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Repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6176411

This would prevent you from using twitter on a PC when your phone does not have internet connectivity. I.E. someone at an internet cafe in a foreign country.

Base62 is base64 without the '/' and '+'.

Instacart works with Costco.

I would guess that you don't have it. The Roku Streaming Stick uses MHL and it only lists a handful of compatible TVs. http://www.roku.com/streamingstick#roku-ready

It was pulled because the GPL license made Apple sad. Now it's MPL (Mozilla Public License) which Apple doesn't have a problem with.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/07/18/vlc-for-ios-will-retur...

If Anon was able to get these passwords, I'd bet foreign spy agencies and black hats can as well. Plus with passwords as bad as these, it would have been trivial for someone to have guessed them in the first place.

Could also have something to do with Mt. Gox registering with the US Treasury Dept as a money services business.

http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-registers-with-fincen-as-a-mo...

Perhaps P9 was allocated to a company that is no longer part of the program.

There was one yesterday about IE11 getting WebGL support: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5942739

Are you sure you are looking at the Python page? I don't see a category for variable names.

Is this trying to show that Duck Duck Go just enabled PFS (perfect forward secrecy)?

The other big takeway is that they added support for SPDY3!

That is good news. Hopefully this will mean StarCraft 2 runs a bit smoother on my machine since it uses OpenGL.

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I doubt he actually intended to steal the laptops. Had he attempted to return them they would have caught on to his plan. It's unlikely that he would have taken them with him to Hong Kong as they would phone home.

They are probably sitting at his home just waiting for the NSA to pick them up.

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Not necessarily. Just because the government asks for them doesn't mean they exist. I'd be surprised if they were actually deleted though.

If Google has records of all emails that have been sent and deleted, presumably even if you don't have a Gmail account the government could ask Google for all emails that had ever been sent to your account.

Just as the Syrian government is unlikely to be able to get Google to give them information on particular dissidents, it would be wise for American activists to choose a email provider that is not located in the United States.

I'm not sure if this is always the case.

ZipCar (a short term rental car company) provides a credit card that can be used to pay for gas. When you insert the card at the pump, the machine only asks for your ZipCar membership number.

This leads me to believe that perhaps a card that was issued in a foreign country might prompt the user to enter something other than a Zip Code.

When I worked in retail we asked everyone for their Zip code regardless of their payment method. We were told that it was so that the store could determine where their customers were coming from. Half the time we would just type in the store's Zip Code so that we didn't have to bother the customer.

Gas stations on the other hand use Zip Codes as a way to prevent fraud. I've had my card rejected before by typing in the wrong Zip Code.

It seems strange that they didn't just say this in the first place.

Would it be crazy to think that Google may have given the NSA a copy of their SSL certificate?

That's a shame. Perhaps someone needs to build a small library that exists outside of the App Store that notifies App Store apps when those keys are pressed. :P

This reason alone is what keeps me using VLC for radio playlists.

My main issue with Radium is that it does not support the play/pause/fast-forward/rewind keys on my MacBook. Does Radio support these?

If they did't trust their hosts they wouldn't have used internet cafes. Though they may just be technically inept.

I wonder if this will cause countries to abandon OSX & Windows in favor of open source software.

The bigest takeaway from all of this is that you can't trust closed software that was developed by foreign corporations.

I don't think that is correct. I'm not even sure how they would go about determining that since hacker news profiles do not include age information and the site does not use any form of analytics.

According to the latest poll, most people are between 21 and 35. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5536734

Perhaps they could be sued either way. If a company states on their website that "We do not do X", and then starts doing X they are left with two choices, leaving a false message up or taking it down.

If they leave it up, and the truth eventually comes out, could they be sued for misleading their shareholders?

If they take it down does that open them up to being sued by the government?