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by zmanian 10y ago
ACLU press release https://www.aclunc.org/news/santa-clara-county-passes-ground...
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by zmanian 10y ago
This doesn't directly impact a huge population. But because of the relentless support of Supervisor Simitian, it was a good test case. It will be much easier to move forward in larger cities now.
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by zmanian 10y ago
Is there any document or talk that really explains how all the crypto pieces fit together?
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by zmanian 10y ago
Ethereum is an cryptocurrency retailer and exchange platform. Coinbase should support cryptocurrencies where there is customer demand and backed by credible technical teams. Bitcoin and Ethereum both meet that criteria. I wish Coinbase had
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by zmanian 10y ago
At least on Debian based systems, running Tor as a daemon is trvial. There is even apt tor to fetch updates over Tor. There hidden service config is pretty simple as well. We should write more functionality for servers that let them setup h
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by zmanian 10y ago
Tor is a solution for both anonynmity & privacy and censorship evasion. I2P is oriented primarily towards anonymity and privacy. I2P has an attractive anonymous service design and can run applications like Bittorrent over it. But it als
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by zmanian 10y ago
The combination of watering hole attacks and internet scale packet timing collection is pretty big problem for the security of Tor users. Fortunately Internet wide timing attacks are mostly a Five Eyes and domestic Chinese capability. Chaff
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by zmanian 10y ago
I'm very excited about a number of innovations being deployed in next gen onion servers. The distributed random number generator is very cool. The blinded ed25519 public keys for the rendezvous servers are also super awesome. Funding t
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by zmanian 10y ago
The Signal protocol is for all intents asymptote the state of the art in the design of a secure messaging protocol. There doesn't seem to be any meaningful improvements to the design without changing the requirements. New requirements
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New Rustlang error format(internals.rust-lang.org)
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by zmanian 10y ago
I'm really happy using Crouton on a Pixel 2 as my main dev machine.
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by zmanian 10y ago
I think it is possible to create a movement against Feinstein. But it would be most powerful to turn the party against her. I don't think she would hold her position if other Democrats came to her and said she was hurting fundraising.
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by zmanian 10y ago
Lavabit wasn't end to end encrypted. DarkMail will be.(Assuming it ever materializes)
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by zmanian 10y ago
I'm pretty sure magma is basically the original Lavabit code.
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by zmanian 10y ago
The thesis here is that having a personalized healthy baseline for many bookmakers will be far more powerful than comparing a diagnostic against population based averages. Also that higher time frequency I the data will also be revealing.
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by zmanian 10y ago
The noise protocol is great candidate for an everything crypto protocol. http/2 and TLS1.3 are great but make some assumptions that might not be right for everything. Whats App is using Noise now in their apps.
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by zmanian 10y ago
The poor drafting of the bill is reflective of lack of support from groups who have the expertise to produce a more realistic bill like NSA lawyers. The bill reflects the lack of cooperation from the Intelligence Community that has been rep
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by zmanian 10y ago
Technically literate folks need to treat encryption regulation the way gun enthusiasts treat gun control. This must become utterly politically toxic to get involved with.
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by zmanian 10y ago
Take whatever money you were planning on spending to support Democrats this election and give it to Planned Parenthood and the EFF until this bill is withdraw
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by zmanian 10y ago
What Silicon Valley needs to make it's voice heard here and to do that they need to pull back donations not just to Feinstein but to the Democratic Party until this disaster is withdrawn
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The Text of Feinstein/Burr Encryption Backdoor Bill(scribd.com)
5 points by zmanian 11y ago|2 comments
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by zmanian 11y ago
I'd suspect that the hardpart wouldn't be finding payloads that can surived the G forces but building a rocket that that can. If the rocket could be stored in in-compressible fluid,then the mechanism to eject the rocket from fluid
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by zmanian 11y ago
Yes binary transparency for package managers is extremely needed esp because we've been widely publicizing this vulnerability a lot now with no real fix.
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by zmanian 11y ago
Joanna has proposed a model where we minimize the trust we put in x86 with a peripheral. Seems like a plausible path forward to me. http://blog.invisiblethings.org/2015/12/23/state_harmful.htm...
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by zmanian 11y ago
I'm super excited to see a Mandarin speaking team building something in Spanner class of databases.
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by zmanian 11y ago
Intel ME checks to see if a certain portion of the BIOS flash memory is writable before it allows the main OS to boot. What x86 Chromebooks do is they allow that region to be writeable but then zero that region on every boot. If your ME was
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California's proposed crypto backdoor bill turns into a tax on secure devices(zdnet.com)
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by zmanian 11y ago
Tor 224 proposes moving hidden service addresses to full ed25519 keys rather than truncated hashes of RSA keys amongst other things. https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/224...
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by zmanian 11y ago
In 2013, the initial Snowden documents instantly clarified for me that mass surveillance was the most pressing threat to democracy. I've been working loosely with EFF and ACLU on Surveillance issues for nearly three years. The process
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by zmanian 11y ago
I'd read it as they really want to cancel but it looks better to judge to postpone now and they say later we hacked the phone ourselves or we broke the phone and now don't need Apple anymore.

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