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by cvwright 9y ago
Hi! Nice to meet you. I think (some of) what the FBI is asking for lately is actually not that unreasonable -- assuming we could do it right. Chris Wray, like Comey before him, is claiming that they only need a way to get into a few sel
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by cvwright 9y ago
> Who's going to keep us safe from the FBI? It's a reasonable question. And it has an answer: The same crypto / infosec community that's keeping us safe right now. If governments are going to demand some sort of &quo
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by cvwright 9y ago
I know you're trying to be snarky, but he's responding to a very real accusation from our community. Every time this question comes up, half of us freak out and scream that the FBI is trying to grab all of our deepest darkest secr
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by cvwright 9y ago
That's why we need to find a better way to get some sort of reasonable middle ground. If we don't give them a way to get what they need without also breaking everyone else, then we're really not going to like the outcome.
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by cvwright 9y ago
This argument is always a mess. I think a lot of the problem stems from not having a clear definition of what we mean when we say "email". Some of these complaints seem to be about SMTP, some are about client programs, and some
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by cvwright 9y ago
They are in fact called "professional schools" -- this captures what both of you are saying.
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by cvwright 9y ago
Just wait until all the dirty tricks from the gun control debate start getting used against encryption. Lots of cognitive dissonance incoming for many in our community...
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by cvwright 9y ago
I hope so. We're going to need all the allies we can muster.
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by cvwright 9y ago
They should have seen this coming a long time ago. I did a study abroad in Germany in 2000, and one of my classes was on the energy crisis. We visited a strip mine that was going to become the largest lake in Germany after they were done e
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by cvwright 9y ago
Oh, that's cool. Thanks for sharing. Full disclosure: I've been working on some similar ideas for a while. I'll be presenting a high-level pitch for the general concept at the USENIX Enigma conference in January [1]. Also
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by cvwright 9y ago
You're right - I picked Spencer because he's an easy target, especially on a board that generally leans to the Left. If there's some incident of racial violence that somehow traces back to him, I doubt the typical HN reader
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by cvwright 9y ago
That's an incredibly optimistic take on this problem. Google, Microsoft, EFF, et al need to win every single battle or they lose the whole war. The DOJ just needs to find one sympathetic test case, or one sufficiently horrible incid
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by cvwright 9y ago
Let's work through your $1M example. Assume Moore's Law continues for the foreseeable future, so the price of all computation halves every 18 months (ie, every 1.5 years). Then in 15 years, that $1M computation still costs $1000.
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by cvwright 9y ago
> No one came up with a better "solution" than escrow because there is not one. I keep seeing this statement being made whenever this topic comes up. Yet I've never seen a formal impossibility result. It's amazing.
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by cvwright 9y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Well, actually I do know, and the answer sucks and it's frustrating. But you're right -- in an ideal world, pretty much nobody would design a future where the worst of humanity c
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by cvwright 9y ago
> That debate must start with agreeing that your idealized agent does indeed have a harder job when all evidence moves from binders full of incriminating paper to an encrypted, impenetrable blob. Not accepting that truth makes you useles
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by cvwright 9y ago
Is it possible that they're breaking the law here, by soliciting inappropriate images from any users who are minors? Isn't that what Anthony Weiner is going to jail for?
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by cvwright 9y ago
> Trump didn't magically get votes that Romney didn't. Instead, the data shows that Hillary didn't get black voters to turnout in the numbers that Obama did. It was even worse than that (for HRC and the Dems). Did she eve
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by cvwright 9y ago
Or, you know, we could allow construction of housing that people can actually afford. Portland's Willamette Week free newspaper had a great writeup of the issues last year: http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/09
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by cvwright 9y ago
Very cool. Does it work against HDR? Or can you remove the noise by combining multiple exposures?
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by cvwright 9y ago
A useful trick: Omit the .pdf from ePrint URLs to bypass the PDF and get the summary page with authors, abstract, bibtex, etc. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/666
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by cvwright 9y ago
Or the Textron Scorpion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textron_AirLand_Scorpion Unfortunately they seem to be having a hard time selling the plane. Just shows that going against a broken system doesn't always pay
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by cvwright 9y ago
Nobody is seriously suggesting a 16-lane freeway in PDX. The freeway expansion that's being proposed is to remove an awful bottleneck on I-5, where it cuts down to just two lanes in each direction near the Rose Quarter. The entire re
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by cvwright 9y ago
You make a very good point. However, in this case there is very strong evidence that Facebook is also listening to the microphone . Coincidentally, I recently had a friend convey a story where the Facebook app suddenly recommended a new c
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by cvwright 9y ago
> At the risk of sounding xenophobic, Portland is going to turn into San Francisco soon enough ... It is already in the process of doing so. > please please please push back against freeway expansions ... And this attitude is the reas
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by cvwright 9y ago
Well, to be fair, it is a huge problem for the director of the FBI. His job is to investigate potential crimes by gathering lots of evidence and doing lots of analysis. The popularity of encryption is making it increasingly difficult fo
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by cvwright 9y ago
This is the perfect transport for GNU Terry Pratchett. http://www.gnuterrypratchett.com/
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by cvwright 9y ago
You know things have gotten bad in CA when people are saying Boston has "not too much NIMBYism" in comparison.
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It's not as rosy as you might imagine. Many universities actually manage to lose money on federally funded research, as the amount of compliance work required to maintain grant funding actually outstrips the overhead rates. And yes,
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by cvwright 9y ago
OK, I can't resist. Time for a story. Once upon a time when the net was still new, a friend of mine (then a Unix newbie) was trying to catch up with another friends' current status. Unfortunately this other colleague had quite a

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