qschneier

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by qschneier 14y ago
I agree and would rephrase it as client side frameworks help to enforce a clean and well defined API on the data, thus help to separate the business logic from representation / interaction, which is kind of the original goal of MVC.
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by qschneier 14y ago
The economists never get it right. Being in China for more than 30 years I can tell the Chinese growth model is really simple: #1 An international economy and market so that we have a common currency to measure. The government also control
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by qschneier 14y ago
There was a massive password leakage happened in the end of 2011 and early 2012. Probably more than 100 millions of passwords from more than ten popular websites including some popular social network websites, were made available on the int
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by qschneier 14y ago
China will certainly won't start a war against the US. There is actually a joke in China saying that if US wants to delay any high level government meetings they can just ask the US schools to have a mandatory parents meeting. And then many
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by qschneier 14y ago
The ruler in China is a trinity: the government, the army and the communist party. Though with the "economic reform" and the unstoppable information flow with internet, China has become something really weird unlike anyone else in the histo
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by qschneier 14y ago
The university this guy works for (The PLA Information Engineering University) has a military background. And in China this means the teachers and many of the students are literally military personnel.
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by qschneier 14y ago
Those who escaped from North Korea to China will be sent back by the Chinese government if found and possibly executed. They are literally the most miserable people on this planet. China could have become some west "North Korea" (China is a
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by qschneier 14y ago
FYI the petition link is here https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-... To me signing the petition is simply to let others know my attitude, and to let those who hold the same stand know that they are not alone.
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by qschneier 14y ago
CNNIC is notorious for producing malware and many other things. Some is list here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNNIC Having been in the internet industry in China for more than 10 years before I decided to move to the US I would say CNNI
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by qschneier 14y ago
Censorship in China is a big business, for the companies that have connections to the officials, for the universities that rely on the funds, and for the officials who use this as a stepstone for their career. It is so common that you can e
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by qschneier 14y ago
FYI there is a petition on whitehouse.gov to deny those people who work on GFW entry US. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/people-who-help-in...