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• On the post: FCC Commissioner O'Rielly: Nobody Takes Me Seriously After Voting Down Every Consumer-Friendly FCC Policy This Year

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2015 @ 09:43am

  Oh Michael. That's not the only reason we don't take you seriously...

• On the post: Come See How Excited Everyone Is For The Latest UK Educational 'Don't Pirate' Campaign

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 16 Jul, 2015 @ 09:04am

  It's very clear that they've moved on from not downloading cars to not downloading a clue.

• On the post: Senate Intel Committee Wants Facebook, Twitter & YouTube To Report 'Terrorist-Related' Content

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 07 Jul, 2015 @ 11:28am

  "Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the communist terrorist party?"

• On the post: Lionsgate Sues TD Ameritrade For Seven Figures Over Lame Reference To A Dirty Dancing Line

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 06 Jul, 2015 @ 04:22pm

  Apparently someone actually did put baby in the corner: Lionsgate.

• On the post: Congressional Rep Makes A Pull Request On GitHub, Which Is Then Merged By US Gov't CIO

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 11 Jun, 2015 @ 12:15pm

  Wondering if we'll see Politician's commits end up here:
  
  http://www.commitlogsfromlastnight.com/
  
  "Fuck , here's a fix."

• On the post: Torrent Madness: UK Cybercrime Official Argues That File Sharing Is A Gateway Drug To Crime

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 09 Jun, 2015 @ 07:29am

  "You wouldn't download a joint..."

• On the post: AP Uncovers More Than 100 FBI Spy Plane Flights, Originating From Shell Companies Located In Virginia

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 02 Jun, 2015 @ 02:07pm

  Thanks, USG, for making all the fucking creepy lunatics from the 90s into soothsayers.

• On the post: US Government Making Another Attempt To Regulate Code Like It Regulates International Weapons Sales

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2015 @ 03:01pm

  This is ironic since a lot of exploits now rely on fallout from 90's crypto export laws: ie. the ability to request crypto strength downgrades...

• On the post: CIA Boss Claims That Merely Debating Surveillance Is Helping The Terrorists

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2015 @ 10:41am

  Obviously the problem is that freedom is helping the terrorists.

• On the post: Good News! Dianne Feinstein Is Here To Reform The Section 215 Program By Making Everything Worse!

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 27 May, 2015 @ 08:38am

  Am I the only one that read the title of this article in Professor Farnsworth's voice?

• On the post: FBI Director Claims That The World's Most Knowledgeable Cybersecurity Experts Are Not 'Fair Minded' About Encryption Backdoors

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 22 May, 2015 @ 11:37am

  Re:

  So basically, a backdoor being a security threat to everyone isn't a hypothetical concern: It is one directly stemming from existing problems in real life, right now, based on the last iteration of this bullshit argument.

• On the post: FBI Director Claims That The World's Most Knowledgeable Cybersecurity Experts Are Not 'Fair Minded' About Encryption Backdoors

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 22 May, 2015 @ 11:35am

  We have already seen this in play, in the wild, right now:
  
  http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HTTPS-Logjam-Vulnerability&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+Phoronix+%28Phoronix%29
  
  Let's be clear: Logjam exists as a direct result of forcing weaker encryption on export in the 90s, thus allowing people to use lesser SSL encryption for compatibility sake. That allowable downgrade is exactly the vector this attack uses.
  
  To quote the article:
  
  Another HTTPS vulnerability has started to make its rounds earlier this morning. Dubbed Logjam by its researchers, the vulnerability stems from the US's encryption export mandate back in the 1990s. This particular vulnerability, in the transport-layer security layer protocol, breaks the Diffie-Hellman perfect forward-secrecy. Susceptibility to the vulnerability is depended on servers and clients supporting the DHE_EXPORT encryption scheme, or using a key less-than-or-equal to 1024 bits.

• On the post: FBI Says It Has No Idea Why Law Enforcement Agencies Are Following The Terms Of Its Stingray Non-Disclosure Agreements

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 18 May, 2015 @ 01:20pm

  I am almost amused at how similar the tactics of denial the government uses are similar to the ones used by organized crime.
  
  "What? I never said he had to pay the money for protection, I have no idea where he got the idea that his kneecaps would be terribly destroyed by a power drill if he didn't cough up. That's all in his head!"

• On the post: Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Declares Silicon Valley A 'Gallery Of Rogues And Thieves'

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 10:04am

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  "not an up and coming"...I need more coffee.

• On the post: Verizon Buys AOL, Because Two Lumbering Dinosaurs Who Can't Figure Out The Modern Internet Must Be Better Together

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 09:29am

  Newsflash: Verizon is now sending upgrade notices to their subscribers in the form of CD Roms that can be run on your home PC! Now get 2 Gigs of Data Free for the first month!

• On the post: Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Declares Silicon Valley A 'Gallery Of Rogues And Thieves'

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 12 May, 2015 @ 09:28am

  Roger, I know you're an up and coming act, but I think it may be time to re-evaluate what the labels tell you. They may call it protecting artists, but we call it 'Riding the Gravy Train' and it usually doesn't mean the labels are generous with their acts' pay.
  
  But, just to be clear: I've always had a deep respect and I mean that most sincerely. The band is just fantastic that is really what I think...
  
  Oh by the way, which one's Pink?

• On the post: FBI Spent Years 'Researching' The Lyrics To 'Louie, Louie' Before Realizing The Copyright Office Must Have Them

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 06 May, 2015 @ 03:19pm

  Here's the surprise twist:
  
  Jack Ely was singing in crypto, using a cipher from Enigma. They still couldn't crack it.

• On the post: Dangerous And Ridiculous: Facebook Won't Let Sites Join Its Internet.org Program If They Encrypt Traffic

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 06 May, 2015 @ 03:07pm

  Dear Zuckerberg: dump the internet.org brand. IT's boring. I hear Prodigy.net is available...

• On the post: Dear Tom Wheeler: I'm Sorry I Thought You Were A Mindless Cable Shill

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2015 @ 01:31pm

  Re: Re:

  Is the sarcasm font not working again? Everyone's got their hackles up.

• On the post: Dear Tom Wheeler: I'm Sorry I Thought You Were A Mindless Cable Shill

  

  dfbomb ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2015 @ 07:20am

  Re: Re:

  I feel like someone just told a dinosaur joke around Ross Geller, only to have him pedantically explain why it's not funny - all while missing the joke.

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