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Can anyone with more expertise comment on the use of cryptography.hazmat which is apparently (1) a frontend to openssl, (2) "full of land mines, dragons, and dinosaurs with laser g…

How did you gather the comment histories? Would you mind sharing a copy?

This is the story people tell in business schools and economics departments, but there's more to it than that. It's also a way to sterilize new issuance to employees, primarily sen…

> ToS is the least of it I'm afraid I disagree. Google running code on your phone implies it believes you have consented to that. That consent was not given in the app store, so it…

Another question worth asking is "what is the governing law?" It is almost certainly contract law via Google's ToS. Government phones probably have different ToS, but government em…

The factual basis of your assertion is absolutely true, but your attitude is unhelpful and defeatist. There is a chasm between "a state actor throws an 0day at you" and "Google rem…

A corollary of your question. If Google can lawfully install arbitrary apps on ordinary users' phones, can it also run arbitrary code on the personal devices of government official…

Someone should archive a copy for reversing. One comment says it has "permission to utilize all device functions".

> I was shocked to learn that my new employer has a very different job definition for ML Engineer than the one I was familiar with. Job titles do not have consistent meaning across…

There is a lot of outright corruption [1] and malfeasance [2] in the surveillance tech acquisition processes. It's probably because that process is so secret. Brandeis was right, "…

Is there a Matrix design document at a similar level of abstraction to [1,2,3]? I want to use it, but the client (Riot? Element?) scares me with all its features, and I'm not sure …

> It’s equally unsurprising that the ambitious children of highly educated and prosperous families themselves pursue such a similar path and achieve similar outcomes. That kind of …