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by slasaus 11y ago
The benefit would be that compatibility code (which can obfuscate the base a lot and take a large proportion of the code base) would be in a different branch or automatically added. Web developers could use tools like cssnext to automatical
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by slasaus 11y ago
I guess mostly sandboxing? e10s is coming to Firefox, but per tab isolation might take a while (first step will be 1 process for the UI, 1 process for all tabs).
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by slasaus 11y ago
Another issue I have with browsing in general is that it's such a complex eco-system, there is simply no real secure webbrowser around that meets standards comparable with other secure software like RedPhone [1], Dovecot, Postfix, Open
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Can Servo be a clean and modern reference platform for developers?(github.com)
62 points by slasaus 11y ago|27 comments
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by slasaus 11y ago
isn't that exactly what DKIM is? "DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) permits a person, role, or organization that owns the signing domain to claim some responsibility for a message by associating the domain with the message. This
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Thunderbird and end-to-end email encryption – should this be a priority?(blog.mozilla.org)
39 points by slasaus 11y ago|10 comments
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by slasaus 11y ago
Although I'm not a fan of it [0], there has been a commission to research the feasibility of electronic voting in the Netherlands. Outcome was it would not be cheaper than the current paper voting system and some fundamental parts stil
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by slasaus 11y ago
"Bonus points for wanting transparency and a system that's open source." Transparency is not a bonus, publicly verifiable elections are a requirement for a healthy democracy to ensure power is legit. Open source does not real
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by slasaus 11y ago
Interesting. Good to see they seek information about systems that "are based on voters marking paper ballots". Contrary to popular belief, in state or nation-wide elections paper is a safer way to vote than electronics because t
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by slasaus 11y ago
"A major challenge we face is that many Firefox add-ons cannot possibly be built using either WebExtensions or the SDK as they currently exist. Over the coming year, we will seek feedback from the development community, and will contin
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by slasaus 11y ago
"These results pose a challenge to those who wish to aggressively scale back incarceration, since the current politics of reducing sanctions for drug offenders is less complicated than that for reducing punishment for violent or proper
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by slasaus 11y ago
Don't like the 10 vs. 20 year jump there, it would have been nice if they had added statistics for 2000 as well.
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by slasaus 11y ago
tl;dr: "Taken together, these findings suggest that the effects of the War on Drugs are often relatively slight compared to other causes, and that they are certainly not as big as many often assert. In reality, a majority of prison gro
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by slasaus 11y ago
Are you guys familiar with lowRISC.org and is your work maybe partly overlapping with their work? I read that your MISC design falls somewhere in the middle between RISC and CISC.
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by slasaus 11y ago
Mirror in the Netherlands, Amsterdam: http://controleerbareverkiezingen.nl/pub/PSJ2014_Hursti-MacA...
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by slasaus 11y ago
See this video from last December at the CCC in Berlin a famous research professor presents his findings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os They filmed the whole NOC because they wanted to be transparent, but then
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by slasaus 11y ago
All paper and pencil in The Netherlands after some techies realized black box voting is a dangerous thing. http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English Although some people really want to get the electronics back so it&
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by slasaus 11y ago
About the dutch campaign in 2006: http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/English And about a follow up campaign in India with some of the same people: https://indiaevm.org/ Also see some recent research d
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by slasaus 11y ago
That was not a pencil but still a lot of technology/mechanics. But you're right, paper and pencil are not perfect, just the most secure we can practically achieve these days and probably for the upcoming decade. See this video of
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by slasaus 11y ago
For a related discussion see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10076919
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by slasaus 11y ago
It was successful because they were able to detect if someone voted CDA (ChristenDemocratisch Appèl) because the "è" sent out a different radio wave that was detectable from a distance and broke voting secrecy. The main point, tha
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by slasaus 11y ago
> while you weren't looking Well then you don't, and another requirement is that the voting stations may be accessed by the public from start till end. In that case each individual can verify for themselves that ballot boxes ar
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by slasaus 11y ago
It ends up a bit commercially, but they still make a valid point I think.
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by slasaus 11y ago
Don't forget Whisper Systems protocol used by TextSecure[1] which is based on Google's protobuf[2] and JSON in a REST api. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server/wiki/API... [2] ht
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by slasaus 11y ago
I personally found BSON* (or maybe protobuf) a better format for a wire protocol. I really miss support for a date type and binary data in JSON (for my own applications). * http://bsonspec.org/
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by slasaus 11y ago
"making firefox less insecure": http://marc.info/?t=141616714600001&r=1&w=2 and for those who think lynx is a more secure alternative, read this thread: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&amp
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by slasaus 11y ago
They will probably release a merged version in October which will be named Node.js 4.0 and will be supported for 2,5 years. https://medium.com/@nodesource/essential-steps-long-term-sup...
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by slasaus 11y ago
Can you maybe elaborate on the main non-js vectors? I know image/video is one, is webgl/canvas maybe a big one? or webrtc? Or would you say js is by far the biggest vector? I currently browse with developer edition (daily patches)
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by slasaus 11y ago
I assume your point is about the first sentence of the article "This library was born out of a need to set up a secure channel over a TCP/IP network without the overhead of TLS.", but I interpreted this not in terms of perfor
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by slasaus 11y ago
For those who just want to read about it, see http://nommu.org/ At first I was wondering if this was about http://riscv.org/ but it is not.

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