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91.
by embolism 13y ago
Total surveillance has nothing to do with the security of the average citizen... If you really mean this, you are beyond reason. I don't disagree about the slow transformation you describe, but it's hard to believe that
92.
by embolism 13y ago
How will people in those communities pay their taxes?
93.
by embolism 13y ago
Well said. However the grandparent comment speaks as though this is unique to the US, rather than something that most governments are doing or would like to do. How do we get to a state where an actual value is ever given serious political
94.
by embolism 13y ago
but that doesn't pass the "smell test" as far as I'm concerned. So it's gone from a 'given' to 'in your opinion'. It's easy to explain the 0.03 figure if there are a large number of
95.
by embolism 13y ago
Actually not. In the US it's about $750,000 to get a green card and citizenship is just a matter of time after that. I'm sure there are other places that are a lot cheaper.
96.
by embolism 13y ago
'Citation needed' is essentially 'I can't be bothered to Google' however: Ecuador: http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/exclusive-documents-illumi... China: http://www.nytimes.com/
97.
by embolism 13y ago
This has to end. As soon as possible. And be replaced by what?
98.
by embolism 13y ago
You can have safety, privacy and security all at the same time. Is there a single explanation anywhere of how this can be achieved? If it is so straightforward that anyone who thinks otherwise is 'stupid', I would love t
99.
by embolism 13y ago
...given that the FISA courts are nothing but a rubber-stamp How is this 'given'? Do we have any evidence of this whatsoever?
100.
by embolism 13y ago
Yeah, let's replace them with someone we know can be trusted with technology. How about Google.
101.
by embolism 13y ago
China is arguably the current engine of world progress, and there, state surveillance is ubiquitous and lawful, and a policeman can send you to jail without trial.
102.
by embolism 13y ago
Ecuador and Hong Kong are pissed off... Ironic given that in both of these countries, warrantless wiretapping is legal and routine.
103.
by embolism 13y ago
iMessage decoy?
104.
by embolism 13y ago
Bringing knives to a nerf-gun fight.
105.
by embolism 13y ago
Yeah windows phone smoothly iterated from its early beginnings to where it is today. Oh... wait.
106.
by embolism 13y ago
Not really - I don't see any 'well developed' analysis of either side. For example, I see claims that vast amounts of US IP have been stolen by Chinese corporations through hacking. Is this true, and if so, do we really thin
107.
by embolism 13y ago
It matters because in one scenario Apple itself can't get to them - it can only restore them to your phone where they are decrypted using your password.
108.
by embolism 13y ago
Yes. Not only possible but likely.
109.
by embolism 13y ago
Actually the author didn't prove this. The author entered their account password to retrieve the backup. Restoring the most recent day of messages could be done from a plaintext backup or it could be done by loading an encrypted
110.
by embolism 13y ago
I'd like to see a more comprehensive test to prove that the messages are part of the backup. Since you have to sign in to iMessage, it's possible that these are being retrieved from the iMessage server in an encrypted form - &quo
111.
by embolism 13y ago
Mostly because Google is a lot better at it and had far more sources of information about each individual to draw on, for example they have your search history, the history of all your browsing (via analytics), location history for users of
112.
by embolism 13y ago
IMO, Apple's claim that iMessage is private is irresponsible because it endangers people who take that claim at face value. By this logic, your claims are irresponsible. Apple's claim is true and you are misleading peopl
113.
by embolism 13y ago
You still don't understand how this works. Apple can't complete the provisinig process alone - the user unlocking the keybag on the device with their password is an essential part of provisioning a device. When a new device is
114.
by embolism 13y ago
Except that there is plenty of suggestion (denied by the Chinese government) that Chinese are hacking US infrastructure and corporations too. So these revelations appear as Snowden taking the Chinese side in an international dispute.
115.
by embolism 13y ago
That's true. The basic problem does seem to be that people love music enough to have paid a reasonable amount for it in the past, but now have been conditioned to believe that it is cheaper than it really is.
116.
by embolism 13y ago
Not really - it just means they aren't very efficient at monetizing music. Why should artists subsidize a channel that devalues their art?
117.
by embolism 13y ago
Then you haven't explained how Apple could join another device to the encryption session without the user's password.
118.
by embolism 13y ago
Fair enough, but actually your other point doesn't stand either because the prevailing understanding is that the keybag mechanism allows the clients to detect and report when another device is provisioned, and that the password is need
119.
by embolism 13y ago
You are pretending that this is equivalent to asserting that they have access to arbitrary message histories, which they in fact do not.
120.
by embolism 13y ago
No modern computer can be constructed by an individual without trusting a corporation not to have coopted some part of the system. Therefore no communication system can exist that meets your criteria. (E.g. Because the CPU could be comprom

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