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• On the post: White House Going With 'Security By Obscurity' As Excuse For Refusing To Release Healthcare.gov Security Details

  

  LduN ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2014 @ 12:30pm

  Re: Re: Layers, like an onion

  agreed that even without telling potential attackers your layout you can and will eventually be attakced. However, what is the point of giving them a head start? If it takes them an extra week or to to figure out what holes you may or may not have, thats an extra week for the security team to detect an intrusion. It's the same thing as a chain linked fence around a secret complex, it's a delaying tactic that hopefully lasts just long enough for a routine check (patroling etc) to detect the attack

• On the post: Money And Power: The Real Reason For The NSA Spying On Everyone

  

  LduN ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 12:11pm

  Bluffdale

  There's an obvious joke to be made here... but I just can't put my finger on it...
  
  Look at all this data we collected, it's stopped so many (of our own) terrorist plots! Oh, you want to cut our funding, maybe next time one of the (our) plots might go through... IWe dare you to call our Bluff [dale]

• On the post: Australian Movie Studio Boss Skips Out On Public Q&A, Claiming It Will Be Filled With 'Crazies'

  

  LduN ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2014 @ 11:58am

  I win 100%

  In essence he was saying "100% of people I talk to agree with me, those that don't agree are crazy and/or unfit to be taken seriuosly."
  
  Can I start using that?

• On the post: Police Militarization Escalates Even As Violence Declines — And There's A Good Chance It's Going To Get Worse

  

  LduN ( profile ), 19 Aug, 2014 @ 11:24am

  Re: Re:

  they'll be using pocket battleships floating in the pools for defense. Might give a whole new meaning to the Splash zone

• On the post: Snowden Says He Purposely Left Clues For NSA To See What He Took; Shocked By NSA's Incompetence In Figuring It Out

  

  LduN ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2014 @ 11:13am

  Re: Re: Am I the only one?

  I might just be overly cynical, but when the only proof is "I saw it", with no other ways to validate I'm a bit wary to believe it. Again, most of his claims have been proven (directly or indirectly), but it's the "Oh yeah I alos found this..." that kinda gets to me...

• On the post: Newly Released Documents Show NSA Abused Its Discontinued Internet Metadata Program Just Like It Abused Everything Else

  

  LduN ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2014 @ 11:07am

  Re:

  it's not cowardly to be passive when your "advesary" has all the information on you and your weak-spots while you have little to no information on them...

• On the post: Snowden Says He Purposely Left Clues For NSA To See What He Took; Shocked By NSA's Incompetence In Figuring It Out

  

  LduN ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2014 @ 07:34am

  Am I the only one?

  Am I the only one that is starting to somewhat doubt Snowden*? Not saying hes a hack and a liar, but it seems every time I blink he's saying "oh look at what else I had done!" and other things essentially coming out to "Look hows smarts I am, the NSA == big stinky dumbos!"
  
  I know a good portion of the things he released and said has turned out to be true... but the seed of doubt is planted in my mind. It's almost like a fisherman who caught a huge fish, but after retelling it he starts bragging about a slightly bigger and bigger fish.
  
  (*note: I am not sayings it's all BS just starting to seem a bit exagerated [maybe, not sure])

• On the post: Syria Dropping Off The Internet In 2012 Was Result Of NSA Hack Gone Wrong, Not Syrian Government

  

  LduN ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2014 @ 07:28am

  Syria was using a central 5 year old Belkin router for their internets... turns out that it wasn't even a hack, just cheapness

• On the post: More Federal Employees Caught Using Work Computers To Access Porn, Claim 'Boredom' Made Them Do It

  

  LduN ( profile ), 14 Aug, 2014 @ 06:42am

  At what point does screwing over the public cease to be enough excitement?

• On the post: Bad Idea: California Legislature Passes Bill To Mandate Mobile Phone Kill Switches

  

  LduN ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 10:55am

  Re: Re:

  ah but using a brick/hammer leaves them open to a claim... however, if they hold the person and their phone "mysteriously/randomly" happens to be bricked about 5-20 minutes after being released then there is no proof as to what happened

• On the post: White House Reverses Course: Now Allowing Lobbyists To Serve On Insider Government 'Advisory' Boards

  

  LduN ( profile ), 13 Aug, 2014 @ 10:40am

  "he's not technically a "lobbyist" -- he just happens to work for an organization where the main function is lobbying, and where most of his colleagues are lobbyists."
  
