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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
This is a good reminder that no matter how security and privacy-focused a project is, we still don't know how to reliably develop software without bugs - and all it takes is one bug to negate all of those security and privacy features.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
My point is that's already happening now, so I don't understand the fear that TPMs will enable some sort of draconian DRM. They don't enable anything that isn't already possible with respect to DRM and locking down mach
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I always see people claim that TPMs will enable DRM, but aren't we already subject to plenty of DRM? There's a lot of content that I'm blocked from accessing because I use Firefox on Linux, and AFAIK none of that DRM makes u
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I think immigration laws play a big role too, a lot of people seem to use a masters as a way of getting a visa - I believe having a masters improves the chances of getting an H1-B, and also being in school in the US makes it much easier to
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I only skimmed this but if I understand correctly the CPU needs to be in debug mode to access these instructions right? If so then it's hard to see why the authors present these instructions as dangerous - I imagine once the CPU is in
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
> I would bet that Japanese in the U.S. evince rates of criminality more similar to those of Japanese in Japan than to the rest of American society What makes you believe that? If true, what might cause that to be the case?
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I wish that were true but it's really not. At least not within the public sector, maybe wealthier private firms can afford to do that level of verification. Anyway, even then you still need to make trust decisions. How do you verify
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Right, I'm familiar with the hack. My point is Target almost certainly didn't decide that the HVAC firm could be trusted to have access to the credit terminals - the fact that they had access was the result of poor security desig
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Did Target really trust their HVAC firm or was their network just poorly segmented?
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Supply chain is still an issue in sovereign clouds. At some point there's still a trust decision, whether that's to trust the cloud provider, the hardware manufacturer, the chip manufacturer, etc.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Workers were convinced that the jobs are better based on advertising from these companies. That doesn't mean the jobs actually are better options.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
> I also think it's downright odd that they're printed --- most high-level classified documents seem to exist on secure, airgapped, immobile computer systems. I think it's pretty common to print classified documents, since
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Could be wrong but I think there's a lot of equipment for things like radios, radar, sensors, etc. that makes it look like there are more servers than there actually are.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I'm not sure, it seems like 110+F is pretty common nowadays in parts of the US. Adding a dozen degrees if the dish is in direct sunlight seems pretty realistic. (not saying things won't break at that heat, just that it's not
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
It seems like there should be a lot of potential for something like this in cities. The site says that line of sight and apartment buildings are problems but in the east coast cities I'm familiar with there's lots of neighborhood
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
There's a play "Is This A Room" based on the transcript of her arrest - I haven't seen it but This American Life has an excerpt: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/696/low-hum-of-menace/act-t... .
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
More info: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/justice-dept-claws-back-...
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I'm a little skeptical that it would be safer for pedestrians and bikes. Bikes need to merge with traffic already in the roundabout instead of simply going straight through an intersection, and pedestrians would need to always check f
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Another issue I don't see discussed much is how cryptocurrencies basically enable the business of ransomware. It's not like we're less secure than we were 20 years ago, the difference is now hackers can actually get paid.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
But there's a difference between turning down a bid because you want to maintain control over your vision and because you think your company is just worth more than the offer. The point is just that if you get what you think is a fair
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Cores that don’t count [pdf](sigops.org)
8 points by alksjdalkj 5y ago|1 comments
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
This is such a perfect description. I quit years ago but still whenever I see someone smoking I get a craving and when I'm stressed I find myself wishing for a cigarette. I've accepted that it's just something that'll
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Shouldn't we just assume that anything we upload to the cloud could be made public? Either through a hack, an employee, a misconfiguration, etc. If something is sensitive enough that you don't want it public it probably shouldn&
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
I really doubt that's the issue. As if a fly or an ant has never set foot on a menorah before? It's a non issue. It's not like we eat menorahs anyway. I assume it's an AI mistake, but I don't get what the AI thou
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Probably not, I think that would require a lot of complexity that I assume this doesn't implement (e.g. resource partitioning and time sharing). I think the premise is just that there's not a lot of simple hypervisors available fo
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Not sure if this is the author's reason but I find it helpful to have a single return point from functions. Much easier to follow code paths. You'll see this in some places in Linux's source too.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
Anyone surprised by this should check with the IP agreement they signed with their own company - I bet it would also forbid this. Generally anything related to work you do as an employee can be considered IP owned by the company.
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by alksjdalkj 5y ago
NY state tax forms have all sorts of verifications and automatic calculations that I assume are implemented using PDF JS. Previously you had to use Adobe Reader, hopefully this means I can use Firefox now.
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by alksjdalkj 6y ago
You know there are non-white Jews, right?
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by alksjdalkj 6y ago
I respect the gesture but I think it would be more useful if accompanied with some plan of action for improving the current state of ethics in CS. It's a field-wide problem, not a Google specific problem. Also, let's be clear her

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