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by drvdevd 10y ago
Let me add to that: the FBI themselves and various Police forces will also need Tor, or something like it, as well.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
No one seems to remember rule 41 in this thread. Did it get tossed out already? We can all look at this and assume the FBI made a good choice here, even if they broke the law in the process. But.. what about those of us who use Tor to brows
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I often fantasize about leaving programming for ... programming. It's amazing the sheer number of things that aren't programming a job in programming might entail (depending on where you end up).
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by drvdevd 10y ago
It may not be a great insight but it is an important fact to be aware of, especially in the context of something like Signal. It does need to be drilled into our heads again and again that the weakest link breaks the chain. Lest we forg
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Interesting post, thanks. This certainly begs the questions of if/how it would be possible to concisely (or even not so concisely) convey this information to consumers.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
To be quite clear, personally I'm 100% pro-GMO. But that's because I believe the benefits that can be realized outweigh the risks. However, in this case I'm simply curious from both a packaging/product design and regu
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Your comment gave me an interesting thought: how would a labeling system that describes exactly which modifications were made to the organism in question work?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Actually to me this just sounds like a typical bad tech interview. The idea that you'll be live coding on the job with someone looking over your shoulder is kind of silly no matter where you work, even in an open workspace. Also, you&#
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This. For me the whole point of being self taught has always been so I could get down to work and build things :)
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by drvdevd 10y ago
The headline also implies that 14 months is a short amount of time, which in my book could be a long period if you're doing startup work. Perhaps just the right amount of time to spend with any one venture.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I love nicotine despite the "factoid" about its' addictiveness I listed above, and I say that as a former smoker (sometimes up to a pack a day, for about 6 years). I'm actually at the point where I can smoke occssionally
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Actually I believe clinically, "addictiveness" is measured by what it takes to develop a dependence in the first place, rather that what it takes to get rid of that dependence or even the physical effects of an abrupt cessation. I
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Well I think we can agree to disagree on regulation as the method of fixing the issue. Of course we should do something . I'll admit I'm not sure what though and have no better proposal. I just believe regulation is too blunt an
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by drvdevd 10y ago
What I'm ultimately arguing here is that: even after the regulators step in and make make them give a fuck, I mean really give a fuck, and they are forced to fix the low hanging fruits, these botnets or other similar machinations, wi
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by drvdevd 10y ago
In one sense, sure. But IMO regulating the IoT "industry" in a general way is a bad idea because it will just shift the low hanging fruit around some, while ultimately stifiling innovation, which is what is needed for any deep, me
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by drvdevd 10y ago
With IoT, this may catch the low hanging fruit, sure. Negligence for poor defaults, fine? But then attackers will just evolve to the next lowest fruit. Keep in mind that to some attackers, finding a software or hardware bug to exploit (and
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Very much agreed and good points all around. My proposal wasn't nearly as technically nuanced as such a proposal should be. I suppose I should fall back to my main argument which is that no such proposal can be at this point. Hence r
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Well, I think we need less regulation and more accessibility of the technology deployed in this space (e.g. fewer black boxes, more OSS). Regulation, no matter how stringent, can't change the fact that all software breaks eventually. O
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I can agree with that and felt the same way until I realized (or was forced to admit repeatedly) that 90% of my time using Windows or OS X is now spent either in an SSH session, a web browser, or a virtual machine. Frankly all of these rele
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Personally, I say ditch IOS completely and give me a flat ecosystem of Linux or BSD well tuned to the hardware and completely open sourced. Allow interesting features like SNABB-switch type userspace packet management. Throw in some (k)ASLR
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I think this is the most sane, non-politicized way of stating what happened here. You can speculate as to the motives of the regulator (short timeframe, high costs, certain friends), but the fact of the matter is this was a major flaw in hi
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by drvdevd 10y ago
If you can dump the VMs "physical memory" - even from an AWS VM, e.g. using the LiME kernel module ( https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility/wiki/Lime... ) you can still use Volatility and
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Which, of course, will result in a worse security posture. Interesting technical ideas can be found in the actual research being done on embedded device security out there. This comes to mind, for example: https://lwn.net/Ar
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This in particular angers me because it's so broad IMO and antithetical to open source and security research. This smells like political pressure and censorship. Like the beginning of the end for GitHub...
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Would you call that detectable? Eespecially en masse. Perhaps a smart grid could detect these attacks in some way and dynamically adjust power to compromised devices?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I think the answer is primarily non-technical. I believe we have to find healthy ways for people to express themselves and especially to communicate what makes them feel "not well-adjusted". Censorship doesn't solve these i
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I suppose I'm hoping for a point in the near future where AR/VR type glasses (or something like that) can be used with high enough fidelity and resolution to replace my desktop, physically. Coupled with virtualization and a good k
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I think it can be hard for us (people who get a lot of screen time, spend a lot of time coding in 2D) to imagine that the "desktop" paradigm is already dead. Mobile/voice/AR is killing it. Granted the desktop UI metaphor
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Certainly worth considering
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Perhaps, as of yet, Google isn't living fully by their own principles ("automating themselves out of a job"), maybe because the tech isn't quite there yet or maybe for other reasons. It remains to be seen if the ultima

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