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by rietta 9y ago
Ha! Rebuilding the code. The source will be lost and the binary will be irreplaceable in many circumstances.
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by rietta 9y ago
True. But its not just the Bay Area. My wife uses LastPass and 2FA and tells others about it at work and she's a mental health counselor, not a software engineer. I guess my influence did have some influence. My parents are also on 2FA
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Troubling ISP Privacy Repeal: The Data Will Be Breached(rietta.com)
1 points by rietta 9y ago|0 comments
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by rietta 9y ago
I still have my Turbo C++ 3.1 books. Oh the memories! I Ki of miss the visual style of that RAD GUI prototyper they had.
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by rietta 9y ago
I would say that patching is maddeningly difficult in the absence of automated end-to-end tests. It's much easier with those in place.
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by rietta 9y ago
I would not be okay with this. If faced with this situation, I personally would be compelled to refuse even if they seize my powered off fully encrypted iPhone. I would then have to obtain an attorney to fight the seizure on the principle o
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by rietta 9y ago
I was too young at the time to understand it then, but based on history its a good thing that the ill-planned scheme did not become law.
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by rietta 9y ago
The difference is that the physical box at the bank is not subject to being stolen by foreign adversaries remotely. With information that is stored in databases or on phones that may be lost or stolen there is no border. And when you start
489.
by rietta 9y ago
Indeed. I'm about to have a form of that conversation with a client today. Just encrypting columns in your database is of some value, but having the symmetric key in an environment variable (a common practice) is not going to prevent a
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by rietta 9y ago
Very, very true!
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by rietta 9y ago
Thank you.
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by rietta 9y ago
I've updated the page to remove the references except for in the bio. I got tripped up with the open letter format as a blog post when I had written most of it previously for private email use. I do appreciate the feedback and hopefull
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by rietta 9y ago
Deploying to remove the first reference. I see your point.
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by rietta 9y ago
That's actually a good point. I originally wrote this as a private message to each of the Congressional candidates in the Georgia 6th district and in that format there was not the bio and all the surrounding blog template. It feels wei
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by rietta 9y ago
Deploying an update to remove the duplicate word now. Thank you.
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by rietta 9y ago
Excellent read. Thank you for sharing.
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by rietta 9y ago
I'm going to have to go back to listen to the entirety of the Senate hearing at some point. With so much talk about Russia hacking and influence and then they flip the switch and want backdoors into encryption even though any mandated
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by rietta 9y ago
As I just put it in my open letter: "Let me be clear. This distinction that the Director makes has no basis in fact or science. Any imaginable key escrow system that would by design provide routine access to encrypted data is a backdoo
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by rietta 9y ago
I was watching the hearing during lunch, had to attend to work meetings, and then saw this article which is what spurred me to post my open letter to Congress tonight and share it here on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by rietta 9y ago
One time pads are perfect! Everything less than that trades security for convenience. So true.
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Americans' Access to Strong Encryption Is at Risk, an Open Letter to Congress(rietta.com)
362 points by rietta 9y ago|134 comments
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by rietta 9y ago
Very cool. My very first exposure to programming Java was being given a copy of Visual J++ 1 by a neighbor along with a book. I quickly learned that real Java was better. From the time I was 14, I was in love with coding starting with GW Ba
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by rietta 9y ago
Java was not publicly released until 1996? That is when I first remember it. So does this mean you were working at Sun at the time with Mr. Gosling? One of my clients is apparently friends with Mr. Gosling and was surprised when I recognize
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by rietta 9y ago
Yeah, not going to happen because of "the national security interest of the United States". A related concept is a contract contrary to public policy.
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by rietta 10y ago
I answer their phone calls and have a conversation. Seriously,. Don't over think this. I see the zero customers part. I would update my content marketing game until someone called me.
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by rietta 10y ago
"... rural stories of telcos cutting off even crappy DSL service any time anyone stops a subscription; realtors are tearing their hair out trying to ensure that some narrow drip of data will be available to a new buyer of a home...&quo
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by rietta 10y ago
It is my understanding that they behave like a simple switch so perfect for easy use with the GPIO pins. There are a few wireless sensors (window and sliding glass door) and I don't know how they will behave. There is a board that was
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by rietta 10y ago
When I bought my current house it had a hardwired Vista system (ADT branded) but the main board seems to be burned out. I thought it might be the capacititors on the power supply, but after removing them it seems they check out on the meter
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by rietta 10y ago
Neat but this makes me sad because I remember Flight Simulator and how Microsoft killed it.
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by rietta 10y ago
The list is massive. But the short list is Ruby and the entire Ruby on Rails ecosystem, PostgreSQL, Linux, and bash. Upon these rocks I earn most of my living. And none of this would be possible without the GNU Compiler Collection.

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