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by x1798DE 12y ago
I really don't think we need to be running to TrueCrypt alternatives quite yet. If Phase II of the audit comes back showing TrueCrypt as insecure, then it's time to start worrying about that, but given that everyone was happy to k
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by x1798DE 12y ago
While I think that endorsing the right to "be forgotten" is indeed quixotic and a dubious endeavor in general, for practical purposes enforcing these provisions against the biggest actors is probably enough for most practical purp
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't think anyone ever recommended that you store your wallet in MtGox long-term, either, but a whole lot of people did it and it's not like when that went sour everyone said, "Oh well, it was stupid of us to trust Mt Gox!
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Bit of a hyperbolic title for an entirely-speculative article here. I'm concerned about privacy myself and I wouldn't be running some surveillance camera that streams my video in anything but an end-to-end encrypted manner anyway,
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Pretty sure I'm not happy about something that I'd like to see be very secure (like, say, my BTC wallet) being described as "simple". For stuff like that, I think people prefer to land in the "security" side of
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Seems like you aren't actively developing, but if anyone ends up forking this, it would be nice to see a version that degrades cleanly without JS.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't see a problem with this, it's like storing new information by difference with old information. "This is a walkman, it is the same thing as a stereo, but it is small and portable and designed for a single user." I
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by x1798DE 12y ago
What is the point of ebay redirecting HTTPS versions of their site to an HTTP version? They have an EV cert and everything for the login page. Is it spite?
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'll actually go one further and say that if something has a web gateway that is mandatory, I specifically won't use it. I've used MyFitnessPal in the past, but when I tried to use it again recently, opening the app presented
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm talking about the requests people are concerned about, not nearly all the data requests that are made. I may be way off-base here, but I think that most people are not particularly uncomfortable with the idea that law enforcement c
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>Tell users about government data requests. To earn a star in this category, Internet companies must promise to tell users when the government seeks their data unless prohibited by law , in very narrow and defined emergency situations,[
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by x1798DE 12y ago
It's not surprising that Google and Facebook would be huge advocates against government and other use of their databases - I imagine the renewed fervor about end-to-end encryption and the increased skepticism of cloud services is reall
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by x1798DE 13y ago
It's not a bad thing for this specific article, no, but if going to the press becomes a dispute resolution strategy, that'd certainly be a bad thing for the health of Wikipedia as a whole. That said, I don't think the blog po
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by x1798DE 13y ago
Oh, my bad. I was confused by the "Honors credits" thing. I didn't go to high school and in my college they didn't have that sort of thing, so I assumed that it was a high school thing like turning a regular class into a
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by x1798DE 13y ago
If anything the problem with Wikipedia causing this is a PR problem, not a problem with the culture of Wikipedia. The articles I see are usually of the form, "I don't edit Wikipedia, I thought it would be this way, but it's a
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by x1798DE 13y ago
Looking at this particular case, I'd say the experience would have been much better if the teacher had been an experienced Wikipedia editor or had contacted one of the projects that deals with this sort of thing ahead of time to put th
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by x1798DE 13y ago
This seems to be a story that happens a lot these days - someone tries to make changes to a Wikipedia article, the changes are reverted and they make a blog post or run to the media about how unfair Wikipedia is. There are about 3 paragraph
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by x1798DE 13y ago
Who would be the counter-party in that bet? If someone said, "I'll bet you a hundred thousand dollars that I won't blow up that lighthouse", I'd say, "No thanks.", since the outcome of the bet is entirely
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by x1798DE 13y ago
This seems remarkably useless. Their only use case they present is figuring out how many calories are in the things you eat, which you can already figure out by looking it up by name (chances are if you are finding and eating random things
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by x1798DE 13y ago
Another version of the same thing - encrypt your phone with a large key file stored in memory (like an 8096-bit SSL private key or something). If you don't take some action (logging in, etc) every 30 minutes, the key file is deleted, r