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• On the post: Terabyte-Sized 'Panama Papers' Leak Confirms The Continuing Rise Of The Super-Whistleblowers

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2016 @ 02:24pm

  This massive leak has unveiled undeniable evidence of the systematic, widespread use of sound and prudent financial planning and investment by moneyed interests worldwide. Probably within smoky rooms of dim lighting and ill repute. The blowback from the well-informed public will be swift,

• On the post: The FBI Doesn't Want To Share Details On The Exploit It Deployed While Running A Child Porn Site

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2016 @ 10:06am

  They are using this to go after Free Talk Live, a voluntaryist/libertarian radio show that has been a big advocate of Ed Snowden/Ross Ulbricht and isn't shy about their contempt for .gov, especially the NSA and FBI.
  
  https://www.freetalklive.com/news/free-talk-live-studios-were-raided

• On the post: CNBC Asks Readers To Submit Their Password To Check Its Strength Into Exploitable Widget

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 31 Mar, 2016 @ 11:37am

  Maybe not CNBC, but I'm sure someone was using it after the word got out.

• On the post: Apple Asks Judge Overseeing NY iPhone Case To Wait Until More Is Known About FBI's New Magic Unlocking Trick

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2016 @ 06:04pm

  The DoJ and the entire fed.gov seem to exist paradoxically in a rapidly collapsing bubble of high density, low energy Bullshit inside an environment of stable, normalized Bullshit (apologies for the technical terms). What's happening seems to be merely the expected results of the physics of Total Bullshit in a Governmental Environment. The results are anomalous to be sure, but reality abhors bubbles of High Energy Bullshit and things continue as expected. Let's see what our subject's state it next week in the lab...

• On the post: Milwaukee PD Hid Stingray Usage From Judges, Defendants And Now Congress Members Want Answers From The FBI

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 22 Mar, 2016 @ 02:29am

  We've pretty much passed the point where there could have been any possibility whatsoever that the government could be rehabilitated or any amount of trust put into it. This state of things is becoming very, very ominous.

• On the post: If You Use An Adblocker You Hate Free Speech, Says Internet Ads Guy

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2016 @ 03:27pm

  Internet ads killed Abe Vigoda.

• On the post: South Carolina Politicians Propose Ridculous Plan To Register Journalists… To Make A Statement About Gun Control

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 20 Jan, 2016 @ 03:28pm

  All politicians are bastards, at least this one is my kind of bastard.

• On the post: NY Times Warns About Europe Expanding The 'Right To Be Forgotten'

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 24 Dec, 2015 @ 01:11pm

  The NY Times could do an expose on how water is wet and still find some way to get it unbelievably wrong.

• On the post: Daily Deal: Private Internet Access 2 Year Subscription

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 22 Dec, 2015 @ 03:07pm

  Re:

  Same here, I've used them almost a year now...very uneventful, as good as you'd ask for.

• On the post: Leaked Documents Expose The US Government's Cell Phone Surveillance Options

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 21 Dec, 2015 @ 06:09am

  I'll take one of each.

• On the post: James Comey, Dianne Feinstein Team Up To Mislead About Encryption; Promise Legislation To Undermine National Security

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2015 @ 01:25pm

  There's a crapload of Dr. Feinstein to not like today.

• On the post: Cable Company Publicly Shames, Lectures Overdue Customers On Facebook

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 09 Dec, 2015 @ 08:50am

  Oh man, loved reading all those holier-than-thou sanctimonious commenter posts on there yucking it up until a day or so ago where they realized everything they had been being smug dicks about actually was completely wrong.

• On the post: Frequent Errors In Scientific Software May Undermine Many Published Results

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2015 @ 03:18am

  :cough: climate modeling :cough:

• On the post: Defense Lawyers Claim FBI Illegally Bugged Outside Steps Of County Courthouse

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2015 @ 02:58pm

  I heard a rumor a while ago that it was possible, however unlikely, that our spy agencies break the law sometimes.

• On the post: Elsevier Says Downloading And Content-Mining Licensed Copies Of Research Papers 'Could Be Considered' Stealing

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 18 Nov, 2015 @ 05:30am

  I wonder if this purveyor of academically significant words on paper might consider identity fraud human cloning using this mindset?

• On the post: Tor Project Claims FBI Paid Carnegie Mellon $1 Million To Deanonymize Tor Users

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 12 Nov, 2015 @ 11:22am

  Holy shit, I have to read that a few more times slowly...I got lost.

• On the post: NY Attorney General Shuts Down Daily Fantasy Sports Sites, Because Grandstanding

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 11 Nov, 2015 @ 05:03pm

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  Things or strategies developed illegally for illegal purposes that thrive despite the threat of legal retribution are usually going to be better alternatives than the "sanctioned" ones, at least for that niche in time or concept. More to the point, however, something that is moral isn't always legal and vice versa.

• On the post: Think Tank Who Proposed SOPA Now Argues That US Should Encourage Countries To Censor The Pirate Bay

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2015 @ 10:22am

  This sounds like a great idea.

• On the post: Musician Demands Google, Major Labels Pay Him $325 Million For Removing Videos He Paid $30 To Upload To Vevo

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2015 @ 09:02am

  This frivolous lawsuit is definitely going to hurt him at the polls in his 2016 presidential bid.

• On the post: Egyptian TV News Uses Video Game Footage As Proof Of Russian Precision Strikes Against ISIL

  

  Agonistes ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2015 @ 05:52am

  If the US military sold premium subscriptions and hosted engagements on Twitch it would make our defense budget way more manageable.

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