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jrockway
on Jan 16, 2013
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MIT Closet Allegedly Used by Aaron Swartz
What's the point of link-level security when governments control the CAs and global routing tables anyway? You're probably being spied on right now, and not because someone has physical access to a mop closet with some switches in it.
tedunangst
on Jan 16, 2013
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Even as broke as the government is, I'm not worried about them sniffing my credit card number or emptying my checking account.
stcredzero
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I'm wondering when some government is going to figure out how to make money through plausibly deniable widespread credit card fraud.
jrockway
on Jan 17, 2013
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Greece.
stcredzero
on Jan 17, 2013
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Now we can look forward to a government getting away with it scot-free. (Is that an objectionable term now?)
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