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by __jal 9y ago
> We can deal with them in nuance. I'd like to agree with you, but I'm becoming less sure of that with every day. For instance, you breezed right past my point (that privacy risks are different for different people) to hammer m
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by __jal 9y ago
> Who really cares if this company collects and/or sells mapping data of our floors? Me. And not to put too fine a point on it, the people in the market for buying and selling this data. > Why should I be worried if Amazon knows
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by __jal 9y ago
Given Intel's behavior around the IME, I rather doubt there's an instruction for that. The only verifiable way to do so that I know of, on some chips, is here: https://hardenedlinux.github.io/firmware/2016&#x2
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by __jal 9y ago
Don't believe I was being disingenuous. Read the comment to which I was responding. I honestly don't care if "content providers" want to block VPNs, as I mentioned in my comment. I much more strongly object to this notio
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by __jal 9y ago
> more often then not, VPN is used to circumvent something they shouldn't be accessing Who knew Cisco was selling enterprise-grade circumvention devices to the world's corporations? Somebody better notify the MPAA! More serious
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by __jal 9y ago
I don't know about exploits; it is a common trick used by pentesters. I recall being at Defcon in the 90s listening to the cDc folks talking about this.
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by __jal 9y ago
> Or does one have to be caught in the act of fornicating with a male [...] I think your definition needs some work.
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by __jal 9y ago
Sure. And freely talk to cops with no lawyer - your life if boring, right? - too. Don't make waves. Keep your head down. The nail that sticks up gets the hammer. You can do whatever you want. Some of us prefer to live in a free count
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by __jal 9y ago
Go sit in on a meeting in Mountain View or Cupertino. Existing home owners don't want it and the elected admins don't want it. They are happy to foist the problem off on, well, just about anywhere else. They want wealthy folks in
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by __jal 9y ago
Given that even the 'premium' end of IoT things we have so far range from insecure to dangerous, I think the onus is on those attempting to sell them to demonstrate that their product isn't literally worse than useless. After
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by __jal 9y ago
You (and the other commenter) are right, of course; I do know that. I was using that as a turn of phrase in a context where it was inappropriate. When I visit friends and family in Europe, I'm very aware of the stark difference.
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by __jal 9y ago
It is really an extension of the "Don't talk to cops" rule[1]. I wish I lived in a world where I trusted the police. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
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by __jal 9y ago
Doesn't change anything for me, other than affirm my decision to not bug my own home. These seem like fun toys, but there's no way I'm allowing closed-source surveillance devices that send data to who-knows-where/who, un
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by __jal 9y ago
I'll stop eating at any place that doesn't take cash. I mostly use cash for small transactions, because I like it. As you say, I see no reason why the CC cartel should get 1/50th of retail transactions by virtue of being too
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by __jal 9y ago
For the record, I have never used FB. I hated it from go. I also can't point to any real studies; all I've got is anecdata, much like your personal experience. That said, I have heard from multiple people variations on trying to q
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by __jal 9y ago
Facebook is a panopticon with a massive dataset on each user, and has a pretty substantial moat by way of users 'punishing' each other for leaving, among other competitive advantages. Snapchat is a trendy app that could easily bec
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by __jal 9y ago
I disagree. "Doing without" seems the most sensible to me. There is no rule that industries whose business is built on copyright need to be able to live in the browser. Netflix demonstrated that quite nicely. Just because the wan
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by __jal 9y ago
As I (very briefly) mentioned, it looks to me like Magma isn't ready for prime-time yet. I've seen reports that, for instance, the LDAP server allows completely insecure configurations (cleartext passwords on the wire) without so
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by __jal 9y ago
I don't mean to be a pain, but before anyone can try to answer that for you, you need to define 'reasonable' and 'secure' in terms of your environment and needs. Are you Just Some Person(tm) with some technical chop
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by __jal 9y ago
Can't speak to current popularity, but I think the overall critique is spot on. It became really popular riding a combination of up-front friendliness and the No-SQL hype bubble. The next morning, a lot of folks started feeling the han
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by __jal 9y ago
That would be interesting, but first you'd have to write a new terminal type. And then there would be... another step or two.
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by __jal 9y ago
You might not like his method of cat-herding, but historically, it has worked pretty well. That summarizes the way I feel about them. It is a time-tested leadership method to make an example out of a hapless mistake-maker to keep the rest o
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by __jal 9y ago
> Worst case scenario you move foreword with less data and insurance does what it can Well, yes. Just like, after a house fire, you rebuild and try to carry on. It is still catastrophic. > Also, just because devices are on the same ne
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by __jal 9y ago
Part of the issue is not redundancy, but heterogeny. It is like monoculture crops - doesn't matter if you're growing 4x what you need if something comes along that kills all of them. > If a piece of software gets corrupted, you
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by __jal 9y ago
It appears you are unfamiliar with public choice theory[1]. It turns out you are correct in a theoretic sense that very rarely works out in practice. Blaming 'the many' for failing democracy might be satisfying, but doesn't d
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by __jal 9y ago
Just to chime in, that made my day. Utterly brilliant.
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by __jal 9y ago
Maybe in your world that works. Until the FCC develops redevelops any sort of interest in dealing with scammers, my phone is basically useless for most of the world to speak to me. If you're trying to reach me and are not on my list of
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by __jal 9y ago
I only know Thomas via his output, but will say that based on it, he very much knows what he is talking about when it comes to the design and implementation of security protocols.
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by __jal 9y ago
This. You're at the mercy of their upstreams, which are fixed, targets for TLAs, and likely to be sharing the pipes with other people who are (at least in their own eyes) high value targets.
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by __jal 9y ago
I read the OP as pointing out that image hosting, like email, is an awful business to be in, but is something on which tons of other services depend. Think of it as analogous to sanitation. Being in the garbage hauling business isn't s

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