Hacker News: frank_boyd

New comment by frank_boyd in "Boston policemen complain about new plan to watch their movements"

frank_boyd — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:43:43 +0000

Why, do they have something to hide?

Also, if they're doing things they don't want other people to know, maybe they shouldn't be doing those things in the first place.

Or something.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published"

frank_boyd — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 12:18:55 +0000

Yes, kind of, actually:

If our media are too corrupt, then we need to create new ones that work better and change our habits. Submission to corruption can not be a mid- or long-term solution.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Read less HN"

frank_boyd — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:49:52 +0000

In other words:

"Why I read less HN and you should, too!"

New comment by frank_boyd in "Bloomberg News Suspends Reporter Whose Article on China Was Not Published"

frank_boyd — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 11:44:43 +0000

Forget the "media". Drop your stuff at WikiLeaks.org

New comment by frank_boyd in "Alternative search engines to Google?"

frank_boyd — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:09:17 +0000

The disadvantage: You're still funding Google b/c StartPage sells their ads.

New comment by frank_boyd in "A Russian GPS Using U.S. Soil Stirs Spy Fears"

frank_boyd — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 08:05:30 +0000

Kind of "funny", if you remember that the US builds all kinds of stuff on other nations' soil:

- Tons of military bases (see: all over the world)

- NSA mass surveillance centers (see: Germany, and probably secret ones elsewhere)

New comment by frank_boyd in "Getting a bit creepy"

frank_boyd — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:27:06 +0000

> But it just feels creepy to email me about it this way.

In other words:

"Yes, I know it's wrong and they should not know these things about me, but I want to use their product anyway, so can we please just pretend nobody knows what's going on in our society?"

New comment by frank_boyd in "FBI warns hacking spree on government agencies is a “widespread problem”"

frank_boyd — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 08:55:09 +0000

> FBI warns hacking spree on government agencies is a “widespread problem”

Another “widespread problem” is government agencies conducting mass surveillance.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Americans’ Personal Data Shared with CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe"

frank_boyd — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 08:52:07 +0000

EVERYTHING starts with education.

Education is the most important thing the human race needs.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid"

frank_boyd — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:51:25 +0000

It's nice to help suffering people.

The recurring pattern I see, however, is: We single out 0.001% of all cases, do something extraordinary, and make a big fuss about it in the media. All this to make us feel good about ourselves. What we don't want to fix though, are the real causes of the problems, because that's way less pleasant to do.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Wikileaks publishes 500k new Stratfor emails"

frank_boyd — Sat, 16 Nov 2013 07:48:38 +0000

Sorry man, priorities - you got them wrong. Who cares about a few credit card numbers or "personal love notes" when we find ourselves living in corrupt "democracies" that are about to crumble pretty much all over the Western world.

New comment by frank_boyd in "F-Secure Launches A Dropbox For the Dark Web And A VPN"

frank_boyd — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:01:17 +0000

I welcome all efforts to fight the abuse taken as granted by the government(s).

On the other hand:

> a virtual private network (VPN) smartphone app

"smartphone app": for iOS and/or Android, I suppose. Can we trust anything that does not run on an open-source OS? Absolutely not.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births"

frank_boyd — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:54:21 +0000

> Car Mechanic Dreams Up a Tool to Ease Births

Pure gold.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Coinbase Bitcoin Wallet App Gets Axed From iOS App Store"

frank_boyd — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:52:58 +0000

Time to axe the iOS app store. Time for new open platforms.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Americans’ Personal Data Shared with CIA, IRS, Others in Security Probe"

frank_boyd — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:35:48 +0000

Kill it with FIRE.

New comment by frank_boyd in "Renault ships a brickable car with battery DRM that you're not allowed to own"

frank_boyd — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:32:44 +0000

This has EVIL written all over it, in so many ways I don't even...

New comment by frank_boyd in "TPP Leak Confirms the Worst: US Still Trying to Trade Away Internet Freedoms"

frank_boyd — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 06:15:42 +0000

"We must handle this in secret! Trust us! It's for your own good! We just want to protect you from the danger!"

Why do I keep hearing this bullshit from all governments all over the World? (The last time, it was the NSA saying we should let them set up the police state.)

Secrecy has nothing to do with democracy. It kills it. (And that seems to be the goal, lately.)

9%: Congress’s Approval Rating Hits the Single Digits

frank_boyd — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:52:03 +0000

Article URL: http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/12/the-9-congress-approval-rating-hits-the-single-digits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725116

Points: 2

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New comment by frank_boyd in "In Lavabit Appeal, U.S. Doubles Down on Access to Web Crypto Keys"

frank_boyd — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:33:17 +0000

TL;DR

> A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access.

New comment by frank_boyd in "The second operating system hiding in every mobile phone"

frank_boyd — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:28:13 +0000

First of all, all that code must be open-sourced. It's so obvious that it really hurts. Next, hardware needs to become "open-source", too.