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by feanaro 5y ago
25% of all girls what?
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by feanaro 5y ago
It's been said elsewhere, but it bears repeating: E2EE is useless if the ends are compromised. Furthermore, since the end is compromised, it's no longer a true end. The true end is the user and a system compromised in this way doe
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by feanaro 5y ago
> problems that privacy inherently allows for I wonder how we ever survived with the level of privacy we had before the advent of the internet. It must've been a living hell. /s Privacy is not a problem, it is necessary in orde
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by feanaro 5y ago
It moves iCloud to end-to-end encryption by compromising the ends. Not really a reasonable outcome.
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by feanaro 5y ago
One is a proprietary third-party, optional service acting against you, the other is your own device acting against you. That's the difference and it should be pretty easy to understand.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Huh? You can choose not to use any cloud service if you want. If you buy an iPhone, you can't... Choose not to use the iPhone you just bought. This isn't a step towards privacy and it sounds (to me at least) like quite the logica
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by feanaro 5y ago
On the other hand, I'm not buying an iPhone due to control issues. If I were able to fully control it, I'd probably buy one.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> They only have a very high market share because Chrome is the best browser. This is very much a matter of opinion, not something you can reasonably state with a straight face. A large part of Chrome's large market share is the fac
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by feanaro 5y ago
Yes, but > A situation that has the exact same effects on society...? This is patently false. You do come off as arguing in bad faith, resorting to debasing any concerns of policy misuse as simply a product of the imagination of the pers
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by feanaro 5y ago
I don't really understand what you mean when you say it is an "implementation detail". It is definitely a detail of the implementation, but it is an extremely important detail that makes all of the difference. Given that it
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by feanaro 5y ago
> The only thing "the SJW crowd" has changed is which words are now seen as offensive. Well, that , and also bullying thousands of well-meaning projects into doing silly renamings they didn't want or need to spend energy
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by feanaro 5y ago
I do want to emphasize that this wasn't a "you can't do that" type of thing, though. You absolutely have the freedom to do it. My comment was meant more in a "Do you really want to, given that this might have an eff
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by feanaro 5y ago
I don't deny the system has some benefits, they just aren't benefits I will gladly give up my own freedom for nor the freedom of my fellow citizens. I don't want to do away with anything; I just want "you" out of my
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by feanaro 5y ago
> If it leads to widespread civil rights abuses, where are they? This is disingenuous, since up to this point these databases weren't used in systems residing on end user devices, scanning their local files. The disadvantages aren&#
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by feanaro 5y ago
But we've already established there is no public oversight over the contents of the NCMEC database and that there cannot ever be, by design. Furthermore, it's known to contain hashes of non-CSAE images simply because they were fou
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by feanaro 5y ago
This is a reality you have to accept. It is a simple matter to get away with owning this kind of material, dragnet method or not. There is no point in trying to eradicate all such material and bring the number to absolute zero. It's
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by feanaro 5y ago
I find it weird how none of these links state the CPU frequency prominently (or at least I didn't notice it). Not even the product sheet has it.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Not the OP, but by good old fashioned police work, I assume non-dragnet methods, where everybody's device isn't scanned in an automated way. So instead of sifting through a massive collection of automatically collected data, taken
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by feanaro 5y ago
I think your proclamation of it all being futile is a bit premature and can be disheartening for those that do want to act. It may even play a part in negative change, leading to some people dropping their original intention because you suc
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by feanaro 5y ago
> but there is still a very strong culture of free speech, particularly political speech. Free speech didn't seem so important recently when the SJW crowd started mandating to censor certain words because they're offensive.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Why do you need to put your images on a cloud service at all? Just use a spare disk.
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by feanaro 5y ago
> Accessing unencrypted files on a device is not a backdoor In what weird universe is this even remotely true?
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by feanaro 5y ago
Perhaps you're the one who's wrong though? Your response makes no sense other than to grandstand how hasty and unreasonable the OP is being. You could have just omitted it and we'd be no worse off. Does Facebook scan local fi
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by feanaro 5y ago
Yes, they are. The point is that this change make this hypothetical too close to being true so the change should be abandoned. It skews the power balance too much into the hands of a small number of unknown people so the rest are protesti
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by feanaro 5y ago
This isn't realistic advice for most people eating meat every day. It's better to suggest trying to not eat meat for a single day per week as a start.
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by feanaro 5y ago
I personally don't believe this process can be made to be trustworthy enough while still serving its stated purpose. It will always remain opaque enough that it could and will be used to violate civil rights.
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by feanaro 5y ago
Some have been able to give specific information about these photos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28071047 Yes, of course, it's "unsubstantiated speculation", but how do you suppose the speculation
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by feanaro 5y ago
My wife was exposed to both from an early age and this continued until she was 15. Then she developed a mild allergy to dogs and a stronger allergy to cats (can't be in the same room with one). Allergies aren't a simple phenomenon
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by feanaro 5y ago
> that a tool designed to stop the spread of CSAM is a "bad thing" It's certainly said to be designed to do it, but have you seen concerns raised in the other thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28
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by feanaro 5y ago
> You don't need to know biochemistry and medicine to know that you don't want carcinogenic elements in your food, right? In the same sense, you don't need to know how to check that a channel is private and secure in order

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