A finite, but as of now undetermined, amount of data was conveyed to journalists. I am keenly interested in seeing objective proof that the sum of those disclosures is equal to the sum of all information in his possession. If you're planning on using Snowden's public statements in support of your view that everything he has is already in someone else's hands, I suggest you consult the dictionary for the definition of "naive."

I served in the United States Navy as a submariner, and I've been rather intimately involved with communications networks since around the age of eleven. You might be surprised to learn that I applaud Snowden's revelations regarding pervasive NSA surveillance of American citizens at home, abroad, and in interaction with allied nations. I doubt you have the depth of experience or context to fully appreciate why I applaud it, though, given your choice of the word "stole" to describe the materials in question. I prefer the term "returned," or perhaps "disclosed," as in "disclosed to the American people what their government had been doing in violation of their own Constitution," a document I swore an oath to uphold and defend against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Again, I doubt you truly understand what that means.

Given Snowden's background, it doesn't seem he has issues with divulging information. As part of fleeing to Russia, I'm certain he understood that he would have many conversations with many interesting people. I hardly think any sort of "working over" will be necessary in this case.

Indeed on all points, and I'm still trying to figure out why people keep making the assumption that identity protection or obfuscation measures of any sort are part of the protocol. Maybe it's the "crypto" part of "cryptocurrency" that causes some kind of automatic correlation, although if that were the case one would think that the widespread use of cryptographic mechanisms for identity verification might encourage the opposite assumption.

I don't understand why people keep assuming Bitcoin is designed to be anonymous. It isn't.

I'll expand upon my last comment a bit: if I had a dollar for every time I've heard the expression "I'm an expert at [insert thing here]" from someone who has the benefits of age and allegedly tons of experience with [insert thing here], and I subsequently have to fix whatever busted server/network/software config was put in place by the "expert," I'd be a wealthy man. Instead, at 32 I've learned that assumptions about competence should never be made based on things like UIDs. You can hope someone who has been in a field for a while knows what he's doing, but you cannot assume it, as you'll simply see that assumption proven wrong too many times and with too many nasty consequences.

Your assumption would be incorrect. Someone existing for a set period of time on this planet is not a reliable indicator of knowledge. That's one of the hardest things I've had to learn in fifteen years of systems work.

You've demonstrated you have no idea how these attacks work, why they're important, or even how BGP itself works.

No worries at all; the intent of my post was to encourage the GP to consult documentation specific to the implied case that the Mathematica developers hadn't considered the problem. I believe your submission was a good one, as it isn't always a guarantee that developers will have considered the implications of floating point calculations in any given codebase. Getting people to think about things is never a bad thing.

I think this really is the best option, all things considered.

So fix the compiler, or stop compiling for 32 bit. RAM is cheap, especially when you're talking about the cost per GiB of hundreds of gibibytes of it.

I don't have to be a mathematician to say that sounds like one hell of a party.

Oh really.

Yeah, I've seen "projections and promises" like those off and on for nearly two decades on the part of many states. Oddly enough, it doesn't wind up working out. Attempting to counter with Future Money (TM) is no counter at all. Nice try, though.

Roger that:

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As soon as you're done reviewing that information, plus what you can find with a simple Google query, kindly go fuck yourself.

The technology is great, but I hope those $1M payments are via cashier's check or out of state escrow, as the state of California is dancing on the fine edge of bankruptcy.