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twig
11/20/09

In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental constants of the DES algorithm were contributed by the NSA; they were viewed with some suspicion until many years later, when it was discovered that they made the algorithm suspiciously resilient in the face of a cryptanalytic attack that was not publicly known at the time of the standard's creation.

More recently, there was this: [en.wikipedia.org]

The purpose of this collaboration is unknown, but it is not new news.
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Drunken Economist
11/20/09

In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
Seeing as the bulk of Windows IT and development is outsourced and offshored, how is this a bad idea?

Corps and end users really don't care where their data will end up -- at least our wonderful government *does*.

This evolutionary move just warms my blackened heart.
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daveyjonesisdead
11/20/09

In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies and not others? Why does the NSA get to choose which ventures to provide its expertise to? This is just the powerful helping the powerful, on our dime and at our expense.
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DTurkin
11/20/09

In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collaborated with Microsoft in planting a few 'backdoors' for national security purposes...
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
11/20/09

In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
Oh sure, like Gawker hasn't had a long, tawdry relationship with SIS.
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Cicada
07/03/09

In reply to Obama Goes Ahead With NSA Internet-monitoring Program
My husband works for the Navy, and my understanding is that each branch of the military has it's own ISP, and that traffic into the military networks is highly controlled for security reasons. My husband cannot use an internet-based email account, for example. He is also unable to access many websites from work.

This NSA monitoring seems like a way to create a similar set of security parameters for civilian agencies who are working with the military, which is not necessarily a bad thing. I'm not a cybersecurity expert either, but the description you've provided doesn't seem that sinister in light of what I know about how the military systems are run.

Or, this could be just another step towards BIG BROTHER!!!!! I'm keeping my tinfoil hat on the shelf for the moment, though.
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Cicada
07/03/09

@I Love New Jersey: You hate the Obama administration. You defend the most asinine crap from the right. You didn't even bother to attempt an understanding of this issue. Your comment is irrelevant.
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waltzngmatlda
07/02/09

In reply to Obama Goes Ahead With NSA Internet-monitoring Program
mmm i'll be the first to say 'hey, none of your business, back off' but the fact that obama just isn't wiping this whole thing out, the fact that he's carefully looking at what to keep, what not to keep, says something.

he said something a while back about how 'sobering' it was to finally get those presidential security briefings.

let's just hope we got the right captain steering the ship.
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DoctorNine
07/02/09

@waltzngmatlda: So you aren't old enough to be a fan of music produced by Glyn Johns?

Who's Next?
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I Love New Jersey
07/02/09

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Where is your change now?
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mmstk101
07/02/09

@I Love New Jersey: I guess you didn't read this part:

delayed for months as the Obama administration determines what elements of the Bush plan to preserve
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Mediahohoho
07/02/09

In reply to Obama Goes Ahead With NSA Internet-monitoring Program
Congratulations. Of all the Bush administration policies the Obama administration has opted to continue, you've found the one I don't really care about.
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PandoraSpocks
07/02/09

@Mediahohoho: Me either. And frankly, I don't care for the national news announcing how many marines we've just put into Afghanistan, either.

If you're going to save American lives you need to sit on a story sometimes.
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raincoaster
07/02/09

In reply to Obama Goes Ahead With NSA Internet-monitoring Program
I was just wondering what the invention of the term "Hashtag" had done to the internet-monitoring, particularly searches for drug-related terms. For at least a while, I'm sure we broke the NSA's program, if only by accident.
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Colonel Mustard
07/02/09

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Pretty soon they'll just do all our commenting for us too, and we can all just take a vacation.
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blix
07/02/09

@Colonel Mustard: I think Private Hangnail is our contact.
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lawyergay
04/22/09

In reply to Jane Harman's Media Tour Gets Off to a Bad Start
I listened to the NPR interview in the car yesterday and almost drove off the road I was laughing so hard. "We don't know if there was a phone call" is pure gold.
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CountryClubRepublican
04/22/09

In reply to Jane Harman's Media Tour Gets Off to a Bad Start
If warrantless wirtapping was "trashing our Constitution" when Bush did it, what's it called when Obama does it?
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Mediahohoho
04/22/09

@CountryClubRepublican: We'll have to find out when it happens, dumb fuck.

But, Republican or Democrat, this hack should resign. But not before she tells us which AIPAC agent has the power to dole out congressional chairs. Much more so than any communist conspiracy Joe McCarthy ever dreamed up, AIPAC truly is the enemy within.
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CountryClubRepublican
04/22/09

@CountryClubRepublican:

@Mediahohoho:

"We'll have to find out when it happens, dumb fuck."

ORLY?

"Obama Administration Embraces Bush Position on Warrantless Wiretapping and Secrecy"

[www.eff.org]

"Attorney General Eric Holder went to the national security court to seek a renewal of the surveillance program ..."

[www.politifact.com]

If I'm a dumbfuck, and I know more than you, what does that make you?
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Mediahohoho
04/22/09

@CountryClubRepublican: Of course, it's troubling that the Obama administration has gone along with that venal fuck George Bush's gutting of the Constitution. But let's face it, that gutting was enthusiastically embraced by dumb fucking assholes just like you at the time. Because why? You always thought your party would be in the executive so it just didn't matter?

But that's not why I called you out. I called you a dumb fucking shitheel because you juxtaposed that classy one-liner with a post completely unrelated to the Obama administration. So, yeah, you're still dumb.
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Awesome X
04/22/09

In reply to Jane Harman's Media Tour Gets Off to a Bad Start
Harman also told Siegal that she was pissed that she wasn't given a heads up about the wiretap -- she actually insinuated that people can't be wiretapped until they're aware that they're under investigation. Siegal was like, "Wha??"
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Tremonius
04/21/09

In reply to Jane Harman's Media Tour Gets Off to a Bad Start
It's a problem when AIPAC can bribe some tanker with a charimanship if she uses her White House contacts to protect their spies, but only one. I'll bet that happens all the time. I'm more concerned that the Likud Lobby can decide when and if we go to war. Our foreign policy is dictated by AIPAC. One corrupt shill more or less isn't a major story.

Meanwhile, in other news, there were five (5) senators with the guts to refuse to sign on to the resolution honoring the brave troops who made a stand against terrorism in Gaza. It's the most craven legislature this side of the Kremlin, and I wonder if that will change.
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