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> Fraud protection in the sense that, if you protect your private key no one can steal your bitcoins. To swap out a word or two: "Fraud protection in the sense that, if you protect your wallet…

Plus, the assumption that they're only using their surveillance technologies against foreign powers is now known to (often) be a false assumption. So it's not immediately clear which systems…

There's at least two things that limit the range of this system, compared to the CB radio you mention: - less power available via USB - less impressive antenna

> And I fall income with her all over again. Glorious, glorious (auto-correct) typos! :)

> Then you're not forced into one course of action. You're being forced into parting with your money. So, yes, you are being forced into a course of action.

The letter focuses on trying to enact change in the US government with regard to internet surveillance, for everyone. It gives no indication that the efforts are intended only to improve the situation…

People in the US are now forced to buy health insurance (or pay a fine/tax).

Because government activity is generally mandated (both in the sense that they can compel people to change their behavior or that people can't refuse to contribute money towards government endeav…

> And, although it might be true that certain people just get kicks out of making money, science definitely tells us that certain things make us predictably more happy than others. So people who a…

Here's cyanogenmod's side of the announcement: http://www.cyanogenmod.org/blog/whisperpush-secure-messaging... …

> If no one from 100,000 people within Microsoft is deemed to be worthy of leading it then its yet another fail from Ballmer's part. Even if there is a capable person inside the company, it st…

I think the parent meant differentiation in customer-side features or attitude. The cost of deposits is an internal cost and not something the customer sees/feels directly.

Based on the article's statement that "agency employees are privately voicing frustration at what they perceive as White House ambivalence amid the pounding the agency has taken from critics…

Promise as in showing the potential for future research, not for your promising to do future research. But yes, it is a gamble, that often fails. But people aren't given tenture just because of w…

... and for the promise of continued production.

" If your password has few characters that Telepathwords could not guess, attackers may also find your password easy to guess. " This is somewhat grammatically tricky to parse. A better way …

LOVEINT http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-someti... …

Oops, missed that. Thanks.

> the organic way has a better impression on site visitors. The danger of that is when someone hijacks your hashtag or name and starts complaining.

> I can opt out of Google's tracking in a number of ways. At face value, yes. But with the news that companies are tracking web users via browser fingerprints and other methods (even when user…

This just shows my ignorance with regard to this topic, but is the speaker cutoff from plugging in headphones always a hardware switch? I.e., can software override it and direct sound to the speakers …

I'm not sure that's a good test; any publicly known example of state-sponsored is almost certainly in current antivirus software. Since they're publicly known, there's no advantage…