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Comment Re:interesting (Score 1) 123

If you can tap into/analyze the internet backbones (as the NSA can) then Tor isn't very anonymous. They can track packets and figure out who's really connected to who even though the packets are relayed.

I don't know if this can easily be fixed, but now would be the time to do it.

They can't identify EVERYONE, and they cannot identify anyone in real time.

Comment Re:Let's see (Score 1) 381

The names of informants in foreign governments - especially dictatorships like North Korea.

Unlikely, Snowden only has access to NSA documents, and the NSA being a SIGINT and COMINT service probably doesn't have "informers".

Specific individuals that we know are terrorists, and who the U.S. is tracking right now (hoping to catch bigger fish).

Also unlikely, cases where names are specifcally mentioned will under most circumstances be so highly compatmentalized that it's highly unlikely that it would even be possible to get those names easily. Even more unlikely that someone like Snowden could get his hands on them without it being known the moment he tried to access them.

Technologies now considered "safe" for foreign spies, terrorists, and criminals to use - but have actually been hacked.

Profound vulnerabilities in our embassy/military-base defenses that penetration testing found but are too expensive to fix.

Anything that would otherwise cause people to die.

This one I buy, this sounds more like the kinda thing someone like Snowden would be able to get his hands on.

Comment Re:That room on the 6th floor of the Book Deposito (Score 1) 381

No matter what you think about who it was who killed Kennedy, one thing for sure is that there was a conspiracy to obfuscate all of the facts about the assassination.

Oswald may well have acted alone, on his own initiative. In that case, the real conspiracy happened over the course of the next twenty years. The question is, why was there such an effort to confuse the whole story? To create confusion and doubt in the minds of Americans?

Actually, there's a fair deal of evidece coming out of now open or leaked KGB documents that the KGB (amongst others, probably) were all fairly interested in feeding the conspiracy, they had a whole department whose task it was to create and disemminate false documents; everything from fake intelligence documents to fake news stories like this one.

I have the actual source references at home, but I don'thave access to them at the point of writing, but you should be able to dig them up. Fun fact the KGB were also interested in UFO stories, mainly cus' back in the cold war stories of flying saucers could tie up airforce resources like nothing else. You kinda have to take "there is something in the skies" quite serious when you're living in a world where "surprise nuclear air/missile strike" is a real possible occurance.

Comment Re:see the bottom of previous comment (Score 1) 172

**my comment was about the reality of what Silk Road is and how pretending its anything else hurts our profession!!!!!**

Who is pretending Silk Road didn't sell drugs? Haven't seen anyone say "Silk Road didn't sell drugs". At best I've seen people say "Silk Road sold OTHER stuff too."

Also: What proffession?

Comment Re:i didn't say "ban bitcoin" (Score 1) 172

You, and whoever modded me as "-1 Flamebait" is putting words in my mouth

I said Silk Road was for drugs and Bitcoin is how you pay for them....**THATS TRUE**

Aight...yes Silk Road Was a place for buying drugs and bitcoins were how you paid for them, that is true. Noone ever said that Silk Road didn't sell drugs or that you didn't pay for said drugs with BTC, so, what's your point?

I mean saying that you buy drugs on SR and pay with BTC is just stating already known facts you aren't really making any point.

I don't think that anyone thinks that Silk Road was innocent, I mean the admin was obviously raking in tons of cash on commisons from the illegal transactions going through SR and there is no way in hell that he wasn't aware what his site was being used for.

However, I fail to see how what SR was using BTC for says anything about Bitcoin other than "it was used". If you are trying to make it seem like Bitcoin is somehow inherently bad because it was used to pay for drugs, that same logic sould apply to any other currency curretly in use.

Yes, you paid for drugs with BTC when you used SR, that's just stating the obvious.

So make a point.

Comment Re:stop pretending (Score 1) 172

tl;dr: Silk Road is for illegal drugs & Bitcoin is how you pay for them

So the fact you can pay for drugs and other illegal things means we should ban it or at the very least treat it as extremely suspect?

Alright.

Let's do the same to the dollar, the Euro and ruple. I am fairly certain that more drugs and illegal things get bought for those in an hour than gets bought with BTC for an entire day.

Let's ban the dollar, c'mon, seriously, let's do it.

Comment Re:The answer is no. (Score 1) 188

Winning? You'll be hard pressed to find a court that will even accept jurisdiction over the case.

Isn't it technically the job of the Supreme Court to handle cases like these?

Indeed. But which one?

Er...The supremest one I guess. I don't know the American Legal system, being not american and all that.

Comment Re:Illegal, Not Undocumented. (Score 1) 391

Your maternal ancestors didn't say that ~1945.

First off, how do you know my ancestors weren't nazis?

Second off, it's cute how you Americans still think you and not the whole "War on two fronts"-thing Hitler pulled won the war.

You guys do realize that without the Eastern front and The Germans throwing away most of their airforce on The battle of Britain, chances are that The Nazis would have kicked everyone's ass, right?

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