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by p01926 11y ago
Why 9? It's spookily reminiscent of the "Nine Eyes" organisation who're the Orwellian bad guys in the latest Bond film, but I see no technical reason the keys cannot be split between 8 or 10 parties. And how much more se
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Apple calls on UK government to scale back snooper's charter(theguardian.com)
2 points by p01926 11y ago|0 comments
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Cyber-security: The terrorist in the data(economist.com)
4 points by p01926 11y ago|0 comments
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by p01926 11y ago
This is like in WWII, when Churchill and Turing gave so many newspaper interviews re: how awful it was they couldn't crack Hitler's encryption anymore that he finally gave in, went back to the 3-rotor Enigma machines and we won th
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by p01926 11y ago
Think about what happens when you hit theverge.com: 40-odd requests sent sites you've never heard of. So-called internet connection records are a huge mess of noise even without considering obfuscation. It is trivial for anyone to embe
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by p01926 11y ago
The London Times got a guided tour of a the once-secret UK intelligence headquarters and left behind their journalistic integrity. They are being used to disseminate propaganda ahead of the introduction of draconian surveillance legislation
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For your eyes only: The Times goes inside GCHQ(thetimes.co.uk)
2 points by p01926 11y ago|2 comments
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by p01926 11y ago
It's pretty staggering that the FBI and gov.uk should choose now — a time of daily, massive security breaches dominating the headlines — to have the "your security is too good" conversation with tech companies. And, compared
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by p01926 11y ago
But if, over the course of a year, self-driving cars are shown to be even a smidgen safer than manual cars, they are undeniably superior — even if assigning responsibility is a bit more complex. I agree that emotional detachment concerning
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by p01926 11y ago
The Economist describes open-source lisense liability terms as "untenable".
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Embedded computers: Hacking the planet(economist.com)
1 points by p01926 11y ago|1 comments
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by p01926 11y ago
Would anybody like to predict and defend a probability above 0.00 that gov.uk will be able to meaningfully impede my ability use cryptography by 2020? Obviously politician's rhetoric, and to a large extent the law, have become unhinged
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NSA spying: France 'will not tolerate' threat to security(bbc.com)
93 points by p01926 11y ago|69 comments
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by p01926 11y ago
Just assume for one second this is a genuine revelation and not recycled propaganda from mid 2013. Couldn't someone entrusted with the Snowden cache just dump it online now? If the trove is already circulating between hostile intellige
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UK police requests to access phone calls or emails are granted 93% of the time(theguardian.com)
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by p01926 11y ago
"we need [tech firms to do] everything possible to stop their technology being exploited by terrorists" Such absolutism is foolish. The only way to guarantee technology cannot be used by terrorists is to never invent any technolog
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by p01926 12y ago
If the FBI wanted car manufacturers to design seat belts and airbags with murderers and rapists in mind, it wouldn't have taken months of debate to reject the idea. Just because we've entered the domains math and CS, we get months
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by p01926 12y ago
How much longer can this continue? We have American agencies attacking American companies "because terrorism". It's been 13 years since our trauma, maybe now's the time to remove the razor blade from our wrists, look our
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by p01926 12y ago
This Hawking-lead AI panic references the European colonial genocide of indigenous peoples as an analogy for how groups with different intelligences interact. As such, it is hideously offensive. Colonials and the indigenous peoples they sla
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Terrorists should be 'eliminated', says Apple's Tim Cook(telegraph.co.uk)
5 points by p01926 12y ago|2 comments
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by p01926 12y ago
If the "greatest threat to humanity" is something everybody agrees neither exists nor is imminently about to be created, we are pretty lucky. I wish that were the case, but it clearly isn't. But what I absolutely don't u
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by p01926 12y ago
Every type cannabis has been banned since its existence became known to the general public; a decision that took all of five minutes to debate in parliament. What those caring commentators are really suggesting is that cannabis users suffer
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by p01926 12y ago
Obviously this "chaff bot" will need to copy your user agent string and tracking cookies. It'd also need to behave exactly like a web browser in every way that can be detected. But is chaffing itself a good idea?
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by p01926 12y ago
I'd like to suggest another tool for fighting mass surveillance: mass chaffing. Most of the time our internet connections are idle. And when they aren't, we very rarely use all our bandwidth. What if, instead, we each used a small
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by p01926 12y ago
While certainly not a magic bullet, zero-knowledge systems are our best last line of defence against zero-day exploits. As the author is the CEO of the company that issued the infamous "Heartbleed Challenge", he should acknowledge
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by p01926 12y ago
'Patriots' is an interesting word in this context. I say giving foreign intelligence agencies access to your customer's private communications is treason.
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Secret US cybersecurity report: encryption vital to protect private data(theguardian.com)
4 points by p01926 12y ago|0 comments
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by p01926 12y ago
Shame on you, The Economist. They say spies must be able to spy. But if spies rely on terrorists voluntarily using breakable codes, this principle doesn't count for much. All you can achieve is making the rest of us vulnerable to hacke
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Economist: Counter-terrorism, Going dark(economist.com)
2 points by p01926 12y ago|1 comments
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by p01926 12y ago
David Cameron wasn't just arguing against encrypted messaging apps; he would like to ban secret online communication in general. It will be interesting to see how he squares this with bolstering cybersecurity, which he'll be disc

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