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by problems 9y ago
I seem to recall a video-based one that did something like this - it would tell you to make a specific facial posture to unlock the device, maybe Google's?
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by problems 9y ago
> ubiquity and userbase I'm not so sure about that - I recall having much better experiences when these sites were much smaller. Something about eternal september.
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by problems 9y ago
This has sort of happened in some spaces - in certain right-wing communities Twitter has been largely replaced by Gab, Patreon by the aptly named Hatreon, etc. The issue becomes more severe when it runs up against services that are hard or
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by problems 9y ago
> By the way, regulating CloudFlare by limiting its ability to choose customers would be unconstitutional under the 1st amendment, would it not? You're correct from a legal perspective, but Matthew Prince himself called it "dan
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by problems 9y ago
That's not how this works. With deniable encryption, it is entirely possible that there doesn't even exist a hidden volume to find. They will be unable to prove he has a hidden volume and surely a judge will not compel him for not
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by problems 9y ago
The same applies to facial recognition too.
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by problems 9y ago
This raises a major question though - what's the use case and threat model for facial recognition? If you're remotely concerned about security, clearly you're not going to use it. If you only care about preventing the casual
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by problems 9y ago
I got the impression that VeraCrypt was not being run very well and that the developers didn't have much security experience based on the audit report that came out. I didn't consider it a trustworthy project. Has anything changed
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, it works well enough - some pain, have to deactivate it to do the major updates and such on Win10, but it does work.
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by problems 9y ago
Fuck, that is absolutely nauseating. What's worse is that trustworthy deniable encryption - which would solve this - is practically non-existent now that TrueCrypt is gone.
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by problems 9y ago
I'm not disagreeing that it's poorer for security, but in practice under most threat models you'll be able to patch in time for it to not even matter. And you'd still need to patch, even if it was nicely sandboxed - gett
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by problems 9y ago
From blocks away ? Bullshit. Maybe from the next room using a CRT monitor. I'd love to see the study saying they're able to reliably get keystrokes or screen images from any significant distance.
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by problems 9y ago
I'm not so convinced Linux is a "tire fire". Just about everything has vulnerabilities and needs to be occasionally patched, doesn't mean we need to get into some sort of holy war every time there's a new exploit fo
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by problems 9y ago
I've felt the same way. I went from crappy low-end Android devices when I had no money in school to a Nexus 4 and I haven't seen reason to upgrade since. The only reasons I've done so have been because I cracked a screen and
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by problems 9y ago
Do you have to mail them like when you're correcting an error or is this available online or via phone?
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by problems 9y ago
It's actually not too bad, even on phones without "easily" replaceable batteries. Speaking for the OnePlus One and Nexus 5 the procedure is pretty straight forward: pop it open using plastic trim tools (which are often sold w
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, they're majorly helpful for transit commuters - you can avoid extended wait times, know when you can take a walk to the convenience store or even know when there's another or a bigger bus coming so you can decide whether it&
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by problems 9y ago
In Canada we've had contactless card readers for a few years now - the mobile payments are compatible with the exact same protocol, so instead of tapping your card you just tap your phone. I haven't even gotten any funny looks tap
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by problems 9y ago
Not only that, but they're doing things like Certificate Transparency - publishing every certificate they sign into public logs and they're funded and supported by some of the biggest names in online security and privacy. They&#x2
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by problems 9y ago
I'm not suggesting that - look at big professional projects like Lineage, Paranoid and others. I'd say it is a quite genuine option - you just need to know one person who can set you up once, updating is simple and streamlined.
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by problems 9y ago
I find it ironic that you're in the security industry, yet have no interest in getting security updates as quickly as possible. We're not talking about major updates here, we're talking about updates that take about 30 second
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by problems 9y ago
If you run custom ROMs on Android that situation is currently better than anything - you can still get updates for a Galaxy Nexus from 2011. Xiaomi is also currently providing official updates for 4+ years on some devices. The official situ
83.
by problems 9y ago
Not necessarily true - if you have the know how or know someone who does, you can run a custom rom on your Android device, Lineage is updated weekly for many devices and will easily provide many more years of life. Once it's set up it&
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by problems 9y ago
New battery is about $10, not exactly a blocker, but they do increase the price.
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by problems 9y ago
RSS does give us this. http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss TinyTinyRSS and Fever make it a pretty good experience too.
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by problems 9y ago
Yeah, and even with that extreme measure taken, Bulletproof found them a new domain on the .at TLD, check the whois for dailystomer.at
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by problems 9y ago
I think this has been answered many times over, even the most extreme free speech absolutists tend to agree that direct, specific threats are unacceptable. General, non-specific threats and expressing joy about violent acts however... opini
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by problems 9y ago
They've been using onion domains to provide service while their clearnet site is unavailable - so the technical solutions do indeed exist. They're just harder to use. Of course, the other option is to find someone who does want to
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by problems 9y ago
Did modules/import not make the final revision? I was quite looking forward to that feature.
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by problems 9y ago
It's not "better-safe-than-sorry", but a simple cost-benefit analysis of the risks and stakes presented. Depends on your lifestyle and how valuable you think these things are, but I find these things almost entirely valueless

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