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by bostik 7y ago
Thank you. That was a good read, and gave a few things to think about.
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You posted your reply while I was writin my own. Do you happen to have pointers to any really good research results and/or papers? I want to be better equipped to respond to this slowly emerging "DP is a silver bullet" meme a
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by bostik 7y ago
Differential privacy provides a lot less protection than you would think (or want to believe). A few months ago I saw a talk by E. Kornaropoulos, about his paper "Attacks on Encrypted Databases Beyond the Uniform Query Distribution&quo
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by bostik 7y ago
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Hiding in plain sight: activists don camouflage to beat Met surveillance(theguardian.com)
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by bostik 7y ago
A good part of it is their absolutely massive 30% cut. The only reason they get away with it is that when Apple's app store first came out, most of the online casual applications were games. Hosted by a few gargantuan aggregators ( c
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by bostik 7y ago
Well, I don't think AdWords - in their original form - were a problem. But I definitely agree with you that it and its ilk are powering the perverse incentives, and what has resulted of them: the entire adtech ecosystem.[ß] I can still
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I believe you are conflating two things. AdWords and keyword-based contextual advertising was not problematic by itself. (And I say this as a person who absolutely hates ads.) The problem is all the associated crapware, bloat, intrusion, ba
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> The main question after this is what user hostile move will they attempt next? We can look back in history and make a well educated guess. It took me a couple of days to figure it out, but we HAVE seen this same game play out. Back i
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> Come back to this thread in a year and we will see how things play out. Just wanted to say: thank you for demonstrating a mature, no-nonsense approach. With the world drowning in hype, it's refreshing to see someone (anyone!) ta
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Please think of the unintended consequences. There's even an ancient saying about them: "whom the gods want to punish, they grant [his/her] wishes". I discovered a pub where people actually socialise. This being the inte
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This is correct. Fintech (and gambling, which I am intimately familiar with) companies are required to keep the submitted KYC documents on file for several years from the last customer interaction/activity . You can't even delete
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Being good at your job is rewarded by others shoveling ever more work for you to do.
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Motherboard's interview with thegrugq: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7wmv/former-exploit-bro... The podcast is otherwise rather unremarkable (I've listened to maybe 10 episodes) but that epis
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by bostik 7y ago
It wouldn't have made any difference. Nokia R&D had a touchscreen-only phone prototype in early noughties. It got killed, and while I have not seen the actual memo, I've heard people quoting from it: "Nokia will never ma
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by bostik 7y ago
Don't worry, I am well aware that my answer came off as snarky and brash so a similarly phrased response should not have been unexpected. And I know that my position is extreme. Even with the overall attitude change over the past 6-8 y
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by bostik 7y ago
I'll take your questions at face value. You are likely being downvoted for your use of an aggressive tone, but that's another matter. 1) Recipe for a good minestrone soup, no. Actively endorsing a specific brand of an ingredient,
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by bostik 7y ago
> How do you define "ad"? Attempt to sell. Whether that's for an agenda, a product, a way of life, service, access, or anything else with a direct (or indirect) transaction of value - it's a dead giveaway.
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And then we get science reporting like this: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/science-journalism
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> Regarding psychology, it may be a darker journey than you expect. You may have a point there. Quoting our previous compliance officer: I am not cynical enough. (My posting history probably already puts me in a pretty grim bracket in
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by bostik 7y ago
More than focusing on any single technology, I am willing to drive my stake to the ground here. If you have the background, or sufficient interest in security, add two things to the mix: psychology and usability. The UX of security related
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by bostik 7y ago
> Or just virtualize the whole kernel and Android runtime via a new kernel-based hypervisor Nokia gave that a go, back in ~2009 if my memory serves me correctly. They actually had L4 (with certain security extensions) running on some o
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by bostik 7y ago
Hah, Gravity's Rainbow definitely belongs on that list. I tried to read it. Really, really tried. For my head it's utterly unreadable. Had to give up after ~30 pages. The writing flow and style of that book can be best described
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by bostik 7y ago
As grim as this may sound: it is in fact the original meaning of the word. The words we are more likely to associate with the setup would be "oligarchy" or "plutocracy".
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So the phone/device IMEI is not recorded for the session? Not that it would tell who sent it, but would allow to track if the same devices were used as part of ongoing campaign.
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Stone-washed jeans have been a thing since at least 1980's, from around the same time that "worn in" look became fashionable.
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I know it's easy (and tempting) to put the blame on social media alone , but there's more than that. The rise of social media certainly accelerated the evisceration, gutting, and - as some might say, annihilation - of journalism
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by bostik 7y ago
Aye, if we're talking about diceware outputs and large dictionaries, then the passphrase [very likely] has no semantic meaning. I assumed, perhaps naively, that due to use of the term passphrase we were discussing a sequence of words
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I went with ~1b per character precisely because OP stated that they use a passphrase. A long phrase with semantic meaning will be easier to remember than a 50-character diceware output, after all. Now, admittedly for me a passphrase is so
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by bostik 7y ago
> So I use ~50 character passphrases for LUKS. [...] with enough fast processors working in parallel, that could probably be cracked Let's do some napkin math. I'm going to make a blind assumption that you are a native Engl

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