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Thanks for the recommendation! Here's a PDF version of it: https://mises.org/library/driver

>what happens when messaging with ciphertext becomes illegal Back in the late 90s, Ron Rivest proposed Chaffing and Winnowing [0]. In that scheme, no ciphertext is transmitted and …

>they were first treated as a single group of lock-step individuals by those looking to oppress them. Is it crazy that to respond, they respond as a group? I think it plays into th…

>it seems pretty reasonable to assume all third-party elements on the web are hostile. The trouble is that a lot of good and bad JS/CSS/content is gotten from third-party sites. So…

I see two issues here: (1) Whether LE agencies are actually finding it more-and-more difficult to access devices that employ encryption. I think this is plausibly true, simply beca…

>I’m finding that “social networks” should be a consequence of a product that solves a real problem, not that product’s raison d’etre. Facebook mainly solves one problem: How do I …

I doubt this could ever be used to arbitrarily read minds. Even if you could do the measurements without the targer knowing, you would have to somehow correlate the target's real t…

Can arithmetic be applyied to NaN a la i? (e.g. 5 + 2 * NaN = 5 + 2NaN)

Suppose this were an individual's own blog post: "I was a racist prior to the 70s. Here's some articles where I show clear racism from that time. In the 70s I had a change of heart…

This is an excellent article. From the Wiki article on the Dalai Lama[0]: >Since the time of the fifth Dalai Lama, his personage has always been a symbol of unification of the stat…

>Territorial Dispute will search files on the infected computer for file names and registry keys known to have been used by malware deployed by other nation-state hacking groups. T…

>Google is the weapon used by all the groups involved. This also shows that Google is a power-deficient gate-keeper, because they are buckling under pressure over search results. S…

Honestly, having two computers has been the only way I can sanely function at work. We have to use Windows for at least one application. My solution has been to setup a second desk…

Virtues are generally disregarded by those who seek instant gratification. Most of the times that I bring up the concept of virtue to my peers in age they seem either confused with…

> users are treated as both beta-testers and maintainters, and are expected to find and fix bugs themselves. FWIW, this is probably both an historical attitude and a population dif…

> Recent Intel x86 processors implement a secret, powerful control mechanism... Recent is overflowingly unhelpful, considering AMT (a part of IME) popped up in ICH7 back in mid-200…

I think the word serverless is being used from the perspective of whether you have to maintain it yourself. Its just outsourcing, but that is a bad word so let's make a better tren…

> Meanwhile, public utility water outclasses bottled, Bottled water is often just tap water. Flint Michigan has undrinkable water as a result of decades of mismanagement from the e…

Are you sure that this is an America/California/Silicon-Valley feature? That your own internal critical voice arose as a result of growing up with your father (a German) seems to i…

This would mean that a floppy disc (hardware) and the filesystem used to arrange the bits thereon (software) are each a database. How is breaking down the distinction between datab…

TL;DR: Build yourself a desktop with a non-vPro CPU and a non-Intel NIC. Check [0] for a list of such CPUs. The usual recommendation is to either get a pre-2009 AMD machine (which …

I presume this [0] is the referenced paper. [0] = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v520/n7549/abs/nature14...

Its nice to see this sort of explanation. I just wish this had come out earlier, like when Arch was in the process of switching over to Systemd. >Lack of confiurability. It was imp…

>we just downloaded a spreadsheet with X questions If you don't mind me asking, from where did you get this spreadsheet?

Did they even have any sort of filter? If they at least blacklisted these words [0], then that seems like a reasonable enough effort on its own. However, these developers would hav…