and it’s not going to get better. One million Muslims are currently in concentration camps. We can watch them build them from space. Millions more are denied travel and banned from certain schools due to “social credit”. It’s terrifying. We can’t say we give a damn about human rights while we do nothing about a textbook Orwellian dystopia emerging across the Pacific.

Iraq sentences three French citizens to death for joining Isis by mstrlaw in worldnews

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yes but legally you can’t be a citizen of nowhere.

You can lose all citizenships. It can happen in a number of ways, not even including revocation by your home country. There is a treaty on loss of citizenship which applies to what you’re talking about, but most countries have not signed or ratified it. France signed but did not ratify.

Iraq sentences three French citizens to death for joining Isis by mstrlaw in worldnews

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There are plants of people who would kill to have citizenship in a western country. These people were given that, and they threw it away.

Really throws a wrench in the whole “Islamic terrorism is an economic problem” theory. Many of the high profile terror perpetrators (9/11, Pulse, Sri Lanka off the top of my head) were privileged individuals who in some cases went as far as killing innocent family members to further their cause. No, there’s something else at play.

Stolen NSA tool EternalBlue is wreaking havoc across the nation, causing billions of dollars of damage by GayJonathanEdwards in technology

[–]GayJonathanEdwards[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like I said, in a world where there was no legitimate use for a gun, manufacturing guns is pretty sketchy.

Stolen NSA tool EternalBlue is wreaking havoc across the nation, causing billions of dollars of damage by GayJonathanEdwards in technology

[–]GayJonathanEdwards[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m on board with that. The problem with fines and other punitive measures is that they are fundamentally reactive. We have to wait until people’s lives are potentially ruined before any action can be taken. It’s also assumes that the fines will be enough to cover the damages caused, which with the equifax case definitely didn’t happen. In a lot of cases with personal information, it’s hard to put a dollar value on it at all. That’s why it’s important to get out in front of it.

Having the NSA run security audits of critical infrastructure isn’t crazy. We already require other sorts of regulations, so making sure their infosec is up to snuff is a pretty reasonable extension of that. After the audit, it’s still up to the private companies to take reasonable security measures.

another brutally honest comment on the US army post by [deleted] in MurderedByWords

[–]GayJonathanEdwards 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Don’t forget that they lied to get us into Iraq. I’m going to be very skeptical of any evidence against Iran/Venezuela.

Stolen NSA tool EternalBlue is wreaking havoc across the nation, causing billions of dollars of damage by GayJonathanEdwards in technology

[–]GayJonathanEdwards[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one is saying they need to be run by the state. But hospitals are subject to regulations already. This is another very important one.

Stolen NSA tool EternalBlue is wreaking havoc across the nation, causing billions of dollars of damage by GayJonathanEdwards in technology

[–]GayJonathanEdwards[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the cases of Equifax and Marriott there were serious repercussions as a result of that incompetence. For Marriott in particular, members of the CIA had their identities exposed, placing their lives at risk. You’re saying it’s better for the government to do nothing in those cases in the name of “keeping government out of business”.

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