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by ghughes 9y ago
Is this the BBC's idea of journalism? An anonymous "IT veteran" emailed some pet theories to their top technology correspondent and he literally pasted it into an article with zero critical analysis or independent commentary.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Not necessarily: https://crypto.stanford.edu/adnostic/adnostic.pdf
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by ghughes 9y ago
> How are you going to recreate the main selling point of facebook, i.e. the Newsfeed ? When you post, the content is sent as an encrypted message that can only be decrypted by people who should be able to see it (either all of your fri
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by ghughes 9y ago
Both; there will be ads and the source will be publicly available, license TBD. Please get in touch, email is in my profile.
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by ghughes 9y ago
You're so close to what I am currently building that I feel like I have to chime in. I left Apple's security team a few months ago to go solo and build an app that is similar to Facebook/Instagram and Snapchat in terms of fun
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by ghughes 9y ago
Nothing will change until the law cracks down on this. The people who work on these systems are smart enough to comprehend the wider consequences, but they do it anyway because money. Without significant external pressure, there will always
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by ghughes 9y ago
If you have to replace words to interpret the statement correctly, then there is a problem with the statement, not the reader.
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by ghughes 9y ago
You hate to say it, yet you were able to ignore the substance of the article and say it anyway.
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by ghughes 9y ago
This links to a blog post that is mostly marketing fluff and quotes from fawning CTOs. Useful documentation and examples are here: http://ksonnet.heptio.com
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by ghughes 9y ago
Reporter decries company for prohibiting its employees from discussing company business with reporters.
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by ghughes 9y ago
This advice doesn't seem to be getting through regardless of how loudly it is proclaimed. Everyone should have a backup plan with multiple points of failure, but of course lots of people don't because it's not trivial to set
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by ghughes 9y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game. Amazon is to blame for this state of affairs.
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by ghughes 9y ago
> The best doesn't win, the easiest does. Exactly. Diaspora and its ilk miss this point entirely. If users have to set up their own infrastructure or even think about how it works then it's never going to scale.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Are you going to fix this? https://amphtml.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/image1.png
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by ghughes 9y ago
The maximum penalty for violating the GDPR is 4% of worldwide turnover. Possibly stupid question: I keep hearing that this is considered a "high" penalty, but if you're Google or Facebook and this (or any) regulation substant
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by ghughes 9y ago
It turns out that if you strip most of the JS bloat from a webpage and serve it from a fast CDN, the page loads way faster. Shocking stuff.
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by ghughes 9y ago
It's got nothing to do with the law. They're notifying third parties about people who they suspect of posting "offensive" content.
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by ghughes 9y ago
Above and beyond? This is a simple yet effective countermeasure that the content providers have likely insisted upon.
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by ghughes 9y ago
This will not stop until we get secure communication and collaboration tools into the hands of election campaign operatives.
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by ghughes 9y ago
I wrote a similar letter: https://medium.com/@flukes1/my-letter-to-amber-rudd-on-encry...
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by ghughes 9y ago
They already gave the data to Facebook, so I think that ship has sailed.
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by ghughes 9y ago
> Duckling is now used at scale internally by Facebook. I'm thrilled to hear that Facebook has a new toy for extracting structured data from vast quantities of text.
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by ghughes 10y ago
Whose fears, exactly? This is tabloid nonsense.
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by ghughes 10y ago
Any government employees who played a part in this outrageous attempted abuse of power should be removed from their position(s) of authority.
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by ghughes 10y ago
It'd be neat if there were an app for one-click deployment of OpenVPN using one's own AWS or Azure account. That would be much safer than picking from a list of shady VPN providers.
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by ghughes 10y ago
It's gimmicky. I prefer Signal's numeric encoding - easy to read aloud with no room for ambiguity.
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by ghughes 10y ago
I wrote a letter to Amber Rudd based in part on your comment: https://medium.com/@flukes1/my-letter-to-amber-rudd-on-encry...
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by ghughes 10y ago
Nope, there's a company in Shenzhen that makes a plug-and-play bypass device: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues...
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by ghughes 10y ago
Turns out it was important business information after all.
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by ghughes 10y ago
According to Bloomberg, veteran Waymo employees were paid "F-you money". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/one-reaso...

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