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by maltalex 9y ago
> it's fair to say that not much was needed to shift the results of the elections. Yes, the Russians contributed to that shift, but that's the small picture. How did we even get to a point in which Trump is so close to being el
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by maltalex 9y ago
As heinous and improper this may be, I feel like "The Russians" are being used as a simple answer for Trump's election. Yes, it seems that they played a role, but was it a key role? Would have the elections gone to Hilary oth
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by maltalex 9y ago
> HTTPS, certificate pinning, no hardocded backdoors, and per-device random initial passwords would probably be a huge boon That's what I meant by check-mark security. Yes, it is better than nothing, and by all means let's do t
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by maltalex 9y ago
I'm sorry, I don't understand. Who's going to update the firmware in your light bulbs using a patched open source version of the manufacturer's code? Edit: > it's not generally that hard to flash devices that sup
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by maltalex 9y ago
> In my opinion you should be liable for any such danger you pose to others with the ability to shift that liability to whoever sold you source of such danger while assuring you that it is safe. Right. So you, the little guy, is going t
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by maltalex 9y ago
You're right, and perhaps ideally we should have a mix of both accountability and certification. I don't know who could or would sue TiVo for the attack, and I don't know how to solve the problem of out of business companies.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> opening the source code once security updates for the device stop, so consumers could help themselves That might help the readers of HN, but not users in general. Most users won't bother installing security updates for their PC if
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by maltalex 9y ago
I don't think that government certification is the answer here. This will turn security into a check-mark. Companies will do the bare minimum to get certified and won't invest a penny more. This would solve some of the more extrem
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by maltalex 9y ago
Have you met users?
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by maltalex 9y ago
Same reason it's illegal to drive a car that's not certified for roads or build a building that don't meet safety standards. You have a right to pose a danger to yourself. You don't have a right to pose a danger to other
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by maltalex 9y ago
This makes no sense to me. Most candidates aren't unemployed; they're switching jobs. Leaving a job they don't like, or looking for an upgrade. Many have to be persuaded to leave their current employer. If I were thinking abo
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by maltalex 9y ago
Beyond the tech, it brings a somewhat famous person, which is not to be underestimated. Hype is important, it makes this coin pop out a little bit more than some of the others competing for the same mind share.
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Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack DNA(scientificamerican.com)
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by maltalex 9y ago
> If you have the ability to modify the check why not make it actually look like it’s for a 1000000 dollars (ie even to a human). Humans are harder to fool. But some bank apps allow you to deposit a check by photographing it. Such apps w
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by maltalex 9y ago
> this shows the human mind is not an ML algorithm. not necessarily. Humans have a lot more knowledge about contextual information that today's ML often misses. For every "image" you classify you use a LOT of side data. Th
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by maltalex 9y ago
> a sufficiently advanced amount of data and analysis will be indistinguishable from surveillance. What’s surveillance if not “sufficently advanced amount of data”? They’re indistinguishable becaus they are the same. Facebook isn’t “coll
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by maltalex 9y ago
What changes if the company is large and it downsizes instead of going bankrupt?
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by maltalex 9y ago
Ok, so it's not 100% private. But still, no one knows who you've contributed to, and how much. Heck, no one even knows whether you've contributed anything at all; maybe you just ran your washing machine. As far as passing mon
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by maltalex 9y ago
Although outraged by the idea at first, I have to say that there are some benefits here: 0. This starves the advertising industry, which has insatiable apatite for private information, and questionable practices of obtaining it. 1. Payment
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by maltalex 9y ago
> The feature, which is now documented on the Windows Dev Center lets developers easily prioritize a game as a protected process, cutting off some of the most common cheating methods by essentially preventing outside programs from lookin
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Windows now includes gaming cheat detection at the system level(arstechnica.com)
4 points by maltalex 9y ago|1 comments
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by maltalex 9y ago
I suggest you take a look at RxJava and Akka. RxJava is a reactive programming library from Netflix. Akka is a framework for writing applications using the actor model.
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by maltalex 9y ago
TL;DR - USB-C is a connector and not all ports/cables/hubs support all of its features and modes. So not everything that can be connected using a USB-C will work the same way, or even at all. - Due to their potential bandwidth dem
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New bill would end Native American “sovereign immunity” for patents(arstechnica.com)
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by maltalex 9y ago
This all seems to revolve around less than 100,000$ woth of ads, not a multi million dollar campaign. How much exposure can this amount really buy?
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Voronezh – The 10,000KM (6,213 Mile) Russian early warning radar(en.wikipedia.org)
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Statements like that, while powerful are dangerous as they turn into baseball bats for people to hit each other with. I love that analogy. I see it again and again with so many of the "classics" - phrases like "premature
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Why do so many companies use public information for security questions? Why do so many companies store passwords in plain text, have an 8 character password limit and/or don't bother patching their machines?
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by maltalex 9y ago
> No cable twiddling required. But charging is.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> when you sell a billion devices and the little jack costs a buck a device you just made yourself a billion dollars for nothing You're looking at it the wrong way. It's not the money you save; it's the money you make by s

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