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Tony Arcieri

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Co-founder @iqlusioninc, formerly @square @chain. Cryptography dilettante, polyglot programmer, key management wrangler, and infrastructure security specialist

San Francisco, CA
tonyarcieri.com
Joined May 2007

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    1. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @bascule

      @bascule I don’t know what “worldwide importance” means, for what it’s worth. Nations interact in the state of nature.

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    2. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @tqbf

      @tqbf it'd help me understand if you gave me a simple y/n answer to: do you think the NSA violated 1) their charter 2) the US constitution

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    3. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @bascule

      @bascule Yes, of course I do. That wasn’t the question.

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    4. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @strlen

      @strlen @tqbf my problem is the situation was *obviously* fucked up and two previous attempts at "legit" whistleblowing failed...

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    5. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @bascule

      @bascule @strlen What on earth does that have to do with SIGINT disclosures?

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    6. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @tqbf

      @tqbf @strlen why do you seem more concerned about those than the NSA dropping 0-days into the HTTP traffic of US citizens?

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    7. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @bascule

      @bascule @strlen Because you asked what I thought about Snowden, not about NSA.

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    8. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @tqbf

      @tqbf @strlen well, what *do* you think about the NSA, irrespective of my previous tweets. What about QUANTUM*? Is it fucked y/n?

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    9. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @bascule

      @bascule @strlen Well, what *do* you think of leaks of active foreign ops in Pakistan? Fucked? y/n

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      Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
      Replying to @tqbf

      @tqbf @strlen one guy's OPSEC fail <<<<< nationstate adversary with multibillion dollar budget infiltrating everything they can

      6:17 PM - 10 Jan 2014
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        2. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen I wonder, how carefully have you followed the leaks? Are you surprised to hear he leaked details of overseas Al-Q ops?

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        3. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @tqbf

          @tqbf @strlen contrary: are you surprised prior NSA whistleblowers who were more OPSEC conscious didn’t accomplish much?

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        4. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen NSA is executing a mission that the citizenry overwhelmingly supports.

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        5. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @tqbf

          @tqbf @strlen that doesn’t make it legal, either within the confines of the NSA charter or the US constitution

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        6. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen I totally agree. But you asked if I was surprised about lukewarm response to previous leaks. No, of course not.

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        7. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @tqbf

          @tqbf are you at least glad Snowden escalated the issue to the public attention, costs aside?

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        8. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule Jury is still out. I think the good guys are going to lose this fight, in part because of Snowden.

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        2. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen But don’t pretend you have carefully thought-out positions on Snowden. You don’t. You’re coming from emotion.

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        3. Tony Arcieri‏ @bascule 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @tqbf

          @tqbf @strlen You’re missing the point. I don’t care about Snowden. I am against the NSA’s activities. Snowden was a means to an end

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        4. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen Yes. You have made it clear that you are against the NSA and don’t care about much else.

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        5. wwhyte‏ @wwhyte 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @tqbf

          @tqbf @bascule @strlen I support occasional leaking because the threat of transparency is the only way to keep secret agencies honest.

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        6. wwhyte‏ @wwhyte 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @wwhyte

          @tqbf @bascule @strlen we saw that oversight didn't work and all the incentives are for regulatory capture of congress & courts by spooks

          2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
        7. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @wwhyte

          @wwhyte @bascule @strlen It’s not “capture” when Congress’s track record is “please oh please don’t make us think about this.”

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        8. wwhyte‏ @wwhyte 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @tqbf

          @tqbf @bascule @strlen but that's tacit approval = same thing.

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        1. Jay Feldblum‏ @yfeldblum 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          . @bascule @tqbf @strlen Our fault as a country for not protecting government whistleblowers from retribution and forcing them to flee.

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        1. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen I don’t think you have very strong or coherent arguments. You just don’t like NSA. That’s fine, neither do I.

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        1. Thomas H. Ptacek‏ @tqbf 10 Jan 2014
          Replying to @bascule

          @bascule @strlen Huh? What does one have to do with the other? It’s either fucked or not.

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