Hizonner

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841.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Tor relay operators are, as a rule, entirely willing to give law enforcement all the information they have about connections that have gone through their relays. They simply don't have any. And there's no legal requirement for the
842.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> I'm not sure how a Tor exit node could operate legally. Tor is widely used for illegal activities. How do ISPs operate legally? Every single thing that's ever been done over a Tor relay has crossed multiple ISPs.
843.
by Hizonner 2y ago
The US "levels" are quite a bit lower than almost anybody else's "levels".
844.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Google's customers are advertisers, not you.
845.
by Hizonner 2y ago
It's really depressing that a spying company like Palantir is big enough to be in the S&P. One presumes that the Ithil-stone was the one recovered as Thiel began once again to extend his power over the affairs of Men.
846.
by Hizonner 2y ago
It seems to me that maybe the most efficient course is to have the person who is sitting in the car drive it, thus removing roughly ten billion dependencies, security vulnerabilities, and failure modes.
847.
by Hizonner 2y ago
This started with somebody snarkily asking what the US fine was for just visiting a "forbidden" Web site, in the context of a Brazilian court order applying a large fine for just visiting Xitter. Not visiting Xitter in the cou
848.
by Hizonner 2y ago
I'm arguing against the idea that the way argv[0] works is somehow wrong, and/or perhaps should be changed to "more reliably" reflect the filename of the executable that actually got loaded, because some programmer mig
849.
by Hizonner 2y ago
I know exactly how it works, thanks. The hangup here seems to be the definition of "program". I'm using it to mean something roughly like "executable", which I think is fairly close to what the original article mean
850.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Busybox still knows that it's busybox, and it is using that argument to decide which of its many functions to execute. This person is arguing that that's somehow wrong because busybox, or more importantly some other software that&
851.
by Hizonner 2y ago
... and yet it is not illegal to do that search. You will not be fined, imprisoned, or whatever, for doing the search . The fact that something can, in some circumstances, be evidence doesn't mean it's a crime , and the distin
852.
by Hizonner 2y ago
There are better solutions than that . Off the top of my head, on Linux, you could get what the article is asking for by doing a readlink on /proc/self/exe. The crappy software exists because the people who write it don&#x27
853.
by Hizonner 2y ago
No, not on desktop machines either. Executables these days can be enormous. The author's just dumb.
854.
by Hizonner 2y ago
As the original author says (but seems to forget within a paragraph or two), the program should already know what program it is . If you're looking at argv to find out what program you are , you are doing it deeply wrong. It's a
855.
by Hizonner 2y ago
The only one of those that's illegal just to visit in the US as far as I know is the child porn one, and even that only if you receive or attempt to receive actual child porn, as opposed to some other random content that might be on
856.
by Hizonner 2y ago
That stuff fundamentally does not work against anybody with enough of a clue to be playing tunneling games (or using ssh) in the first place. If you have any significant control over both ends of the connection, then it's trivial to ob
857.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> The only real way to combat this is to do Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) Snake oil. It's not possible to be sure what's really going on in a connection where somebody else controls both endpoints, full stop. That's what th
858.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Seriously, there were fights over that? In any remotely reasonable organization, that should be an instant, permanent blacklisting for the vendor, and termination of the "we will escort you to clean out your desk right now" variet
859.
by Hizonner 2y ago
France has at least theoretically had a licencing/declaration/whatever regime for all cryptography software since forever. Presumably they rarely enforce it, but I remember when they passed it. I think it was supposed to involve k
860.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> Men had gone from sons of God to sons of apes. Salvation was a lie and death was the end. Yes, that's correct. > There was no justice in the world, and mercy was just the delusion of fools. You're allowed to be as just and
861.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Ursula von der Leyen is not the Queen of the EU, no matter how much she'd like to be. Other people have the authority to speak and act officially without checking with her. That doesn't make their statements any less official, nor
862.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Am I reading this to mean that IRC servers are sending keepalives of some kind? What's wrong with TCP keepalives if you want keepalives? Not that keepalives are usually all that hot of an idea...
863.
by Hizonner 2y ago
So not only does it record everybody you talk to without meaningful consent or any realistic way to escape it, but it also uploads the results to a bunch of cloud services run by sleazeballs and idiots.
864.
by Hizonner 2y ago
More to the point, lots of people don't give a damn whether the people they are talking to care about privacy, and/or feel that it's somehow their place to make risk decisions on behalf of others. Garbage people are a large
865.
by Hizonner 2y ago
I am very glad that you are not my lawyer.
866.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Aren't a lot of y'all in California? Because wearing a wire is generally illegal there... https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...
867.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> They don't have time to go around with folks Then I guess they'll just have to find the time. I do believe they just lost an antitrust suit in the US, and the EU is on the warpath. This kind of stupid behavior is why that stu
868.
by Hizonner 2y ago
I have also never programmed on Windows in my life. Seriously, not so much as a trivial script. But I would look up the right way to find the system installation if I were writing production code, or even personal-use code, that needed to
869.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Why would you exhume an 11-year-old article full of half-information about the state of a fast-paced arms race?
870.
by Hizonner 2y ago
The real news here is that Google's internal organizational controls are so weak that some idiot from "sales", or "carrier relations", or whatever you want to call it, can get arbitrarily chosen stupid software pre

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