Hacker News: SilliMon

New comment by SilliMon in "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide"

SilliMon — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:26:40 +0000

You can always encrypt on the client, so the Google data centers are just pushing encrypted blobs around.

It makes like a bit more complex, but PGP can be used for mail and here's how to protect GDrive files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644888

Remember these revelations date from a year or two ago, who knows what they're up to now?

New comment by SilliMon in "Ask HN: I'm done with Gmail (a.k.a. NSA-Mail). What's the best alternative?"

SilliMon — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:19:54 +0000

PGP is the best option, but makes it harder for the recipient. Perhaps added security = added hassle, and there's no way around that.

Here's how to protect GDrive files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644888

New comment by SilliMon in "Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive"

SilliMon — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 03:16:28 +0000

No, in the past, only if you were a tin-foil hat wearing paranoid.

We expected our government to uphold the law, specifically the 4th Amendment, which protects us from unlawful searches.

Help foil the NSA by Encrypting Google Drive

SilliMon — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 02:35:08 +0000

Article URL: http://www.syncdocs.com/keep-google-drive-files-private-with-syncdocs-encryption/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644888

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by SilliMon in "Ask HN: What is the best technology to learn right now?"

SilliMon — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 05:43:51 +0000

I find it interesting that no one has suggested any Microsoft tools, .NET or C#

I guess these are all dead now?

New comment by SilliMon in "Salvaging the Costa Concordia"

SilliMon — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 05:20:03 +0000

Amazing - better than raise the Titanic

Top Australian Spy also caught lying to parliment

SilliMon — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 05:07:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.crikey.com.au/2013/09/13/agd-does-it-again-more-changes-to-its-data-retention-story/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6391741

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by SilliMon in "Did WikiLeaks Sell Out Snowden To The Russians? "

SilliMon — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 05:05:37 +0000

Russian control of Wikileaks makes sense of Snowden's actions. Then again, it may just be conincidence?

New comment by SilliMon in "Dropbox disables ASLR on Windows"

SilliMon — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:16:49 +0000

What's most worrying about this is that Dropbox is injecting itself into processes like NotePad++ and Firefox that have nothing to do with shell extensions.

Either this is lazy coding, or there is some malicious intent to spy.

New comment by SilliMon in "On Encryption"

SilliMon — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 23:49:47 +0000

If I were the NSA, I would run these VPN services.

They provide a perfect honeypot to gather the "illegal" web users or those with something to hide, in one place.

New comment by SilliMon in "Linode SSD Beta"

SilliMon — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 01:44:39 +0000

Sounds promising. SSDs have good potential as a cache for bigger backend spinning disks.

New comment by SilliMon in "Google encrypts data amid backlash against NSA spying"

SilliMon — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 01:43:10 +0000

Ditto for Google Drive, encrypt it with something like Syncdocs[1] to keep files private.

Encryption keys are like car keys - you need to own them, not Google.

[1] http://syncdocs.com

New comment by SilliMon in "Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? (2007)"

SilliMon — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:30:00 +0000

It is might be time for an audit of code submits to the encryption libararies in open source projects.

New comment by SilliMon in "Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They've Inserted Backdoors"

SilliMon — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:28:24 +0000

It is probably time for an audit of code submits to the encryption libararies in open source projects.

Attention deficit disorder at Google

SilliMon — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 00:22:32 +0000

Article URL: http://paulwallbank.com/2013/03/22/corporate-attention-deficit-disorder-for-google-with-keep/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6338028

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by SilliMon in "US stops jailed activist Barrett Brown from discussing hacking prosecution"

SilliMon — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 06:05:26 +0000

What did he do that is worthy of 100 years in jail?

New comment by SilliMon in "Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts"

SilliMon — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 02:13:52 +0000

Just because something is in the cloud doesn't mean you don't need backups.

Backup your entire Google account. Here's a tool to do it: http://www.syncdocs.com/ Print out the 10 password recovery codes Google offers. Here's how to do it: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/180744?hl=en Having a backup and extra security is essential for everything stored in the cloud.

Leaked: damning internal email trail from inside the WikiLeaks Party

SilliMon — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:47:54 +0000

Article URL: http://media.crikey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/From21.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6300319

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by SilliMon in "Cyber Crime Scene Investigations through Cloud Computing [pdf]"

SilliMon — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:49:56 +0000

A good read. Is the recent speed improvement in TOR due to this being done?

New comment by SilliMon in "Learning how to think"

SilliMon — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:46:13 +0000

seems like it, why not just invent a big number?