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by vox_mollis 10y ago
When will this absurd apologism end? Many people have gone to federal prison for FAR lesser frauds than Theranos is.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
In most cases, you won't have the time. SOP in law enforcement raids is to secure their victim prior to securing anything else.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Additionally, much of what most consider "tech" is actually media and entertainment. c.f. facebook, twitter, etc. - which just happen to utilize technology in their products. There is surprisingly little tech going on in "t
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
All due respect, as you don't represent your employer, but a LAN-facing router that is automatically updated by a PRISM partner is an immediate no for those concerned about surveillance (dragnet or targeted) inside the home. Edit:
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I understand that, but it's reasonable to suspect that for a significant number of #2s, #1 is the initial motivating factor that got them learning. We see this all the time in software development, where excellent engineers are borne
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
This can probably be read as a dog-whistle to his war on the EFF Scorecard in general, CryptoCat in particular, and Nadim personally.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Let's be honest, Summer Security Camp is far more about socializing with "our tribe" than it is about learning. That said, understanding how the red team does things is extremely useful for formulating one's own defense.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I can think of several people who fit firmly into both. Moxie, for instance. I fail to see how these two categories are mutually exclusive.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Respectfully disagree, here. Infosec has been trying the education path for decades, now. It's not working. Either something needs to change about the educational process, or acceptance that it's failed is warranted. I think fixin
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Penetration testing is legal.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
most developers would love to have the time to make sure their code is secure and well tested This is certainly true. But competitive pressures will always force quick hacks over software robustness. The only real solution is a sort of de
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Plausible. The recent advent of ready, instant, and varied access to video simulation of sex is also plausible. Both are unpopular hypotheses, however, because all bodies are beautiful and sex positive porn has zero externalities.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Unfortunately, this idea has been explored and discarded. Thermodynamics requires the emission of detectable EM energy from such shells, just at longer wavelengths. We'd expect to see dark matter emitting in microwave or IR, but we don
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
The Hanlon's Razor portion vastly underestimates the sheer amount of contempt and vitriol that many people in business harbor for their technology staff. Sometimes (oftentimes, in my experience) they really do hate you.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Do you have substantive examples of killer desktop features that are missing in modern distros?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
This is actually the biggest issue I have with the intersection of social justice and the technology industry. The concepts of "white privilege" and "stereotype threat" are borne of the non-falsifiable, non-reproducibili
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
the one with the paperwork is going to have a far easier time getting a job through traditional channels. We're definitely in the minority, but some of us in hiring positions actively discriminate against the didn't-learn-until-
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
This will be nice if it leads to x86 implementations devoid of ME or equivalent transparent hardware backdoors.
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
No, because they are both legacy software. I understand momentum in codebases - that's why I'm reserving my vitriol for fresh bluesky projects like this one. As for exploitability, privilege escalation and shellcode injection is s
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Dutch and Canadian Police Seize ‘Criminal’ Encrypted Smartphone Network(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by vox_mollis 11y ago|0 comments
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
[WARNING, RANTY] This is a blue-sky project. Completely new, with no legacy dependencies. AND YET THE DEVELOPER CHOSE TO WRITE IT IN C. WHY FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY? Could someone explain this to me? Is it developer hubris, believing in one
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
I love this response. [META] Not due to the content of the response, but the fact that dang, who is rightfully vigilant about enforcing standards of civility all over HN (with detachment, warnings, and bans), willfully ignores blatant viola
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
The primary( and really, only ) recommendation against central authentication is that the provider becomes an extremely juicy attack target. We live in a world of asymmetric warfare in which attackers can screw up thousands of times, but
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
The writing is on the wall. If your threat model includes government agencies, it is only prudent to assume that all commercial providers of encrypted communications are or will soon be compromised, and conduct operations as such. EFF may
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
Apple has never caved to "customer demand" for things like this. They do appear to have caved to the demand for irrelevant nonfunctional details like chassis colors. OP's request is arguably far more important (read: functi
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
One great benefit to ricochet is that you can choose to exclude those with whom you are communicating from your COMSEC threat model, due to the lack of (mostly connection) metadata availability.
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The Alt-Right Explained(vox.com)
4 points by vox_mollis 11y ago|0 comments
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
It's such a non-traditional way to start Doubt this. Remember that VC is only available to those who already have an "in" with the social proof network of the VCs. We, like many many others, bootstrapped our business out of
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
May be? They almost certainly are stockpiling them.
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by vox_mollis 11y ago
I think a better term would be apologist, not shill. For better or for worse, Thomas's interest in the law gives him a position on Federal power that is often at odds with the more old-school libertarian/anarchist members of the H

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