mdhardeman

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by mdhardeman 7y ago
I think one of the great signals of good ethical behavior is the person who'll refuse to build a thing that they know should not exist, even when offered a great reward if they'll do so.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
One thing I've noticed about far too many people in tech is that they all seem to believe that those not in tech are stupid. Many of them are not stupid. On average, half of them are above average. They're just uninformed and bu
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
I'm convinced the parents of the US, and in turn broad bipartisan support, could get behind some sane legislation on this stuff if a massive dump like the New York Times one were deanonymized and focused on kids.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
It's not their fault they're exploiting a system that allows what they are doing. They're not good people, but if it weren't this set of people, another would take their place. The world is rife with opportunity for peo
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
Doesn't help at all. Privacy of varying levels is and has been a functional requirement for smooth working of free society. Economic disparities make the impact of lower levels of overall societal privacy have a disproportionate negati
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
This is a non-starter for achieving the end result. There's enough of a delta in both the money paid for online advertising of a target nature and in the better results that yields for the advertisers for them to fund a very rapid turn
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
Precisely. And then extend it further. Make advertisers responsible for the behavior of the ad marketplaces, ad tech, ad venues they're paying. Make their only defense be cooperation in prosecuting the offending party.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
The way to criminalize it properly is to create a presumption of criminal activity when an advertiser benefits from ad targeting. Literally anything more than the advertiser choosing what sites to appear on should be made criminal. No oth
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
They don't care. Until you can show them you know how often they're on Grindr and where their tricks live. Or that they got a prescription filled. For Valtrex. What would be helpful -- but that I am adamantly against -- would be
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
Civilized societies don't tolerate "vampires" and cannibals walking among them (or lording from on high). They eliminate them. Eventually the people will wake up.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
I have been a Wacom customer for years. I'm not a graphic artist, but I hate mouse cords and hate having to recharge mice or deal with batteries. So a series of Wacom "puck" mice on one (over the years, several) of their digi
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
The Work Number's entire sales pitch is... "We'll accept the data from you for free. You can give our our number and website to anyone who calls into your HR looking for employment reference, employment verification, etc. W
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
What we actually need in a practical sense is Kindle Unlimited but for web content. And furthermore it could be a plurality of those kinds of providers aggregating content. Deploy single-sign-on schemes, and websites might participate in a
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
There are two troubles: 1. The uplift of targeted advertising is unbelievable until you see the actual statistics. It's like slowly sipping a cup of coffee to wake up versus waking up to snort a line of crack. 2. Advertisers were ab
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
The entire targeted ad model has to die. As in, being a beneficent party of a targeted ad campaign becomes a presumption of criminal activity. We have to make the advertisers culpable for the behavior of the companies serving up their ads.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
s/limited lifespan feel powerful and rich/limited lifespan powerful and rich/ It's a whole attitude. They're aware of their limited lifespan and intend to either buy their way into more and better lifespan (if poss
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
I'm only one voice, but for my part, I am willing to forego the advancements that may come to medicine via this route. The societal costs of surveillance capitalism are only just starting to appear, and it's going to get so much w
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
Totally separate problem that I agree needs to be fixed. In reality, being one BGP trick away from a mere dedicated individual or corporate owning certs for your domain is an actual risk today.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
"Sufficiently clever" has historically been more expensive than difficult. For example, in order to scale less expensively, the Great Firewall is architected such that it need not actively be in the middle of the entire flow of tr
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
Except they are a new problem when the use of them is mandated by a nation-state.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
You've elegantly stated my point precisely. Thank you!
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
No disagreement here. What's being done is despicable. Rather than death, if we look at the history of oppressive societies, the more likely outcome is a job offer, the kind they won't let you refuse but they'll make it so y
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
We have E-SNI now, where SNI is encrypted. And you have DoH providers who'll use that. And then massive CDNs will start to support it. Some of them might even enable it, with encrypted SNI, on _every single listener on all of their IP
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
This is both uncomfortable and correct.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
That's fair, but the country doing this will just fork an open-source browser and make it their official browser.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
If they're scrutinizing you closely, I would not trust my life to it. If the hash of the cat gifs you're exchanging is different from others, eventually there's going to be too much or too little entropy in those pixels and
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
I'll be 40 years old later this year. I've been interested in communications and communications protocols since I was about 12. I've been a software developer with a focus on network communications for over 15 years. I&#x27
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
And there would be no point in doing so anyway. Chrome, etc., require that certificates which descend from publicly trusted roots have their certificates published in certificate transparency logs. Someone would quickly notice bogus certs
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
This will _not_ be good. To the extent that Kazakhstan succeeds with this, it will only make other governments jealous of the capability and want it for themselves.
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by mdhardeman 7y ago
Modern browsers require that leaf certificates which are issued in a chain which descends from a built in publicly trusted root include "certificate transparency" information. This means that the certificate has been published in

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