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by jdp23 8y ago
True. Still, I agree with the GP poster: very little has changed as a result. The USA Freedom Act had some improvements but also made some things worse; FISA Section 702 was renewed without significant changes in early 2018. Before Snowde
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by jdp23 8y ago
There was a software tools company in the 1990s that got up to Series AA. I remember thinking "please don't let this ever happen to my startup".
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by jdp23 8y ago
Here's an excellent interview with Maria Ressa (by Kara Swisher) from late last year that gives some context. https://www.recode.net/2018/11/26/18111859/maria-ressa-rappl...
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by jdp23 8y ago
Great comment! One thing I'd add: > until we minimize our personal and systemic biases and disparities, we can't hope to use our fancy mathematical models to minimize them for us. And as long as technologists are in denial ab
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by jdp23 8y ago
Yeah really! There's plenty of evidence that medicine today has deeply embedded biases. Disparities in Black maternal health outcomes have been thoroughly covered in the literature and even mainstream media. On the other hand there&#x
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by jdp23 8y ago
Yikes. A release in November introduced an API bug that was active for about 6 days, impacting 52.5 million users. * With respect to this API, apps that requested permission to view profile information that a user had added to their Google
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by jdp23 8y ago
This was a really great response, thanks so much!
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Google Walkout Organizers Explain Their Demands(thecut.com)
10 points by jdp23 8y ago|2 comments
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by jdp23 8y ago
A lot of these machines are ancient, so quite possibly of that vintage. And yeah, in general you're very right not to have any confidence.
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by jdp23 8y ago
Oh if only there were an alternative C-like language that could guarantee memory safety!
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by jdp23 8y ago
Right. Nate Lawson has some thoughts on why at https://rdist.root.org/2010/05/03/why-buffer-overflow-exploi... and https://rdist.root.org/2010/05/05/why-buffer-overflow-exploi.
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by jdp23 8y ago
That's how I remember it too - demystifying an arcane technique.
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by jdp23 8y ago
Much of the early work on buffer overrun exploitation was published in Phrack. The article Brandon Baker and I did for IEEE Security and Privacy had a sidebar on "Nontraditional literature on buffer overruns" that's got some
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by jdp23 8y ago
The main focus of the story is actually on the "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man" art exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/burning-man
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by jdp23 8y ago
From the TokTok site (which is linked to from Tox): "Neither the Tox protocol nor the implementation have undergone peer review, and its exact security properties and network behaviour are not well-understood, yet. We are actively work
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by jdp23 8y ago
Agreed - with better and lower-cost tooling the tradeoffs get steadily more appealing. Back in 2005ish I put together a panel with Kent Beck of extreme programming fame and Martyn Thomas of Praxis, which was doing commercial development usi
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by jdp23 8y ago
But no, based on the responses here it turns out that not all HN commenters know it yet - some are still playing semantic games and excusing Facebook's lies and exploitation.
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by jdp23 8y ago
Great answer. It sounds like this was very much the right call for Matrix.
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by jdp23 8y ago
Great point about electing politicians who understand technology. Shahid Buttar (who's running for Congress in SF) talked about this in a short video last week - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94IC5JVA_MU
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by jdp23 8y ago
It appears that many people on Hacker News don't like the idea of politicians knowledgeable enough to counter bad behavior by tech companies. It's pretty entertaining when Senators ask stupid questions during the Facebook hearing
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by jdp23 8y ago
Good summary!
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Reddit AMA with Shahid Buttar, on Leave from EFF and Running for Congress in SF(reddit.com)
6 points by jdp23 8y ago|1 comments
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by jdp23 9y ago
An even better way to avoid it: don't use Uber.
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by jdp23 9y ago
Well said. Social networks don't have to have an exploitative business model; Facebook and Twitter aren't the only possible models.
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by jdp23 9y ago
Yeah really! cperciva had a great tweet on this a few days ago: "Probably the most important thing to keep in mind when reading the FreeBSD Code of Conduct is that we weren't trying to change any rules. Rather, we were trying to
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by jdp23 9y ago
Mike Godwin, who worked with Barlow at EFF back in the day, talked briefly about the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace in a recent essay: "Barlow, best known prior to his co-founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a s
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by jdp23 9y ago
Exactly right! I was about to say something similar but you phrased it much better than I would have :)
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Trump may deport thousands of Indian H-1B visa holders waiting for green cards(qz.com)
5 points by jdp23 9y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 9y ago
Thanks for getting involved! And you're completely right: Republicans have been treating North Carolina (and Wisconsin) as a lab and prototype for testing out attacks on democracy.
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Can they successfully raise money at a huge valuation with that case unsettled, news that they (almost-certainly-illegally) hid a data breach, a potential class-action lawsuit about sexual assault by their drivers, a business model that sho

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