fitblipper

12 ms·

91.
by fitblipper 6y ago
From the article: > Threats: Physical Access -> Mitigations: Protected Storage - Secure storage (that is, encryption of data-at-rest) for data contained on the device From https://securephones.io/main.pdf > An atta
92.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I enjoyed the breakdown of the 2 hypothetical worlds since it gives a mental model for how to think about the problem. I personally have never taken a class on ethics so I'm not sure how to handle the fuzziness that comes from translat
93.
by fitblipper 6y ago
>It defended its services, stating they “strongly believe that privacy is a fundamental human right.” > But critics say more than 90% of its customers are criminals. How do the critics know? This appears to be an attack on privacy.
94.
by fitblipper 6y ago
Interesting take. From where I sit Facebook appears the most brazen about their anti-competitive practices especially when compared to Google. Their tightly held walled guarden, forcing oculus to use facebook accounts, etc. Android allows
95.
by fitblipper 6y ago
Not how opinions and politics stand now, but that is part of the reason why articles like this are important. There is quite a distance to travel between writing an article criticizing tracking + the technology that enables it and arriving
96.
by fitblipper 6y ago
If their intent is to convince Google, then I agree. If the intent is to convince the public and policy makers, I don't think they need to re-frame it. I am okay letting a company (even a complete industry) fail if society has decide
97.
by fitblipper 6y ago
Using the term "end to end" feel a little off to me in this solution since one of the "end"s is the search engine service. If encryption is just through TLS how is this different than just sending your normal https based
98.
by fitblipper 6y ago
That line also stuck out to me and seems a bit short sited. The claim that we live in a world with no privacy could also lead to the conclusion that the supply of privacy could potentially be far below the demand, and thus be a prime market
99.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I tend to default to believing bad faith from the ISPs given their monopolistic power in many many places around the US. However, I disagree with this argument in a broad sense because: 1. Law enforcement itself has costs. 2. The US has so
100.
by fitblipper 6y ago
Any time someone identifies as a cop, people will do what you tell them to. Here is just one extreme example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam People will do stuff without thinking because som
101.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I think the Big Brother heebie jeebies are justified. Amazon gives Police officers a script and coaching[1] to use to try to endorse their surveillance products and to maximize participation in the "Ring as Big Brother feature".
102.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I find your distinction between law abiding citizens and criminals hilarious. There is no difference between the two and to pretend like there is a difference is how we get the same people chanting both "we need to punish criminals mor
103.
by fitblipper 6y ago
At first blush the fact that all these searches were sent over DNS (which is plain text by default) this was a gross privacy violation. Congress has passed bills allowing ISPs to use your DNS and browsing history and sell it to 3rd parties
104.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I'm very sorry to hear all the troubles you've been facing. I will soon be deciding where I want to move and this sounds like a state I should avoid. Was that in Washington?
105.
by fitblipper 6y ago
OR you could stop assuming criminals are different than you and realize they have the ability to learn from the mistakes themselves, especially heartbreaking ones where 2 people die. I am so sick of seeing people who feel that justice can o
106.
by fitblipper 6y ago
One of Google's largest PR mistakes has been not distancing itself more aggressively from Facebook. Everywhere I look I see criticisms of these 2 companies together being poor stewards of user data but almost all the articles focus on
107.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I use it without trouble on mac, windows, and linux. If you are having trouble today or yesterday it might be related to the outage.
108.
by fitblipper 6y ago
This is why you need some form of network analytics to figure out if the new version you are rolling out is breaking anything or even seeing of something _is_ breaking. I get the "we don't want to compromise security even an inch
109.
by fitblipper 6y ago
While I agree with this 90% of the way, their backup, restore, and phone changing process is very much "tech for tech people". I've had the joy of trying to explain to my elderly dad why his text message history is lost becau
110.
by fitblipper 6y ago
You can tell Signal that. Settings -> Privacy -> Disable "PIN reminders" under "Signal PIN".
111.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I also ran into problems that caused me to abandon my DPM after a while. Unique password requirements pet store required storage which added back the sync/dependency on remote storage problem. I also wanted unique logins per site for
112.
by fitblipper 6y ago
I would like more information on what information exactly zood receives and stores. Does zood know who is sharing with whom? Is the data usage to username logged? Is the amount of data sent to zood increase as a function of 1. How many peop
113.
by fitblipper 9y ago
Doing this would be foolish since they are taxed as income when they vest but capital gains after. If their aim was to unfairly take advantage they should wait until right after vesting not right before.