Redaction Blunder: Snoden was the Feds' quarry in Lavabit case

"They missed a single reference. One of the first things we did on downloading the 560‑pages [PDF] was run a search on the word "Snowden" and lo and behold – on page 79, while noting that the entire record was under seal, up pops the email address "Ed_Snowden@lavabit.com."

As you can see from another page in the release, the redactions came thick and fast in relation to any mention of the NSA whistleblower, so the failure to notice a single reference to his email address is likely to cause some frustration in the FBI."

— http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/17/feds_did_target_snowden_in_lavabit_case/

"Today I learned that Apple has better lawyers than DOJ"

'... in a declaration filed yesterday by Erik Neuenschwander, Apple’s manager of user privacy, Apple suggested that Pluhar needed more training.

“This is false because it is not possible,” Neuenschwander wrote ... Apple appeared to sum up its assessment of the government’s incorrect understanding of the legal and technical issues in the case in a quote at the end of its brief yesterday:

“Almost 90 years ago, Justice Louis Brandeis, reflecting on the ‘progress of science’ beyond wiretapping famously warned that ‘[t]he greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding’.”'

— http://www.wired.com/2016/03/apple-fact-checks-the-feds-in-latest-brief/?mbid=social_fb

Polyglot Balázs Csigi Talks the Importance of Cultural Semantics

"... 'Master every bit of the culture and you can achieve native-like mastery of the language itself.' ... cultural semantics is the study of the meaning of words and phrases and their connection to culture. Many words in a language are unique; they cannot be exactly translated into other languages ... That's one of the main reasons why memorizing words is not an option if you want to achieve mastery. Instead of rote learning, one needs to go beyond the surface and uncover the hidden culture behind words and phrases. It's like cracking an exciting secret code or connecting the dots in a detective story."

— businessinsider.com/polyglot-reveals-the-biggest-secret-to-learning-a-new-language-2016-3