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by thw0rted 5y ago
You know that's based on a comic from like half a century ago, right?
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by thw0rted 5y ago
I'm not arguing against democracy: it's the worst system except all the other ones. I didn't think much of Brexit, I think they really shafted themselves, but at the same time I get the strong impression that EU governance i
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Maybe I'm just too jaded but I don't think "making voices heard" matters -- in the link I posted upthread, the overwhelming majority of voters did not want the Chat Control measure to pass, but it did anyway, "for t
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Your post I originally replied to said > They've tried to do this for decades and have failed.... Let's see how voters like it. My "point" is that I thought the same way you did -- look what a mess Clipper Chip was, t
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by thw0rted 5y ago
If you think EU policy only impacts the EU, you didn't pay attention to what happened with GDPR. Some companies might scan only EU-to-EU communications, some might scan communications where only one end is in the EU, and some might ju
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by thw0rted 5y ago
If you care about the issue, this post[1] does a pretty good job explaining what people are worried about. 1: https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/929-On...
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by thw0rted 5y ago
If you believe this, then you don't understand what their system can do.
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Just to be clear, the EU already voted to allow snooping, the law "currently in the works" is to require it: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la...
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Bad news, buddy: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/?la... ETA: in short, about a month ago they did get the votes, at least in the EU, and it's now "allowed" for provider
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Does that 30k number include iCloud Photo data? Do you have a citation for this?
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by thw0rted 5y ago
I posted more detail upthread but what I've found suggests that Apple does have a key to decrypt pictures but they claim to use it only to respond to a warrant. (They could of course be lying about that, but I don't believe they
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by thw0rted 5y ago
From everything that I've read, iCloud Photo Library is currently encrypted on the server, with a key that Apple only uses when presented with a warrant. If I ran the company (disclaimer: I do not) I'd implement this with an airg
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by thw0rted 5y ago
... if a human actually gets the file, figures out what type it is, and examines it for themselves, they'd be obligated to report it. With the number of Win10 devices in the world, how big would their security team have to be to hand
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Tweens, yes. Teens can be opted into the feature but it only offers the (teen) user a warning before viewing the image, it never notifies the parent.
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Well, since Talking About Statistics Is Hard, you have to look at the exact phrasing from the website: it "ensures less than a one in one trillion chance per year of incorrectly flagging a given account". So, each of those billio
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by thw0rted 5y ago
I think your take is correct but doesn't answer the question about why this matching has to take place on the device, if it's only for photos that are going into iCloud, and the iCloud contents are already being stored unencrypted
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by thw0rted 5y ago
I still don't understand how there are people on HN who think that giving their kids less access to technology is somehow a virtuous position to take. When I was the same age as my kids I could have gotten into all sorts of shit on
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by thw0rted 5y ago
Dumb question: do we know from what they've released publicly if it will be possible for security researchers to snag a copy of the database, perform the same perceptual hash algorithm on a given image, and determine if there's a
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by thw0rted 5y ago
If the software is scanning everything, and they were already scanning uploaded content, why have a press release at all? If you're deploying an unrestricted panopticon to all your devices, why on earth would you go to the trouble of
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by thw0rted 5y ago
"It is an effective deterrent" to using this one specific platform to distribute CSAM. The problem with this solution is the exact same problem with the tired old "solution" to E2E encryption that gets trotted out eve
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by thw0rted 5y ago
From that same page: "Apple further transforms this database into an unreadable set of hashes that is securely stored on users’ devices". The phone is downloading the hash database.
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by thw0rted 5y ago
2021 is the Year of the Linux Handheld?
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by thw0rted 5y ago
For a backup use case, I haven't been able to beat the value of a Microsoft premium-whatever family plan. Routinely on sale for $60/yr, it gets you 1TB of backup plus an Office license for 6 users. Obviously you don't have a
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by thw0rted 5y ago
It probably helps that it sounds like you mostly use it as a dumb terminal. If you had a compute-intensive workload, it would make sense to upgrade, since even a quite powerful 12-year-old desktop is likely outperformed by a current-model
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by thw0rted 6y ago
This. They did a bad job of explaining why they chose an expiration date in the draft RFC[1]. > If information and resources referenced in a "security.txt" file are incorrect or not kept up to date, this can result in security
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by thw0rted 6y ago
Unless, apparently, you're trying to post your sweet new email address. Honest question: if this takes off, do you think HN will stop stripping them?
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by thw0rted 6y ago
AFAIK, when collapsed the ribbon interface should take up no more vertical space than a conventional menu. This is mostly a user education issue -- I think if they shipped products where the ribbon was collapsed by default, people wouldn&#x
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by thw0rted 6y ago
The ribbon gets a lot of grief, but I think it is a step forward from conventional menus in discoverability. The secret is having multiple types and sizes of controls. If you have 3 top level menu items with 4 option each, a user can very
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by thw0rted 6y ago
On desktop at least, there is a very subtle vertical line coming out of the top of the avatar image of the linked tweet. When you start to scroll up, you'll see that this line is part of the "thread" indicator that links a
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by thw0rted 6y ago
There's a variant / corollary of the Efficient Market Hypothesis here, though. Let's say the GP's XML library has The GTA Bug, i.e. it uses a quadratic-performance loop when parsing. The bug will go undiscovered until a

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