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How do you set that up on an Android or iOS device?
Use a TOTP for a second factor of authentication and give it to your friend abroad.
So you have to contact your friend every time you unlock your phone screen?
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Use a TOTP for a second factor of authentication and give it to your friend abroad.
So you have to contact your friend every time you unlock your phone screen?
That's what your lawyer would say is the case is the impression I got. Or, more seriously, perhaps that could be a toggle. Similar to how if you hit the panic button on iphones it no longer takes biometrics until you give it the code? That might solve for ease of use.
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As social creatures, humans tend to defer to authority and go with the flow. Both of these make for disastrous outcomes, depending on the authority deferred to and the direction of the flow. Why did so many turn a blind eye to the Holocaust? Why did so many ignore the Holodomor? Why did no one stand against great evil? Presently, there is debate about whether there is true Evil, as well as some absolute Truth. And if…
> The one man at Tianeman Square became an emblem of standing up to tyranny. And was never seen again. :/
This is the big deterrent. People have families they need to worry about. My SO was telling me to be careful about the things I talk about because it could cost me my job.
I'm not sure where the line in the sand is.
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Yikes and whoa - you can't post this sort of nationalistic flamebait here. We ban accounts that do; it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We had to warn you recently about breaking the site rules like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887271 . I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good comments - so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html…
You may have a point about this one (the German one), but the comment about this site and silicon valley in general is vital feedback. This website is constantly in dire need of self reflection.
We should be up in arms seeing people on this site patting themselves on their back so smugly. It's truly disgusting, and incredibly harmful to the fabric of society.
There may be fine line to walk here, but I don't think I do well to sugar coat it... there's a reason I have quite a few upvotes for that comment, a bit more than I'm used to seeing. Others are also concerned and frustrated by this privileged rhetoric.
Regarding Germany, yeah I may have gotten carried away towards the end of this comment. I could have given more reasoning or left out the part daring people to downvote or flag my comment. On the other hand, having recently visited Germany, I was very unimpressed. Their society has changed and is less prone the horrors of the 20th century, but culturally still very vulnerable to totalitarianism.
I'm really torn now, because I'm not sure it's unfair to say it oozes from their pores. They have massive issues with intolerance, racism, and able-ism to this day. Honestly, it somehow seemed worse in certain ways to the USA. This stuff should be talked about. People should not believe the myth that German fascism is a thing of the past, that has been overcome.
Re: French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
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Yikes and whoa - you can't post this sort of nationalistic flamebait here. We ban accounts that do; it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We had to warn you recently about breaking the site rules like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34887271 . I don't want to ban you because you've also posted good comments - so would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html…
You may have a point about this one (the German one), but the comment about this site and silicon valley in general is vital feedback. This website is constantly in dire need of self reflection. We should be up in arms seeing people on this site patting themselves on their back so smugly. It's truly disgusting, and incredibly harmful to the fabric of society. There may be fine line to walk here, but I don't think I d…
Sorry, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 is in no way "vital feedback". That's just name-calling and fulmination of exactly the sort that HN accounts are asked not to post.
People who go in for flamey rhetoric often imagine that they're providing "vital feedback" to whatever they're flaming against but this is just a rationalization. Comments like that are extremely common and the only effect they have is to inflame and degrade discussion. If you keep posting like that, we're going to have to ban you. If you want to post some sort of substantive and thoughtful critique, that's of course fine.
(Btw, the vast majority of this community (over 90%, last time I checked) is nowhere near Silicon Valley. Commenters here often have unrealistic images of who they're talking to.)
Re: French publisher arrested in London for refusal to tell police his passcodes
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You may have a point about this one (the German one), but the comment about this site and silicon valley in general is vital feedback. This website is constantly in dire need of self reflection. We should be up in arms seeing people on this site patting themselves on their back so smugly. It's truly disgusting, and incredibly harmful to the fabric of society. There may be fine line to walk here, but I don't think I d…
Sorry, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 is in no way "vital feedback". That's just name-calling and fulmination of exactly the sort that HN accounts are asked not to post. People who go in for flamey rhetoric often imagine that they're providing "vital feedback" to whatever they're flaming against but this is just a rationalization. Comments like that are extremely common and the only effect they hav…
Yet people on this site are desperate to defend SV and put it on a pedestal, which is the problem. It wasn't flamebate at all, I'm not rationalizing bad behavior. What I said was 100% fine, except the part about getting flagged.
I just said they were entitled. I did call them jerkoffs, but they consider themselves the "most impactful people on the planet", so that's fair.
Even if that poster isn't from SV, this is a common attitude you hear from people in the area, on a site about the area. It doesn't matter that most commenters aren't from SV. This in no way degrades discussion.
Your response is filled with fallacies. Do both of us a favor and save your chastising. If you want to ban me for arguing with you go ahead. I don't really post comments like this very often and you can ban if you don't like what I say in the future.
There's no need to talk down to me. This is wasted energy.
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Sorry, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854191 is in no way "vital feedback". That's just name-calling and fulmination of exactly the sort that HN accounts are asked not to post. People who go in for flamey rhetoric often imagine that they're providing "vital feedback" to whatever they're flaming against but this is just a rationalization. Comments like that are extremely common and the only effect they hav…
Yet people on this site are desperate to defend SV and put it on a pedestal, which is the problem. It wasn't flamebate at all, I'm not rationalizing bad behavior. What I said was 100% fine, except the part about getting flagged. I just said they were entitled. I did call them jerkoffs, but they consider themselves the "most impactful people on the planet", so that's fair. Even if that poster isn't from SV, this is a…
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So you have to contact your friend every time you unlock your phone screen?
That's what your lawyer would say is the case is the impression I got. Or, more seriously, perhaps that could be a toggle. Similar to how if you hit the panic button on iphones it no longer takes biometrics until you give it the code? That might solve for ease of use.
Lawyers aren't allowed to lie in court.
Hitting a panic button would mostly likely qualify as evidence tampering, disruption of investigation, or evasion of justice.
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The stress of being arrested and threatened with years in prison if you don't remember your passcode could very well cause someone to forget it.
the thing is it's not incontrovertible proof, it's "beyond reasonable doubt" the prosecution would show up with when you bought the phone, how many times you'd used it, that you used it 80 times in the last hour, and so on and it comes down to whether or not a jury would believe that you had really forgotten it (despite that evidence)
The lesson to take away from that is to have a smaller compartment (or multiple) inside the computer that contains all the juicy stuff. Unlock the main one, claim to have forgotten the keys for the juicy compartments, and you're keeping it around in hopes of remembering the key one day.
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And perhaps more importantly, it becomes a de-facto crime to ever forget an encryption key. People forget the passkeys to crypto wallets all the time, losing millions. How can the police effectively prove that someone remembers the passcode? What if someone, after a few months in prison, says they've reconsidered and are willing to comply. They try to decrypt it but fail and subsequently say they the stress of incarc…
Right. I stopped using hardware encryption after I forgot the password to my IronKey and had to throw it away.
That's just a not-friendly HSM. You should be able to reinitialize things, but not extract secrets from them. For example, you can reinitialize Yubikey's "key slots", without remembering the PIN.