Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zooko@identi.ca
Boulder, United States
Founder and CEO of Least Authority Enterprises. Email zooko@leastauthority.com or zooko@zooko.com.
2013-06-12T09:33:13+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
Okay, folks, I'm leaving identi.ca. It's been awesome. Follow for now on twitter. <3 --Zooko2013-06-12T07:10:08+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
To be clear, I don't want the Director of National Intelligence to be fired. I just want you, gentle reader, to know that they are lying.2013-06-12T07:06:13+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
“a statement either is or isn’t; there’s no such thing as speaking in a ‘most truthful’ or ‘least untruthful’ manner.”—http://ur1.ca/ea9ki2013-06-12T06:05:35+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
So…the Director of National Intelligence perjured before Congress, but the Democrats are pretending not to notice? http://nyti.ms/12kox6e2013-06-10T05:32:52+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
This @EconTalker episode was one of the good ones: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/06/kling_on_the_th.html2013-06-09T22:08:28+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
Ed Snowden speaks for me. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video2013-06-09T20:35:07+00:00 in Alt-Kölln, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
If it's what it appears to be, simply amazing and admirable. I hope he lives to defend himself in court.2013-06-09T11:09:22+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
The ending quote from the NSA spokesperson is priceless. http://identi.ca/url/759759592013-06-09T11:08:08+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
This sure makes it sound like the US intelligence apparatus has been lying to its Congressional overseers. http://identi.ca/url/759759592013-06-08T08:16:29+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
Okay, here's what I've done so far: refactor my Python benchmarking utility a bit… https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pyutil/changeset/2902013-06-08T07:18:28+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
Incoming new users! Batten the hatches! Polish up the FAQ! https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-June/008351.html2013-06-08T06:43:25+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
Okay, I can't keep sitting here worrying about things. I'm going to go hack on some software…2013-06-08T06:17:56+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
And you know what? This kind of parsing of coded statements is bullshit, like the USSR and China. It's depressing that we've come to this.
It's the exact same statement coming from every company. Google's was a bit different, but still. It's bullshit.2013-06-08T06:15:54+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
…those companies are being forced, if not to lie, then at least to mislead, and they want USGov to let them out of it.2013-06-08T06:15:08+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
I think the plea for "transparency" from USGov in the eerily similar statements from the various PRISM companies mean that …2013-06-08T06:10:39+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
So far they appear to be issuing a press release that raises more questions than it answers and then waiting to see if that's enough.2013-06-08T06:09:53+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
Remember how Google shook the world by getting all over the Chinese incursion, and then going public with it? Contrast with PRISM.2013-06-08T06:09:14+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
I can't shake the feeling that if Google's PRISM denial was true, they would be all over figuring out what the hell is really going on.2013-06-08T05:31:30+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
The waitresses at room77.de say that they get about 1 Bitcoin customer per day, and many on Thursdays at the Bitcoin meetup.2013-06-07T22:35:52+00:00 in Kreuzberg, Land Berlin, Germany via web To: Public
“national security is harmed: not by disclosure…but through the erosion of our commitment to the rule of law”— http://identi.ca/url/75971383
