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by kyboren 7y ago
Au contraire : More traffic benefits exactly those who need Tor's protection, because it grows the anonymity set. Your streaming innocuous porn over Tor helps to provide cover traffic for e.g. "gays in the middle east" stre
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by kyboren 7y ago
I'm fairly certain that @leoc was alluding to a "hostile takeover" of TSMC being part of a hostile takeover of Taiwan.
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by kyboren 7y ago
It is possible for a person to believe that both Joe and Paul, broadly speaking, do nasty things. On one hand, they have dealt with Joe for a long time and, while the relationship is far from perfect, they and Joe have a sort of understandi
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by kyboren 7y ago
Huawei is a nice example here: even Chinese SOEs are critically dependent upon US technology. It is just not possible to buy any modern workstation/desktop, laptop, or smartphone without exposure, as you put it, to "US counterpart
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by kyboren 7y ago
Actually, you can still get 2TB Samsung mSATA drives. The Samsung T5 and T3 external drives are just enclosures around mSATA parts.
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by kyboren 7y ago
There is definitely a phenomenon of checking for prohibited email domains. However, absent extra-functional motivations like user data collection, smart developers don't bother with heuristics for email addresses much beyond the prese
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by kyboren 7y ago
I assume Cadence, Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, Xilinx, Intel PSG, Microsemi, Lattice, and Qualcomm are also affected by the Huawei blacklist. Can Huawei survive without these critical components and EDA tools? If Huawei ignores the loss of l
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by kyboren 7y ago
This is crazy talk. > The US will enjoy the maximum military gap about 20 years from now and this will provide a huge incentive to perform a decapitation strike. Would this be palatable to the US population? Only if it can be demonstrate
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by kyboren 7y ago
>>> What danger do you foresee in your thought experiments? >> [example foreseen danger] > Has there been one incident of the scenario you've described? Don't shift the goal posts. You asked for a foreseen dange
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by kyboren 8y ago
Not only were China, USSR, and North Korea supplying MiGs, they were training pilots, providing logistical support, manning AAA batteries, and in the case of the North Korea, flying combat missions [1]. The point isn't necessarily to b
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by kyboren 8y ago
I think you're right. How can a 3-4 year old give meaningful consent to having her biometrics irrevocably recorded by one of the world's most aggressive and pernicious surveillance corporations? How fully did your kids understand
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by kyboren 8y ago
> Just as the daughter has the right to not share herself or her life on social media, I don't believe she has the right to demand approval of her mother's or sister's posts. A legal right? Absolutely not. A moral right?
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by kyboren 8y ago
I'm not sure how much that helps. That should prevent carriers from being told/trivially discovering your phone number, but your cell radio might still broadcast with your IMEI, which is at least as uniquely identifying. The best
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by kyboren 8y ago
Just like 6 months ago. I won't bother typing up my thoughts again and instead just copy/paste what I wrote before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17416804 > You should seriously consider [not carrying
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by kyboren 8y ago
"Sell your data" is the widely-accepted common term for the business model of a company that analyzes user data in unfathomable detail in order to charge advertiser Johns more money when that company pimps out their users' mi
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by kyboren 8y ago
A better title might be, "For Some Hackers, Anonymity Was Once Critical. Now, They're Corporate Sellouts."
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by kyboren 8y ago
Oh, of course. Google is actually really benign. They don't sell your data. They just automatically scrutinize it in unfathomable detail to make as much money as possible when they pimp you out to anybody else who wants to manipulat
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by kyboren 8y ago
You should seriously consider that once more. These carriers will use the narrowest possible interpretation of their statements. Historical location data appears to be fair game, and perhaps they'll just launch their own competing ser
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by kyboren 8y ago
I'm not sure it would have that effect. Such an action from China would almost certainly result in solidarity and coordinated action from basically the entire West. If others don't act, they're next. I also don't see h
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by kyboren 8y ago
I could not disagree more. Thankfully, the US Constitution is on my side and not yours. Anonymous speech is essential to public discourse and the "marketplace of ideas", precisely because it enables dissenting opinions to be voic
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by kyboren 8y ago
That means very little. As the UK is demonstrating, members can invoke Article 50, begin negotiations on the parameters of future relations, and exit. Luckily for the UK, the EU very much does not want the precedent of secession, which gi
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by kyboren 8y ago
I think that's a distinction without a difference. Facebook doesn't have engineers working on open source libraries because they want to do good in the world, and those other people working on scummy designs and dark patterns jus
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by kyboren 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_laundering
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by kyboren 8y ago
They can do that, although they would lose an incredible amount of money with that dumping. Further, this must be considered an act of warfare executed through financial means. What makes you think the following will be true? 1) The Fed w
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by kyboren 9y ago
I disagree. The notion of inserting the state as the primary social intermediary in our society scares the living daylights out of me. I do agree with your thesis that we need social platforms immune to arbitrary censorship, however. I thi
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by kyboren 9y ago
> I'm happy to trade some control over my phone for assurances that it will have an up-to-date OS that gets security updates in a timely manner. Unfortunately, you have things just about perfectly reversed. Using stock firmware on
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by kyboren 9y ago
> If there was a thumbprint on the paperwork and it was not Jamieson’s, it would be easy for him to prove as such. And, of course, it means anyone trying to get a loan in his name would have to give their own thumbprint. Would a fraudste
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by kyboren 9y ago
It helps detecting counterfeit blocks claiming some transactions never happened. More specifically, it provides confidence that some minimum amount of energy must have been used to calculate that hash. As blocks n+1, n+2, ... are added, th
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by kyboren 9y ago
Using that list, Cuba and North Korea immediately follow Bitcoin in energy consumption. Cuba or North Korea alone could never hope to gain control of the network: they could not supply enough power even if they redirected everything to mal
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by kyboren 9y ago
PSA: if you want to provide remote access to a local service, but don't want the potentially-terrifying security implications, use Tor Authenticated Onion Services (AKA "HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient" [0]). On a machine on the

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