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by devx 13y ago
I strongly suggest watching Jakob Appelbaum's speech at the NSA hearing in the European Parliament: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu6accTBjfs&feature=youtu.be... Here's a question he asks to people who think
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by devx 13y ago
Nice way to average it out, but wasn't there a previous survey that showed that 60 percent of developers make less than a few hundred a month or something?
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by devx 13y ago
It will however have an economic impact on US, if you do that. Think of it as "voting with your wallet". You're voting with your wallet against US. It's also a political stand. As a foreigner who can't vote agains
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by devx 13y ago
Maybe it's time EU, Latin America, and most of the Asian countries start banning US hardware, too - you know, just like US started banning Huawei, for the same reasons.
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by devx 13y ago
I've been wondering about web crypto, and how you can actually be protected from say Google getting your content before it's actually encrypted in the browser. Could Chrome's recent "packaged apps" help with that? M
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by devx 13y ago
I guess you could call this another one of those "blowbacks" that US has been creating by being too aggressive with certain things or people. When tons of documents start to become "classified", when they shouldn't
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by devx 13y ago
ChaCha20: http://cr.yp.to/chacha.html
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by devx 13y ago
Windows 7 will be the last good "desktop OS" from Microsoft. They're going to completely kill the desktop mode in future versions, slowly but surely. They will turn it into DOS, where the desktop is but a fading "app&quo
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by devx 13y ago
The idea is good, but in regards to Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments ACT, they need to be repealed in full, and start from scratch based on a real debate this time, and with laws not passed right before Christmas.
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by devx 13y ago
I take that over money influencing the main parties and then using that money to influence most of the population, as it happens in US. This just means the little parties can pop up out of nowhere, and win. That's actually good.
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by devx 13y ago
Could have sensors warning you.
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by devx 13y ago
PC's were once integrated, too, and then became modular. Smartphones are integrated, but I could see a future where they become modular. It would also follow Clayton Christen's theory of "integration/disintegration"
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by devx 13y ago
We should definitely embrace the future as fast as possible, instead of trying to hold it back so we "don't lose (the old) job". The problem is a lot of people need to be retrained, since things are changing so fast, and thei
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by devx 13y ago
The NSA thinks that if they have a backdoor into everything and a way to access everything, then they can make US "secure", through offensive means. Yeah, that's what you get when you have an agency run by an army general.
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by devx 13y ago
Well, we're probably just a few short decades away from us being able to influence things around us (and possibly even animals) with mind control. At that point you'd have to believe the government would be already working on ways
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by devx 13y ago
I "strongly suggest" everyone drops NIST's encryption standards as soon as there are viable alternatives to them. They can't be trusted ever again, and it's best to form another truly international security standard
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by devx 13y ago
Hopefully that will accelerate its abolition.
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by devx 13y ago
Mac devs, has Apple started doing anything that could show they're preparing to port Mac OS to ARM in the near future? I have this feeling Apple will "inevitably" put Mac OS on its own ARMv8 chips once they get "powerful
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by devx 13y ago
Google is scared more countries will follow Brazil's lead and demand they host data on their citizens locally. I understand the costs could be big for that, but I almost want it to happen (in EU, too, where it wouldn't need to be
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by devx 13y ago
Android 4.4 is likely to get at the very least the Linux kernel 3.8 (if not 3.10), which includes support for ARMv8. Granted, that doesn't necessarily mean Android 4.4 will be "64-bit Android", and they'll probably wait
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by devx 13y ago
Will you be able to make Convergence for Chrome, too (especially now with "packaged apps" and whatnot)?
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Why The NSA Must Be Reined In -- For Democracy's Sake(techdirt.com)
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by devx 13y ago
Maybe browser vendors will take it more seriously now, and with more urgency.
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by devx 13y ago
By that logic Google wouldn't encrypt the data between servers, in response to NSA revelations either. Yet, they're doing that. The point is it should at least be secure from outsiders/internal spies.
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by devx 13y ago
Isn't it about time we get new security standards for Wi-Fi? Is there anything in the works right now to replace WPA2?
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by devx 13y ago
Stuff like telling your customers to invest in stuff you know is going to crash is not illegal?
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by devx 13y ago
You don't need to go that far back in time: Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal; The agency already had pre-enc
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by devx 13y ago
I worry that they could physically force people to put their fingers on the phone, though, which would be much easier than forcing them (physically) to input the passcode.
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by devx 13y ago
It's so annoying when Google completely opens up archive files in Drive, too. Why would they do that?!
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by devx 13y ago
It does actually. If an OS changes so much that it makes the "cost" of learning just as big as switching to a new OS, then now, for the first time perhaps, can make a real choice.

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