  However, the government says the following:
  "he's technically a "Terrorist" -- he just happens to work for an organization where the main function is terrorist, and where most of his colleagues are terrorists. And also because we said so"

• On the post: NYPD Officer Chokes Man To Death; Cops Blame Cellphone Recordings And People 'Feeling They Have More Rights'

  

  LduN ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2014 @ 05:21am

  Re:

  "Not guilty!"
  
  "HE SAID GUILTY!!!" ::BANG BANG BANG::

• On the post: DEA Paid Amtrak Secretary $850,000 To Hand Over Confidential Passenger Lists For No Reason

  

  LduN ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2014 @ 10:55am

  Maybe this was one of those FBI funded plots (with the DEA's help so the FBI can keep their hands "clean") that fell through the cracks? (I mean it only cost $1M over 20 years... can't even buy a congress seat with that type of money) Imagine if the FBI had uncovered a plot that revealed so much personal inforation about people, that could have been shared with terrorists! People would of been so happy, and the gov. would have doubled their funding yearly for the next 100 years
  
  Think of the children!!!

• On the post: USPTO Tried To Hide Abuse And Fraud By Patent Examiners From Inspector General

  

  LduN ( profile ), 12 Aug, 2014 @ 05:59am

  Clearly the fact that so much abuse happens justifies more access for the NSA to "monitor" "productivity of the workforce, both public and private. I mean the economy is vital and therefore being unproductive makes you a terrorist.
  
  (posted from work, I must be a terrorist)

• On the post: Big Silicon Valley Firms Aren't Going To Get Off That Easily For Their Anti-Poaching Agreements

  

  LduN ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 12:14pm

  Re: Re:

  this turnover (at least at this mine, and others that I know of) happens at all levels, from miners, to IT, to accountants and even to upper management onsite.

• On the post: Big Silicon Valley Firms Aren't Going To Get Off That Easily For Their Anti-Poaching Agreements

  

  LduN ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 07:18am

  Could become like the mining industry, at least in Northern Quebec. We hire someone out of college/technical school, they work here for 2-3 years to get experience and leave for another mining company/project. Likewise, every once in a while we see an experienced employee come in with some experience, gets hired nad works for a few years and moves on. Seems to me that an average mine worker will woek 2-5 years for a specific mining comapny/project before moving on to new things. Since there is so much turn around in the mining sector, most mines are pretty friendly with each other and will cooperate on certain things together (mine rescue being the major case). Just the other day we needed to find a specific system to fullfill our needs, so we called about 5 other nearby mines (all "competitors") asking what systems they have in place and doing a comparison. Seems like this would be a good idea for tech companies.

• On the post: NYPD Puts Terrorism On The Run By Ordering Twitter To Turn Over Parody Account User Data 'Linked' To Brooklyn Bridge Flag-Switching

  

  LduN ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2014 @ 06:42am

  logic?

  If this was a dry-run for a terrorist attack why would they leave a clue that they were there and successful? Mind you I'm not a terrorist (That's exactly what a terrorist would say!!) but I'm pretty sure that letting authorities know you found a weakness is counter productive...

• On the post: Ebola Cure Not Fully Developed Because Big Pharma Not Interested In Saving Lives Of Poor People In Africa

  

  LduN ( profile ), 07 Aug, 2014 @ 10:35am

  damned typos

  I wonder who it was that changed big pharma's motto from being all about patients to being all about patents. Maybe it was a case of a typo and no-one bothered to fix it?

• On the post: Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  

  LduN ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 01:48pm

  Re: Re:

  usually a nice photographer advises the couple of this and may actually make them sign a waiver to eliminate all potential mis-understandings and such

• On the post: Photographer Still Insisting He Holds Copyright On Photo By A Monkey, Hints At Possibly Suing Wikimedia

  

  LduN ( profile ), 06 Aug, 2014 @ 01:43pm

  Re: Re:

  according to some arguements here, sure the monkey stole the camera, but now the photographer stole the image from that monkey... the monkey should sue him for IP theft

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