cyphunk

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by cyphunk 7y ago
Actually it's been reported very widely in Germany as well with exactly this headline.
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by cyphunk 7y ago
Is the connectivity layer considered: Is the 3rd party "proxy" handler uploading the information using an Apple ID? Does Apple record, store IP information? It seems to me that by using this system you volunteer to send data to Ap
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by cyphunk 7y ago
Buying max RAM from start is a $200 extra which may validate saved space. Not justified is soldered SSD. Ive doubled SSD size once a year to extend laptop life by 6 or 7 years.
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by cyphunk 7y ago
The comments in this thread indicate clearly, I think, why we should never listen to engineers on social topics and questions.
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by cyphunk 7y ago
Note that these models are created in an era of great inequality. You can expect that if at any point a correction is made to this disparity these numbers will also be effected.
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by cyphunk 7y ago
Additional information about the companies use of slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company#Slave...
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by cyphunk 8y ago
also if in the future we actually make cellular standards where encryption isn't demarcated at the tower and instead setup e2e between consumer devices, some risks are mitigated it's really a shame that with both 4g and 5g standar
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by cyphunk 8y ago
most abuse mitigated by their limits on the number of downloads allowed and how many days it can stay online. Currently at 7 days max and 100 downloads. If they see abuse they could reduce this further. about revenue, there are so many valu
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by cyphunk 8y ago
There are many use cases where compromise through code-interdiction after warrant is a perfectly acceptable risk. Also considering what it replaces may further increase the weight of privacy gain. Absolutism is definitely not the way to go,
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Could someone explain why this is on HN? I ask because this comes up often on other non-tech topics. Personally I'm happy these topics can be discussed here.
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Overlooked: the apathy required to become techno-mercenaries started with the agents convincing themselves that spying on nationals was different than foreign nationals while working in the NSA. To resist this apathy cyber intelligence agen
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by cyphunk 8y ago
most comments are thoughts and opinions and only few provide new critique. The OP comment here, though presented in an obnoxious way, is new critique because no one else has discussed the civil liberty bias deployed by agents. Though the OP
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Taking the sources of the article on their word... They said the tools use faded in late 2017 due to apple patches and that compromise required only sending a text message. Examining CVE's up until late 2017 may give more of an idea of
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by cyphunk 8y ago
I can't see how autonomous cars and Musky holes will be good for common people and not just turn into another form of exclusive transport for the rich.
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by cyphunk 8y ago
until recently i tried using firefox to quarantine social media and google but the persona extensions would break all the time, leaving me to reconfigure things over and over. Is there another way to quarantine now?
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Not about BAT,cryptocurrency. It's all about usable privacy. Makes it easy for me to quarantine Google services, social media, from each other. Privacy as the killer feature is what makes it killer
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by cyphunk 8y ago
eventually this (e2e encryption everywhere) will happen once governments realize their security and secrecy depends on the security of consumer technology and to protect the public is to protect themselves.
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by cyphunk 8y ago
This doesn’t explain how amazon has removed capability for themselves to mitm the whole process. Or perhaps I missed that part somewhere?
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Your a stasi department in charge of monitoring the activity of privileged children (able to afford and get smuggled goods which from what I’m told was something most stasi family could afford to do) whom many probably have parents above yo
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Is the OP Swiss and wants it hosted where he/she lives? I'd be fine with that as an alternative to US, but do not understand why that would be better than, say, Sweden
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Are there by chance any samples with Arabic in this framework? Hoping it resolves the large size disparity between Latin and Arabic font sizes
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by cyphunk 8y ago
This could be a tradeoff. But also, I have full disk encryption and an index I can search that is itself encrypted. Eventually doing this over internet wires will not be an issue, and may not be much of an issue for many already. To your se
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by cyphunk 8y ago
> A defense contractor for the CIA named John Reidy claims he warned the agency that it was using insecure communications systems in 2008, and again in 2010 when he started to suspect the channels had been cracked. A year later he was fi
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Landgrabbing is always unexpected
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by cyphunk 8y ago
I would like to use this product but it feels irresponsible to do so. Why are we still making technology that stores such personal information without data being encrypted end-2-end?
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Companies paying workers 3 to 10 times the average wage for an area adds real stress. Berlin's problems are that, and also: + A global shift toward freelance and remote work letting people take a risk and move to a new place. + The fir
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by cyphunk 8y ago
It's not about being smart enough. It's about time required to retrain and the cost to do so. Until Google, or PeidPeiper, have a on-job training program sufficient enough that they can walk into every Shop of Kreutzberg and say &
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by cyphunk 8y ago
The problem with "guess they don't want jobs" argument is that Google is not like Ford Motor Company. When they move into your town and your rents double you can't just be retrained. When a company that requires special
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Absolutely! Everyone I spoke with and suggested google move into the newly built and absolutely hated Stadtschloss in the center loved the idea.
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by cyphunk 8y ago
Actually a large faction of the protest has been getting local businesses off of google services and educating a thirsty public about alternatives. Most people in kreutzberg already thought of google as evil. their foothold organized people

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