Interesting Links for 08-03-2017

[andrewducker]

The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up an Exploit (tags: Child_abuse security fbi ) What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders? (tags: gender politics ) Norway to build the world’s first ship tunnel (tags: design norway ship tunnels transport safety ) gail.com FAQ (tags: web ) A $2.5 trillion asset manager

Comments

[bart_calendar]

Why the hell does gail.com get that many organic hits?

[andrewducker]

People who's "m" key has fallen off?

[bart_calendar]

Fuck. Didn't think about gmail.

[skington]

That article about building a ship tunnel commits the cardinal sin of not including a goddamn map.

[andrewducker]

Totally fair point. Have an article with a map. (And, sadly, auto-playing video):
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2017/03/norway-literally-moves-a-mountain-for-ship-tunnel.html

[skington]

Ghostery or something must have nixed the auto-playing video, so I declare that article far superior on all grounds!

[alextfish]

I'm no fan of the FBI or the NSA, not in the slightest. But I'm not at all surprised they don't want to disclose a technique to the public sector in order to catch just one group. A technique is a multi-use thing; it doesn't make strategic sense to make it public, thus undermining most of its effectiveness, for the sake of any one case. There will (sadly) always be more child pornographers; letting one go free (potentially just for a couple more years) in order to maximise the number of others they can catch over the next few years makes perfect sense.

[mlknchz]

That TOR article reminds me of WWII, when the US had broken the Japanese codes, and Britain had broken Enigma...what constitutes a good enough reason to let the bad guys know their communication security is blown? Convoys were sunk, attacks were allowed to happen, theatre and battlefield commanders were kept in the dark, people lost their lives. Intelligence people got so wound up about having the information that they forgot the only real reason TO have the information is to act on it.

[apostle_of_eris]

The tradeoff is a victory today vs more victories in the future.
When the enemy discovers their code is broken, they change it and your information is cut off. So it's not just using the information you have, it's losing the source of information. That might be worth Coventry.

[mlknchz]

The German police had THOROUGHLY infiltrated the neo-Nazi movements in Germany in the late 90's. Seems like every other person was a paid informant. They collected lots of information while their informants used to money for real neo-Nazi propaganda and actions. And three of them murdered nine people. Nobody ever seemed to get arrested, they just kept compiling dossiers. *shrug*

[alextfish]

On a completely different note:
http://www.archdaily.com/797814/71-thousand-high-res-historical-maps-available-for-free-download

Pretty much what the URL says. Lots and lots of historical maps and diagrams collected in one place. They're not all "maps", really, but they're pretty fascinating from the smattering I've looked at.

[andrewducker]

Very cool, thank you!