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Have you watched the John Oliver clip on Youtube yet? I think the motivation for going this route is clearly outlined, and firmly based in humor.

Agreed. John Oliver's approach to making government mass surveillance tangible for the masses is an awesome example of a social hack too. Edit:words

He could like to the EFF call to action page: https://act.eff.org/action/end-the-nsa-s-mass-spying-eb7893f... …

It's SFW. Just text, even the youtube video from John Oliver is SFW IIRC.

Theres no date on this story.

It's 2015!! Why do massive projects like LibreOffice not have their package downloads and updates over https?

What is the core problem this solves?

Until Mozilla gets Two Factor Auth they should NOT be doing anything with passwords or authentication.

Mailvelope developers are aware of this, the default is to compose emails in separate window, and not on Gmail. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ffidxl4u4dylsp8/Screenshot%202014-..…

"Support High-skilled Business and Workers" - http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_... Am I correct in thinking that this doesn&#x…

Whats terrifying is that they are referring to "their password" and not their password s . Password reuse is much worse that having a weak password. Hackers only brute force high value targe…

There's some great advice here. I'd like to add to it from the prospective of the people at the large internet service receiving the disclosure. Every day they possibly get hundreds of email…

Bitcasa already did this, but they revoked the offer last week after offering it for two years, due to abuse: - http://blog.bitcasa.com/2014/10/23/important-we-are-upgra…

I didn't read the by line and assumed it was written by an optimistic undergrad. Then at the end I saw "By Richard Stallman". I must say I'm in awe of Mr Stallmans optimism and nev…

Totally agree. However, I feel the correct response in that situation is to criticize them when you publish, rather that publishing before the fix.

There are norms for this type of thing. Normally a few weeks is the minimum that people are expected to give. At worst they don't fix it in a timely manner. And at that point giving them a heads …

I've always wondered what the cost of manufacturing would be for the the TI-84 would be today? Is there a BOM or estimates out there?

"Files uploaded to Dropbox via the desktop application or mobile apps have no file size limit. "

Factually acurate. And what do Obama & Congressional and Senate Democrats have to say about it? at most feigning some concern, but ultimately doing nothing. They don't care net neutrality, ha…

They are a very large contributor to Democratic politicians.

Obama proclaiming his "commitment to net neutrality" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-mW1qccn8k Tom Wheeler, the FCC Chairman, was appointed by President Obama and confir…

Wouldn't the name LibreTLS be more appropriate?

This is far from being a "bad book. Some of the points raised in this review are out of context. While some descriptions of the core HFT processes/issues in the book are naive or simple, the…

This is not a "leak". All of these email addresses were already in the wild. The "attacker" simply tested if Coinbase accounts matched these emails. Think about it. Email enumerati…

He who pays the piper calls the tune. It really doesn't matter what Jan wants, Zuckerberg is the decider.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/encrypt-web-report-who... Dropbox encrypts data center links.…

On Password reuse - Implementing a one factor, password based auth puts the accounts security in the users hands. There are lots of email, password lists from hacked web services (Linkedin,Yahoo Voice…