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by azernik 5y ago
That's more of a trademark issue, and would require a reasonable consumer to be likely to be deceived. Which they're not.
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by azernik 5y ago
From Tranco's "Methodology" page: "We designed the standard configuration of the Tranco list to improve agreement on the popularity of domains and stability over time, using the rankings from the four studied providers a
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"My point is that due to the way some of these laws are written even a small hobby website might do things that the law regulates." And kstrauser's point is that, due to the way this law is written, by definition nothing th
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by azernik 5y ago
"They could also have made better guesses about whether the sites they were emailing would be bound by the law, and targeted the emails better." They made no guesses - they randomly selected sites from rankings of top websites (
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It involves human subjects, it is probably not "research" in the meaning of IRB rules.
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by azernik 5y ago
The person who designed and ran this study is not Mayer. Mayer runs the lab, but this is a subordinate's baby. From the study's website: "Please contact the lead researcher for this study, Ross Teixeira (rapt@princeton.edu),
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by azernik 5y ago
The nub there is not the definition of "involving human subjects", but the definition of "research". By the relevant federal regulations ( https://irb.ufl.edu/index/humanrsch.html ) ==================
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> Actually, the speed limits are not imposed randomly and you can usually "sense" the limit from the surroundings and the structure of the road. This is, in fact, the legal standard in California! The actual speed limit is the
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by azernik 5y ago
NSO is a corporation with US bank accounts and business deals; the courts take its money.
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Yes. "A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the intrusions, instead pointing to the Commerce Department's recent decision to place the Israeli company on an entity list, making it harder for U.S. companies to do b
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This is being publicized only now. The issues were patched in September, the exploit was being used as of February, and it took some time for someone to notice that an @state.gov Apple ID was among the compromised phones.
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They did. "A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the intrusions, instead pointing to the Commerce Department's recent decision to place the Israeli company on an entity list, making it harder for U.S. companies t
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Zero-days. "They and other targets notified by Apple in multiple countries were infected through the same graphics processing vulnerability that Apple did not learn about and fix until September , the sources said. Since at least Feb
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by azernik 5y ago
There's a big, big difference between acting against your ally, and irresponsibly proliferating technology that's used against them. cf. France's Exocet sales and the Falklands, though much lower impact this time.
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No. Israel has zero interest in spying on random embassy employees in Uganda who are working with protesters there. This is purely mercenary stuff, and the US is annoyed that a podunk nowhere country got its hands on first-rate tools.
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by azernik 5y ago
Kind of? It seems like the main use case isn't a country that needs the tools of state-on-state spying; it's a country that needs the tools of Chinese-style domestic surveillance of the political opposition. In most cases where US
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by azernik 5y ago
And Israel also sells super sophisticated weapons like AWACS radars and surface-to-air missiles. But there are clear understandings that e.g. nothing goes to China, and no fancy radars go even to untrustworthy places like Myanmar. NSO is st
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by azernik 5y ago
This isn't being sold to an American enemy - in fact, the US sells and donates (!) weapons to the same government. The US doesn't care much about Israel (a Major Non-NATO Ally) or Turkey (a NATO member) selling artillery pieces an
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by azernik 5y ago
Yup. If decently up to date surface-to-air missiles were fired at State Department helicopters in X country, the US would be very very angry at whoever let those get sold so loosely.
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This isn't War on Terror-adjacent - it's a local repressive government catching embassy workers in a dragnet while spying on the opposition. The full security-state treatment will not be in effect. Still bad, though!
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Because who else is going to be plugging Ugandan phone numbers into NSO software other than the Ugandan government?
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This is in Uganda. NSO sells only to governments and law enforcement agencies. Therefore, the relevant client would be the Ugandan government.
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by azernik 5y ago
"Counterterrorism measures" is a weird way for Reuters to phrase it - gives the impression that what's "counter-terrorism" is the legal authority, when it's the technology that's "counter-terrorism&qu
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by azernik 5y ago
The point is that the way you say "seventy five" in German is "five and seventy"
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You are extrapolating very tight Israeli state control of the Israeli arms industry (very true) to very tight US state control of the Israeli arms industry, which is not actually how the relationship works. The US has influence over Israe
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Alternately, they can hold on to their slang, and use the differing meaning as a tribal signifier.
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Au contraire, the differing meanings of the word "crypto" are a fantastic shibboleth. When someone uses "crypto" to refer exclusively to cryptocurrencies, that is a very good signal that they do not have knowledge about
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by azernik 5y ago
The establishment of "Space Force" is overblown as a story... but in ways that support your point. It's basically a rebranding of an existing organization called US Air Force Space Command, which controls all military orbital
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Huh. I have that experience, but in reverse. More "specific" or application/context-specific UI elements feel "closer" to me, while browser chrome is farther in the background, and OS all the way in the back. I beli
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Probably but, but at that point any insurance payout would be a rounding error

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