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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
To clarify, I know you may not have said "no one can" but plenty of other HN commenters are saying exactly that on a regular basis. Thank you for refraining from repeating this absurd hyperbole. C programs are not inherently smal
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"People like to ..." Perhaps the reason people question these complicated things is because they are, whether intentionally or not, being marketed to an audience on HN that includes small scale non-enterprise users. I shall paraph
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
AFAIK, it neiher was nor is common to serve the USPS with subpoenas or warrants in order to read someone's snail mail. In fact, I am not even sure there is an analogy with snail mail. How many people expected their mail to be read be
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
People will "disagree" and, IMO, that is why we have laws. To resolve the "moral ambiguity" that some folks have. A system of laws is not a perfect, mind you, but, IMO, its better than nothing. When there are debates
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
I think you misunderstood. I am not insisting anything about security keys (physical tokens) requiring escalating amounts of personal information. I am referring to "two-factor authentication" as it is promoted by "tech&quo
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Whereas saying "no one can write C without bugs" over and over is a good argument. Its hyperbole. If the argument was "few people can write C without bugs" that would be much easier to digest.
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Here is one way to look at the issue. In business, when we negotiate an agreement with a business partner, if it is sufficently-sized, we (our lawyers) may include all manner of protections against potential liabilities or losses resulting
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
But you just did. :)
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Who created that "problem we are trying to solve". It wasn't the user. If the solution to the "problem" is giving increasingly more personal information to a tech company, that's not a great solution, IMO. Ar
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
I think you are misattributing the source of Heartbleed. Can you point out the security issues in NaCl. It is written in C. According to this "no one can write C" logic, there must be bugs because "no one can write C"
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
They want more data/information. Today it is two factors. Tomorrow it will be three. You love your Big Tech. I get it. But personal attacks are not cool. Keep it civil, please.
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
All I am suggesting is that "hacker" as used by the Ars author could be a company, or backed by a company, and not necessarily a "nation-state". That is not far-fetched at all, IMO. The article makes it sound like &quo
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Guess who is "rolling your crypto" for you. The same guy who is the subject of your "fallacious benchmark". He writes in C. The problem with software is not the languages (seems a new one is created every month), it i
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
This thread devolved into a debate over C versus Rust or other memory-safe languages. 1. Blaming the language instead of the programmer will not lead to improved program quality. 2. C will always be available as a user's language. Use
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"But it's totally legitimate if that's your threat model." Not mine. I have no plans to purchase a security key from Google. I have no threat model. Nothing in the comment you replied to mentioned "trust" but
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
From the Ars reference: "There are some steep hurdles to clear for an attack to be successful. A hacker would first have to steal a target's account password and also gain covert possession of the physical key for as many as 10 ho
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"An entirely separate area is surveillance and detection: Apple already performs some remote telemetry to detect processes doing weird things. This kind of telemetry could be expanded as much as possible while not destroying user priva
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
I remember reading stories in the late 90's/early 00's of workers in the Amazon warehouse becoming millionaires thanks to stock options and big jumps in the stock price. It sounds like that does not happen anymore except for
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
As the ad tech person interviewed in the article called it, "privacywashing" (as in "greenwashing" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_washing ).
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Locked down devices. Then making more money from selling subscriptions, developer certificates, running "app stores", advertising services, etc. To get the full functionality from the device, it is difficult to avoid obtaining an
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2018/05/04/a... https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-data-collection-stored-r... https://www.apple.com/legal
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Progress. What would be neat is to see how much data Apple is collecting about its customers after purchase. Why wouldnt we want to know this. Could Apple provide option to hide true email address, tell app do not track and give visibili
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
"There is a lot of bluffing when it comes to cyber security." I wish this topic received more discussion.
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26817958/ Another line of research would be PBMs (Pharmacy Benefit Managers). These are another primary means through which drug prices are manipulated by Big Pharma, away from public s
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
""Big Pharma" in the eyes of the public..." What the public does not see is how the patent system is gamed by generic sellers. How this works is not something that can be easily explained in a single paragraph. The prob
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Is it fscked for physicians and various healthcare professionals (e.g., paid higher wages than other countries with different systems). Is it also fscked for wealthy patients who do not really care about costs.
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Interesting idea. I had a similar idea for HN comments. (@dang: take note.) Impose a delay from the point when a person first makes an HTTP request for a thread, i.e., first reads a thread, before they are allowed to comment in it. This
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Looks like they removed auto-updates or at least automatic checking for updates. I think that's pretty neat. As the in other comments, this is an advantage of open source. Things can be removed. I only wish this was more common amo
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by o8r3oFTZPE 5y ago
Do you like the name better than "Chrome"? If someone says "I use Chrome" what does than mean to you? Just curious. Perhaps some websites do not make use of all the standards, thus browsers do not need support for all th

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