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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The FBI is going to be mining NSA intercepts to catch people streaming Michael Radford's production of "1984" without a permit. The security state is a jobs program, and Congress delivers the bacon. Will they have probable c
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
These attacks would be a lot less dangerous if they couldn't get on-disk persistence. Just reboot your phone, and you're good to go. Only creeps like NSO who spy on normal people need that degree of persistence. Everyone else can
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Complex systems produce behavior that cannot be derived from first principles, which is why it is important to study the actual behavior of those systems. I studied E&M for four semesters at college, and it is far from clear to me that
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
They should open up a rate-limited retail API that lets us verify for ourselves what is visible in our life and what is not. Otherwise we have to outsource our thinking to others who may have a conflict of interest.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Does anyone have a white paper about corner reflectors and X-band SAR? For what it's worth, the state very likely needs a warrant to use technologies capable of looking inside structures [1]. Not that the law applies to them, but hypo
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yeah, if you had a crazy new electronic warfare technique you'd probably spread as much FUD as you could. You'd also spread FUD if you had nothing, Star Wars style. It's definitely one of those two things.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> We also feel pressure to constantly modernize the infrastructure without having a parallel discussion about the security impact of these innovations. We also have PE firms, like the ones that controlled Solar Wind, dictating the level
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Has anyone ever seen one of these things with their eyeballs? Or is it all... electronic sensors? US electronic warfare is top shelf sorcery.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Comodo is fine last I checked [1,2]. Congress should probably just listen to Dan Geer and establish products liability for closed-source software. I feel like this might have turned up sooner if there was a git diff to read. [1] https:&#x
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Given how much these issues are going to be discussed in the coming months, it's probably worth giving [1] a read. I selected that article for brevity, recency, and because the author is well known among HN readers. [1] https:/&
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Out of curiosity, I grepped the Qubes github repos for awk. Here's the most complicated use I could find: awk -F : '/\/home/ { print $1":"$3":"$4":"$6 } '
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Python is readable, awk is not. I'd rather spend an extra 5 minutes writing something that I don't have to burn 20 minutes understanding in just a few months time. I think the popularity of Python for scripting is pretty good evi
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Interesting that they're called SolarWinds. They make netflow analysis tools... kinda like Stellar Wind.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The second requirement bullet point is solid, but I think it goes to far. Obviously user onboarding is a huge issue for new paradigms, and simplicity is paramount. But I think it's wrong to suggest that non-browser clients are not th
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Supply chain integrity is a huge issue that normies take for granted. The surest way to lose normie friends is to point out how much faith people put in supply chains.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I think this is a push-not-pull situation. Here is a vision of the future articulated by a promising In-Q-Tel funded startup: [1,2] "[We need] a set of guiding principles to inform the types of speech that should be permitted in
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
An IP address retrieved from the Apache logs by the same sysadmins who put unhashed credentials online in a place where they could be indexed by Google?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> Don't blame the mirror for what you see in it. Agreed, Facebook is just exploiting weaknesses that already exist in American minds. Those problems exist elsewhere, but have not advanced as far. There will be a silver lining in th
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Florida's solution to having incompetent sysadmins is to send armed thugs to terrorize peoples' families. Pretty on-brand if you ask me.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> retail investors get mostly better prices from market makers When broker-dealers (BD) say this, check their foot notes. The precise statement is something like "80% of market orders are filled with a price improvement relative th
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
A prominent practitioner should make an "applied cryptography syllabus" that sketches a coherent learning philosophy. Topics, level of detail, order, references. Even just annotating the table of contents from "Serious Crypt
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's a solid point, and I've updated my comment accordingly.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Probably the biggest takeaway is, in jurisdictions that permit it, "record all your conversations at work, encrypt them, and hope you never need them." She would be in a totally different situation if she had a tape of Tesla'
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> the consensus seems to be that Intel tried to pile up too many new improvements, which backfired. TSMC took a more incremental and safe approach Can you point to some industry literature that explains this? If this is true, it is a lot
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The regulator wouldn't have to do anything more invasive than say, "Microsoft will charge its development cost or greater for any additional features that are currently offered commercially". Yes, that would create some accou
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Some of us who care have to use Windows at work. Instead of paying us more, our companies spend obscene sums on inferior software because that's what everyone else does.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
He mentions it all the time. The index to his book has 11 references to the "consumer rights movement". A central premise of his book is that the "Watergate babies" shifted antitrust law from a focus on democratic contr
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Take a look at the issue from another point of view. Predatory pricing and bundling are two destructive ways to compete. Predatory pricing is just dumping. You sell something below cost until your competition goes out of business, then you
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Context. The picture at the top of the confounding article gives it away. Those kinds of diagrams are common in "hierarchical Bayesian models" like LDA. In the simple linear setting, they are the same thing. Teaching people the
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Confounding variable is a more confusing, less precise name for the same phenomenon. Omitted variable bias tells it like it is. A bias in a regression coefficient that results from an incorrectly specified model.

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