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by slasaus 11y ago
Scantegrity, like other secure electronic systems, scores low on usability[1]. Recently the CEO of Fox-IT reported a delay to our minister in the Netherlands[2] with researching the specs for a usable and secure vote printer and vote counte
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by slasaus 11y ago
You mean something as trustworthy and tamper proof on a large scale as paper ballots and manual tallying? I still haven't seen any electronics that can be practically verified by the public comparable with the centuries old manual solu
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by slasaus 11y ago
The article fails to argue that mass-surveillance is a required and proportional way to counter the threats mentioned. I think instead we should debate what level of suspicion should be required to form a basis to conduct a surveillance on
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by slasaus 11y ago
> The article makes not justification for its title "the false trade-off betweent security and liberty." I think they make their point in the end: > In the immediate circumstances, liberty and security can require trade-offs
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by slasaus 11y ago
> Shouldn't there be a "Chromium-Privacy" project that branches Chromium and reviews code changes, to keep it aligned with such goals? Maybe Iridium is what you're looking for. From their fp: > Iridium is a free, o
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by slasaus 11y ago
> The short-cut around it is the concept of burden of proof in INFOSEC: one is expected to back up their big, security claims with evidence rather than everyone else expected to disprove them. Totally agree with that. > do they even a
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by slasaus 11y ago
And on the Gemalto sim-card hack by the NSA and GCHQ: https://theintercept.com/2015/02/25/gemalto-doesnt-know-does... "In the secret documents, provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the intellige
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by slasaus 11y ago
I think most of your posts are very informative. But your lack of knowledge about OpenBSD surprises me. Perhaps it would save you and the reader some time if you spent a bit more reading about OpenBSD instead of reasoning about all theoreti
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by slasaus 11y ago
> I honestly don't see the evidence of widespread fear about discussing Edward Snowden. It's not about Edward Snowden, it's about being more careful about discussing or retrieving information about any controversial topic
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by slasaus 11y ago
Yes, but especially controllability by the public at large and not only some designated institute.
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by slasaus 11y ago
Last Friday it became public knowledge that every visitor of any domain will be tracked by GCHQ for at least 30 days and up to 6 months depending on the website/person. Indexed by "which websites a person visits" and "wh
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by slasaus 11y ago
This is what they call the global chilling effect. In this particular case this harms the knowledge people have about the Snowden case and why he currently is not returning to the USA.
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by slasaus 11y ago
> Voting machines could appear to work perfectly -- except during the first Tuesday of November, when it undetectably switches a few percent of votes from one party's candidates to another's. Apart from difficulties having man
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by slasaus 11y ago
ps. just reading this in a post from Bruce Schneier[1] that is currently on the frontpage as well[2] which is about cheating software as used by car manufacturers and the IoT that is coming up: Voting machines could appear to work per
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by slasaus 11y ago
I was thinking of voting machines as well and think publicly verifiable code and hardware would be a good thing for cars (I don't think it's good enough for large scale elections, but that's another topic). See this story abo
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by slasaus 11y ago
use `cat -v installer.sh` -v Displays non-printing characters so they are visible. Control characters print as `^X' for control-X, with the exception of the tab and EOL characters, which are displ
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by slasaus 11y ago
It's even a bit worse when looking at it from a fail-safe point of view. To turn the bluetooth and wifi off , 3.3 Volt has to be put on the pins. Giving no power on the pins turns both devices on .
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by slasaus 11y ago
I especially like to see this laptop because it's the first that I know of that can effectively turn off the microphone (for the webcam we already have stickers so this is less of an advantage, of course still laudable). Though I think
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by slasaus 11y ago
> i would be in favour of a separate Bluetooth and Wifi kill switch. that's what I thought as well. About the microcode, this won't be fixed. But see the weekly updates on their blog[1] that states progress they make with the c
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Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches(puri.sm)
259 points by slasaus 11y ago|80 comments
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Hard, Not Soft, Kill Switches(puri.sm)
9 points by slasaus 11y ago|0 comments
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by slasaus 11y ago
> Emissions measured in road tests of 15 new diesel cars were an average of about seven times higher than European limits, according to a study ICCT published last October. Curious what will happen in Europe the next coming years with re
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by slasaus 11y ago
You're right and I believe WhisperSystems is doing something similar (or was at least working on it last year when I spoke with one of the developers). I vaguely remember them claiming that group chat is about the same as multi-device,
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by slasaus 11y ago
> “If you have WhatsApp on your phone and your battery’s low and your phone goes dead, suddenly you can’t get access to your messages. It’s over. It’s not cross device. It doesn’t have cross-device sync. You can’t send documents or big m
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WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange interested in publishing drone attack details(hackersamurai.com)
1 points by slasaus 11y ago|0 comments
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by slasaus 11y ago
I know Postfix supports lmdb instead, format from OpenLDAP http://symas.com/mdb/
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by slasaus 11y ago
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10121464
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by slasaus 11y ago
/updated > If I had to name the parts of Servo I'd love to drop, it wouldn't be what you think ... Interesting. > I think you're under the impression that new Web sites tend to avoid all the "goop". Well
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by slasaus 11y ago
> here we have the very specific case of somebody not even knowing how the Servo is implemented or developed suggesting that the Servo developers should do how he says, not how they do, without giving any real proof of benefit to anybody
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by slasaus 11y ago
> If you want this to be viable, you need to convince Web authors to stop using the features you don't like. Interesting point :) I guess what I'm talking about would be a niche browser. The one that currently comes closest to

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