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by forgottenpass 13y ago
Tech doesn't exist in a vacuum disconnected from the world, it's constantly interacting with society as the two evolve with and by eachother. It has the power to fundamentally alter the world, the most grandiose among programmers
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
Get over it people It's OK to not like things. then you best look for alternatives ASAP. This is exactly what the author is doing. But even when the good outweighs the bad, its totally fine to stay using a service without some obli
1923.
by forgottenpass 13y ago
Then you just have to ask yourself if you want society to dictate how you live your life. Well, no, I don't. But its an unavoidable force that has and will continue to dictate almost every waking moment of my life. Switching from on
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
The problem is a security model where all trust is exclusivity and irrevocably granted to a single external entity. An entity that an owner of property has to go through to access their own property. This kind of security model has both pr
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
>where are all the security guys at when this stuff is implemented? It doesn't matter where they are, because where they're not is in management. During development, if attacks like this are even considered at all, its a very
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
I dunno, I think the writing has been on the wall for quite some time that privacy is another incorporeal thing to which access is tiered based on class. Society just has a way of dismissing voices of apprehension, typically as paranoids a
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
Powershell still uses the same terrible terminal emulator that cmd.exe does. This article is mostly about terminal emulators, and using windows shells for unixy stuff. Its not cmd.exe sepcific, I use Console2 for powershell terminals at h
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
I'm amused that the article thinks it's censorship. That would be amusing, if they actually thought that. But the article doesn't call it censorship. The EFF representative says that its unsurprising that such a censorious
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
I had written more here, but even after cutting down this post is still to long. Basically the evolution of DC is in large part a response to its own success. 13k attendees (IIRC) is going to change things, and any difference makes it easy
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
Wonkblog posts things are incredibly flippant coming from the Washington Post [1] but they're also high quality when it comes to substantive matters so I as long as its unambiguous which things are said in jest I don't really care
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These tech companies are spending millions on high-priced lobbyists(washingtonpost.com)
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
>According to the article, he gave them an exclusive interview 10 days ago that they are finally publishing now. A lot of wild interferences can be drawn from that fact, but isn't it just a common courtesy for a journalist or report
1933.
by forgottenpass 13y ago
Protection of citizens matters much more strongly to politicians when a politically-connected citizen is targeted. When people are targeted en mass it is less of an existential threat to the two-party dog and pony show. Would Watergate hav
1934.
by forgottenpass 13y ago
I don't want to sound too cynical, but I don't yet see anything that makes a case for this new mobile platform to me. The iPhone got me excited for a reinvention of mobile ui. Reading about andrioid's ideas tickled the archit
1935.
by forgottenpass 13y ago
There was an NPR interview a few years ago with someone at Wikileaks (must have been Assange, do they have another public face?). They used to release information in dumps, nobody paid attention. Teasing it out was the only way to get the
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by forgottenpass 13y ago
I posted this because I find it interesting to see the perspective that gets packaged for readers outside the tech world. Like all journalists writing about an area you're familiar with, this will probably deviate slightly from your u
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Hackers vs. suits: Why nerds become leakers(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by forgottenpass 13y ago|1 comments
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The Problems with Managing Privacy by Asking and Giving Consent(schneier.com)
1 points by forgottenpass 13y ago|0 comments