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by cvwright 8y ago
My favorite one of these stories is about the "butthead astronomer". :) http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/butt-head-astronomer.ht...
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by cvwright 8y ago
It's funny that the "new, simplified ribbon" in Thurott's screenshot looks a lot like the old interface in Office 2000.
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by cvwright 8y ago
Really? Incomes tend to follow a power law distribution. Zoom in on the upper tail of a power law, and what do you see? Another power law.
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by cvwright 8y ago
> strip millions of healthcare That's a funny way to say "stop forcing people to buy healthcare".
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by cvwright 8y ago
> I feel we are in the final stages of what amounts to a global elite deviant takeover. You realize you sound a lot like this QAnon guy yourself now, right?
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by cvwright 8y ago
At some point, all the recent work that tptacek mentioned on encrypted messengers is going to percolate up into email. Taking something like megolm [1] and running it over SMTP is such an obvious answer that, eventually, somebody will give
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by cvwright 8y ago
I think the 2016 election was another Eternal September. Everything feels much more hostile and obnoxious since about the time of the last US presidential conventions. I'm not sure what to call this phenomenon. Eternal 2016? Eternal
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by cvwright 8y ago
Yeah, it sounds a lot like deterministic encryption. Which is OK if your input data is essentially uniform random. But if it's not, and your adversary knows the distribution of the input data, then the protection level is pretty close
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by cvwright 8y ago
What are these "American things" that we do when we have economic anxiety? Electing our first black president after the great financial crisis? Bailing Europe out of WW2 after the depression?
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by cvwright 8y ago
They said the same thing about Reagan, and he brought down the Soviets in a similar way. It seems that no amount of evidence is enough for some people.
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by cvwright 8y ago
Matt Green has a very readable critique of this proposal here: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/04/26/a-few-th... Edit: My own take is that the proposed scheme is nothing particularly special, bu
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by cvwright 8y ago
Only if he's illegally conducting official business on it.
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by cvwright 9y ago
The parent post is a nice example of the type of underhanded rhetoric that will eventually be used to sway the public in favor of banning encryption. Pretend your target is inherently evil, and can only be used for inherently evil things.
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by cvwright 9y ago
Rust is the "Imagine a Beowulf cluster ..." of HN.
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by cvwright 9y ago
That's easy to do, when the US pays for your defense.
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by cvwright 9y ago
From the Github issue linked above, apparently Google supports something similar: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833
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by cvwright 9y ago
No argument here. But is it any worse than Thunderbird?
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by cvwright 9y ago
> You can't predict the future of computation. Yes and no. Can we predict it exactly? Of course not. But we can estimate the rough order of magnitude with high confidence. It's not hard to find charts showing transistor den
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by cvwright 9y ago
Who said anything about criminalizing it? Most people are going to use whatever is easiest and/or most popular. The same forces that make it hard to get all your friends onto Signal would also make it hard for violent people to use so
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by cvwright 9y ago
> how to scale the idea of "expensive to break" into even the near future This part isn't actually that hard. Suppose your computation costs $1M now, and Moore's Law continues doubling computation per watt every 18 m
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by cvwright 9y ago
Yeah it's never going to work if the approach is "trust us" or any kind of "limited use" that requires restraint from the humans supposedly being limited. We need strong technical limitations, on par with the streng
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by cvwright 9y ago
Math is hard. Let's go shopping!
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by cvwright 9y ago
> 4. If the majority of citizens do not consider want to forgo their privacy for additional safety, If only it were so ... https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/01/18/more-surveillance-pleas...
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by cvwright 9y ago
We have some preliminary thoughts: https://twitter.com/hackermath/status/956617943768481792
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by cvwright 9y ago
Well, the one idea we have now is to limit it to whoever can authorize spending thousands or millions of dollars in electricity to solve a computational puzzle that recovers the key. In practice, I'd like to see it require judicial ove
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by cvwright 9y ago
Thanks for the kind words. We're trying to get a productive discussion started, so hopefully we can reduce the risk of ever getting stuck with something truly horrible like mandated backdoors or key escrow. Re: strong crypto can't
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by cvwright 9y ago
> Perhaps there was more in the presentation Yeah sorry, the TED-like format at Enigma makes the slides by themselves fairly useless. OTOH, it also lends itself somewhat easily to posting the talk on Twitter, with text attached to each s
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by cvwright 9y ago
> One precludes the other... That's quite insulting. Personally, I'm getting a bit tired of hearing "lol nerd harder! It's impossible!" from people who can't even spell IND-CPA. (Not saying that you are one
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by cvwright 9y ago
If you had asked me if single-server private information retrieval was possible, I'd have said no until I read papers on single-server PIR. If you had asked me if oblivious RAM were possible, I'd have said no until I read papers o
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by cvwright 9y ago
When they're asking for some ability to perform searches and collect evidence, that's not necessarily counter to the US constitution. Quite the opposite in fact. https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/four

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