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by ds9 12y ago
The networking of "things" is not a problem as long as you can opt out of it. Can you stop the toaster of the future from talking to the vendor, the crock pot, Google, the neighbors, your router? Policy-wise we need a requirement
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by ds9 12y ago
"an open conversation about knowledge that can easily kill people" This phrase and the article contain the same fallacy ( ("disclosing 0days when they can kill people"). I may be accused of semantic quibbling here, but
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The Post-Snowden Surveillance World: Network Effects, ...(techdirt.com)
3 points by ds9 12y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 12y ago
"My recommendation is to plan privacy ahead. Think of your product as something that should not 'keep everything, analyze later' but 'keep what we must, and dump the rest'." This is what we call "solving t
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by ds9 12y ago
Even a "correct" tap installation might cause an outage due to the particulars of optical-fiber manipulation. There have been occasional reports of cable breaks in the news - I've noticed since about the 1990s. They have been
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by ds9 12y ago
Well said. How to get there is a difficult question - particularly the political question of how to get better policies in place. It is effectively a test of democracy, whether the people in each country (the majority of whom, I assume, pre
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by ds9 12y ago
My first thought was, wow, they could have had computers based on sets of these connected in different ways, as logic circuits. As I recall from the Stephenson version, Turing and co. were using something similar in the analog days.
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by ds9 12y ago
I meant that sending logon + password is somewhat pointless if it's plaintext over the internet, while if you have some encryption going on, someone intercepting the data in transit would have a harder time using it to trick the client
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by ds9 12y ago
This is the right answer and it's too bad it was way down the page (I upvoted). For your situation, mark_I_watson, probably get a cert from a CA, the cheap "domain only" variety where you can verify your site to the CA simply
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by ds9 12y ago
Amusingly, the areas where the most US Americans are familiar with SI are gun calibers and recreational drugs. [n] (OK, I may have a warped sense of humor, but it's true) n. (not taught in schools)
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by ds9 12y ago
As a USian I can testify that there's a lot of irrational opposition here. Disclaimer: I don't have scientific sources on this, just subjective impressions from a lot of little interactions and clues. The resistance seems to be la
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by ds9 12y ago
Ghostery, the last time I checked it out was closed-source, subject to control or influence by advertisers, and reporting to the vendor about users' browsing. Clearly lots of people like it, but I would consider it gross breach of my
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by ds9 12y ago
Somehow I'm missing your point. If sites make requests to Google Analytics, Google APIs, etc., then anyone who looks at those sites and allows the requests is being tracked and data-mined, and is contributing to Google's power as
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by ds9 12y ago
I wonder whether it is also a bad practice to set the contact email to an address on one of the domains that that registrar controls. I.e., register example.com with DomainCo, and your contact is whatever@example.com? I actually do this and
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by ds9 12y ago
Yes, it's called front-running. There have been accusations against some registrars in the tech news. I just go to register as soon as I'm sure I would like the domain name. That way, worst case it's already registered, best
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by ds9 12y ago
Deleting the emails would have put Levison/Lavabit in violation of long-established law (destruction of evidence is a crime). Note that with PFS (if I recall correctly, Lavabit did not use PFS), preserving past emails does not help the
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by ds9 12y ago
It's not exactly illegal, and the new secret-orders tactics are the government's workaround. In the 1990s there was a series of political/legal conflicts over encryption, which was about to go mainstream (the whole episode is
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by ds9 12y ago
"When you say Levison's system made claims it couldn't possibly backup, do you mean that from a technical perspective, or from a legal perspective?" Both. I can't speak for tptacek but can explain his comment. Lavab
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by ds9 12y ago
That's actually a contradiction. DRM and security are mutually exclusive. The level of control that enables a remote party to "trust" a computer makes it impossible for the owner to have a rational basis for trusting it. For
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by ds9 12y ago
Thanks for saying that. It's remarkable that so many writers will declare a subjective preference as if it were an objective fact ("$SOME_UI is so ugly!"). Although I also agree with "remembering just how unimportant thi
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by ds9 12y ago
"How would content producers possibly deter copying without exerting control on the consumption hardware and software?" Imagine this fictional scenario. Copyright owners sell audio and audio/video files for download. These ar
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by ds9 12y ago
Teaching concepts as well as techniques is definitely the way to go. The problem with "Common Core" appears to be that complex procedures have been selected as the way to teach concepts. Taking the problem in the illustration, sub
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by ds9 12y ago
Compliments on making it a deal for the "whole piece" instead of per-page. The latter invites a scam where sites would break an article into many small segments, and when the vistor finds out, he/she has paid for at least one
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by ds9 12y ago
Edit: It's said to be a downloadable extra at user option. The Moz page description of the sandbox says the CDM won't have any system access, so it could not distinguish whether PMP is there or not, except maybe by flags in the in
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by ds9 12y ago
I'm not even clear on whether ATT lets subscribers opt out. Does the offer say you can opt out of the wiretapping or that you can opt out of only the targeted ads? If you care about privacy, the DPI is the enemy, and the ad-targeting
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by ds9 12y ago
They're probably selling the opportunity to ad networks. IOW, the site operator 'O' contracts with ad network 'A', and A uses data from the ISP to decide which ads to serve to which clients via O's site. So the
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by ds9 12y ago
Just about the time of the previous revelation of computers from outside the US being intercepted by TLAs, my new Lenovo was delayed for a long time in some customs facility (according to UPS tracking). Software is not a concern as I blew a
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by ds9 12y ago
The Dulles area is known as a hub for US spook-agency headquarters and activities. It's not obvious tho that this is suspicious - there's also a big airport there and it could be just a shipping facility. I guess the argument is t
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by ds9 12y ago
Article should note its US bias - this looks like exclusively Hollywood stuff. Meanwhile, recently I've enjoyed Borgen, Bron, Akta Manniskor, Green Wing... Edit: correction taken, there are a few UK shows - maybe the criterion is Engli
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Tough NZ comms interception, network security law kicks in(itnews.com.au)
2 points by ds9 12y ago|0 comments

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