caskance

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by caskance 10y ago
There's a big difference between "a little impedance" and "risks human life". War waged with robots will still cost money. If politicians make bad decisions, perhaps you should try fixing that instead of sacrificing
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by caskance 11y ago
A lot of people make stupid cases. Should giving birth be dangerous so that people are reluctant to have unwanted children? Should sending email be dangerous so that people receive less viagra spam?
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by caskance 11y ago
Of course there is. Every modern iPhone has a unique ID and its own private key.
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by caskance 11y ago
When that happens, sure, let's be happy. Until then, forgive us for not having an aligned interest in giant corporations being above the law.
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by caskance 11y ago
The only frightening part of your story is the insecurity of the human experts.
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by caskance 11y ago
Sure, in theory, 1password MIGHT have better private auditing and review. But there's no reason to believe they do. To the contrary, when asked about open sourcing 1password, one of their developers explained that they don't do fo
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by caskance 11y ago
Wants mean little. I want to marry Taylor Swift.
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by caskance 11y ago
Firstly, I said "perhaps deliberately, perhaps not" because I am not claiming that they intentionally wanted to provide security theater. I don't think that motive is relevant. I'm replying to a specific statement to exp
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by caskance 11y ago
Why value tangible benefits over intangible ones? Calling it an illusion implies that air travel is not safe, when in fact it is very safe. However, people did not feel safe, so the government constructed an agency (perhaps deliberately, pe
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by caskance 11y ago
I find it unlikely that consumers are as safety conscious as you imagine them to be. Think about how many people currently text or do other things to distract themselves while driving. They willingly choose less safety in order to be able t
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by caskance 11y ago
Even if they had similar access, a leak is still dangerous because it allows them to behave as if they have the information without divulging as much about their own capabilities.
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by caskance 11y ago
In my experience, the people who work with technology do the same, just with different sound bites.
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by caskance 11y ago
That feeling is warranted. Relative to the US, Bolivia is impotent.
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by caskance 11y ago
What does that have to do with what I said? Why do you think I mentioned life insurance?
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by caskance 11y ago
Why not? They are in some countries, like Finland. It seems to work OK.
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by caskance 11y ago
No matter how much social security is, some people will manage to spend so extravagantly that it is not enough. An anecdote of one such person is not very convincing.
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by caskance 11y ago
For most of us with dependents, that's what private life insurance is for. The social safety net is for people too poor or irresponsible to have life insurance.
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by caskance 11y ago
Search google for something like "microsoft tech support phone number"?
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by caskance 11y ago
Remittite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius.
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by caskance 11y ago
Hopefully it sounds like exactly what I said it was in the first sentence. The only part I could reasonably see as being called "speculative" is the second sentence of the first item, which is clearly marked as an inference.
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by caskance 11y ago
Which part of that comment was an unsupported assertion? The "assertion" that documents leaked in 2013 are now several years old? The "assertion" that not every single capability the NSA has ever developed is now public
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by caskance 11y ago
What Snowden leaked is a lower bound on the NSA's capabilities, not an upper one. And even in the "best" case, where he and the journalists involved exercised no discretion about what he leaked and no data was classified beyo
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by caskance 11y ago
In the house analogy, it's less of a backdoor and more like just walking through the wall.
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by caskance 11y ago
Any proof would obviously be classified. But there is a lot of circumstantial evidence. 1. He made the statement in the OP. That implies that normal people using modern encryption does not impose a significant barrier to the NSA doing their
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by caskance 11y ago
For most searches the average person does - aka I want to go to the wikipedia page or official site for X - the results are indistinguishable.
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by caskance 11y ago
Is Raymond Chen management? He's certainly one of the more respected Microsofters I know of.
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by caskance 11y ago
>An Indian- or Chinese-American can attain "no longer considered minority" (aka whiteness) Is this something white people actually believe? Successful minorities don't become white. They become weapons white people wield a
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by caskance 11y ago
If it wasn't clear, that was only one example. People in general do not pay for things like Consumer Reports.
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by caskance 11y ago
And Consumer Reports reaches about 7 million US households. Out of over 110 million. That's quite the definition of "most" you've got there.
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by caskance 11y ago
There's been plenty of reporting about the propensity towards terrorism in engineers specifically. Did you have a specific question, or do you just refuse to do your own research?

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