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by x1798DE 12y ago
The point of my comment wasn't about blame either, just that the thing that people are so upset about regarding the NSA is the breach of trust, not just normal breach of privacy. Also consider that no one is going to be surprised or ou
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't know how right it is to blame anyone in particular for this specific security flaw (I don't even know enough details to start to analyze that), but I don't think this is an appropriate comparison either way. Purported
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Presumably there's a limited amount of money that people are (and should be) willing to shell out for this sort of thing. I think the point is that if those resources were available, they would likely be spent on adding more personne
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by x1798DE 12y ago
If the attack you are worried about is terrorism (which I imagine it must be, since that's the thing these things purport to stop, I suppose), then I don't think this is a big problem. Terrorists get about as much bang for their b
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's in the cards or whatever, but I'd love a better way of dealing with the preferences. I find opening up the "default preferences" and "user preferences" separately and copy-pasting or w
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I've also paid for it, recently.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Yeah, the title of this article should be changed to reflect that this is a patent application, not a patent.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I honestly think this "I want this, this and this" comes down to how we infantalize adults in modern society, and how that comes out in the way that we pay for healthcare (insurance or social programs rather than out of pocket) an
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Sorry to sound callous, but I think that's exactly what people should be focused on. Most people didn't know this kid, and remembering his name isn't going to bring him back to life. At least increasing police accountability
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by x1798DE 12y ago
When I was younger a landlord withheld a deposit from my mother inappropriately, she went to small claims court and won and was given the option of 3x damages (she requested only the original deposit rather than the triple damages for whate
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I would definitely prefer to use a site that supports HTTPS over HTTP. For personal safety reasons in addition to privacy and general welfare of the web. If you're searching for something and roughly the same content is available at sa
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Until someone uses a signed int16 in the payment calculation and all of a sudden everyone owes nearly twice as much as they were going to get.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Check again. The two sites are on different domains. In order to log into both, at some point someone needs to convey state information to a third party. Gmail logins are managed through accounts.google.com, so either you have a third-party
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Third party cookie blocking on all modern browsers is a joke. I turn third party cookies off as a start, but sites can play all kinds of games with cookies to create "first party" relationships you don't know about, and that&
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by x1798DE 12y ago
If all HTTP connections enforced TLS, how would there be any extra burden?
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Not all photos are burdened by copyright. If no human owns the copyright, it's in the public domain.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
No one is (or at least should be) suggesting that the animal owns the copyright. Animals can't own copyrights, so "creative" works produced by animals automatically enter the public domain.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
The need for TLS is less in purely information websites, but there are a number of problems with this attitude. For one thing, the content of the pages you visit still leaks information about a user, even if the page isn't customized p
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Based on the fact that you didn't mention doing it, I am assuming you're missing out on a brilliant opportunity for hijinks here. Suggestion - take an alka-seltzer and some red food dye (I'm not sure if you can drip food colo
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by x1798DE 12y ago
What does that have to do with the public-facing wifi? I suppose if there's any radio connection and they have hard-coded credentials, the "public-facing" part of it doesn't really matter as much, but still, it's ki
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Is there any evidence anywhere that the NSA is even 2 years ahead of anything? From what I've seen, the NSA doesn't have especially advanced technology, they just have a huge budget and they can exploit trust relationships that no
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by x1798DE 12y ago
This is where the original (fairly old) idea is on the wiki: https://wiki.tox.im/Multiple_Devices Here is a breakdown of the different ways they are considering on how to implement it: https://github.com/Quo
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by x1798DE 12y ago
There's something you can do for all of those things. You can avoid beestings by always wearing a beekeeper's outfit. You can avoid lightning strikes by always keeping yourself grounded. You can avoid dying in a bathtub by never t
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Even assuming it's true and these leaks made it harder to catch terrorists (I would be surprised if it made a huge difference), I have to say I really don't care. Terrorism is not a very significant real risk to people living in
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>Is this problem even solvable on a fundamental level? I think it is, though it may never be practical. In theory, you could have every node everywhere constantly streaming encrypted noise to every other node, and when you actually want
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Adblock maintains a curated whitelist of approved, unobtrustive ads that most people don't mind seeing (text ads, etc). Last I heard, big companies wanting to submit their ads to the whitelist pay a fee, while small companies can have
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Well that was my point. I was assuming you can do some sort of curated-feature situation. Whatever customization the app offers, the output is basically just a list of NPR episodes and links to a server hosting them. If you wrote a server-s
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I suppose you could offer an app in addition to an RSS feed, but honestly I've never encountered someone who didn't know how to download a podcast. If they are primarily worried about people having trouble downloading podcasts for
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't understand why this needs to be an app. I listen to many things that aren't NPR, and I don't want to switch between BeyondPod and NPR One just to get some sort of curated list. This reminds me of a few years ago where
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Lock nerds can also open your lock in less than 30 seconds using lockpicks or door shims or any number of other techniques. Locks are not a very robust technology.

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