Reelin

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by Reelin 6y ago
I'm not sure if you intended that to be positive (ie tracing might be more complete in some cases) or negative (ie concerns about not wanting to reveal certain data). I'm going to go ahead and respond to the negative interpretatio
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by Reelin 6y ago
The specification (at least v1.1) contains nothing about uploading keys. The API appears to provide only the minimum required for protocol implementation. The ENSelfExposureInfoRequest class can be used by an app to obtain diagnosis keys fo
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Any design that relies on a confirmation dialog is fundamentally broken I'm having trouble interpreting this in any way other than a claim that granting users control over their devices is a fundamentally broken idea. I won't
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by Reelin 6y ago
It seems to me that restricting freedoms to combat ignorance is unlikely to have a desirable outcome. To your specific example, I suspect that bluntly warning that granting the permission has the potential to lead to significant loss of bat
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by Reelin 6y ago
> does it seem reasonable that an overseas government should be able to force a US company to make changes to their OS and add functionality it was never designed to have Yes, it actually does. I certainly don't like the idea of suc
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by Reelin 6y ago
Except that the users themselves aren't permitted by Apple in all their benevolence to grant an app the necessary permissions on a device which they supposedly own! Of course users willingly made the choice to purchase such a device in
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by Reelin 6y ago
These are 128-bit cryptographically secure numbers that rely on thoroughly battle tested primitives. There is absolutely no way a compliant implementation would generate a noticeable number of collisions unless the underlying keys themselve
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by Reelin 6y ago
The codes are 16 byte (ie 128 bit) numbers that are cryptographically derived from your daily tracing key. Of course all use of Bluetooth will reveal your MAC address, but this privacy concern already existed and is why many devices now rot
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by Reelin 6y ago
Agreed. I certainly appreciate Apple's stance on privacy lately, but it doesn't seem reasonable for a corporation (particularly one based in a different country!) to be willing or capable of forcing the government's hand.
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by Reelin 6y ago
Can an app not simply ask the user for, and subsequently be granted, the necessary permissions? At least on Android I had understood it to work that way in theory, although in practice perhaps it doesn't always behave ideally ( https:&
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by Reelin 6y ago
For those interested, the DP-3T papers can be found on their GitHub ( https://github.com/DP-3T/documents ). Apple has also published a preliminary specification of their protocol ( https://www.apple.com/co
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by Reelin 6y ago
When the majority of people are using a platform in an unhealthy manner, I think it's reasonable to conclude that the design of the platform itself is at fault. The occurrence of a few successful interactions doesn't change the fa
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by Reelin 6y ago
It most certainly is true! How many fields are tilled by hand today, instead of by tractor? How many jobs can be done today by someone who is illiterate? History is full of obsolete occupations. I never claimed that mass technological unemp
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by Reelin 6y ago
> automated electronic location tracking that is to be submitted to authorities A minor (but absolutely essential) correction - your diagnosis keys are to be submitted to a database, not your actual location data. Only those who observed
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by Reelin 6y ago
> You've still conditioned massive swaths of the population to be electronically tracked, boiling frog and all. I don't understand what you mean by tracked here? Until and unless you release your secret keys, the numbers your p
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by Reelin 6y ago
I do this as well. Some of the ML (and lately COVID-19) content that gets posted there is absolute gold, but in consuming it I can be inadvertently sucked into other parts of the site. Such unfortunate occurrences are time consuming and gen
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Twitter is not healthy for a teenager. Twitter isn't healthy for _anyone_. Neither is the vast majority of social media. The way in which most sites currently structure interactions lends itself quite naturally to misinformation,
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by Reelin 6y ago
> there’s no evidence the pool of available work for humans will even _decrease_ in a highly automated economy That depends on how you define "available work". Historically automation has replaced the jobs requiring the least s
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by Reelin 6y ago
> like contact tracing APIs, however well-intentioned they may be I share many of the concerns you've expressed, but worrying about the contract tracing API that was recently put forward is (hopefully) unwarranted. A faithful implem
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by Reelin 6y ago
Is Pulseaudio no longer viable using APT alone? One of the first things I do is excise Snap from the system entirely and install Flatpak. I had been planning to upgrade my daily driver to 20.04 in the very near future (I prefer LTS versions
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by Reelin 6y ago
Adding to that, age laws are also a far more complicated topic than it might seem at first glance. Young people will generally lack education and experience, while chronic exposure to some chemicals can have drastic effects on physical deve
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by Reelin 6y ago
Wow, you certainly had me fooled - I thought it was obvious sarcasm (and fairly amusing at that). I think you should consider that patients aren't generally placed on ventilators until they are already nearly dead. Concluding that vent
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by Reelin 7y ago
> What you describe is not in conflict with the Apple/Google proposed solutions. I didn't mean to suggest that it was. Rather, I was objecting to your earlier claim that there must be an internal and proprietary Apple API used
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by Reelin 7y ago
Sure, you can report any arbitrary key as positive. I can even do it right here on HN; my positive key that I just made up is "0d d8 cb 25 8a 88 aa df 6a 33 17 5f 59 ad fd bf"! ... now what? Someone has to aggregate that key (alon
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by Reelin 7y ago
This is misguided. As you note, the system is anonymous and can't have any registration or authentication. Moreover, an Apple or Google specific API for validation would prevent interoperability of other (future) implementations incl
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by Reelin 7y ago
I don't see how any of this would increase the time to evaluate a given study participant beyond ~2 weeks? Regarding what you said about prophylaxis, the study page specifies that participants will either: * Have had close contact with
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by Reelin 7y ago
Is that required, or only by convention? Ie could an ISP hypothetically choose to allocate a full IPv6 address to you?
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by Reelin 7y ago
> With NAT you were just guaranteed that this would always be safe. Another safety benefit of NAT is that if you use a private IP address block (ex 192.168/16) you can be reasonably certain that your devices aren't publicly rou
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by Reelin 7y ago
The preprint you linked ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.08.20054551v... ) is a huge analysis based on historical health records (> 300k per condition). > Worryingly, significant risks are ide
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by Reelin 7y ago
I wouldn't expect a given prophylaxis case to take more than ~2 weeks to assess (the recommended quarantine time), and I would expect there to be significantly more eligible participants for that arm than the others. Am I missing somet

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