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by flossposse 3mo ago
But were the zines evidence of a crime? I haven't been able to find any indication in the public records that they were. If on Saturday my brother gets arrested and on Monday before school I stop by his house to pick up the textbooks
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by flossposse 3mo ago
The problem I see here is that many of the things in the "Things that would break the promise" section are pretty much guaranteed to occur - we don't have effective mechanisms to prevent them. Tracking and de-anonymization a
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by flossposse 3mo ago
Sometimes, the point of argument is not to convince the ego-driven person you're arguing with, but the others who are watching.
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by flossposse 3mo ago
> If someone called you up and told you that the magazine contained evidence of a crime, the police ard looking for them, and asked you to hide the magazines, would your assumptions change? Because that seems to be what happened here. Is
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by flossposse 3mo ago
> The 30 year sentence was for hiding documentation being sought under a federal warrant Can you cite a source to support the claim that the stuff he transported was being sought under a federal warrant at the time he transported it? An
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by flossposse 3mo ago
See https://freedes.net to join the community in support of Des. (That's Mr. Estrada, not Data Encryption Standard)
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by flossposse 4mo ago
We cannot rely on millions of individual workers to take expensive stands on principle. And they shouldn't have to. It's an essential duty for lawmakers and regulators to design the rules of the marketplace in such a way that w
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by flossposse 6mo ago
By playing this game I'm helping to train AI how to be less detectable?
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by flossposse 6mo ago
>Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs. Of course, as AI reduces the cost to operate in niches, those small businesses who just gained the ability to
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by flossposse 6mo ago
I agree with you that it's about tradeoffs. The cost ($$$, opportunity cost, and mental toll) of maintenance is very real. It can be hugely advantageous to outsource that effort to a professional, PROVIDED the professional is trustwort
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by flossposse 7mo ago
Alcohol is harmful, and you want to prevent minors from obtaining it without parental supervision. Do you pass a law requiring every car to log the age of every occupant in case the driver drives to an establishment that sells alcohol? No
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by flossposse 10mo ago
A security camera, on its own, doesn't tell the grocery store who you are. There was a time when CCTV didn't even exist and yet we still had commerce. "What we've got" isn't "the best we can do". Th
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by flossposse 10mo ago
If the definition of "fun" sites doesn't even include anything with a login (no youtube, no forums, no HN...), then it feels like it includes so little as to be meaningless. The "business" internet (at least most o
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by flossposse 10mo ago
I don't think separate browsers is a very effective mitigation. If both browsers are running on the same machine, from the same ip address, using the same email address for logins, the same phone number for 2FA, it will be pretty clea
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by flossposse 10mo ago
> You cannot have a functioning "Business Internet" without identity verification. Yes, you can. Just like you can have a functioning grocery store without checking the identity of each shopper that walks through the door. Wha
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Nov. 8 is Aaron Swartz day(archive.org)
18 points by flossposse 10mo ago|1 comments
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by flossposse 1y ago
Is there any effective way to signal to the users who care that your product is committed to Free/Libre Open source principles without also making it sound lame?
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by flossposse 1y ago
It has been truly frustrating when arms dealers are punished for what is essentially reckless behavior from warlords, dictators, and drug cartels.
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by flossposse 1y ago
I think the HN crowd is especially vocal about the tech industry in particular because that's the industry a lot of us have first-hand knowledge of - we know from personal observation that it is anything but airtight
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by flossposse 1y ago
> Your location is still being leaked potentially, for example, by your car. Your car also has a cellular modem which leaks your location, and you probably signed a contract allowing that data to be given to hundreds of third-parties. Ok
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by flossposse 1y ago
This is long overdue. Cisco's decade-long refusal to deliver binaries, or even hashes of the binaries, over an https connection astounds me.
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by flossposse 1y ago
Developing in the open would make contributions from the community way more viable, would give the public the ability to see what's coming and prepare for it, would increase the likelihood that security vulnerabilities or other bad thi
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by flossposse 2y ago
The "details" in the article are pretty scant. Curious how this actually works.
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Google shares details on its plan to ditch SMS codes(androidauthority.com)
3 points by flossposse 2y ago|1 comments
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by flossposse 2y ago
Counterexample: TextNow offers a "free"(ad-supported) mobile phone service, yet people overwhelmingly prefer to pay for T-Mobile.
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by flossposse 2y ago
> People prefer ads to paying. People's use of ad-driven services should not be taken as a true expression of their preferences, or as consent. The data that is collected in the name of ad-tech is used for many things other than to
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by flossposse 2y ago
If Apple really wanted to maximize privacy, they wouldn't be constantly collecting so much information in the first place (capture the network traffic from an apple device sometime - it's crazy). User interactions on Apple devices
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by flossposse 2y ago
Green, (the author), makes an important point: > a technical guarantee is different from a user promise. [...] End-to-end encrypted messaging systems are intended to deliver data securely. They don’t dictate what happens to it next. The
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by flossposse 3y ago
A bigger problem, IMO, is that companies are allowed to hold and exploit this data in the first place, with no obligations to act in their customer's interests. Google and Apple arguably govern our lives just as much as the actual gov