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So 24x7 surveillance with anything gathered visible to anyone for any person working there on this stuff? Would anyone take such jobs?
Why not? Have you ever worked in an open kitchen? If you can't do your work for the public under public scrutiny, you shouldn't.
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How is that in any way like working in an open kitchen? Anyway, interesting take that people working for the public should have no right to privacy in any way. Not sure you will find many people for such work, though.
The people are still human beings. The process is still open to FOIA. It’s not perfect, but it’s the right solution.
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There is so much to unpack in that thread and its references. A lot of he said she said. For example, one reference being used as evidence that djb is evil complains about being insulted that their employer (also djb's employer, presumed to be on djb's side) suggested seeing a company doctor after being on sick leave for a while. This is 100% standard practice in the Netherlands and the doctor is independent, not fro…
FWIW, I don't believe Bernstein is evil. I do believe he has increasingly argued in bad faith and alienated his peers to the point that they're (we're) unwilling to engage with him, which from the outside can look like his points are unrefutable.
If he's turned so crank-y that his peers simply no longer engage with him beyond the strictly necessary, then this all looks a bit different.
I'd still love to see some of his specific criticisms addressed, but that becomes a minor point...
I guess maybe with the advent of AI, you just have device to device communication with no man in the middle in the future?
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Because your options are Beijing or DC. We like to pretend the age of empires is past but realistically we still live in a time of where there are two major world powers and everyone gets to decide which side of the line they want to fall on, accept American hegemony or submit to Chinese control.
>Because your options are Beijing or DC. We have plenty of standards in Europe too :-) However, with cryptography historically the best crypto has been invented in the US and it made much more sense for allies to just use ready made solutions than to roll their own. Do countries on the US crypto exports ban lists have their own incompatible crypto? I dont know, they might, but they for sure don't share it as freely a…
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8891 (GOST Magma) is a russian standard block cipher.
https://www.gsma.com/aboutus/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/eea3... is a Chinese stream cipher.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ribose-cfrg-sm4-... Chinese block cipher.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-oscca-cfrg-sm3-0... Chinese hash function.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4269 (SEED) is from South Korea (aligned, but still worth a mention)
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Why not? Have you ever worked in an open kitchen? If you can't do your work for the public under public scrutiny, you shouldn't.
How is that in any way like working in an open kitchen? Anyway, interesting take that people working for the public should have no right to privacy in any way. Not sure you will find many people for such work, though.
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I believe the Solokey meets your definition. The hardware schematics are open, as is the software running on it. The Precursor is also open hardware and software. If you trust any smartcard at all running a Javacard-compatible operating system, there's also https://github.com/BryanJacobs/FIDO2Applet . And of course if you're truly paranoid you can get a FPGA and implement a hardware security key on that. The overall…
You'd have to choose your FPGA judiciously. The truly paranoid see the attack surface area of 100 GB of black box libraries needed to synthesize designs and appreciate the possibility of gateware trojans.
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Except that in one I can say "my president is an idiot. We need a leadership change" without wiping my credit score or being detained.
Half seriously, what's the difference between your career ruined via social credit being wiped by government or your career ruined via social credit being wiped on Twitter?
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How is that in any way like working in an open kitchen? Anyway, interesting take that people working for the public should have no right to privacy in any way. Not sure you will find many people for such work, though.
Does mandating to record any work related communication really invade privacy of people working there?
Even innocently, if, for example, two employees meet at home for dinner with their respective families and there is talk about work - needs to be recorded in that view. Or people car sharing on the way to work - recorded. Any work related communication is very very broad.
And everything recorded open to the public, too.
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There is so much to unpack in that thread and its references. A lot of he said she said. For example, one reference being used as evidence that djb is evil complains about being insulted that their employer (also djb's employer, presumed to be on djb's side) suggested seeing a company doctor after being on sick leave for a while. This is 100% standard practice in the Netherlands and the doctor is independent, not fro…
FWIW, I don't believe Bernstein is evil. I do believe he has increasingly argued in bad faith and alienated his peers to the point that they're (we're) unwilling to engage with him, which from the outside can look like his points are unrefutable.