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Do you have reason to believe there's a problem with the gpg signatures in their repo?
The GPG sigs that are also published over MITMable unencrypted http? http://archive.canonical.com/dists/xenial/Release.gpg Yeah, I believe I see a problem there...
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fun reminder that canonical refuses to use tls on their repos
Yes because it allows caching and encrypting the traffic would provide no benefit. APT supports downloading over Tor if you want to hide which distribution you are using.
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I am genuinely interested in understanding how we could have innovation in a world where a creator is not entitled to benefits from their invention. Including any monetary benefits if they so choose.
Recipes do not have patent protection, yet there is plenty of innovation in restaurants. There are many paths to an innovation. I don't think the first person deserves such a monopoly. American IP law, in combination with the generally letigious society, has always seemed like a net source of innovation friction...
Outside of running restaurants, people who innovate in recipes tend to make money via either writing cookbooks or hosting TV shows. Both of which are protected by IP.
"There is no way for us to defend ourselves: even skilled technologists who administer their own networked services are no match for the bandits. To keep bandits out, you have to be perfect and perfectly vigilant, and never make a single mistake. For the bandits to get you, they need merely find a single mistake that you’ve made." Ooof. What a boot-to-the-face reminder. Despite my use of a Tor Router, three ubikeys a…
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If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the days of internet and computers: short wave transmitted one time pad codes. The reason that number stations continue to operate is that it really is the best way to communicate/order under surveillance which almost certainly is happening in every embassy in non-fri…
> It was only when they captured a few Cuban spies were they able to break the number stations operating out of Havana but this is perhaps the only case in history Bad OPSEC (Reuse of pads) allowed the West to extremely painfully decrypt chunks of soviet communications - finding just how bad communist infiltration was in the process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
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I am genuinely interested in understanding how we could have innovation in a world where a creator is not entitled to benefits from their invention. Including any monetary benefits if they so choose.
> a world where a creator is not entitled to benefits from their invention This is a mis-statement of the anti-IP case. Given the abolishment of IP laws, creators are not prevented from benefitting from their invention. They merely no longer have the benefit of the state regulators in preventing others from following the inventor's example. > Including any monetary benefits if they so choose. The "monetary benefit" h…
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If what you are communicating needs to be guaranteed to never be crackable, you only need to use the oldest and most secure way of communicating before the days of internet and computers: short wave transmitted one time pad codes. The reason that number stations continue to operate is that it really is the best way to communicate/order under surveillance which almost certainly is happening in every embassy in non-fri…
You can't operate a number station in someone else's country.... they might not be able to crack the code, but they can sure track down the number station and turn it off/arrest the operator.
https://swling.com/blog/2016/08/numbers-stations-and-the-two...
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> If 2020 taught me anything, it's that society can come close to the brink pretty quickly. I thought there was an inevitable trend toward freedom, but recently think it's perilous. We need ideas to flow to create a more distributed, less unequal, world, and we need it now. We need to unshackle the people. This seems like an odd claim, as society as a whole was able to weather the pandemic overall in incredible comfo…
> weather the pandemic overall in incredible comfort due to technology and content created under our IP regime strike "under" insert "in spite of" > demonstrate that we'd have these things without the IP environment of past 100 years. IP are laws that prohibit who is allowed to manufacture and profit by certain types of goods. The burden of proof rests on those who think that those goods would not exist if more peopl…
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> What really puzzles me about Apple fans and it's userbase is that they do not care. They simply do not care at all what's being done to them. From what I see in discussions: they do care. But it seems they have simply accepted Apple as a benevolent dictator.
To use the article's terminology, Apple is the lord of the manor which makes owners of Apple hardware, serfs.
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I am genuinely interested in understanding how we could have innovation in a world where a creator is not entitled to benefits from their invention. Including any monetary benefits if they so choose.
Recipes do not have patent protection, yet there is plenty of innovation in restaurants. There are many paths to an innovation. I don't think the first person deserves such a monopoly. American IP law, in combination with the generally letigious society, has always seemed like a net source of innovation friction...
A company that spends billions of dollars in research assumes they will be able to recoup the cost by having a monopoly on the drug they developed. If however competitors can flood the market with the same drug, they cannot recoup the cost and will subsequently go bankrupt.
Without the proper incentives you can’t expect companies to pursue strategies that will lead to bankruptcy.