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fysac··on Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
This has nothing to do with what he did. They're making an example of him.
fysac··on Popcorn Time in Your Browser
While it may be traceable, I don't think you'll get in trouble because Coinado is the service doing the actual torrenting.
fysac··on House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection
I'm so confused. What about this?

https://www.usafreedom.fail/

fysac··on C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 business leaders
Where is your evidence of that?
fysac··on When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
Physical activity speeds up the digestive process, so you do often poop more when you work out.
fysac··on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]
I feel like the interview was edited to make it seem that way. If you watch any of Snowden's other interviews and lectures, he's always very articulate and passionate about the subject.
fysac··on This page crashes my chrome tab
Doesn't crash for me; Chrome 41 on Linux Mint 17.
fysac··on Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU Coreutils Implementations of Echo.c
What's the minimum amount of creativity required to copyright software? Or is it really complexity, and not creativity?
fysac··on Ask HN: Why keep living?
It's fairly reasonable to care about privacy when it comes to sensitive topics like this. Maybe the OP isn't ready for people to know his identity yet.
fysac··on British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website source code
I remember the endless amusement I had using Firebug to create ridiculous headlines on yahoo.com.
fysac··on The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
That's the third leaker, not the second one.

1. Snowden

2. Unknown NSA leaker

3. Unknown National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leaker

fysac··on The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
In fact, Bruce Schneier believes there's another, unknown NSA leaker besides Snowden: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...
fysac··on Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit against the US government
You have a good point here, but I consider this perpetual struggle a matter of liberty vs. power, rather than security. True security actually encourages personal freedoms to an extent.
fysac··on Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
Right, you can never be 100% certain it's the same code. But it's a valuable "good faith" step that sets a level of trust between the users and developers.
fysac··on Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
You can't have a reasonable assurance of privacy unless your software is open source.
fysac··on How Prisoners Make Moonshine
I strongly believe the modern American prison system is something our descendants will look back upon with disgust, much like how we perceive slavery.