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crosreon Microsoft silently adds Amazon root certificates to its CTL

Could it be they were not provided that option?

crosreon T-Mobile’s Binge On Optimization is Just Throttling, Applies Indiscriminately

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821781 for the typical vendor equipment feature set implementing this kind of feature. I find individual user profiling as shown in screen captures towards the end of the document more concerning...

crosreon On the Juniper backdoor

Are you suggesting a foreign government fed banana glee and zesty leak to the NSA through Juniper instead? It's a fruity country obviously. That'd be even more perplexing.

crosreon The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority [pdf]

I can't wait for your reasoning to dawn on the minority that is convinced its welfare depends on the availability of automatic assault rifles in retail.

crosreon Analysis of 114 propaganda sources from ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda [pdf]

"Aim: To identify precisely what ideology is shared by the three groups, as revealed in their propaganda, in order to inform effective counter-narratives from mainstream Muslims, governments and civil society."

Done using Nvivo software.

(Reposting with the IP as the DNS name seemed to hurt the memory of at least one reader, don't let it offend you, it remains very informative :)