TechnicalVault

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by TechnicalVault 9y ago
That's why you speak to a lawyer first, the law is an ass, and they're the right tool for telling you how to avoid these nasty little traps.
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by TechnicalVault 9y ago
I suspect that more of a press obsession with pretty graphs and dramatic pronouncements than actual public interest. Give the press something more interesting to talk about and it'll pretty soon leave the front page.
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by TechnicalVault 9y ago
If you've ever tried to employ someone on a UK visa you'll know why business, charities and academia are distraught about this. Even if you have no qualified UK applicants whatsoever you have to spend a lot of time and money fight
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by TechnicalVault 9y ago
That's the idea, but in practice GA4GH is still working on the API's and protocols to make this work in an automated and containerised fashion for modern genetic data. We do often send the algorithm to the data but mostly by way o
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by TechnicalVault 10y ago
This makes me sad. Academic and medical sites should really be the last places using TLS breaking gateways. Mainly because staff frequently have to sign legal confidentiality and data access agreements granting them personal access to other
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by TechnicalVault 10y ago
The solution with backup tapes is obvious, you encrypt the files on the tapes with session keys and encrypt a copy of the session key with a client/project or project key stored on a separate random access medium. When the project need
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by TechnicalVault 10y ago
What if the site they're connecting to has a problem with that? If I for example serve E-Healthcare records, and have an agreement that a given person that I have vetted has access to them, I might have a problem with your unvetted IT
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by TechnicalVault 10y ago
It may be acceptable in certain states and jurisdictions, but it is throughly illegal in others. Remember you aren't just MITMing your own network, if someone from your network connects to my server you are MITMing me too and you have
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by TechnicalVault 11y ago
Legality is something to leave to the lawyers to argue for sure but that is merely law. Saying that only government gets to decide the moral question of right and wrong is dangerous though. If we fail to recognise the right to conscience we
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by TechnicalVault 11y ago
I would be a lot less sympathetic to the intern if Facebook itself was not infamous for having first been built on scraped content. I am not sure I would want an internship with them anyway, they seem to have lost freshness and with it a lo