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by phicoh 8y ago
I fail to see how you can come to that conclusion. In the Netherlands, segways are treated like mopeds (and these electrical scooters are quite similar to segways). Which means that you do need moped liability insurance and you cannot use t
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by phicoh 8y ago
An alternative possibility is that they actually do fit an existing category (some kind of moped) but fail to meet the safety standards of that category.
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by phicoh 8y ago
A problem I can see with that approach is that code that is served from the content server would have to do browser fingerprinting before ads can be auctioned by the ad network. In the current setup with third part tracking cookies, the ad
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by phicoh 8y ago
The good thing about privacy badger is that you don't have to care about the contents of ads ('acceptable ads') or how much you like a particular site ('please unblock us in your ad-blocker). If a site has parts with 3rd
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by phicoh 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but it my impression that the main thing that is different with the GDPR is the threat that it will actually get enforced. In discussions about the GDPR I see things that are part of Dutch law for years, in some cases
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by phicoh 9y ago
If you use pen and ink, then the current left to right writing of the latin alphabet is very convenient for right handed people.
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by phicoh 9y ago
You are saying that the ssh client that I have that locally validates SSHFP records using getdns doesn't actually work because DNSSEC is not universally deployed? Strange if something I've been using for a couple of years cannot e
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by phicoh 9y ago
Plenty of published attacks are not all that practical. There are plenty of security researchers that would like to have some nice attacks on their CVs. If you like the security of HSTS, then I guess STS is for you. Personally I'd like
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by phicoh 9y ago
I fully agree that 1024 bit RSA needs to go. Beyond that, if I take the insanely bad track record of CAs as a group, and compare to the (as far as I know) complete lack of serious attacks on DNSSEC (including even those with 1024 bit keys),
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by phicoh 9y ago
Explicit proxies are no problem. There are a lot of servers behind proxies. No problem there. There is plenty of client software that can be configured to use proxies. Also no problem there. Where it goes wrong is transparent proxies (also
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by phicoh 9y ago
Under the assumption that DNS will move to TLS, a future TLS will have to incur this cost. It is nice to have 1RTT, but if at the same time you are leaking SNI, people are not going to be happy. I'm curious how this hashing would work
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by phicoh 9y ago
I was told that DNS was the reason for keeping the SNI unencrypted. I.e., encrypting SNI is tricky and doesn't help if DNS reveals what you are doing anyway. The DNS community is now trying to move to DNS over TLS. Once that is wide sp
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by phicoh 9y ago
One big difference between TLS 1.3 and 1.2 is that TLS 1.3 mandates forward security. So with TLS 1.2 a server can be configured to only allow ciphers without forward security. Then a capture of encrypted traffic can be decoded later. Or a
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by phicoh 9y ago
One of the problems with http is that nobody bothered to implement some kind of integrity check for http content (and make sure that it got wide deployment). There are too many examples of parties messing with http content. So if people car
555.
by phicoh 9y ago
In Amsterdam Central Station they are now building stuff for passport control, security checks, etc. This is on the east side, around platform 13 or something. I don't think it is all the way at the back (15) but I never bothered to fi
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by phicoh 9y ago
People can administrate their personal enclaves as they see fit. There are a number of operating systems that you can rebuild from source. You can just create your own root CA and add it to your browsers. You can run your own root DNS zone.
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by phicoh 9y ago
Actually, TCP/IP on a local network will make mobile devices think they are on a captive portal. DNSSEC will prevent you from serving local answers for signed zones. The DNS root zone is signed. So the IETF at the moment has a hard tim
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by phicoh 9y ago
If you like tilting at windmills then go ahead. Since forever people have written software that assumes a global internet. However today the situation is much worse. The global internet is a very hostile environment. Everybody who writes so
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by phicoh 9y ago
Though there are a couple of technical options to make this work, the thing I realised many years ago is that if you want to use internet technology you need to be connected to the internet. Anything else is just an endless headache. If you
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by phicoh 9y ago
Technically GPS cannot track TAI because TAI is not available in real time. You can compute TAI from UTC, but as mentioned above UTC is only created many days after the fact. So in practice, you have to rely on what national labs provide. T
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by phicoh 9y ago
I'm curious what measures you refer to. There are practical approaches that are in common use. For example GPS is synced to UTC(USNO). But nobody tries to promote that as a universal time scale.
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by phicoh 9y ago
In the Netherlands, a 4 four stop would lead to an instant deadlock. I.e., if you reach a stop sign then all traffic on the road you approaching has priority. There are no rules for solving this conflict. Because you cannot have two roads t
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by phicoh 9y ago
A high heart rate can be caused by lactate acid. Basically what happens is that you are using muscles beyond what they can sustain. In particular, beyond what the blood flow to those muscles can provide oxygen for. You get into anaerobic ex
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by phicoh 9y ago
Disclaimer: I don't particularly like mopeds, but I do care that (local) regulation is somewhat sane. This new regulation in Amsterdam is quite bad. The argument about shared lanes doesn't really apply to traditional mopeds becaus
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by phicoh 9y ago
I'd say that cycling is an ideal way of burning fat. With a bit of training you can easily spend a whole day on a bike without risk of overuse injuries. Most people exercise at a relatively high intensity which mostly burns carbs. Grea
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by phicoh 9y ago
The problem is that the Dutch government bought the whole 'free market will solves every problem' ideology. So obviously, a city government was not allowed to mandate anything in this context. Public transport is the public good t
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by phicoh 9y ago
The Netherlands tried the experiment to, from one day to another, just remove almost all requirements to operate a taxi. Basically, the only requirements were that you had to have a vehicle that passes inspection, a valid drivers license, a
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by phicoh 9y ago
Given recent discoveries of secret options to disable the ME, I doubt that Intel would picked code where they would be forced to release the source. The binary was scrambled. You don't do that if you plan to release the source.
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by phicoh 9y ago
It is sometimes amazing how stupid traffic light systems are. One is giving left turning traffic and straight traffic going in the opposite direction green at the same time. That can be solved easily by making sure that all traffic that get
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by phicoh 9y ago
Since forever I've been reading html mail using 'lynx -dump'. That never had any negative effect. So my guess is that this particular kind of subscriber tracking is not used all that much (on technical mailing lists).

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