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compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
Thank you for the clarification. I've honestly not followed all of the ins and outs of all this that closely.
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
Another person in the comments linked to an article mentioning them turning down Russian government leaks: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
They stopped perusing the case (I believe) partially because of they passed the statue of limitations on the accused crime.
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
This is going down a political and/or ideological track that isn't really contributing to the comments in this thread.
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
It is within the purview of an intelligence agency. The big question is will it help/harm the extradition case that is currently going on...
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
If the journalistic organization knew that the information they acquired was from a foreign government (Russia) that wanted to manipulate another countries election, would they still publish here-said information?
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
Sweden seemed to have a valid legal case that he avoided for multiple years taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy.
compuguy··on Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Julian Assange free?
To be fair, Assange has been accused of distributing emails that Russian intelligence agencies hacked/acquired during the 2016 election. Conspiring/working with foreign powers outside of the United States seems like something that would be in the ballpark of an intelligence agency.
compuguy··on OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
They will still have to update rust when the next major version of Firefox ESR is pushed out this June/July...
compuguy··on SMS is not 2FA-secure
Having either a second yubikey or a totp app as a back up is a wise thing to have. Seriously.
compuguy··on U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software
I've worked with OpenJDK 7 and had to install the strong crypto package for use with Tomcat...
compuguy··on WiFi deauthentication attacks and home security
Have you considered contacting the landlord for that apartment building?
compuguy··on Show HN: Free Service to Find a Therapist
> based in San Jose, available anywhere in California*

Hopefully you will expand this service to other states, especially ones on the east coast...

compuguy··on GitHub and US Government Developers
And your statement misses a ton of context as well...
compuguy··on Vulnerabilities exploited in VPN products used worldwide
It is great that FIPS140-3 has finally become effective. The previous standard, was getting long in the tooth (FIPS140-2)...
compuguy··on Robots to Cut 200k U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says
Most of the ATM's I've used only give $20 bills. Until that changes, Tellers will still be needed (where are you going to get your $2 bills, for example).
compuguy··on Boris Johnson uses search terms in interviews to hide negative articles?
I saw that Last Week Tonight segment. I agree with your original post.
compuguy··on A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies
I'm not perfect, but I understand the need to use the correct pronouns. Ultimately Stack Exchange needs to make this new CoC public. People should know the guidelines to post on a site and not unintentionally break rules that one can't read...
compuguy··on Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.?
Ironically, the US and UK governments use the same exact encryption libraries (with the caveat that some use FIPS mode)....
compuguy··on Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
To be fair, none of the Pre-SIP macOS releases are supported by Apple anymore...
compuguy··on Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
Ok, but with newer macOS releases, SIP is enabled. I'm assuming the Google developers working on this are doing their developer work on newer SIP enabled releases....
compuguy··on Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
Ok, why hasn't she updated to a supported macOS version then? Support ended for 10.10 in August 2017....
compuguy··on Google Chrome Keystone is modifying /var symlink on non SIP Macs causing k-panic
I'm curious, why did she disable SIP?
compuguy··on End of an American tradition: Amtrak kills the traditional dining car
I get that, but technically Amtrak has priority. None of the freight railroads abide by that unfortunately....
compuguy··on Realtek RTL836x series of Ethernet switch ICs has a 8051 hidden inside
It's quite simple: Whitequark deleted the thread because there is a portion of users/readers on HN that are toxic and/or hostile. People don't want to deal with that type of traffic blowing up their Twitter notification feed.
compuguy··on Realtek RTL836x series of Ethernet switch ICs has a 8051 hidden inside
> Tweet deleted. She tweeted "nonconsensually submitted to the orange website" hahaha.

And this is why people avoid this site....

compuguy··on Realtek RTL836x series of Ethernet switch ICs has a 8051 hidden inside
There have been a number of HN threads that have become quite, er, hostile or toxic in the past. The most recent example of this would the comment thread for this article: "Richard M. Stallman resigns" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20990583)
compuguy··on Overstock Has Had a Wild Week
Most people call the "deep state" government employees (or civil servants). I honestly think that people outside the Washington D.C. area don't truly understand how much the rely on the federal government...
compuguy··on Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement [pdf]
Anyone that has been granted a security clearance in the United States government has signed a SF-312. I can't think of any exceptions off the top of my head...
compuguy··on Darpa needs private tunnels in a hurry
The turnaround time is unusual for the US government. I guess I don't see it as scary...
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