vox_mollis

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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Do people still take sociology or psychology research seriously anymore, following the replication scandals?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Former US Comptroller General David Walker has been beating this drum for decades (in the context of US fiscal concerns), to no avail.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
If only Twitter would offer something akin to a "block" feature, then we wouldn't need to entertain the prospect of policing crimethink across hundreds of millions of accounts.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
ISPs don't let just anybody know who the subscriber is at a given IP They certainly let law enforcement and intelligence agencies know, often without a warrant. Please read my comment as if the threat model includes panopticon govern
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
This is not settled. Colin Percival, for instance, is firmly on the side of using RSA with many decades of cryptanalysis until EC solutions also have many decades of cryptanalysis.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Because you're moving the "exit" from your non-anonymous local ISP to your non-anonymous colo provider. If you want to hide your traffic or at least make your adversary work a little to determine who you are, shared VPN endpo
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Yes, I'm quite aware of this fact. But he's a socially competent developer, and my point still stands about those of us who are not.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, I understand and appreciate his motivation, but I doubt he fully comprehends the psychology he's up against. Apologies if I come across as too un-appreciatively negative toward his efforts.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
One thing Patrick seems to be wholly ignorant of is that engineers, by default, maintain a very high correlation with nonassertiveness and dearth of social skills. Those stereotypes exist for a reason. For most of us, these factors are bake
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Could be due to the limited nature of the outage. They state only some users are affected, which I can verify - App Store works fine for me, for instance.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Fairly consistently between .50 and .55 here.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
The US government forces American tech companies to spy on users, so US companies are to blame? We still, to this day, don't know the extent to which PRISM and BULLRUN participation was forced, voluntary, or completely opaque. We hav
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
<tinfoil_hat> Their refusal to discuss reasons may indicate that a certain entity received a NSL or AWA+Gag to backdoor, and certain someones prefer to take their work to another entity not covered by said order. </tinfoil_h
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Indeed. The upvoting of bcantrill seems to be devoid of understanding that he has been waging a personal vendetta against CoreOS for some time now, and his comments should be understood in that context.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Broken, or compromised?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
How does one read that quickly with any degree of comprehension, particularly with regard to technical books? I am a fairly intelligent person, with a large vocabulary, but forcing my "mind's voice" to read faster than a norm
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Carter tried, and he learned the very valuable lesson that you NEVER level with your electorate. Always feed them happy, optimistic fantasies or your career is over.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Tor is not enough to ensure even mediocre privacy. I'm curious why you believe this, outside a few watering hole attacks, and the (now-patched) CMU attack. Given a known-good entry guard, where is Tor broken?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Maybe. But in all my long experience, this stereotype is extraordinarily accurate.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Dropped out of college in order to pursue my own company.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
There's no anger here, only frustration over a society that normalizes permanent childhood. Adult crying over trivialities - or worse, Bernays-style manipulation - is symptomatic of an inability to manage one's emotions. The defin
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
waiting for the racist assholes to die Serious (offtopic) metaquestion: why is the postmodern view that all people, including violent criminals, are victims/products of their environment, but racists are uniquely and irredeemably evi
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Yes. But on the other hand, the #2 story on HN right now is apologia for the inability to control one's emotional outbursts. You'll probably need to solve the hugbox problem before you introduce a primal renaissance to our nerd cu
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
There is no fighting the future, by political processes. There is only subversion. Run your own mailserver, in your home or a semi-trusted local colo. Full disk encryption, fully encrypted offsite backups. Cabinet door reed switch triggers
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
The FBI has always been our enemy, from John Edgar Hoover onward.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Ok, so if your adversary is your employer or your school, you are presumably using a network not controlled by you, in which case your endpoint ought to already be a VPN. A good number of employer or school-provider devices will have their
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
While I completely agree with you, your ire should not be reserved specifically for snapchat. Nearly the entirety of the modern "tech" industry is trivial social applications like this. In a sea of Facebooks, Twitters, Instagrams,
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
If your threat model contains nation-states, you shouldn't be trusting any CAs in the first place. With a nation-state adversary, you really need to be manually verifying certificate hashes that have been securely communicated to you o
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Anecdata: I am far, far, far more mentally lazy as a consequence of Google and modern toolchains than I was with EDLIN, MASM, and the Purple 8086 Book. In terms of raw productivity, sure, I produce more. But personal satisfaction and self-e
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Regarding your examples: Think less Stockholm Syndrome, more Agents Provocateur.

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