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by corty 5y ago
> Note that the only alternative is to trust a third party to identify people to you. No, the proper alternative is blocking or discouraging sensitive communication until an in-person verification has taken place. Also, you are always tr
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Won't work, Afghanistan has no (legal) exports to speak of, and still there is the taliban gaining power. Iran and North Korea are hindered by very strict sanctions, yet their governments aren't any better. War might work, if at l
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Far simpler: An entity (here: the US) is malicious towards its enemies, makes malicious laws and commits malicious deeds to harm them. All the others are just proxies for that maliciousness (provided they don't have their own separate
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Signal only implements a very weak form of trust-on-first-use for keys. So there is no authentication and no security for a first contact. Subsequent communication can be protected by meeting in person and comparing keys, which nobody knows
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It doesn't help against the local authorities. But it will help against criminals and foreign authorities. E.g. most of the worlds capitals are packed with IMSI-catchers and passive eavesdropping devices operated from embassies. This s
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The real interesting question is the proprietary crapto in 4G and 5G. How long until that backdoor is proven?
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40bits was "export level" encryption, i.e. stuff you could safely export to foreign enemy countries. Because western secret services were certain they could decrypt that if necessary. So this is malicious without a doubt.
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PDF. Short summary: Court of Justice of the EU rules that data protection authorities may, under certain preconditions, prosecute cases outside their original jurisdiction. In the present case, the Belgian authority may prosecute Facebook a
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Judgment of the Court of Justice in Case C-645/19 Facebook Ireland and Others(curia.europa.eu)
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No, we can't. Appeasement didn't help against Hitler, deescalation just gave him the Sudentenland and Austria "for free", strengthening Germany and prolonging the coming war. Deescalation only works if all sides actually
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by corty 5y ago
I agree. A confrontation between the US and China, as well as China and its neighbors, is inevitable. There are just too many factors forcing this, Taiwan, the South China Sea, China's economic slowdown, USs' economic slowdown, th
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Your Third-order fails to account for the passage of time: When the truth comes out, enough time will have passed and the current leadership will be the former leadership. The next generation of leaders will vow to be better and carry on, s
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Not just usually, opinionated means exactly paternalistic: "opinionated" is the opposite of "configureable". That is a basic tenet of the article.
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Lab workers getting sick should be a starting point to begin analyzing archived blood samples for instance. Also, you don't usually visit a hospital for seasonal flu. And three people from the same lab at the same time suggests a wider
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An example of this would be the Marburg virus (unrelated to CoVs): leaked from a lab, but of natural origin, through an infected lab animal caught in the wild
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Also, even provided you have known-good backups from the time before an attack occured: restore takes time, for a whole-company-restore in the order of several weeks to several months. Can your business survive that long without doing anyth
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by corty 5y ago
Business-focused? How should that do anything about security? Do you want to charge an entry fee that evil people cannot afford? Or just label it "serious business only"? Have things audited somehow? I don't think any of that
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Exercises are different. When you don't have to fear death for you or your troops, you don't act the same I guess. I think the blue team would have thought twice about letting their ego run the show if the red team had used life a
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by corty 5y ago
You can pay 100kEUR to a European and get a top 10% developer, or you can pay 100kEUR in the US and get a mediocre one.
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Taken literally? Well, then for "Grüss Gott" I would have to literally believe in god, then die and be lucky enough to go to heaven and greet god there (provided I'd get an audience). I think greetings are a meaningless forma
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by corty 5y ago
Really really depends on the company. I've heard the saying from Siemens people (which in Germany are regarded more like public officials, less like employees): "Freitag um eins macht jeder seins". Meaning no serious work is
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by corty 5y ago
Basically, food. Your nutrition changes your smell. You usually do not consciously notice except for very strong smells like from garlic or asparagus consumption. But a lot of food has this effect, and in sum the effect of the things one ty
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Whats missing is which ones work without JavaScript. And accessibility characteristics.
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Security fixes should be totally separate from UI and functionality chhanges. We need more software with long-term-supported stable releases. Functionality and UI changes breed fear of updates which lessens security.
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These things are like some kind of social software. Behaviour patterns that HR departments or other departments use, because they worked well for others, get around the consequences of some legal precedent, or simply because they are fashio
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Problem is, current trend is integration. Infotainment touchscreen now controls increasingly more of the important functions, so airgapping is no longer an option.
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I'd guess frequent and devastating. There is potential for both. For frequency, more cars with more problems means more attack surface, and the longer on the market and more widespread they are the more exposure wannabe attackers get t
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Is there a good list of things that I as a customer can do to mitigate the risks? E.g. pulling various SIM cards, not ordering feature X, avoiding producer Y? Of course one could always drive a historic car... ;)
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Not just mainframes, there was and is even RAM and CPU hotplug x86 hardware (but rare and expensive). Sun hardware (enterpricey, but not mainframe per se) had CPU boards you could pull and replace while running. Network cards and HBAs are o
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China might be fine, or it might not be. But only a fool would trust CCP numbers.

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