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by Reelin 6y ago
> if it is using HTTPS for DNS resolution, I don’t know how you would block that By filtering traffic sent from that particular device based on a query to your DNS filter to approve or deny the destination address. (Some implementation w
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by Reelin 6y ago
In the US I'm pretty sure it's legal at the federal level because the network is actively advertising itself by broadcasting the SSID and no user name or password is required when connecting. AFAIK, violating the CFAA would involv
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by Reelin 6y ago
Driver issues are generally down (AFAIK) to proprietary hardware being shrouded in secrecy. Being forced to reverse engineer a particular component because the manufacturer won't share the spec sheet is a significant drain on the alrea
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by Reelin 6y ago
I thought that specific implementations had issues in the past but that the concept of a TPM in general was fine? The Intel ME and AMD PSP, on the other hand, are proper nightmares. For that matter, so is any other "security co-process
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by Reelin 6y ago
> It's not particularly practical to build a DRM scheme out of a Trusted Platform Module ... What they're looking to do is carve out space in Ring 3 that Ring 0 can't touch. Which is precisely what you would want if you
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by Reelin 6y ago
Using a die roll would be arbitrary and capricious (and thus I assume illegal), but would it violate equal protection specifically ? I suspect not.
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by Reelin 6y ago
Unless your state is open carry you do in fact need a permit to carry in public. In fact, some open carry states (ex Texas) still require a permit to do so. I'm always frustrated but amused at how uninformed many of my fellow Americans
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by Reelin 6y ago
> > public officials in the performance of their duties > conversation with a senior officer in a police station Are you seriously suggesting that conversing with a public official at their place of work about official business
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by Reelin 6y ago
> geolocation history I realize the pandemic is temporary but I was amused at the thought of just how useless that feature would be for me at present. That would be a really neat tool though - I hope it makes an appearance on HN once you
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Warrents arent required for things people give to the police willingly. I never claimed they were. > Commerical data is definately being provided to police and other government agencies without warrants. Obviously that claim is tru
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by Reelin 6y ago
A totalitarian utopia would still be totalitarian, no? Similarly, it seems a democratic hellhole would still be democratic.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> cell phones Not live streamed to police. Warrant required for location data last I checked. > computers Don't generally share anything other than analytics data. Might upload content to one or more clouds with user permission.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> no protection from invasion of privacy ... then we expect (though probably don't have rights to) privacy driving our car down the street That's the key difference. In the US, public places aren't generally afforded any p
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by Reelin 6y ago
24/7 live stream != video call
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by Reelin 6y ago
> you probably can't distinguish a 2005-2010 system from a current one using only a browser on common websites If only this were the case. Common websites have become script ridden monstrosities that aggressively consume RAM and CPU
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Samsung has had bootloader unlocking as a feature in all their mobile devices This is simply not true. Some of their devices provide that but many don't. Research carefully before purchasing.
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by Reelin 6y ago
> probably just a "newbie in the deep end" Honestly the entire system is staggeringly complicated because (if you're asking about the bits in the diagram there) it includes hardware input devices, user accounts, applicatio
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by Reelin 6y ago
> all it needs to do is inject some CSS Actually I believe the default mode analyzes the page contents in an attempt to provide a better end result.
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by Reelin 6y ago
I have no idea how the details compare, but Vimium does provide an omnibar for certain things (ex shift-T for tabs and shift-O for library).
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Put JavaScript into types. It's not without precedent - Haskell has a Turing complete type system. (There's also Scala, Rust, and C++ templates which are all arguably Turing tarpits.)
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by Reelin 6y ago
That's complicated and has a lot to do (as I understand it) with NDAs, copyright, and the general air of secrecy surrounding the low level details of proprietary hardware.
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by Reelin 6y ago
What's your point? So will writing your own custom UI toolkit, or manually doing your own font rendering, or implementing a custom equivalent to TensorFlow, or writing your own implementation of the C standard library, or ... If you do
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by Reelin 6y ago
Cynically, parts of the DMCA look an awful lot like an end run around fair use.
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by Reelin 6y ago
We don't criminalize lock picks though, just their illicit use (and any following actions).
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by Reelin 6y ago
GP didn't ask about liability for reading it but rather the legality of intentionally retaining a local copy. Intentionally making a copy of content which you know you don't have a license for is against copyright law in all weste
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by Reelin 6y ago
If you were collecting public documents in bulk and had concrete plans that you could articulate, sure. I suppose the same might even apply to bulk collection of pirated content as well, although I'd certainly want to run that one by a
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Doctors even put fruit juice on the list of bad things That's not because simple sugars are inherently bad for you but rather because many people don't realize just how much of it fruit juices contain. Related to this, an old
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by Reelin 6y ago
> that these things have to be faced in the open, and that addicts are sick people, not bad people. You don't send sick people to jail ... and not all users of <substance> are addicts. Recreational use shouldn't be lumped
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by Reelin 6y ago
> I seriously doubt there's anything in my stuff that is so proprietary that I'm afraid it will get ripped off. It depends. Figuring out how to design a large system still takes an appreciable amount of time even if you only en
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by Reelin 6y ago
Yes, almost certainly. You haven't licensed the material so it's copying or possession by you is an illegal act in most jurisdictions. Your awareness of the nature of the content and its licensing status establishes intent. Of cou

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