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811.
by shuckles 5y ago
What are the privacy risks of Apple Pay over a contactless card? My understanding is the applet in the Secure Element operates independently of the system, and Apple does not collect data about where I transact.
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by shuckles 5y ago
Offline finding isn’t a black box system, though. It was presented at Black Hat, and there is a well-known 3rd party implementation. This feature brings offline finding to more cases. In addition, if this person is a well-regarded professio
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by shuckles 5y ago
Isn’t the reason for this regulation? My understanding is that there are some actions that a bank employee can only take if they hold a “Vice President” title, leading to the title structure being organized in a way such that many people en
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by shuckles 5y ago
The point you have to show is why trusting them has been demonstrated as a bad idea, but instead you take that as given. The rest of your argument is very ambiguous. Shares nothing about their stack? The entire controversy began with an ext
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by shuckles 5y ago
Their point is general because the discourse has been run through analogies instead of facts. They don’t have specific arguments to respond to. Any time you get to the facts, they’re weak. iOS may be closed source, but there are avenues for
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by shuckles 5y ago
Heck, I rarely hear about the Honda e on here, which might be the most adorable and exciting EV on the market to me! Perhaps a simpler explanation is that this is a tech forum and not a car forum, and Tesla dominates mindshare in car “techn
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by shuckles 5y ago
I am curious to better understand to what extent Apple’s scale allows them to focus on Building The Best Music App instead of the race to the bottom type incentives of competitors like Spotify who are now trying to Build The Best Way To Cap
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by shuckles 5y ago
One side effect is commercial infrastructure to cheaply buy location traces for hundreds of millions of people: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat... . It doesn’t seem worth
819.
by shuckles 5y ago
When push comes to shove, technology is subservient to society: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit
820.
by shuckles 5y ago
Since Apple operates the key service and there is no key transparency mechanism, they could certainly do it (technically) with only a server side change.
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by shuckles 5y ago
Apple operates the only legal E2E encrypted messaging system in the country, and I’m sorry but your characterization of online tracking and advertising as harmless is at best an opinion.
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by shuckles 5y ago
Then root causes that put blame on San Francisco voters are not very convincing.
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by shuckles 5y ago
Which is in line with infrastructure costs throughout the country. How much did the 2nd Ave subway cost? LA Metro expansion?
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by shuckles 5y ago
At this level of evidence, every problem in a nominally democratic society could be explained by “voters” in the abstract. Would you blame local discretion over land use, Prop 13, or CEQA - semi-permanent features of the Californian democra
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by shuckles 5y ago
I agree. I think the only explanations it gives are that the city has no middle class and politicians try to solve national problems with local solutions. Neither are root causes in my opinion. The former is explained by a lack of new home
826.
by shuckles 5y ago
Huh? The primary issue with San Francisco is that you are in fact not insulated from human misery at all. If you want insulation, check out Atherton or Woodside 20 miles down south. In addition, the wealthy of San Francisco live in giant si
827.
by shuckles 5y ago
This is apples to oranges. The whole thread was about random false positives and not adversarial ones.
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by shuckles 5y ago
> Apple’s decision to condition scanning on a toggle switch is a policy decision and not a technical restriction as it was in the past with server-side scanning. This is not a meaningful distinction. There are many security and privacy p
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by shuckles 5y ago
The NCMEC database is large and graded to distinguish types of photos. There’s evidence in the false positive calculations that Apple is only using a subset, presumably the one where photos are graded as depicting active abuse. It’s not rea
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by shuckles 5y ago
You are saying known CSAM detection for iCloud Photo Library will launch before the Pegasus 0-days are fixed? The two are entirely different. If Apple was working on behalf of the government, they could’ve already shipped over the contents
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by shuckles 5y ago
I’m not sure why it’s obvious to you that Tim Cook must personally whisper into my ears otherwise. The FBI and every other intelligence agency is probably pressuring Apple all the time. Elsewhere in the thread, I even say that I think law e
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by shuckles 5y ago
So you are suggesting that FBI pressure is the primary reason Apple did not pursue plans to end to end encrypt iCloud Backups on the basis of one news article and lack of comment from Apple? (There is other counter-evidence: Apple rarely co
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by shuckles 5y ago
I worked at a big technology company earlier this century which had sabbaticals at the 5 year mark. It ended the program because too many people would quit at the end of the sabbatical.
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by shuckles 5y ago
I’m not arguing that all zoning is bad. I was responding to the claim that SFZ is irrelevant to affordability.
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by shuckles 5y ago
They do so because zoning banned boarding houses, which is a variant of the same thesis.
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by shuckles 5y ago
Basically every metro area in the country has an affordability problem as defined by cost of housing relative to wages. One of the most affordable growing metros is Houston, which has no zoning.
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by shuckles 5y ago
Both of these are wrong because they confuse buildings and land. Land can be a good investment even if shelter is affordable. My understanding, for example, is land in Tokyo is quite expensive.
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by shuckles 5y ago
But home values will plummet is a common bogeyman used in local zoning battles, so separating the two concepts is not as trivial as you suggest.
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by shuckles 5y ago
You’re welcome, and I’m happy to share alternative theories. I think some of the issues of control that have been raised are legitimate. For example, you brought up the idea that Apple is doing this as part of a move to advertising, perhaps
840.
by shuckles 5y ago
The chance that any pictures from your library are revealed at all is at most one in one trillion (mod you not storing CSAM or being attacked by someone trying to plant evidence on you). Contrast this to a server side scanning system where

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