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Comment Re:Ah, but there is a good reason! (Score 1) 303

You should also try to read the treaty [un.org]. It's not a defence pact.

Sorry, it's not a treaty either. It's an agreement that doesn't obligate the parties to much of anything at all.

It's actually correct to call it a treaty. The link points to a memo, which supplement Ukraine's accession to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. To read the treaty would also cover reading the memos supplementing it. To link to a memo whose sole purpose is to supplement a treaty and use that particular word as the link's text content seems only logical to me.

But yes, it's just a collection of nice words that whole memo/treaty/agreement.

Comment Re:Missing context (Score 1) 106

How hard would it be for those releasing the information to make a few changes here and there to support their political ideology?

Extremely hard. Like AHuxley there pointed out, the emails are signed by domain keys and you and me, and everybody else, can validate the authenticity and integrity of every email that has the DKIM. To say that they would have forged an email in a way that still validates through a DKIM validator, WikiLeaks (or some other party) would've had to have stolen Google's and other domains' private DKIM keys. Mind you that these keys are *extremely* well protected, especially on Google's services.

That being said, to say that Podesta's emails have been forged, you would have to simultaneously argue that *every* email sent from e.g. Google's email servers are potentially forged or subject to forgery right now. If Google, for example, believed this to be true, they'd be changing their keys right now.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 437

Here in Europe companies, especially major ones, generally stay out of politics. They endorse certain policies, but stop short of endorsing politicians or parties. It's a good approach that keeps employees and customers happy, since they represent a wide range of ideologies and backgrounds. Having the media and corporations so strongly divided into opposing camps only degrades the quality politics and surrounding conversations.

Comment Re:Where's the BoA stuff? (Score 1) 437

Now there's a rotten story that never stops smelling. I suppose they are/were both "strong personas" that had a temper tantrum and the other one ragequit. Assange has his personality problems too, but deleting the information they possibly had was a loss for everyone.

Comment Re:Ping pongged (Score 1) 16

I'm seeing all Trump submissions get flagged as "spam."

This submission hit 'red' status very quickly, got dropped down a few pegs a minute later, then went red hot after.

They submitted the safe story everyone else is running instead, which is pure fluff, instead of the things that are actually interesting out of the dump.

I noticed this too. Practically every story related to the WikiLeaks email dump has been recently flagged as 'SPAM', and quite fast, too. Some of the editors here may not want to flame up the discussion too much. Either that or they have personal preferences, which are showing in their moderation (judging from their Twitter feeds this is possible, too).

Nonetheless, there are some very interesting tech related stuff in there, which would normally easily pass the Firehose here.

Comment Shocking and not shocking (Score 1) 1

It's quite unethical for them to jump in on one candidate's bandwagon, but there seems to be -- at least not yet -- no evidence of actions taken based on this. It does, however, make you wonder what a candidate could do if they had access to statistical data from Facebook and/or Whatsapp. And maybe even *gulp* Google's private stashes of statistics.

Comment Re: Zero Wikileaks coverage (Score 1) 50

Conspiracy theory clap trap.

Whenever I see this, I have to say: conspiracy theories are theories only as long as they're not proven to be true. Granted, the OP's assumption that the "media is trying to hide serious corruption" is too wide to be ever really proven to be true, but if it was narrowed down to for example, "some of the major media outlets have been conspiring with...", then it could be shown to be true.

We know, after all, that Mrs. Clinton did receive debate questions beforehand, which alone would satisfy this. However, there have been media outlets that have reported it, which means that in the form OP mentioned it, the "conspiracy" would not be true. The latter would.

Submission + - Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com) 1

MojoKid writes: As we quickly approach the November 8th elections, email leaks from the Clinton camp continue to loom over the presidential candidate. The latest data dump from WikiLeaks shines a light on emails between Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta, and Facebook Chief Operating Officer, Sheryl Sandberg. In one email exchange, dated June 6th, 2015, Sandberg expresses her desire for Clinton to become president, writing to Podesta, "And I still want HRC to win badly. I am still here to help as I can." While that was a private exchange, Sandberg also made her zest for seeing Clinton as the 45th President of the United States publicly known in a Facebook post on July 28th of this year. None of that is too shocking when you think about it. Sandberg has every right to endorse whichever candidate she wants for president. However, a later exchange between Sandberg and Podesta showed that Mark Zuckerberg was looking to get in on the action a bit, and perhaps curry favor with Podesta and the Clinton camp in shaping public policy. Donald Trump has long claimed that Clinton is too cozy with big businesses, and one cannot dismiss the fact that Facebook has a global user base of 1.7 billion users. When you toss in the fact that Facebook came under fire earlier this year for allegedly suppressing conservative news outlets in the Trending News bar, questions begin to arise about Facebook's impartiality in the political race.

Comment The whole system is broken (Score 1) 111

It's not just a few CAs, it's the whole system. The CA system is built on trust and there has been no trust left in the system in years. The whole idea of encrypted communications between web browsers and web servers needs to be reworked and somehow decentralized so that rogue CAs will eventually die out.

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