dhess’s Comments

• Nov 4th, 2019 @ 4:24pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  on Cops: People In Their Own Homes Are In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time Whenever A Cop Enters Unlawfully

  the military is not - as far as i'm aware - oppressing the citizens (posse comitatus etc)

  If law enforcement is using military weapons not available to civilians, violating the 4th amendment and other civil rights, and enforcing order, a task for the military, rather than justice, a task for law enforcement, then law enforcement is military in disguise and violating the Posse Comitatus Act. Ask Randy Weaver or the Branch Davidians what they think.

  There is a reason the writers of the Constitution and Bill of Rights distinguished militia from select militia.

• Jun 9th, 2019 @ 3:36pm

  Re: https *IS* end-to-end encryption

  on As Germany Floats The Idea Of Encryption Backdoors, Facebook May Already Be Planning To Undermine Its Own Encryption

  This kind of attack has a danger for the attacker and especially the certificate authority. Forging the certificate provides proof that the attacker did this and that the certificate authority is compromised unless they somehow get the private key associated with the public key that the certificate authority certified.

  This is why governments do not routinely use this method of attack. It irrefutably destroys the certificate authority's credibility as a couple have discovered much to their woe.

  Facebook of course could hand over their private key as well allowing the government to impersonate them undetected which is just another reason not to trust them.

• Jun 29th, 2018 @ 3:08pm

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  on Investigation Shows AT&T Really Likes Being In The Surveillance Business
  They get paid for services and do not get Quested.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveillance_requests
  https://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio#Insider_trading,_fraud
• Jan 23rd, 2018 @ 5:46pm

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  on China's Solution To The VPN Quandary: Only Authorized, And Presumably Backdoored, Crypto Links Allowed
  That is exactly what I was thinking. I assume if you do that that you get into twice as much trouble.