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Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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Well, clothes are mostly down to weather and laws on public decency, and nudists are the counterpoint that prove some demographics would prefer to be naked if the law allowed it, same with tribes like Koma. Locks are more for security than privacy, and it's important not to conflate the two. People can have nothing to hide, but also not want to be robbed. And as for email, that's again a matter of security because th…

Email passwords are not for preventing impersonation. For one, POP3 passwords are separate from SMTP. Second, nothing in SMTP prevents impersonation… large mail handlers like GMail don’t allow it anymore, but you can put whatever you want in the “From” field. Things like SPF, DMARC and DKIM are there to prevent impersonation at the domain level for mail servers that want to protect their users.

When accessing email via a protocol with an email client, sure, but I primarily had the Gmail web app in mind when I wrote the comment. I also touched on protocols in another comment.

With what I had in mind, if you logged into my Gmail account, which provides both sending and receiving, you could impersonate me to my own mother, but I would have nothing to hide as I don't receive any sensitive information via email (privacy). However, accounts elsewhere could be recovered via my email, and thus be used to impersonate me elsewhere (security).

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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Even among the dinosaurs in the US Senate, Feinstein stands alone in her striking ability to be willfully ignorant about anything developed after the steam locomotive. The country would be an objectively better place if both the House and Senate had a mandatory retirement age.

Why do these people continue to be re-elected at all? Surely there's some other (D) that could have replaced Feinstein a decade ago - but California keeps re-electing her? There's near unanimous agreement she "lost it" long ago - yet here she still is. A mandatory retirement age is great and all... but maybe we need to figure out why people vote for someone nearly nobody wants in the first place. Just the "safe" vote…

Only 24% of registered voters in California are Republican, so the election hinges on the Democratic primary. You don't get to a position in a political party where you can realistically run for and potentially win a US Senate seat by making a habit of attacking people in your own party. Those that do get ostracized long before they have that kind of juice, and the people who could potentially do it are not likely to risk the entire thing on running now when they could more safely run in another term or two, especially if they've already got a comfortable elected position.

So the answer on the inside is that nobody willing to run against her has the power to, and nobody with the power to is willing. On the outside, it's people who don't care who is running, they only care about the letter next to the name, so would never vote for a Republican or an Independent.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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A reminder that "you have nothing to hide" argument is a fallacy because people abuse their power: Some first hits as reminders of places where their powers are abused [1]: "NSA staff used spy tools on spouses, ex-lovers: watchdog" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-surveillance-watchdog... [2]: https://reason.com/2022/07/26/police-can-access-your-ring-ca... [3]: https://reason.com/2021/04/26/warrantless-border-s…

Many seem to not realize that privacy is not about having something to hide (I guess that would be secrecy), but about the right to keep things to yourself. Those are two different concepts.

If you have nothing to hide, then publish it all for the world to see.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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Senators get OP with longevity. Having a bunch of old senators is an emergent behavior of the rules of the Senate.

I don't personally think age is really the problem - mental (and to some extent, physical) abilities are, however. There's the good 80 years old, and then there's the bad 80 years old. We all know it when we see it... and we're watching it in real time in multiple places within our federal government right now. We, as a country, are about to face this very same question again, as President Biden is expected to announ…

This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I don't want people born before Hitler rose to power to be in the government at all. I don't care how sharp you are and I don't care how progressive or conservative you are.

If you're old enough to have had strong opinions about LBJ when he was in office, your time has passed and we really don't need you in the Senate, or the White House, or anywhere else in government making decisions that will have impacts decades after you're gone.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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> Tend to work for the government. Career govvies or military. They show their patriotism through action. I just want to chime in here and say that working for the government isn't the only way to be a patriot (i.e. serve the country). Upholding American values is something anyone can do in any part of society.

That's fair enough. What's fresh in my memory is a few weeks back, I was at Quantico for the graduation of a family member from the FBI academy, where the convocation speech was delivered by Christopher Wray. I cannot imagine a more patriotic group of people - genuinely people who dedicate their whole lives to the betterment of the nation. It was really inspiring.

> I cannot imagine a more patriotic group of people - genuinely people who dedicate their whole lives to the betterment of the nation.

The actual history of the FBI (whether the near universal perjury in fiber “analysis” cases, the repeated use of provocateurs to discredit protest, especially civil rights, movements — up through the last few years — etc.) tells of a very different culture.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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I’m reminded by a speech by Frederick Douglass [1] that >This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these w…

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Nobody asked you to fight. You have the luxury of not fighting and not struggling because so many before you fought and so many around you choose to fight now, as uncomfortable as that might be.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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I routinely pose that question to my kids. And yet, they still poop with the door open. And without the ventilation fan. I keep hoping that eventually I will get through to them. Maybe I'll just put a spring-loaded hinge on the bathroom doors and a motion-activated ventilation fan.

I've got a 2.5yo that furiously yells at me to get out when he poops, but he have no remorse trying to physically drag me out of the loo when I am doing my business. Or force me read some book for him. I guess he is a metaphor for the surveillance state. Or the other way around. Dunno.

Ha! I remember when my son was about that age he came wandering in while I was using the toilet standing up. Just a little awkward to have your kid walk around the side and stare at your crotch while you pee. I get that it was fascinating for a little boy, but still. And then of course the next time he needed to go, he tried. Predictable results ;-).

He might have been a little younger, I don't remember precisely, I don't believe he was talking much at the age when this happened.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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I routinely pose that question to my kids. And yet, they still poop with the door open. And without the ventilation fan. I keep hoping that eventually I will get through to them. Maybe I'll just put a spring-loaded hinge on the bathroom doors and a motion-activated ventilation fan.

Take them to a public toilet. There is a difference between pooping in front of family and in front of strangers.

For sure, they act totally different in a public toilet. Very carefully locked door in that case. Hell, the first time my son used a public toilet on his own, I had to talk him through how to actually unlock the door when he finished. I tried to tell him not to latch it since I was standing right on the other side of the door, but no, -CLICK- went the lock anyway.

Re: The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

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It's one thing to demand not calling ordinary people names, but Feinstein isn't an ordinary person. If one can't call a person in power names, that implies many things you probably didn't want to imply.

That he’s not a free speech absolutist? big deal, nobody is no platform is, thats the expected default behavior everywhere you go and there is zero reason why HN would be different. I’m not even going to go into how this is a private platform with clearly stated rules for you because it doesn't even matter, just take the L

dang is welcome to enforce rules as he pleases, it's his platform (or rather publishing space).

But restricting speech concerning those in power imply things that I would presume he would not want to imply.

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