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by devx 13y ago
64-bit, and yet it will probably use no more than 2 GB of RAM. Either way, this shows how committed Apple is to making its own ARM CPU's, and dismiss any rumors that Apple would use Intel's chips in iPhones or iPads in the future
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by devx 13y ago
If the CPU is compromised then we should try to find out about it. We might not all be cryptography experts like Linus is implying he is, but he saying there's no way the CPU could be compromised and use the backdoor against Linux? I
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by devx 13y ago
I kind of worry about that, too. Up until now, it has been NSA pretty much the ones establishing the new security standards, since they have the best minds on it. But now we can't trust them, or even anyone who's "worked&quot
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder if stuff like this could help, but it could be years away from deployment anyway (and that's if the companies are even willing to do it - so all the more reason to avoid current cloud services): http://www.theregi
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by devx 13y ago
> The “Hierofalcon” series also provides enhanced security with support for ARM TrustZone technology and a dedicated cryptographic security co-processor I'm always going to see stuff like that in a very suspicious way from now on, c
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by devx 13y ago
These sort of attacks need much more public scrutiny. The US government is performing covert attacks in the US public's name, and potentially start international conflicts, like they did with Iran decades ago because of the coup. At
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by devx 13y ago
You also have to think about the latency, and if I'm not mistaken they already want 60 FPS as the default, and I know Carmack wants 120 FPS eventually, because framerate is apparently a lot more important in that kind of virtual enviro
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by devx 13y ago
NSA seems to really take its logo-censorship powers very seriously - even though those powers exist only in their imagination. I don't know if that's the way NSA has always been or not (even when facing the public), but it's
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by devx 13y ago
The faster the oil/gas price increases, the more attractive electric cars become. Unfortunately, it could also mean US will never cut oil subsidies, unless they do it now, before the perceptible decline starts. Hopefully, governments
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by devx 13y ago
It's not like they didn't release it because they were stubborn or whatever. They didn't release for a reason - it wasn't ready. But because of bad press so far they will release it anyway - not fully ready, and hope tha
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by devx 13y ago
Apple would be insane to have a centralized database with all the fingerprints. It's bad enough that NSA can even get your individual data as you sync your iPhone with your iTunes on a computer. Having it on a central server means they
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by devx 13y ago
Disappointing. Whenever I hear people say "there needs to be a balance", what I hear is "I'm with NSA/the government on this one" - because that's exactly what everyone saying that are actually saying. I
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by devx 13y ago
A while ago (before we found out what the FISA Court is up to), I thought if nothing else at least the Justice system is pretty good in US. But now they're systematically replacing the judges with pro-surveillance state judges [1], too
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by devx 13y ago
I don't want to start a left vs right debate, but just imagine how much harder this would be if say half of the adult population was employed by the government. That's why the communist countries tended to be some of the most to
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by devx 13y ago
I started getting worried about this after Google announced encryption between servers recently, because if they have spies there, then that move might not be much of an improvement. Google should start triple-checking everyone working on s
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by devx 13y ago
Retroshare has a PGP web of trust, too, but I suppose it's not the most user friendly. It seems they've just released a web interface for it: https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/retroshar
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by devx 13y ago
I hope besides all these lawsuits asking for "disclosure", all these companies are also working (lobbying) hard to push the "Repeal of the Surveillance State Act" in Congress: http://holt.house.gov/index.
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by devx 13y ago
I bet a lot of people chose driving over flying not just because they're afraid of having their planes hijacked, but also because of the TSA and not wanting to deal with them.
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by devx 13y ago
I'm sure NSA would use such twisted logic against companies to scare them into obedience (they've done it plenty of times so far - like with that t-shirt censorship), but I doubt it would work with larger ones, or in Court. So if
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by devx 13y ago
I think Sony should've just used Android as the base for PS Vita (and later PS4, etc), instead of going around it and making that "PS Mobile" thing that had to be compatible with both Android and the Vita OS, which in the end
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by devx 13y ago
I know that's one of the reasons he's saying it, but that's not really everyone else' concern, too, and as I said security should come first. Firefox OS is coming to ARMv6 phones right now, so at the very least they shou
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by devx 13y ago
It boggles my mind that this guy thinks he has more than 0 percent credibility at this point. How is he not in prison, or at least fired yet?
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by devx 13y ago
Sounds good to me. That's what you get when you become a sleazy company willing to do anything for money (in the short term) without thinking of the consequences. Plus, it's also quite ironic considering US started this whole tren
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by devx 13y ago
When the NYT article said NSA has succeeded in putting backdoors into "commercial encryption hardware", what were they talking about? Weren't they referring to chip companies like Intel? If Intel wants our trust again, they s
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by devx 13y ago
Speaking of untrustworthy employees, and HUMINT, the NSA/CIA could just have agents infiltrated at Google, to get access to a lot of that data. This is what's so striking about this. I thought Google already encrypted all data, an
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by devx 13y ago
Maybe this means Canonical will focus more on ARM hardware now, which is kind of the point of Mir anyway - to be a lot more efficient on "lower-end" mobile hardware like ARM chips. Can't say I wouldn't like that to happe
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by devx 13y ago
So far I haven't seen anyone question the SHA algorithms. Both SHA-1 and SHA-2 were designed by the NSA. Is everyone okay with that? SHA-3 wasn't designed by the NSA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Hash_A
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by devx 13y ago
The author seems to worry a lot about ARM performance. If this "proposal" is going to take 2-3 years to be implemented in browsers, then I wouldn't worry too much about it. The ARMv8 architecture is supposed to come with hard
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by devx 13y ago
Is (NIST) P-256 secure enough? I might be wrong, but I think DJB is suggesting it's not, and that Curve25519 is preferable because it meets all the needed security requirements: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2013.05.31&#x2
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by devx 13y ago
I think DJB is saying that the "default" ones recommended by NIST like P-224 are weak, but if you use something like Curve25519, then you're fine. Full paper: http://cr.yp.to/talks/2013.05.31/slides-

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