Hizonner

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931.
by Hizonner 2y ago
It would be easy to build a bomb that could show a login screen.
932.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Right. So they don't give you back your phone. You may get it a couple of weeks later. Very convenient for your trip. ... and they're doing it for purely punitive reasons. We all know they're not "examining" the p
933.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Well, yeah, given that it's Australia. Slaughterhouse waste wallpaper should be OK though.
934.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Right, and grandparent has a typo. True you are not required to hand over the password, but they aren't required to give you back your phone if you don't.
935.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Before any international travel: 1. Wipe phone 2. Install goatse wallpaper
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by Hizonner 2y ago
That's correct. But Apple is not making that clear, and is therefore misrepresenting what assurance can be offered.
937.
by Hizonner 2y ago
That requires trusting that the attestation hardware does what it says it does, and that the larger hardware system around it isn't subject to invasion. Those requirements mean that your assurance is no longer entirely cryptographic. A
938.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> I can't really imagine how it would be implemented. People do stuff that they claim implements it using trusted, "tamperproof" hardware. What they're ignoring is that not all of the assurance is "cryptographi
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by Hizonner 2y ago
Their disincentive to delivering it is that it's not actually possible.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
George Washington was "openly" in the British colonial forces (and for that matter Robert E. Lee was in the Union army, and Mao Zedong was in the RoC revolutionary army). I knew dozens of people in my computer security career wh
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> Explaining why just invites argument. ... and who knows where that could lead. Why, the rabble might get the idea that they're allowed to disapprove of decisions Apple makes!
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I've always felt sorry for Kaspersky. The leadership seems to have put together a company that's about as ethical, in culture and in the general sweep of its actions, as you can ever find in the industry. Their products tend to be
943.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> The point is that essentially all governments have granted themselves that power, one way or another. They have the right to access any postal communications in transit. Even if they claim that "right", they don't in fa
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by Hizonner 2y ago
I noticed another thing here that I think matters, especially because it's a common frame shift. > Essentially all governments have some mechanism to make it legal and possible for them to read any post in transit. You changed it fr
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> MEPs are pretty much just like MPs in the British parliament. They are not just rubber-stamp voters of policies from the Commission. Having moved from the US to a Westminster country, I have to say that even British MPs can look an awf
946.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> I am not sure we should blame governments for wanting to retain powers in a social contract we've been broadly happy for them to have for 150 years. The breadth and depth of surveillance that you can do on the average modern perso
947.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Collect, expose, do it in a convenient format so law enforcement doesn't have to do any work, do 99 percent of the technical standards work to determine what that format is , make sure that it works for any every kind of system or ser
948.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Governors in the US aren't formally the main source of federal legislative proposals, nor do they represent their states at the federal level in any formal way. They can propose legislation in the same sense that any citizen can,
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by Hizonner 2y ago
HP is falling behind the state of the art, though. I hear Samsung would have just stolen the thing.
950.
by Hizonner 2y ago
You never should have been disclosing to Adobe anyway, even if they did pinkie promise not to look at it.
951.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> It's simply about preserving the country's interests. ... and damage the interests of those being spied on. Which is the whole reason they didn't just offer up the information to begin with. If I steal your car to "
952.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> Modern technology just like virtually anything in modernity, at least when used collectively means you share data. A whole lot of "modern technology" has been deliberately architected to "need" more sharing than i
953.
by Hizonner 2y ago
Very impressive. How many actual users waste days of their lives in Microsoft training to get basic information? And, no, burying it in the ToS isn't being "very open" either. "Very open" would be putting a big visi
954.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> Part of the problem was that many of the girls groomed were 16-18 so it was very hard to prove rape and coercion. Rape is usually hard to prove. Even if the victim is under the age of consent, the "it wasn't rape" defens
955.
by Hizonner 2y ago
What I'm seeing here is that Apple has a really shitty, poorly thought out design. To keep the phone useless to somebody who steals it, you have to keep it exposing your contact information so that people can threaten you.
956.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> Putting words in my mouth. You know exactly what you intended to convey with that little smiley, so do I, and so does everybody else.
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by Hizonner 2y ago
> If you know then you'd agree that with the right setup ML can do this with a very high precision. No, it cannot. Not with a model that you can run on a phone, no matter how specialized it is. Serious ML takes actual compute power
958.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> If "to your potential detriment" is your measure then tell me if you think police checking your documents is not "to your potential detriment", Where I live, police can't just randomly "check your document
959.
by Hizonner 2y ago
> When tens of thousands of school girls in the UK were raped and sexually abused by migrants in most cases there was nothing the authorities could do because they were 16. Rape is illegal in the UK regardless of the age of the victim. W
960.
by Hizonner 2y ago
... but the executive bodies of most countries aren't the only ones who can propose legislation. If the EP can't act sui iuris , either to change legislation or remove Commission members, that's a really qualitative disabi

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