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by coopdog 13y ago
If the client source proves that the message is properly encrypted though (they're using PGP), the servers can be as insecure as the open internet and it should be ok
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by coopdog 13y ago
I hope so. I wonder if Defcon was shaping up to be only feds this year, or if there were indications of coming conflict. I think active rejection by your peers is a reasonable punishment for unconscionable activities in the community. And t
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by coopdog 13y ago
But are they criminals just because drugs are illegal, and they got sent to prison where crime is all they learned? Has the adversarial relationship been heightened by both sides? When you send the police to war, the people become the enemy
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by coopdog 13y ago
Actually Korean pilots (civilian) are also known to have too strong a respect for hierarchy. I remember seeing an episode of air crash investigating where that was officially reported as a factor, so it isn't even just the military whe
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by coopdog 13y ago
I think the bigger question is when do we grant an information automata the right to survive? If we use evolutionary algorithms with survival as a selection bias (just like humans) eventually creatures that 'think' like us should
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by coopdog 13y ago
I've found that agencies often lie with regard to rates and get away with it because of their leverage due to the panels. If you check the governments mandatory reporting regarding contracts (often very hard to search) you might find t
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by coopdog 13y ago
This is classic journalism. People are wired to consume stories about other people. Collections of facts and abstract concepts appeal to hackers, engineers and analytical types, who are in the minority as most people can't stomach that
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by coopdog 13y ago
How can two companies negotiate when one knows every detail of the other, but not vice versa. One will always take everything 'left on the table' from the negotiation, and the other will just scrape along until a bump in the road,
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by coopdog 13y ago
And those laws were debated by Germans, about how much they should know about each other. If they had all truly decided that everyone should be open, and that they could vote it away later, then everything's good. Having Americans spy
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by coopdog 13y ago
He's pro filtering and censorship, a very dangerous and unpopular policy. To the point where he's willing to go against 90% of the population either because he wants to force his point of view on people or is willing to pander to
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by coopdog 13y ago
Soldiers everywhere are drooling over the idea of never getting soaked again.
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by coopdog 13y ago
It'd be interesting to know how those back channel communications occurred one day. One can only assume the NSA would be putting every scrap of their attention on monitoring anyone even remotely connected to Snowden.
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by coopdog 13y ago
Amazing. I wonder though, what happens to the HIV? What I got from the video is that they modify the virus so it won't cause disease and rather just modifies the host t-cells to recognize cancer. Does the virus remain in the host syste
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by coopdog 13y ago
Specific desired actions that are realistic within the current legal frameworks. Go pirate party.
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by coopdog 13y ago
Dodged a bullet, anyone can see your answers were at least a good as the phone book one. Nothing worse than a managers who relies on authority to backup their flawed decisions just to spare their own ego. Sounds like a toxic org culture
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by coopdog 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that was written by a lawyer according to talking points from PR and given a glance and stamp by the CEO Really it's all for nothing though until the politics are sorted out
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by coopdog 13y ago
Given that it's from a lawyer also, who no offence are often skilled at lying by telling only the truth, it does make me a little hesitant to accept this. I'd rather hear it directly from the CEO or some senior engineer, in the ho
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by coopdog 13y ago
That's a different business and they could definitely sign up as third party servicers with Tesla (ie to charge Tesla for any warranty services they provide), but they just want to hold onto the dealership fees on top. Not that I can b
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by coopdog 13y ago
Honestly both the major parties here are such dud choices (so bad that a third party won a seat in the lower house last election), and with PRISM hopefully becoming a voting issue the pirate party are surely going to get some notice this el
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by coopdog 13y ago
But they can only get massive pipes of data via legally compelling a company, which means they need to either have a footprint in the USA or US employees willing to betray their company for their government. I'd imagine using zero days
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by coopdog 13y ago
It doesn't quite answer the question but I've been thinking something like Open Stack could be the future. You write your cloud apps for open stack, then the user can select where they deploy it, be it in a family/community s
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by coopdog 13y ago
Great, now we get access to the worlds corporate secrets too. I wonder which companies will be the beneficiaries..
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by coopdog 13y ago
I've always thought spreadsheets were a great indicator of B2B startup ideas. Just find a spreadsheet that's key to a process that now involves multiple people, hasn't changed in a while and is relatively important and you pr
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by coopdog 13y ago
I don't think it's Zucks fault and there's nothing he can do, but he's still going to hurt for this. It's a political and governance problem and can only be solved at those levels. Until we're sure that intelli
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by coopdog 13y ago
That just says you can't publish exploits derived from the ones they've told you about until they've published the original ones themselves. It doesn't say you can't use, abuse and defend against them yourself. You&
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by coopdog 13y ago
Somewhat true but I find Scala's inferred typing a surprisingly great compromise between the two. For example: val i = 1; i = "some string" // throws a compiler error, because it knows i is an integer It's grea
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by coopdog 13y ago
There are different levels. Up to a point they take everything you declare as true in conjunction with some basic checks. At the highest levels they assume everything you say is false, until investigated and proven true. I still think the a
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by coopdog 13y ago
I don't care about privacy for my personal (not corporate) information from Google. The worst they can do is disconnect me, and I can always leave them. I do care about that an organisation with the power to legally kill or imprison me
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Ask HN: Where is our zero knowledge cloud?
15 points by coopdog 13y ago|4 comments
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by coopdog 13y ago
But what if the FISA request is 'everything'. Yes they're complying, someone gives it a look over then adds everything and keeps it updated in real time. They don't have direct access to the servers, they're complyi

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