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by ngneer 5y ago
What's the connection to technology? Why is this on HN?
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by ngneer 5y ago
As long as everyone is sharing stories, it was the late '90s in the bay area when I was in high school and poked around in our computer lab systems. Other than running Quake and Starcraft, which we were not supposed to do, it occured t
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by ngneer 5y ago
I am inclined to agree, and you are correct if you assume that I am male. But I would prefer to see the data. Without it, the first sentence of the abstract is unsubstantiated. "Tiny hidden spy cameras concealed in sensitive locations
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by ngneer 5y ago
That is a good question, and thanks for helping me to test the limits of my argument. I would say that voyeurism, like all crime, can be expected to follow a spatiotemporal probability cloud. Society does not accept folks peering into your
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by ngneer 5y ago
I see. Makes sense. Are such airbnb experiences common, though? Given other controls such as reviews, are they expected to be long lived? I could maybe see the harm caused to a few individuals, which is deplorable, but once a single extorti
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by ngneer 5y ago
That is not the best analogy, because I assume less risk at home than elsewhere. My question was about the threat, and since adversaries are not installing cameras in people's home your comment does not answer my question.
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by ngneer 5y ago
Of course, frequently. I must still be missing something. I have had zero extortion requests. My footage might be captured for private consumption by some perv, but where is the harm to me?
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by ngneer 5y ago
Could someone please help explain the threat? Are people being blackmailed with footage obtained of them? Is this occurring en masse?
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by ngneer 5y ago
Grim. Much nicer to go outside and enjoy creation. Facebook and Meta are no doubt austere in comparison. To quote Vonnegut, it is you who should be doing the becoming, not the damn fool computer.
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by ngneer 5y ago
Insightful analysis, though "oppressively deny" sounds harsh to me. There is not a blatant malice in TCG per se, mainly a neutral desire for control and by proxy profit. The treacherous versus trusted computing debate really does
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by ngneer 5y ago
Conan has been very useful to me
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by ngneer 5y ago
What is the ratio of consumers of child pornography to the population of iPhone users? In order of magnitude, is it 1%, 0.1%, 0.001%, 0.0001%? With all the press around the announcement, this is not exactly stealth technology. Wouldn't
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by ngneer 5y ago
Loved seeing language safety features called out. How can we prevent monoculture yet retain interoperability and profitability? Are these inherently at odds?
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by ngneer 5y ago
NSO == arms dealers, by their own admission. They did not create the market for digital arms, but successfully cater to it. No HN comment will change their business model. They benefit from the easy distribution of software twice. Once as a
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by ngneer 5y ago
"Secure" and "uneconomical" are generally equivalent. A door lock is an _economic_ instrument, that just happens to leverage the laws of physics in its operation. If the NSOs of the world are your enemy, and they are by
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by ngneer 5y ago
Well put. The market values features. With present system engineering approaches, the path of least resistance is to add complexity to enable said features and reap the financial rewards. It takes more effort to build smaller attack surface
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by ngneer 6y ago
All money has cost. How does Bitcoin cost compare to the cost of the mint and keeping dollars in circulation?
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by ngneer 6y ago
Money?
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by ngneer 6y ago
Sounds like TPL Dataflow
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On a related tangent, why is mmap() needed to begin with? Is it not an example of a leaky abstraction? I know, I know, how else would a process communicate its needs to the memory management system. I have seen shellcode that marks writeabl
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by ngneer 6y ago
That is what encryption is for. You only need to secure the voice until it can be encrypted. Worth noting that the feeling of privacy is a lot about perception. People feel better if they know those they see around them cannot hear their pr
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by ngneer 6y ago
Neat, but weird. Muzzleme is more like it.
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by ngneer 6y ago
I never said it would be easy, but you make a good point. Compensating based on other sets of ears would be tough, because their locations are unknown and change fast. Directional sound is possible to an extent, Woody Norris gave a TED talk
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by ngneer 6y ago
Is it quiet on the outside too?
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by ngneer 6y ago
Great post. Uncanny how much of it maps almost 1:1 to security, which is too an emergent property of a complex system.
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by ngneer 6y ago
Always great to see development in this domain. IWAENC and Silentium come to mind as the forefront. I hope one day the researchers will realize that they are trying to cancel the wrong source. Instead of cancelling noise external to the hum
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by ngneer 6y ago
"UTF-8 is not in the list of approved algorithms. You failed to meet your compliance requirement."
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by ngneer 6y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. You read my mind. I would be happy to devote 10 years (or a lifetime for that matter) to bring the fields to bear on one another, sounds super interesting. As others have already noted, most work at the &
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by ngneer 6y ago
Kudos for the fascinating article. Since you mentioned security, and the well known trick of sending an ambiguous message that is interpreted differently by different interpreters, I wonder what you might think of enlisting the hackers of t
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"These days, the company takes security extremely seriously. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find many nation states that have as sophisticated a security approach as Amazon does." Sounds like PR fluff. Maybe the crappy nati

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