SeanMacConMara

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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
Interesting reaction. Is the highly negative reaction correlated with US culture maybe ? I've used them for many years and had several complex support interactions with them. Their customer service policy is very "API-like" i
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
I think we are talking at cross purposes. If the chips are tightly integrated propriatary black boxes like on most hw then from my POV its _physcially_ possible for them to read anything regardless of what the designers/industry say be
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
It's not FUD. It's about different threat models. General design failures/bugs from assumed acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers vs not-acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers. Assuming the radio's are t
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
i was referring to the "golden age" of captive eyeballs ie eveyone watched lots of TV and mostly could not avoid seeing most of the ads. at least we've had ad blockser on browsers that work well up to now the tracking of web
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
consider the concept that lots of businesses operate perfectly fine whilst temporarily having full physical control over physcial objects owned by their customers why not treat data the same way ? yes it will be very disruptive to some bus
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
im happy to just block/not visit those entire domains there comes a point when the content is just not worth it doesnt scale obviously we're headed back to the "golden age" of TV advertising except via http instead of ra
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
i fear people will "want it" when it gets good enough the combination of "dumb screen(TV?) as interface" with "any/all content* you want (cheaper with ads)" will be very attractive to the 99% of humans who
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
i hate ads i cant avoid seeing because my agency to do that has been subverted. i will attempt to acquire tools to avoid that in future. i dislike ads as 99.??% are effectively automated insults. "buy this or you are lessened" ove
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
is ordering silence and secretly seizing control of the publication technology (ie website) then maintaining a false warrant canary a way around compelled speech ? if so then regular live press-conference/video appearances would be the
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
An important detail in the US juristiction certainly. On a practical basis i cannot evaluate the jurisprudence involved and I would assume the number of people who credibly can is very small, especially in the context of "secret courts
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
A warrant canary is utterly useless as a defense. Any secret legal order to alter IT systems (the specific threat model it is most often suggested for) can logically also include an order to maintain a fake warrant canary.
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by SeanMacConMara 7y ago
Did your "learning about" include sitting in meetings with legal during contract planning and C-level strategy meetings for market domination ?
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
Awesome maths. A practical problem I see is that even if everyone used this everywhere, an attacker has no reason to believe any forceably decrypted plaintext. The disclosing party would have had to beforehand craft a fake plaintext that wa
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
continue button doesnt even work without disabling all my browser security. no thanks.
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
They have no hope until they fix the terrible audio quality on Linux that appeared several months ago.
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
If your threat model includes any sovereign state's intelligence agency then a warrant canary is worse than useless. Given their other widely abused powers it is likely trivial to force a normal company to continue business as normal a
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
> Well, your cat will also likely be very cruel if it ever caches a mouse or a bird I'm no expert but I vaguely recall hearing from non-trivial sources that this is a common but inaccurate misrepresentation as regards their "in
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
the _nearest_ star is actually quiet close :-]
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
Both stories literally feature mechanically automated fast-food outlets. care to elaborate your pov please ?
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm pops to mind. again.
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
Elite Dangerous doesn't have that excuse. You can play in a "NPCs only" mode but still cannot pause/quit at will.
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
baby steps ...
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
The sovereign state called "The Republic of Ireland" is not leaving the EU as part of Brexit. The sovereign state called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" is leaving the EU as part of Brexit.
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
>What does privacy rules have to do with monopoly or anti-trust? They are becoming related. Monopoly laws traditionally apply to commercial transactions. Facebook's customers are not experiencing a monopoly, they can easily switch t
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
a few points Thanks Nothing about this is trivial. This is not nationalism. There should be no pride in our creation or solution to our portion of this moronic mess. The obvious was ommitted because it was obvious. The banks are only "
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
>they needed the higher-tax countries to bail them out just a few years ago: You have that the wrong way around. The Irish taxpayers, unwillingly, covered the massive gambling losses of private individuals and companies(including a group
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
cheers!
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
>Uhm, no. It just means that people are hovering over links with their mouse. in my case every single time was by accident whilst moving the mouse around, off of other text I was trying to read. frankly, its bloody annoying it covered th
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
Admirable enthusiasm, but I beleive this is a legal problem not a software/product one. The network effect can only be broken by fashion or laws requiring completely free movement of users and all their data among competitors for ALL o
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by SeanMacConMara 8y ago
maybe replace "managers/leaders/public servants" with "shareholders/party donors" to really ruffle feathers also , why settle for a level playing field ? why not high privacy for citizens and high transpar

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