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by loteck 5y ago
If Dan is right (and I think he is), have a stiff drink nearby and then think about how his point applies to something complicated that is life and death, such as conveying information to the public about a rampant virus.
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by loteck 5y ago
Ironically, this criticism is addressed as a nuance in his post.
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The Spy Next Door(stopspying.org)
2 points by loteck 5y ago|0 comments
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by loteck 5y ago
fewer people are literate in Massachusetts now than when it was founded I'm also sensing we may be having some trouble in the math department.
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by loteck 5y ago
I think you've expressed a US-centric perspective, where the US leads the world and the world reacts. The rest of the world is advancing privacy legislation and making it difficult to do business in jurisdictions that don't enforc
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by loteck 5y ago
I'm suggesting that folks not interested in following the developing activism around privacy instead follow Wyden's work on this as their primary source of information, so that they can be aware of the best work going on and have
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by loteck 5y ago
Despite the day to day situation in congress, it seems inevitable that in the short to mid term, the US will have to stand up new privacy legislation in order to maintain participation in the digital economy. The question will be how they d
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University of California ditches any tests for undergraduate admissions(calmatters.org)
7 points by loteck 5y ago|1 comments
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by loteck 5y ago
I'd welcome a sincere discussion regarding how to fix public records laws that are designed to be unrealistic and waste the maximum amount of time and effort for both the requester and the public agency. We would all like the maximum
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End Amazon’s Surveillance Partnership with Police(endringpartnerships.com)
175 points by loteck 5y ago|90 comments
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Boston City Council unanimously approves surveillance technology oversight law(bostonglobe.com)
5 points by loteck 5y ago|0 comments
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by loteck 5y ago
Eager, but not "too." Reading this site I see very little interest from developers in professionalizing their industry. That would require standards bodies, licensing, and many other layers of management and cruft. Personally, I&#
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by loteck 5y ago
Right, the new factor is working fine, but instead of providing authentication, it's being used to merely attest to the validity of an additionally provided randomized knowledge factor, which is what gets actually for used for authenti
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by loteck 5y ago
It is something you have, until it is automatically downgraded to something you know. I could create all manner of elaborate schemes that involve tokens and biometrics and geolocation, but if that scheme simply produces a one-time code for
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by loteck 5y ago
But you yourself don't know the code on the hardware token, nor do you yourself know the information gathering, encoding or decoding for biometric information. Those are still pieces of information, but they aren't "something
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by loteck 5y ago
I get a lot of eye rolling when I go around pointing out that one-time codes are not, by definition, multi-factor auth. Google and some other services properly refer to this auth method as "two-step verification." Something you kn
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by loteck 5y ago
You shouldn't be downvoted. There is so much apathy with regards to "bad news" like this. So many people feel this way: "if I can't meaningfully participate in improving this societal ill, I would prefer to ignore i
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by loteck 5y ago
By procrastination, really.
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by loteck 5y ago
Wear a mask? They have several benefits currently.
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by loteck 5y ago
Coming from a distant background in IT audit for a national accounting firm. Audit reports like SOX and SSAE 16 that tie back to financial risk can be more staid, because of the legal risk to both the auditor and auditee. Even though it app
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by loteck 5y ago
Choice quote: Our study of ShotSpotter data is not about technological accuracy, it’s about operational value,” said Deputy Inspector General for Public Safety Deborah Witzburg. “If the Department is to continue to invest in technology whi
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Chicago IG finds that Shotspotter alerts rarely lead to evidence of gun crime(igchicago.org)
4 points by loteck 5y ago|1 comments
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by loteck 5y ago
Cameras with facial and gait recognition everywhere you go Some cities have brought these technologies under oversight. The technologies themselves aren't inherently harmful, their misuse is. Credit cards that track your spending an
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by loteck 5y ago
Sorry you're being downvoted. I'd much rather have a conversation, in which I would point out that literally all bad things that happen are "completely fictional" until they actually happen. Imagining how bad things are
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by loteck 5y ago
Have an upvote. flatiron is describing a perpetual and insidious issue with activism: many people believe that speaking out on a controversial issue will mean they will be tied to the worst extremes that could follow from the opinions they
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by loteck 5y ago
I like that you're in a thread about Apple asking employees to straight up merge their personal data into a corporate-owned account and your response is "Phew, at least they didn't ask you to install MDM!"
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by loteck 5y ago
Goodness. Vaccine rates in the U.S. are stalling at 60%. Now the plan is to do booster shots after 8 months. What do you think is going to happen to those rates with the first booster? The second? Vaccines are great. Therapies are also grea
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by loteck 5y ago
If we had effective treatments and OTC therapies for this illness, the pressure to vaccinate against every resurgence and new mutation would basically disappear. With so much social difficulty with vaccines, this seems like the most likely
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by loteck 5y ago
Not a coder, but had similar feelings back in 2017. Didn't see a realistic path to full-time employment that checked all the boxes. What I did was started my own "group," aligned my group with the EFF'S Alliance, and sta
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by loteck 5y ago
Not downvoting you, since this is a common sentiment. But how is this comment helpful? OP has asked for help defending themselves and you've offered "Surrender".

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