joetek
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Comment · 9 years ago
http://venturebeat.com/2017/02/28/aws-is-investigating-s3-is...
Comment · 10 years ago
Those second and third generation Japanese Americans wouldn't be able to read it.
Comment · 10 years ago
>In fact you can barely see the change on this graph:
> http://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=USD&view=10Y
The reason you can't see it isn't that the drop isn't significant. It's because it's only been a week, and on a 10 year scale, it's just that last pixel on the graph. Meanwhile, it has shifted the entire graph upwards.
Comment · 12 years ago
Today's announcement is simply the inevitable switch from "Search and Rescue" to a "Recovery" effort. It's been 2 weeks, someone had to make the call that the possibility of finding people alive has diminished to the point beyond hope.
As a "Recovery" effort, the pace will continue, but they will no longer risk lives to find the wreckage.
Comment · 13 years ago
"it's significant that the NSA's massive XKeyscore program runs on a Linux cluster."
Is there an option in Creative Commons or GPL to exclude government use?
Comment · 13 years ago
If they get rid of the service and the data pre-emptively, they can safely destroy the data. Once they've recieved an NSL, they have to comply with the order and provide the data (or at least the metadata) or be in contempt of court.
Comment · 13 years ago
TechCrunch has further information:
In a statement to TechCrunch about whether the shut down was only because Silent Circle felt email was insecure, CEO Michael Janke tells us
“It goes deeper than that. There are some very high profile people on Silent Circle- and I mean very targeted people- as well as heads of state, human rights groups, reporters, special operations units from many countries. We wanted to be proactive because we knew USG would come after us due to the sheer amount of people who use us- let alone the “highly targeted high profile people”. They are completely secure and clean on Silent Phone, Silent Text and Silent Eyes, but email is broken because govt can force us to turn over what we have. So to protect everyone and to drive them to use the other three peer to peer products- we made the decision to do this before men on [SIC] suits show up. Now- they are completely shut down- nothing they can get from us or try and force from us- we literally have nothing anywhere.”
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/08/silent-circle-preemptively-...
Comment · 13 years ago
Interesting strategy. So, while they were not able to store the content of the emails, they still retained the metadata. That metadata could be subject to subpoena, and if they destroyed the data after a request, they'd be in contempt of court. Dropping the service pre-emptively lets them delete all the data before they are asked for it.
Comment · 13 years ago
Would be great to be able to deploy to multiple locations with one button. Even better, to deploy to an arbitrary number of locations based on how many cloud instances are running at the moment.
Also, maybe a multi-stage deployment.. One button to push from Dev to Staging, another from Staging to Production.