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by sigmar 5y ago
>no conceivable threat from a random North Korean missle test to an airplane in Burbank, CA I assume it is more about anti-ballistic missile activity and not wanting a mistake to happen where the US gov't takes down a passenger flig
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by sigmar 5y ago
>The change does not appear to be network-wide just yet, but rather it appears T-Mobile is in the process of rolling it out.
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by sigmar 5y ago
What percentage of 13 y/o kids lie about what phone they own to an online survey?
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by sigmar 5y ago
More cases create more mutations. There are no payments for deaths https://www.denverpost.com/2020/05/20/coronavirus-covid-medi...
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by sigmar 5y ago
Headline says "99.7% of residents" Then in the article is says "99.7% of all adults," doesn't mention the percentage of eligible people (over 12 y/o), or the percentage of the total population of the county tha
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by sigmar 5y ago
Lots of other replies about how Apple software doesn't give the granular data, but another reason you can't register on your own hardware is that they can't trust your device (since fake registrations could create free money
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by sigmar 5y ago
I'm pretty skeptical that there are no false negatives of the matching algo when capturing (and hashing) the iris. I'm also curious how many people that participate understand the orb is collecting face photos and biometrics, is t
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by sigmar 5y ago
>Furthermore pretty much everybody in every non-western country is a TERF. I don't think you know a lot of the meanings of words you're using. Firstly "TERF" ideology is pretty new and not the "traditional positi
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by sigmar 5y ago
>the act of correction of its errors, may not be prohibited by contract what is considered an "error" here? If I think Spotify made an "error" by calling up ads on their free tier, am I still following their ToS if I
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by sigmar 5y ago
I think his point very much means youtube should have done this sooner. There are tons of ppl that are 'anti- this vax only' because of the misinformation of youtube.
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by sigmar 5y ago
Markland is the Norse name for the Americas (probably should be stated more clearly in the article). So yes the description could be completely imagined, but this is evidence that word of the continent was gossiped from the Norse cultures t
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by sigmar 5y ago
The same thing happened to me with plants. I knew nothing about plants last year. Now I tell people I was radicalized by youtube into a house plant and pepper plant obsession.
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by sigmar 5y ago
I watched from the first vote, discussion of how to change the question, second vote, and post vote discussion. They didn't seem to want to wade into details of what "higher risk of severe covid-19" means (though bmi 35+ was
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by sigmar 5y ago
"Prior to their departure, U.S. Company One repeatedly informed its employees, including the defendants, that the services they were providing constituted “defense services” under the ITAR, and that U.S. persons could not lawfully prov
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by sigmar 5y ago
Lots of governments have been pushing it recently. Not sure who is pushing it in Apple (or why). Here's Matthew Green's thread from 4 months ago https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1392814211122843
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by sigmar 5y ago
>So, apps won't be able to get location when you are indoors and location lookups would be slow. What? GPS works fine indoors.
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by sigmar 5y ago
Surprised their articles aren't knee-capped on HN yet. The Epoch Times is well known for using hundreds of sockpuppets to get traffic from social media sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Epoch_Times#Social_me
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by sigmar 5y ago
Are we going to need to reverse engineer every single Apple update to make sure the feature hasn't creeped into non-iCloud uses? Is the inevitable Samsung version of this system going to be as privacy-preserving? How are we sure the ha
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by sigmar 5y ago
The subheadline- >More than 90 policy and rights groups ask company to abandon plans for scanning phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.
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by sigmar 5y ago
but in the cloud setting they have the plaintext of what was uploaded. The attack described above is about abusing the lack of information apple has so they will report an innocent user to the authorities.
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by sigmar 5y ago
the 'visual derivative' of photos on your device are sent to apple
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by sigmar 5y ago
If a copy of your messages (even if it is only low resolution jpgs) get auto forwarded to Apple/FBI under certain circumstances it is not securely E2E encrypted
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by sigmar 5y ago
What happens if someone leaks or guesses the weights on that "secret" classifier? The whole system is so ridiculous even before considering the amount of shenanigans the FBI could pull by putting in non-CSAM hashes.
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by sigmar 5y ago
There was a huge court case about Apple refusing to update the OS of a particular phone that was in fbi possession in order for the fbi to see its encrypted contents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encr
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by sigmar 5y ago
Oh yes, I'm sure the FBI will be satisfied with using the backdoor to only find CSAM, they definitely will not use the access for 'anti-terrorism' and drug enforcement. That sounds just like the FBI. What good is E2E encrypti
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by sigmar 5y ago
So if a large state like Texas loses power for days/weeks all validators inside it suffers more? Why shouldn't I give my keys to a business that can operate multi-location operations? Would save me huge headaches in terms of keepi
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by sigmar 5y ago
What does it matter what the technology supports if it incentivizes the community to consolidate? Penalties for being offline and slashing (for misconfigured nodes) are a massive incentive for nodes to centralize
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by sigmar 5y ago
Good writeup. Seems like it should also mention that he was banned from entering the US in 1952 after being convicted of having sex with a man. After reading his dislike for ship travel, I have to imagine that the cheaper air travel in the
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by sigmar 5y ago
>Is there even a way a user can check who signed the apk Yes, super easy to check all the signatures on every app in your android phone with this: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/info.guardianproject.checkey...
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by sigmar 5y ago
It surprises me that most of the US cities they looked at had less cameras after 2016. Maybe they just got smaller and there were more false negatives?

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