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dropoutcoder
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Comment #22951753
Maybe if one is able to activate the feedback feature and attach their CV, Google will offer a job interview.
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Ask HN: Gmail showing new ‘dev’ options at the bottom
My google apps / gmail account is showing two new links at the bottom left of my mobile web session. 1) In red is a link that says ‘Send internal feedback’. 2) Another link toggles…
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Comment #22672174
Cleaning after defecation really requires the skillful application of wet paper towel, then dry paper towel, followed by a shower with a removable shower head set to the laser sett…
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Comment #22526739
Eventide’s classic DSP4000b has algorithms for phone call sonic simulation. The patches are highly modular (and thus can be inspected for analysis - at least down to the blocks use…
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Comment #22510108
Rephrased, LE/IC will have a more difficult time fighting crime, not that they won't be able to fight crime at all.
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Comment #22509180
It's unclear why you've chosen to respond to my comment about my personal situation (which I'm not hiding at all), but I suspect you're trying to conflate something about my credib…
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Comment #22509127
Improving on the design of Exceptional Access systems isn't just about math, nor about considering the problems of key escrow. Rather, it's about considering how to reduce the risk…
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Comment #22509110
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission would disagree with you, just as one example.
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Comment #22509104
Your comment makes a laughably wrong assumption, and is also low value.
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Comment #22508990
(Fully expecting this comment to be destroyed.) If you give E2EE to the masses, then the endpoints will need to remain vulnerable by design, or LE/IC won't be able to do their jobs…
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Comment #22495493
I have lived in {} since the mid 2000’s. Stalking by strangers and acquaintances has gotten out of hand in (at least) the past five years. (Any such behavior against me has since c…
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Comment #22480642
Very nice. Also check out ELK which is a much more ambitious such project. Https://elk.audio
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Comment #22478319
Yesterday, a fellow customer of one of the big US wireless telecom carriers received a spoofed call from my mobile number. He called me up thinking I had called him, and we started…
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Comment #22437380
Currently but maybe there’s another way Too much at stake Balance of power God bless America I’m concerned Programmer geniuses often can’t see the forest for the trees This one iss…
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Comment #22429333
In America, our govt
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Comment #22429290
I did
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Comment #22428377
Semantics aside, if FB isn’t allowed to use the math behind E2EE, they’ve effectively been stopped from using math. Just trying to avoid getting into the weeds. Similarly to you qu…
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Comment #22428292
Having exceptional access is important to keeping and improving society. It’s unethical to ignore and fight LE’s ongoing needs regarding such access. E2EE at scale, unchecked, is a…
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Comment #22427851
Two parties or three, how can three parties keep a secret versus two
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Comment #22427728
It was the secret police with pr You can stop math. Legally stop fb from using E2EE. You’ve stopped math. You haven’t stopped some people from using it. But you’ve prevented common…
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Comment #22427689
I’m suggesting to rethink the problem fundamentally. Minimize abuses of an exceptional access system. The problem with purely technical folks is often an inability to socially tran…
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Comment #22427445
If it comes to pass that the department of justice insists on implementation of Exceptional access it would be who’ve the civil libertarians to work towards a better compromise. He…
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Comment #22427423
Minimize or eliminate misuse through fundamental rethink of the solution.
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Comment #22427143
Thanks for that. The goal is to design a system that prevents abuses. A technological solution to the ape problem would be helpful.