martin_k
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Comment · 13 years ago
<meta name="author" content="Bilderbergs; FEMA; NASA.GOV">Comment · 13 years ago
Trojanow published his own account of the events here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3...
Apparently he had already been denied a work visa without explanation last year by the US consulate in Munich. However, that decision was apparently later reversed after protests from Washington University in St. Louis. Since that must have been before the Snowden leaks and NSA protests, I'd say it doubtful if those are really connected to his more recent refusal of entry.
Edit: To be clear, I am not suggesting that his refusal was not politically motivated. But the original article suggests (or rather quotes author Juli Zeh on suggesting) a direct connection to the NSA protests and their petition against NSA surveillance.
Comment · 13 years ago
It's a pun towards Project Butter.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/27/android-jelly-bean-official...
Comment · 13 years ago
You've got your timeline wrong. Facebook didn't support HTTPS for anything but user login until 2011.
[0] https://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=486790652130
Comment · 13 years ago
Read closely. Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed in a separate drone strike, two weeks after his father's death. The real target of that second drone strike is currently unknown.
Comment · 13 years ago
I think it was mentioned somewhere that Snowden used GPG in his communication with Greenwald. At least some people inside the NSA seem to regard it as secure.
Comment · 13 years ago
I found this part particularly interesting: "Our business is apolitical, okay? We do not generate the intelligence requirements. They're levied on us. And so if there is a requirement for foreign intelligence concerning this issue or this region or whatever, then that is [...] what we are going after. That is the intelligence target we are going after because it is the requirement."
I think as engineers, we have a certain degree of responsibility for how our work is used. To say your work is apolitical when you're in the business of spying on people is quite the statement, especially if "people" is basically everybody. (I am aware that the speaker is probably not an engineer and it wasn't an engineering recruiting program, but the same can be said about their field, I'd assume.)
Comment · 13 years ago
Some background on the event and recording: http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiti...
edit: Cached version http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Comment · 13 years ago
Not true. With the exception of CSU perhaps, every party with a seat in the Bundestag either has internally passed its own concept for a basic income or is discussing the idea:
[1] http://www.die-linke-grundeinkommen.de/WordPress/
[2] http://www.gruene-partei.de/cms/partei/dokbin/207/207470.auf...
[3] http://www3.fdp-bundesverband.de/files/363/Abschlb-Buergerge...
[4] http://www.kas.de/wf/de/33.20403/
[5] http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/wiso/06193.pdf
Comment · 13 years ago
That's worldwide sales while the article seems to compare against USA sales (but forgets to mention this).
Comment · 13 years ago
It's the same agency that does http://www.nerd-zone.com/, which seems to be partially funded by public money.
Edit: The agency also has a word mark on "Nerd Zone", both seem to be motivated by this: http://www.nerd-zone.com/hackathon.
Comment · 14 years ago
Disallowing self-signed certificates doesn't improve security of unencrypted connections, but it increases security of all connections using SSL/TLS. It doesn't make you more secure (you don't have strong authenticity in any of those cases), but it certainly makes me more secure.
When Gmail fetches email from my provider, which has a certificate signed by a trusted CA, it would have previously accepted any self-signed certificate from an active MITM.
Android's implementation of passkeys currently does not support attestation. https://groups.google.com/a/fidoalliance.org/g/fido-dev/c/nh...
Neither does Apple's, I believe.