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psykovsky··on The woman in charge of the FBI’s most controversial high-tech tools
Clickbait. You need a catchy title if you want your hit piece on encryption to be read...
psykovsky··on Arrest of Senior Adviser to the Operator of the “Silk Road” Website
...because justice and politics mix oh so well... the results are astounding!
psykovsky··on Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy
They[0] should be saving the documents in a free format, despite the closed source software. Office supports .odf files or some other free format, does it not?

[0] By "they" I mean the persons who created the documents, not the ones who try to edit them using Gnu/Linux...

psykovsky··on Response to EFF complaint about student data privacy
So, supposedly educated young persons couldn't even "Save as..." and choose a free format when saving the documents? That's not a software problem...
psykovsky··on Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
Keep our dick pics out of government databases, you mean? I never took a dick pic which included governmental staff, but maybe I'm weird like that...
psykovsky··on A letter to our daughter
I still remember what Internet.org was supposed to be and what it turned out to be. The man is an egocentric liar.
psykovsky··on A letter to our daughter
Except he still didn't do a thing besides putting out a press-release. Do you think his real intentions will not shape the way he acts in the future? How can you say it is a good trade when no trade happened yet?
psykovsky··on Walmart’s $10 Smartphone Has Better Specs Than the Original iPhone
Does Australia use CDMA and not GSM?
psykovsky··on FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client
Even if the high schooler is dealing drugs to his classmates?
psykovsky··on In 5 Minutes, He Lets the Blind See
$25,000 probably.
psykovsky··on Why Childcare Workers Are So Poor, Even Though Childcare Costs So Much
Big families with lots of children, there's your research.
psykovsky··on ‘The Senator Be Embezzling’
Exactly. I spent 40 days in prison once, on a cell with 12 or 13 other dudes... I would gladly take the isolation. I would lose the dozen or so blunts I smoke with some of the cool dudes with whom I had common friends, but I would be first in line for that isolation and some books.
psykovsky··on Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
IHNception?
psykovsky··on Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
He dis say "ONE of the first" and not "the first". Unnecessary nitpick, I'll give you that...
psykovsky··on Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?
s/homejoy/flymaids.com

FAIL...

psykovsky··on Being ‘wasted’ on Facebook may damage your credit score
Firsthand experience?
psykovsky··on Being ‘wasted’ on Facebook may damage your credit score
You did, did you? Try logging in again into that Facebook account you "deleted" and see what awaits you...
psykovsky··on Academics sharing paywalled papers with a codeword on Twitter
We already have... http://wikispeed.org/
psykovsky··on Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17
The Bellingcat guy must like polonium tea. Brave dude.
psykovsky··on How Facebook knows who you might be dating online
Doesn't mean they really deleted them from their servers...
psykovsky··on Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number
I think you should read their About page[0]... they are partners of Emory University. Or so they say[1]...

[0] http://phys.org/help/about-us/ [1] http://phys.org/partners/emory-university/

psykovsky··on How the 'hoverboards' took off in spite of laws against them
You eat 5000Kcal+ per day? You need like 1/4 of that...
psykovsky··on Complete LiDAR Scan of England Publicly Available
This is starting to look like reddit...
psykovsky··on Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
What about when your government becomes worst than, say, Saudi Arabia?
psykovsky··on Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
Or maybe they're not putting the effort because they're "just doing what they've been told to do"...
psykovsky··on Blowing the Whistle on the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department
I suspect he found those exams easy because of the quality teaching he got from the man...
psykovsky··on RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan
> ...as does being located on top of valuable natural resources.

Tell that to Africa.

psykovsky··on ‘I’m Stalin’s daughter’
It's a book excerpt, not an article.
psykovsky··on A Linux botnet is launching crippling DDoS attacks in excess of 150Gbps
Why not just use the passphrase in the first place? Or do you think an offline attack on a key passphrase is going to be more difficult than an online attack to a server with rate limiting configured?
psykovsky··on Latest Snowden Doc Shows NSA Spied on German Intelligence
The US spying capability does nothing but damage to the rest of the world. Just because I live in a different country you must respect my rights, nonetheless. No, secret court orders won't fly around here.
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