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by api 11y ago
Don't use Tor this way; browser fingerprinting makes it useless regardless of WebRTC. Use a Tor bundle in a VM.
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by api 11y ago
Separation of concerns, and individually useful APIs that DWTADIW and out of which a more diverse set of things can be constructed. WebRTC is a monolithic all-or-nothing blob of capabilities tied too closely to specific use cases like video
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by api 11y ago
Keeping features out because of privacy concerns is misguided, since it's a lost cause. Look into browser fingerprinting. There are just so many vectors for tracking Web browsing behavior... literally hundreds. The only way to truly br
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Alice and Bob, ZeroTier's new root clusters(zerotier.com)
10 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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Chrome Extensions Can Track You by Default(labs.detectify.com)
2 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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by api 11y ago
It doesn't justify it, but what it does do is undermine our moral authority. "Why do you condemn the Paris terror attacks and at the same time help prop up regimes that chop peoples' heads off in public? Isn't that almos
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by api 11y ago
That hypocrisy is one of the legitimate reasons we are often hated around the world. We talk about freedom and justice but we work behind the scenes to prop up tyrannies that are every bit as bad as the "enemies of freedom." We&#x
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by api 11y ago
No it can't, but laws against crypto can be used to mandate that only certain crypto be used in "professional" settings. That crypto will of course have to be certified, which will lock anyone but Fortune 500 companies and pr
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by api 11y ago
Why? If laws are so complex that at any given time anyone is breaking at least one, then a surveillance dragnet gives you cause to indict anyone at any time.
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Fenc: a command line utility to just f^H^H^H^H^H^Hully encrypt a file(github.com)
6 points by api 11y ago|0 comments
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by api 11y ago
I'd like to see it become taboo to exploit tragedies for political gain like this. Take every opportunity to call it what it is: profiteering off the death and suffering of others.
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by api 11y ago
Yet another bit of reality that conflicts with market fundamentalism -- some things that are not profitable are still good and necessary.
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by api 11y ago
Someday when this happens your thermostat, stove, refrigerator, and can opener will stop working because they can't contact 'the cloud.'
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by api 11y ago
Mohammed Atta was also a person of interest. This has always been the case and was the case all the way back to 9/11, and it illustrates why mass surveillance won't stop terror. How do you tell the difference between someone who w
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by api 11y ago
A back door to encryption would be a great tool for terrorists if it were leaked.
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by api 11y ago
My impression is that at least some of those are satellite conflicts driven by propaganda and actual groups from the Middle East like ISIS. Control of the Middle East and its oil wealth seems like the overall objective behind the various pr
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by api 11y ago
I'm sure the fact that the Middle East sits on the world's largest deposits of cheap-to-extract high-EROEI and therefore maximally profitable oil has absolutely nothing to do with it. :) The amount of oil in the ground in places
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by api 11y ago
Your last quip seems minor but I personally think it's a huge driver for all this. "Security" is a huge pork barrel for a large number of contractors and equipment vendors. A lot of it is basically snake oil but that doesn&#x
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by api 11y ago
ARM is really important. It's probably the fastest growing architecture other than x86 where people use things like this. I'd also like to see Go on MIPS64, though probably less important than ARM.
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by api 11y ago
Example: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/14264c2d6f7d20b...
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by api 11y ago
It's legal to send UDP packets with a zero checksum, indicating "no checksum." This can be set at a UDP socket level in Linux. I wonder if that would make any difference? (Of course this assumes your protocol has some alterna
13192.
by api 11y ago
Wait... you mean there are protocols other than http? Somebody should tell Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
13193.
by api 11y ago
Dunno... 5% at data center scale could make a difference in the highly competitive cloud services market where margins are already fairly small.
13194.
by api 11y ago
There are loads of good cloud providers with IPv6.
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by api 11y ago
That's a good point, but I wonder if coming up from below with a cleaner architecture might be able to accomplish something similar. Is MIPS64 cleaner than X86, and could this let them create lower power higher performance chips or man
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by api 11y ago
I'm waiting for China to do for the US chip industry what Japan did to the US auto industry: come in and eat it from the bottom up with cheaper products that are initially dismissed as inferior toys until they move up the chain and eat
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by api 11y ago
There are legitimate reasons for governments to do sigint, but I think the burden of proof should be on them to show that increased sigint capability would have done anything to prevent this attack. So far I've seen remarkably bupkis i
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by api 11y ago
The purpose is not mining for USD profit.
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by api 11y ago
Someone needs to go around beating designers who mess with scroll.
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by api 11y ago
I think you're exactly right and I wish people wouldn't downmod. I've been downmodded to hell for bringing up the same point on several occasions. Open platforms have crummy UX, especially for people who are not computer expe

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