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by ds9 13y ago
Cryptography is alive and well, but not because we can redefine the goals to disregard the most powerful adversaries. It's alive and well because there are ciphers that remain essentially unbreakable and are likely to remain so in the
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by ds9 13y ago
The most egregious flaw in this guy's argument is that, contrary to his disclaimer about not advocating a technocracy, he's deceptively arguing that people should trust experts beyond their respective areas of expertise. To see th
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by ds9 13y ago
It's called the Dunning-Kruger effect, mentioned and linked by the author. Basically, the less expertise, the more tendency to overestimate one's own knowledge and the worse the ability to accurately identify real experts. However
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by ds9 13y ago
Maybe I'm unusual for an American, but generally speaking, I couldn't care what a politician does in his/her personal life. I do care what they do officially, as office-holders, and it's a problem when the press or publ
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by ds9 13y ago
Another example is the Fahrenheit scale. The eponymous originator calibrated his thermometer by the temperatures where he could obtain brine (0 F) and an inaccurate estimate of human body temperature (100 F). https://en.wikipedia
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by ds9 13y ago
They generally won't apply laws of country A in country B - it's just that if they want to do business in A they have to follow laws of A in their operations in A. Profit-oriented organizations will comply rather than leave the co
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by ds9 13y ago
So according to you, the USG not being able to spy on everyone, everywhere, all the time compromises "national security"? By that logic, you're threatening your neighbors by not having surveillance cams in your bedroom and b
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by ds9 13y ago
Better laws, and official respect for them, would be the better solution if we had that option. But how do we get there? Has such a scenario ever effectively protected citizens from government in the real world? And what are we supposed to
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by ds9 13y ago
Some servers used to have a resettable "case has been opened" flag in the BIOS - the pieces that was based on could be leveraged against the DMA attacks. Overwrite certain items in memory, or maybe just power off the system, when
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by ds9 13y ago
The old-style meters didn't give the power company this data; they were read only monthly, not continually. The newer wireless ones do give full-time total watt-hour data. However, the sole justifications for any of that is billing and
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by ds9 13y ago
"What is with the paranoia over Nest's data? ... Nest doesn't collect any valuable data that google doesn't already have ... Google already has your cell phone, they know where you are at all times" In the first pla
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by ds9 13y ago
"releasing these details simply doesn't help the cause of fixing the NSA's less savoury incursions" -- of course it doesn't. Why would anyone expect that? At least, I'm not convinced there is any realistic p
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by ds9 13y ago
It's true that you can't have privacy or security in the mass-market apps or in voice or sms over big commercial carriers. However, if a device solved the problems indicated by (username) revelation and following posts on this pag
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by ds9 13y ago
"Since these medications are not regulated for use in humans, there are no guarantees as to their quality or potency." Also no regulation as to how they are used. Super-bugs are being bred by over-use, and a careless or ignorant i
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by ds9 13y ago
The most important line: "put security ahead of both domestic and international surveillance". That's what it comes down to, we can have communications security or surveillance, not both.
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by ds9 13y ago
I think there are "industrial design" rights, but not sure whether they apply to car designs. There would be an obvious problem of "how similar is too similar" given that car types (sedan, wagon, coupe etc.) are broadly
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by ds9 13y ago
What's concerning about that is that you can't opt out. It's part of a service that is supposedly optional, but the linked document repeatedly emphasizes that the terms apply upon any use of the service, even by someone who&
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by ds9 13y ago
That would be the right policy, IMHO, if it were defined in the right way. The crucial distinction is between software providers and businesses storing data related to customers. If the software providers were liable, there would be a deva
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by ds9 13y ago
I agree. A real FBI agent would have handed her a letter imposing a legal obligation to keep silent about the conversation, and she would be in jail now. In the alternative, it was a social engineering attack, and we're supposed to ad
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by ds9 13y ago
The fact that you can't have complete security is not an argument for abdicating the effort, nor a valid criticism of anything that moves in the right direction. At least you can get to a better position in terms of (a) lower probabili
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by ds9 13y ago
Isn't there also a phenomenon of elderly people recovering childhood memories? I've always heard of this, and relatives in their 60s and 70s have told me of vivid memories of their early life. In the same age range, they have les
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by ds9 13y ago
Why was Gates hectoring the hobbyists? 1. The hobbyists had a culture of freely sharing code, which Gates was trying to break up (now known as Linux, Github, C) 2. Software was about 5 years away from Congress making software definitely cop
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by ds9 13y ago
To clarify, under that proposal, the "new" state (Lincoln) would be the eastern one and the western one would be still called Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_%28proposed_Northweste...
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by ds9 13y ago
The major ISPs in the US, in my experience have always allowed either opting for a straight modem instead of one with router/switch/firewall, or at least let the customer set bridge mode so it's passthru. If this is ever not
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by ds9 13y ago
IMHO the provisions in your list plus a few more would make the whole thing unobjectionable. My additions: - It's opt-in. The ISPs are required to notify subscribers that it's available, with clear explanations. - Allow parents to
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by ds9 13y ago
"Revealing details of legitimate practices does no good" Seriously? Excuse me for being harsh, but that statement is preposterous and shows a contempt for civil liberties, freedom of speech in particular, and ignorance of security
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by ds9 13y ago
I agree that there is a theoretical scenario that all the production line are trojaned, or that Lenovo is cooperating with the customer's adversary at assembly time. However, my question was intended for what is more likely the practic
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by ds9 13y ago
Thank you! Found this so far: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/7203/checking-if... - and it's not very encouraging. The answers there assume that the now-owner has access to a "clean" st
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by ds9 13y ago
That's prospective, not retrospective, thanks tho :)
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by ds9 13y ago
It's not at all clear that he's violating any laws. There is no infringement in providing access in a good-faith belief that the content is legit. And it's a fair assumption that the people actually publishing the music files

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