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by goodplay 10y ago
Especially when hardware makers make money off it. I'll need to replace my phone soon, and I'll make an effort to buy something that doesn't use broadcom.
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by goodplay 10y ago
Until they white-list websites, you know, for your safety. Good citizens only use government-approved and microsoft-approved sites anyways.
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by goodplay 10y ago
>All other methods still exist. Still is the operative word. When people complained about UEFI preventing people from running their OS of choice, Microsoft mandated that x86 OEMs make it possible for users to unlock their systems. Fast f
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by goodplay 10y ago
If people are willing to accept restrictions on what can be obtained or sold on the store (falsely in that name of "safety"), what makes you think they wont accept restrictions on what websites they are allowed to load, or more li
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by goodplay 10y ago
What about using latency or throughput as a signal? What about tunneling data over seemingly normal pictures taken by said camera app? What about switching the "User Available online" indicators at a seemingly natural rate? What a
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by goodplay 10y ago
Checking LE's stats page, they've issued over 30M certificates. 15k (hell, even 150k) certs used for nefarious purposes are nothing compared to the public good they're doing. Also, LE did nothing wrong by issuing these certs
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by goodplay 10y ago
How does does this counter my point?
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by goodplay 10y ago
I generally agree, but intelligence groups have to first find the signal they want to monitor. Modern steganography techniques coupled with the free randomness you get from the physical world gives you much to work with. And that's ass
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by goodplay 10y ago
tools designed to directly cause destruction are not similar to tools designed to provide privacy.
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by goodplay 10y ago
The thing is, banning encryption to fight terrorism makes as much difference as banning knifes to fight murder. Encryption is simple enough (in theory at least) and prevalent enough that banning it will only stop legitimate usage (e.g. pers
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by goodplay 10y ago
Want to hear something creepier? I was looking to buy a car a couple of years ago, and was checking out a bunch of car dealerships that were adjacent to each other. Shortly after I decided to return home (or perhaps as I started to leave th
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by goodplay 10y ago
I Wonder how DRM anti-circumvention laws will mix with this; You have a locked-down device you use, depend on, and know is defective, but you are not allowed to hack the device to fix it.
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by goodplay 10y ago
This is my main gripe. You either have the evidence to put the defendant in jail or you don't. If you don't have enough evidence to support putting him in jail, you let him free. Innocence until proven guilty. I don't want
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by goodplay 10y ago
Guess the US government should do the same. You either play by the rules of the game, or don't play altogether.
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by goodplay 10y ago
Sitting directly in front of me are two moderately large encrypted hard drives the passwords for which I forgot. If I get a subpoena to produce their contents, I will potentially remain in jail of the rest of my life for the crime of being
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by goodplay 10y ago
>Windows is tragic in many respects, but proprietary incentives did speed up computer development early on whereas GPL has slowed things down, and been sidelined, again and again. The GPL is commonly cited as the reason why Linux is wher
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by goodplay 10y ago
More often than not, building and deploying is secondary for developers to writing the library itself, if that. Build scripts and installation don't get the same treatment and care the library does. The is one of the primary reasons wh
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by goodplay 10y ago
By that logic, Windows (for example) should also be open-sourced, because people will write an open source equivalent from scratch. Writing an operating system from scratch is an unnecessary and tragic waste of resources. So why not open so
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by goodplay 10y ago
How is this different from all the work being done to recreate open source versions of proprietary libraries?
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by goodplay 10y ago
Yeah, I agree. I also move to let sick people die if we can't verify that they have insurance coverage, and bar children from education if their parents can't pay (or if they are orphaned). I mean, screw poor people! Right?
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by goodplay 10y ago
You say this, but I've noticed "servalince-fetegue" on (surprisingly) non-tech people. I think the general populace are starting to wise up to what is happening; perhaps not on a large enough scale to effect anything, but it&
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by goodplay 10y ago
Nah, the owner wants to block scrappers. If a taxi company keeps getting screwed over by patrons of a given restaurant, the company should stop providing service for said patrons, seek compensation directly from the people who require their
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by goodplay 10y ago
I disagree that it is stealing because I never agreed (or wanted) to participate in this program. The site owner did. I'm under no obligation (moral or otherwise) to make honest contributions. If we wanted to continue with your analogy
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by goodplay 10y ago
No, I do not believe it is okay to take physical goods or receive services with no payment. I do however believe that people should be free to send and receive any information they wish, regardless of the wishes of the "owner" of
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by goodplay 10y ago
Their competence in restricting access to the information and preventing its decimation, I suppose.
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by goodplay 10y ago
Neither the host or google ask for money in exchange for their services. The profitability of their chosen business model is not my concern. If they want something in return, perhaps they should consider setting up a paywall.
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by goodplay 10y ago
I actually feed google false information (select rectangular objects when asked to select traffic signs, flat surfaces when asked for water surfaces, and so on). It'll probably be filtered out when aggregated with other users, but I li
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by goodplay 10y ago
For now. AMP is a PROXY/MITM service, with all the perks that come from being such a service. There is nothing stopping google ,or whatever company owns them after they become a Yahoo!, from changing their "policy" to better
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by goodplay 10y ago
Is there a recording of this discussion available online?
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by goodplay 10y ago
What guarantees do we have that the evidence has not been fabricated or planted? Evidence collection processes exists to minimize misconduct. If someone can't explain how the evidence has been obtained, they should be viewed as suspect

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