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by ds9 13y ago
VPNs are still legal, but may be monitored, maybe with help of the long arm of the US. Cameron has a warped idea of "democracy" if he thinks this is compatible with it. Citizens are entitled to know the opinions of people everywhe
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by ds9 13y ago
There are some dumb comments on here, but I expected it would bring a few comments from France and I found those interesting.
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by ds9 13y ago
As others have pointed out, you don't have to put length constraints in multiple places if you have DB access go thru a suitable layer or module, and this is generally (AFAIK) good architecture. Surprised someone hasn't pointed ou
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by ds9 13y ago
You guys refer to "voting" based on an implicit definition which I don't think you can support empirically. Do you mean "interacting with the machine in such a way that text indicating your choice shows up on the screen&
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by ds9 13y ago
Updates can be contained on BR discs. If you try to play the disc, it will update the firmware or certs or whatever.
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by ds9 13y ago
Saying the router is a single failure point is a backwards way of saying, let these "things" talk to the internet in other ways too! If the router is properly configured (i.e. the way the owner wants it), it can be a single point
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by ds9 13y ago
He makes a good point that one more competent developer is much more valuable than multiple incompetent devs. The first part of the piece, about how much software is needed and for how many uses, suggests another point he does not make -- n
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Lavabit founder: Feds ORDERED email providers to stay open(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ds9 13y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 13y ago
Ghostery is a kind of fallacy. Whenever I see talk on the web about tracking and privacy, someone jumps in with "Just use Ghostery!". It's almost cult-like. If you use it or think you might, consider: Ghostery is closed-sou
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by ds9 13y ago
I've been shopping for a TV, and while the network-enabled features may be the point of calling certain models "smart", it is not necessarily something the buyer wants. It may appeal to many people - if they don't realiz
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by ds9 13y ago
He's probably more optimistic about democracy as a force for good, because the Western European governments he's familiar with have attained a closer approach to democracy than most of the rest of the world. In the US for example,
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by ds9 13y ago
It is a separate issue as long as HTTP2 does not force any reliance on commercial CAs, or CAs other than the server owner. If it did, it would be the enemy of secure web traffic and would merit being rejected or modified. But AFAIK, or if
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by ds9 13y ago
Imagine a system similar to Lavabit's, but with PFS. The FBI demands the key so they can spy on one user. I'll give them the key, ban the user, and continue with a new key. The government then will have no plaintext of anyone&#x27
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by ds9 13y ago
You probably intended only a descriptive term, but fittingly the Americans' opposition to what was called the "general warrant" was precisely what led to the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution. [1] But you are correct that
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by ds9 13y ago
Recognizing the reality that a powerful entity will seize whatever power or advantage it can find, is not a value judgment that that conduct is OK. I'm not clear on how you inferred such an endorsement from statements that people are g
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by ds9 13y ago
It isn't an either/or. If you give data to Google, Facebook or other data-accumulating companies, you're giving it to the government. The reverse is not true, so if only the government is surveilling you, you can still stay o
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by ds9 13y ago
That's the locus of the violence. The source of the violence (and of most of the other harms) is the prohibition. Alcohol and tobbacco dealers aren't involved in shootings in the streets - instead we find them in their shops,
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by ds9 13y ago
"Unfortunately, that would be DRM" No, it wouldn't. DRM means someone other than the hardware owner restricts what the hardware can do. If you're the owner and control all the relevant keys, the setup enhances rather th
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by ds9 13y ago
Why not a plugin? Imagine this scenario. You get a plugin from your distro's repository; you have encrypted, sig-checking, hash-checking mechanism in apt or rpm or whatever. It is open source/Libre, maintained and audited by comp
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by ds9 13y ago
I've been using this combination for years and it has been copacetic. Xfce is somewhat similar to Gnome 2 (its peak IMHO) or Windows XP, but delightfully lightweight and free from most of the annoyances of those. Aspects I particularly
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We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality(wired.com)
81 points by ds9 13y ago|17 comments
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by ds9 13y ago
Exactly (on both points). I can't really cite anything for my remarks, as they are based on vaguely remembered news articles over many years, but my impression is that the medical profession - in the US at least - has resolutely oppose
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by ds9 13y ago
Thanks for the screenshot, the sample just shows as browser-default fonts for me with Iceweasel. Both of these have the horrible rainbow effects around the edges of the letters, presumably from sub-pixel anti-aliasing. But I'm an outli
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by ds9 13y ago
Actually you are right and I overstated. This has been the distinction in the recent laws, if the provider as opposed to the interlocutors can decrypt it is required. It is a challenge to build a system that encrypts as part of a service (
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by ds9 13y ago
Re (2), the idea that LE is entitled to have comms decrypted has never been "the spirit of the law" until very recent legislation. In the days of "alligator clip on the wire", the law allowed the police only to intercept
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by ds9 13y ago
It used to exist, it was called Rhetoric. It was one of the major academic areas from ancient times until recent centuries. Going from the literature-based native-language curriculum to one with Rhetoric and Literature separated out would
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by ds9 13y ago
Where's the source? Open source doesn't automatically guarantee anything, but you can't have real security without it.
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by ds9 13y ago
From the headers, php.net seems to be Apache/PHP on BSD. This might be an example of a widespread ongoing attack pattern which is a bit of a mystery. For the past year or more there have been compromises in this pattern - Linux/u
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by ds9 13y ago
Same here( "a lot of unicode placeholders" ). Can anyone clarify what would make these visible with Firefox 24 on Windows? (Same result for me with Iceweasel, but it's a few versions behind) The site says JS is not required,
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by ds9 13y ago
Not even a credit card - a debit card! In the US at least, these are not covered by the $50 limitation on losses on unauthorized transactions. In practice the banks often honor that anyway, but AFAIK they don't have to. In this case ho

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