lazaroclapp

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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Sure, but as a society we (should?) also try to discourage business models that significantly harm society without benefiting it in any comparable way. Hitmen provide a value to their customers in exchange for money, doesn't mean we ne
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Sure, crypto is hard, but I don't think for the last 20 years or so we have been living in a world where the five countries (and one specially-administered territory) mentioned in the article as having received the software (China, Hon
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
I guess is an opportunistic encryption vs no-encryption scenario, since Snowden was sending his emails anonymously at that time there was no way for him to verify his identity to anyone. However, this was before there was any attention on h
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
"The frustrating and ironic thing about GPG is that even experts make mistakes with it. [...] in his first email to me, Snowden had forgotten to attach his key, which meant I could not encrypt my response. I had to send him an unencryp
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Nothing quite that dramatic. Oil in Mexico is nationalized and the only company that can actually extract oil within Mexican territory is PEMEX, which is a government owned company. Recent reforms allow private companies to perform many tas
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
I guess I was thinking about a unilateral intervention by a single country's army. UN peacekeepers are a different thing altogether, both the scope of the mission and the goals are usually very different. I don't have enough infor
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Just within Mexico? Without changing anything in the US? Not sure. It might not have any effect at all, or it might reduce violence because it diminishes the clashes of the cartels with the Mexican authorities. But, as far as I understand i
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
We have quite an amount of oil. But that oil will continue to be sold to the U.S. (and others) regardless of what happens with the cartels or to the people of Mexico (Short of a revolution, I suppose). In fact, in recent years, reforms have
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Maybe I am missing something here, but I didn't even know Samsung Knox did storage encryption. As far as I understand, the use case for this technology was isolating enterprise apps from user-installed/general apps. Given that, is
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Except I suspect many countries actually do without effective espionage or sabotage, if only because they lack the capability. I guess you can argue that many of these countries rely on allies who perform espionage and sabotage, thus benefi
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
Presumably, I could better my negotiation position on pretty much any deal by spying or sabotaging the other party. Say I am negotiating a salary offer from a company, having access to the CEO email and that of other key decision makers (ev
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by lazaroclapp 12y ago
I feel "willingly giving some [privacy] up" and "being incapable of even assessing one's level of privacy" are two very different conditions to be in.