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by debatem1 7y ago
But unix domain sockets are not pipes, not least in the important way that you can reliably determine the identity of the other end. That can in some cases be an infoleak, and therefore needs independent access control.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I mean, SELinux is deployed successfully on north of a billion devices with essentially no false positives and a huge ecosystem to support. It would seem that it has been proven, and at a considerably larger scale than pledges. Not sure whe
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by debatem1 7y ago
If you have such a model I would welcome it. But realistically, the complexity in SELinux (mostly) doesn't come from SELinux. It comes from the irreducible complexity of doing general purpose fine grained access control on Linux. You c
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by debatem1 7y ago
This is why seccomp (and SELinux) policy should be the province of the platform developer, not the application developer. That's how it works on Android (disclaimer: I worked on that) and it works very well.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Yet somehow we run SELinux successfully on every Android device. I've never understood the antipathy towards SELinux (which by the way, doesn't operate at syscall granularity).
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by debatem1 7y ago
I don't see anything specific about riscv here, am I missing something?
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm not sure I would say "best", but tactically it's a lot better play to destroy a thing on the ground with an axe than develop whatever high-powered laser was being discussed elsewhere on the thread.
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by debatem1 7y ago
The problem for your argument isn't the parts that don't work, it's the ones that do-- and there are plenty of them.
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by debatem1 7y ago
This reminds me a bit of the "Harriet Tubman Sarah Connor brigade" (actual name). They were opposed to GPS satellites and knew they couldn't get them after they went up... so they successfully attacked them while they were on
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by debatem1 7y ago
*if not, loon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon_(company)
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by debatem1 7y ago
Not sure if you've ever been to China, but suffice to say that IP law is really not a major issue there. Reverse engineering ICs is very common, and basically the only thing really stopping that from happening for top end ICs is that R
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by debatem1 7y ago
Malarky. By the same measure the US can't manufacture anything at all anymore because it can't source all the parts of any single supply chain from solely inside the US. China has-- currently, not theoretically-- in country fab ju
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by debatem1 7y ago
A few points. First, mustard gas is not a bioweapon. It's a chemical agent. There will never be a cure because it's like saying that you have a cure for fire. Second, the point raised above is that things like food preservation te
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by debatem1 7y ago
Dropping the hyperbole for a second. Is there a line for ML (what we're erroneously calling AI here) where you think sharing it is appropriate? Self driving car tech could certainly save a great many lives; is it more reasonable to sha
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by debatem1 7y ago
Things do change. That doesn't make your specific prediction of what they will change into correct. Given that your previous assertions about the past and present were wrong, I doubt you are correct about the shape of the future. Happy
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by debatem1 7y ago
Is there something on that dragged your attention away from the fact that your earlier assertions about the US's continued dominance of semiconductor fab were incorrect?
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by debatem1 7y ago
China has extensive fab capacity down to 28nm and in-country access to processes as low as 16nm. That puts them roughly where we were in 2011. They also have market access to 10nm and will likely have market access to 3nm before the US has
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by debatem1 7y ago
I note you avoided the question. In your view, should we hoard medical technology? Doing so will lead to countless unnecessary deaths and tremendous suffering. Is that worth it in your eyes to preserve a military advantage?
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by debatem1 7y ago
New medicines also find their way into militaries. Should we hoard those? What about agricultural technology? Modern farming methods feed a billion people, but armies march on their stomachs. Should they all go hungry?
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by debatem1 7y ago
This is a significant misreading of the phrase "social benefit" in the context of auction design.
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by debatem1 7y ago
What a presumption. I do embedded security. For context, that means I use C++ when raw performance isn't that important-- because if it were, it would be in verilog and baked into the silicon.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I didn't say <=> was a sprawling mess. I said C++ is a sprawling mess, and it surely is: C++20 will be at least as big a change as C++11, and the feature laundry list seems determined to grow. That's great for people who wor
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by debatem1 7y ago
I fostered a very smart dog at one point and came away a bit spooked, honestly. If you were hanging out with someone it didn't trust and said that you were going to the restroom, it would immediately walk into there and wait for you, a
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by debatem1 7y ago
I've thought for years that C++ was a sprawling mess of a language with a good and useful subset buried in there somewhere. I'm giving up with C++20. It's time to acknowledge that the language is too big and its virtues too s
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by debatem1 7y ago
Is there a good place to learn about this that doesn't assume a deep bio background?
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by debatem1 7y ago
A professor of mine once referred to Wittgenstein as "Bertrand Russel, through a mirror darkly". I like the analogy, and wonder which of the two it would have annoyed more.
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by debatem1 7y ago
The reason it hasn't is because the CFAA's track record as a prosecutorial tool is mixed at best. Of the 8 or so high profile cases using it only one conviction has actually held up. As a result, prosecutors are understandably hes
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by debatem1 7y ago
Criminally charging someone under the CFAA for what is essentially a TOS violation has come under fire before, and frankly I don't think many prosecutors want to be the one to get that legal theory thrown out.
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by debatem1 7y ago
It's interesting, I use precisely the opposite approach. I work in passes, each one intended to make the room cleaner as a whole but not necessarily finish any part of it. For example, let's say I've had a big party and the k
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by debatem1 7y ago
I'm not sure what to take from this. It would be surprising if animals' internal lives were simpler than we thought, right? So further study should generally suggest that it is more complex than previously known, but not as comple

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