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>>impossible to hide you're enriching.

With laser enrichment, you can do enrichment in a typical house with typical power consumption, so it seems easy to hide.

But building the tech today is quite complicated, and hopefully that stays that way in the future.

>>quick access to the camera

There's An app for that :

ibtimes.com/moto-x-how-get-its-features-android-prior-google-phones-release-date-1378597

I agree about the arduino and batteries, but this board is a bit different.

It uses external memory which takes more power. It uses javascript which could take much more power. And the wifi also might not be low power. So it's not clear yet how low power it is.

Gingerbread(2.3) on 512MB works fine.Yes 2.3 isn't the latest, but it offers much more than FxOS.

The price is the price at a Chinese webstore including shipping. Not sure about european custom fees, but wouldn't they apply to buying on ebay ?

Does that debate interests plain consumers ?

Edit: and wouldn't it make sense to fork a version of android, like amazon did, to achieve openness and privacy , than to start over ?

And possibly that healthcare thing, depending on how it will turn out ?

How does people who have used it for quite some time respond to it? Are there any fear Reactions or other extreme emotions?

This device has better range and better accuracy than kinect(less than 2mm error instead of 5-25mm at 2m distance).

Amazon currently plays a dual role; both a traditional retailer and a 3rd party logistics business, and they'll probably be quite good at both of those, see the kiva purchase for example.

I think they could probably beat ebay in this kind of game if they'll be interested.

Political change on it's own won't work. They will still keep the infrastructure in case they need to spy on someone(with a court order). But if they have the infrastructure , conceptually it's just a press of button again to full blown illegal surveillance.

Maybe their strategy is to build generic stores, but let affiliates do customizations ?

Yes, the transparency does make sense. Maybe the NSA guy didn't tell him anything about the exploits of tor.

But the fact that it financed tor implies heavily that there are such exploits accessible to NSA. And the fact that it is known that tor is sensitive to global passive attackers is another. Even plain me can guess this.

Maybe the calculation favors tor, because if we assume you need to be a global passive attacker to exploit it, this favors large coalitions of many (currently democratic) nations collaborating over you're single repressive regime, and that seems like a reasonable compromise in thinking about a very hard ethical choice.

I only known of dingledine.

>> I believe both of them(Nick Mathewson and Roger Dingledine) have very high ethical standards and are great people;

This all issue of cryptography is ethically complex. One the one hand, too much state power can lead to bad things, definetly. On the other, strong crypto/anonymity can be a risky tool at the hands of terrorists. And in reality , terror can cause very bad stuff[1].

Say you are roger dingledine, and a very convincing NSA guy comes to you, and shows you the evidence that some terror act , that killed X people, has used anon-remailers. How would that make you feel ?

Except the guilt, one implication would be that USG would fight hard against mixminion.

And then he offers you to lead tor, with funding, and explains that this is a network that is hard to break ,so even if NSA can break it, it wouldn't do it for silly stuff , only for emergencies.

You don't need to be a bad person to accept. It's seems like a perfectly ethical thing to do.

Regarding bottom-up or top-down:

My guess is that NSA has a top-down strategy regarding cypherpunks.That's the way military forces work. And it would make sense for this tactic to be part of their strategy.

[1]WWI , The iraq war, and the cease of the israeli peace process were all at least partially caused by terrorists. And we still haven't seen WMD based terror.