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by jflatow 10y ago
I was about to post the same sentiment re: smoking. Given that we see this type of behavior in all industries (not just tech), it seems to me it's actually a systemic problem. People / organizations are incentivized universally to
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The Government’s Hacking Powers Are About to Grow Exponentially(aclu.org)
2 points by jflatow 10y ago|0 comments
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The government will dramatically expand surveillance powers unless Congress acts(medium.com)
3 points by jflatow 10y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 10y ago
And who is 'everyone'? Who decides who the next iteration of 'everyone' is?
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by jflatow 10y ago
What's the benefit of being 'completely decentralized', if the individual joining the network still needs to decide which network and set of rules to trust? Answer: none, you've just pushed the question of trust / c
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by jflatow 10y ago
I tend to bite my nails, especially when I'm programming or deep in thought. Last year I decided to start walking whenever I reach that point where I am fidgeting and can't sit still. It's totally changed the way I work for t
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by jflatow 10y ago
No, it's far more than two devices, and it went on for 10 months. They placed surveillance all around the 2 courthouses: light fixtures, a bus stop, bushes, poles, the steps, and inside several vehicles. And there's another simila
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by jflatow 10y ago
No, they never stop. 21st century governments use secrecy to avoid having to deal with the public. And they use national security to justify secrecy. Sometimes they screw up, or there's a leak (like with TTIP), but for the most part we
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by jflatow 10y ago
The original point was that people should fear corporations more than the government, because the government is the instrument of the people, whereas corporations have other less savory motives. But its not true - the government is not to b
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by jflatow 10y ago
What Clinton tells her is not what Clinton actually does. Campaign promises are exactly that. The government lies to your mom to get her support and 'keep her in line'.
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by jflatow 10y ago
Perhaps you are mistaking the ideal government from the actual government. Governments are repeat offenders, and they lie to the public constantly. Its no secret - look it up. Yet they are so powerful, that it happens anyway. Its also no se
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by jflatow 10y ago
It's also eerily reminiscent of the Stasi era. Just take a trip to the Stasi museum next time you are Berlin and perhaps you'll freak out a little too. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015&#x2
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by jflatow 10y ago
What makes you think you could do that? Given your stance, I suppose you would be OK with censorship too, assuming it was monitored by a soft paternalistic AI intended only to 'protect' people? Unfortunately we don't have any
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by jflatow 10y ago
The government is not your parent. The government lies to the public constantly, and has an agenda that is largely determined by financial interests.
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by jflatow 10y ago
Yes. We are told these measures are taken to protect our national security, but in reality they are meant to protect the government. Take the ongoing incident with Hillary Clinton's email server, for example. Clinton was quick to suppo
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by jflatow 10y ago
Secrecy is one of the government's greatest powers. Unchecked, they try to classify anything and everything.
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by jflatow 10y ago
EDIT: What I failed to realize is that unlike other content, in the case of DRM, publishers do not even trust the user. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11680863
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by jflatow 10y ago
That would be consistent, and relates to the main question I have: Why does the CDM need to be a blackbox? Couldn't the decryption be standardized with all proprietary information boiling down to secret license keys?
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by jflatow 10y ago
We know that this is something the publisher's want. That doesn't mean CDM functionality can't be standardized. It doesn't need to be a black box, and you don't need to trust the client any more than you trust the u
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by jflatow 10y ago
Well, historically all those mechanisms have been problems for the open web. To me, the question is why you couldn't achieve the same thing without making the CDM a blackbox, e.g. just by issuing license keys and standardizing the encr
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by jflatow 10y ago
Yes I think it works like this: publisher decides CDM, and EME describes a standard interface for all CDMs. The trick, which EFF points out, is that CDMs are allowed to be blackboxes, and publishers can create their own and distribute them
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by jflatow 10y ago
I'm afraid I don't know the history of it well enough to give a good answer, but IIUC what the EFF is claiming here is that CDMs are (potentially proprietary) blackboxes and that EME treats them as such. Therefore, publishers are
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by jflatow 10y ago
I think the point is that to consume any particular piece of content, the publisher decides which CDM is appropriate, which effectively lets them decide who (which browser) can consume their content.
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by jflatow 10y ago
The parties which provide the content, often the one's who create it but not always. As opposed to the browser vendor, or the consumer (browser user).
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by jflatow 10y ago
I think I agree with you, but the EFF raises some good questions. If content producers have this kind of control, how do you ever create a new browser? And can users really choose their browser if the major publishers have that much control
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by jflatow 10y ago
> This system, "Encrypted Media Extensions" (EME) uses standards-defined code to funnel video into a proprietary container called a "Content Decryption Module." For a new browser to support this new video streaming st
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by jflatow 10y ago
Perhaps it just means you are 40% aligned with the nexus of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism
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by jflatow 11y ago
Yeah, the ellipsis is clearer but has a hard time standing on its own. I had no idea this was making waves in the design community. And while I don't necessarily agree with the complaints, I recall that when I first started seeing hamb
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Secure Shell for Your Erlang (or Elixir) Node(erlang-solutions.com)
10 points by jflatow 11y ago|0 comments
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by jflatow 11y ago
I plan to use this too. It's weirdly inspiring to see how quickly this came together, how much support its getting, and how the bitter HN community energy can be harnessed towards a constructive solution to a problem.

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