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Submission + - Snowden Masqueraded As Top Officials To Mine NSA's Deepest Secrets

schnell writes: As government investigators continue to try to figure out just how much data whistleblower Edward Snowden had access to, MSNBC is reporting that Snowden used his sysadmin privileges to assume the user profiles of top NSA officials in order to gain access to the most sensitive files. His sysadmin privileges also enabled him to do something other NSA users can't — download classified files from NSAnet onto a thumb drive. “Every day, they are learning how brilliant [Snowden] was,” said a former U.S. official with knowledge of the case. “This is why you don’t hire brilliant people for jobs like this. You hire smart people. Brilliant people get you in trouble.”

Submission + - 100% fail rate on Liberia University's admission exam

slew writes: Apparently none of the 24K+ students who sat for the 2013 Liberia University entrance exam got a passing mark, and fewer than a hundred managed to pass the either the english (pass level 70%) or math (pass level 50%) sections required to qualify to be part of the normal class of 2k-3k students admitted every year...

Historically, the pass rate has been about 20-30% and in recent years, the test has been in multiple-guess format to facilitate grading. The mathematics exam generally focuses on arithmetic, geometry, algebra, analytical geometry and elementary statistic and probability; while the English exam generally focuses on grammar, sentence completion, reading comprehension and logical reasoning.

However, as a testatment to the over-hang of a civil war, university over-crowding, corruption, social promotion, the admission criteria was apparently temporarily dropped to 40% math and 50% english to allow the provisional admission of about 1.6K students. And people are calling foul...

Comment Re:Encryption IS unfortuately too hard (Score 1) 233

I recently came across an interesting app/middleware platform in the google play store for android called musubi group chat. It uses a type of encryption called "Identity based encryption" (first theorized by shamir of rsa fame). It is dead simple to use with all the key management being done without user intervention. In order to send someone an encrypted message you only need their email address (you generate the public key for them). You do need a trusted 3rd party involved but I think that drawback can be overcome. Anyway, if you have android give it a try as I think it is impressive and I'd like to see more apps use this.

Comment Re:Uh, don't we maybe NEED that hormone? (Score 1) 404

wyatt I have some questions if you don't mind: 1) What are the benefits you've experienced with this treatment? Both physical and mental (if any). 2) I'm assuming you're doing it under a doctor's care. How is it administered? How often? 3) Do you pay out of pocket for it? If so, how \expensive is it? I'm wondering if insurance covers this type of thing. Thanks.

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