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alecmuffett

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    What did Hart say about comity?

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    One of the hardest problems you can face is getting a community of disparate developers to do the right thing at scale; sometimes the easiest solution for that is a monolithic inte…

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    OP here. I am sympathetic, really I am, but the challenge then is a diversity of solutions tends to lack really good high quality security systems integration, meaning that data le…

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    ...in the UK riots

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    I kinda agree (and I wrote the cited article) but as soon as you pick a number (2^40? 2^64? 2^80? 2^128?) you are painting a huge target on your forehead, when it's better to teach…

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    That's my point, yes.

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    nicely put.

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    Comment #31333067

    Analysis thread, beginning with link to full-text PDF of draft law: https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1524066299600683008

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    Confusingly, perhaps intentionally so, it's a global number, not a UK one. Details here. https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902 Disclosure: I wrote the blogpost.

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    Author of original blogpost here; I am seeing a lot of discussion here about "what constitutes a public group?" and so I wrote this to help with the discussion. https://alecmuffett…