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by dane-pgp 4y ago
There's also another article from 2015 titled "For DNSSEC" which is sort of a response[0] to the one posted here. That article was discussed[1] on HN late last year. [0] https://easydns.com/blog/2015&#x2
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
You're missing the key difference: with the web PKI model, you have to trust every CA not to maliciously issue an unwanted certificate for your domain, whereas with DNSSEC, the owners of .ru (for example) can't affect your domain
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> That would require abandoning copyright enforcement. Who do you think writes copyright laws? Obviously I'm not suggesting a government would just abandon the entire concept of copyright, but it could amend its copyright law to say
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The STASI, Securitate and KGB are all looking down upon us and smiling. I know you only mean that figuratively, but I think it would be more evocative to say they are looking up at us (from below).
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> Chess will be replaced with an acting and subterfuge competition. Which sort of prompts the question: Why isn't there a "World Chess Cheating Championship"? The competitors would be given the chance to either demonstrat
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> To be clear online chess legitimately has a cheating problem. Depending on how strict we want to be, Magnus himself has been caught "cheating" in online chess games before too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ch
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> can't think of a plausible way for Hans to send the moves out. He doesn't have to send the moves out , he just has to send them in .
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the average Java application now containing 148 dependencies to keep an eye on, up 20 from last year What has changed in the last year that's made developers suddenly increase their dependency count sevenfold?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The court case speaks for itself.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the program can have secrets (closed source) I didn't read it as suggesting that the source code itself would be secret, only that the code would act on secret data, like private keys. > non-deterministic (e.g. invokes random)
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> These chips would typically be certified by some vendor (for example, Intel SGX) with some claim that it’s hard to tamper with them. Unfortunately for Intel and others, the security community has found a lot of interest in publishing a
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> reliable like nuclear To be clear, the capacity factor of France's nuclear power stations is "about 70%"[a] (and was "61 percent"[b] in 1988), while recent offshore wind farms manage a "65% capacity factor
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> I suppose the king could instruct Labour to try to form a minority cabinet If you'd like to know more about the complex details of the role that the monarch could play in deciding the next PM (without an election), I recommend rea
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
A method similar to that should certainly be introduced for triggering recall elections of individual MPs (possibly with a condition that the expense of the by-election be covered by crowd-funding). To your point, though, there is "a w
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> By what process do you think there would be one? To give an extreme answer: a general strike.[0] The government has already shown that it will remove senior ministers in response to market turmoil, so this sets the precedent that somet
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Given the experience of the US Navy in nuclear power generation, I don't think their doomsday scenarios are inevitable. I often see this given as a reason for why nuclear power generation can be safe, but I think it overlooks the
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
ARCTIC TENSIONS ESCALATE American ships fired on UN warns of World War Three President Warren at 33% approval https://detroit-become-human.fandom.com/wiki/Arctic_Tensions...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
"Autobots, wash up!"
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> anybody can add their own signing key That's assuming the hardware supports it. I'm imagining a (very likely) world where devices will either no longer support self-generated keys, or where using such keys makes your device
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Tell that to the French. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan... reactor three (construction started in 2007, now they are hoping it will begin operation in mid-2023).
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I did worry that my comment might incorrectly imply that, so I deliberately reworded it to say a particularly restrictive "Secure Boot" setup , but I guess that's still ambiguous. You're right, Debian "supports&quo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Even if the government went to the trouble of creating the Debian package, they wouldn't allow it to run on an OS that doesn't support a particularly restrictive "Secure Boot" setup, which would provide the mobile networ
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Tiresome? You don't think the WEF goal of "I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better"[0] needs more awareness? [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11&#x
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a world where AI makes us basically zoo animals for the ultra wealthy. ... for about 3 years, before one of the ultra wealthy elites presses the wrong button and the AI ends up putting them in the zoo (or paperclip raw materials hopper
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> You literally have no option to change any of this. I'm guessing you only figuratively mean literally. You have the option of starting your own party that does care about privacy (and then voting for yourself), and you have the
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The original point was that if a country is doing something now , that can be an excuse for another country doing the same thing now . If you want to extend your excuse to "a country did something bad 50 / 100 / 500 /
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
For countries that already require you to register SIM cards with your government ID, I wouldn't be surprised if one day they require that all phones be biometrically locked to their owner. When producing a QR code, the signature could
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Interoperability between decentralized identity platforms is very important as it will allow people to conveniently move their digital identity and Verifiable Credentials between platforms I think the best bet for interoperability is i
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Dock Joins the Decentralized Identity Foundation(blog.dock.io)
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> 318,000 — or about a third — of the COVID deaths in the United States were preventable. So isn't it possible to work out how many more Republicans than Democrats died due to inadequate COVID policies? Those figures could then be

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