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• On the post: Are Apple, Google, Microsoft And Mozilla Helping Governments Carry Out Man-In-The-Middle Attacks?

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2014 @ 06:00pm

  Re: ok...

  Exact.

• On the post: District Superintendent Claims 14-Year-Old Student Bullied Her By Using Her Photo In A Criminal Justice Class Project

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2014 @ 08:01pm

  Don't teach anything useful in school, like "stock photo".

• On the post: Lena Dunham Once Again Threatens Lawsuit Over An Interpretation Of Her Book That She Doesn't Like

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2014 @ 12:02pm

  Thought your Streisand Effect applied to subjects you wish to keep secret. If so, does not apply here.

• On the post: Latest In Cable Astroturfing: If You Squint, Twist, Spin And Mislead With Apples To Oranges Comparisons, US Broadband Is Great!

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2014 @ 11:58pm

  This implies stats can be manipulated?

• On the post: City Of London Police Drove 200 Miles To Arrest And Jail 'Industrial' Level Pirate… Only To Have Case Fall Apart And All Charges Dropped

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2014 @ 11:36pm

  Re: Re: Re: Jurisdiction.

  However, Boston is 200 miles from New York City, whereas Brooklyn is notably closer to Manhattan

• On the post: FBI Wants To Know If Applicants Have Been Downloading Unauthorized Content

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2014 @ 11:06pm

  I approve!

  I authorized each and everyone of my downloads.

• On the post: Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2014 @ 09:36pm

  Well, how many were executed as traitors by predecessors?

• On the post: Nineteen Year Old Girl Abused To Death At Chinese Internet Addiction Camp

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2014 @ 09:37am

  Re:

  Well, as long as they do it offline.

• On the post: California Highway Patrol Seizes Medical Records Of Woman An Officer Was Caught On Tape Beating

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2014 @ 01:13pm

  Re:

  Part of this article is addressed to countering the de-sensationalism of the media. If the reports were more honest, perhaps the author's push-back would have been mitigated.

• On the post: NSA On Snowden's Claims Of Passing Around Nudie Pics: We Totally Wouldn't Allow That… If We Knew About It

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2014 @ 06:25pm

  This is why I wear underwear when I shower.

• On the post: DailyDirt: Shhh! The Plants Are Listening!

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 14 Jul, 2014 @ 10:58pm

  Re:

  Who signed me out?

• On the post: Central African Republic Attempts To Quiet Unrest By Suspending Text Messaging

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 10 Jun, 2014 @ 12:00am

  But, but, but...

  They're not banning the content of text messages, they're only banning the metadata.

• On the post: Do Personal Computers Come With NSA Surveillance Devices Built-In As Standard?

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 27 May, 2014 @ 10:11am

  Isn't this wildly speculative?

• On the post: Small Victory Against NSA: Amendment Says NIST No Longer Has To Consult NSA On Standards

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 23 May, 2014 @ 12:14am

  How do we know other NIST hasn't otherwise been comprimised?

• On the post: Google Fiber: You Know How Comcast Is Making Netflix Pay Extra? We Don't Do That Kind Of Crap

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 22 May, 2014 @ 07:48am

  Re: some BS from AT&T on Google Fiber

  Quotes are appropriate for paraphrasing to. Don't be afraid to use them.

• On the post: Amazon Taunting Antitrust Regulators By Screwing Over Customers Who Want Books From Hachette

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 13 May, 2014 @ 01:32pm

  Soon we'll be able to look back upon the good old days when Amazon wasn't too big for its britches.

• On the post: So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing… Water Balloons

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 13 May, 2014 @ 06:16am

  Re: Yeah but

  Not sure whether it's being disadvantaged means you must have a criminal record, or that having a criminal record causes you to be disadvantaged.
  
  Chickens and eggs come first.

• On the post: The Glorious History Of Video Game Panics

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 09:03pm

  Custard Ho'

  I can't tell you how many times in real life I've strapped a nude woman to a cactus and ran at her repeatedly with an erection while dodging arrows from natives.

• On the post: Data Shows Homeland Security Is Lying When It Claims Intellectual Property Seizures Are About Health & Safety

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 09 May, 2014 @ 10:06am

  Re:

  Never point your weapon at anything you don?t intend to shoot.

• On the post: Vladimir Putin Restricting Naughty Language And 'Unregistered' Bloggers

  

  McCrea ( profile ), 08 May, 2014 @ 08:44pm

  I hate all those swearing motherfuckers. Watch your fucking mouth.

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