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It is very surprising to see how "low" their fundraising goal is set compared to wikipedia and how much value they generate from this budget for the internet.

We should rise more attention for archive.org.

Please avoid too much diversification by reinventing wheels, instead please contribute to one of these projects.

Mobile first is a basic requirement in developing countries.

It would be interesting to see the resulting numbers - how many people are already afraid to call that number? Are YOU afraid of calling that number?

That is a nice real life demonstration of where that ill-minded techno-dictatorship will lead us.

Unfortunately there is no way back, as the USA ANGST to fight these nazis is too strong, especially in Silicon Valley, where too many chicken-hearted apple shiners (nice word!) are hiding instead of standing up. It is shocking to see how established that culture of ANGST is already established in the USA.

So be prepared for a long war and many death friends - this is always the only long-lasting result when you let paranoid and aggressive Neandertalers lead your society. Look at Germany after WW II to see the future of USA if you do not stand up now against that bigbrotherism.

Yes, it is up to you to change it. Follow the few brave we have seen and change your government to obey the people, not the other way around. Do it now and the world will be very thankful and start to love USA again! Amen :)

As this is posted by a company, it must be seen as a great example to study corporate propaganda.

Just compare to the WP article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Ex...

The summary paragraph of the cloudfare post demonstrates an important propaganda technique - build an artificial similarity to something that actually does not compare very well with to irritate the reader and to attach the properties of your product / thing you are advertising to something completely different:

"Whereas HTTPS encrypts traffic so nobody on the wire can snoop on your Internet activities, DNSSEC merely signs responses so that forgeries are detectable."

We should notice that cloudflare will not be helpful in building real privacy for the internet. And never forget it.

Is there already any collection of common criteria established by computer scientists and accepted by experts and / or any kind of standardization of requirements for secure software that was produced by leading security capacities that allows to extract data for a compact visual comparison like the eff scoreboard?

Would you like to provide or show me a link or any material that compares "the security" of products and offers an understandable and "industry-accepted" categorization?

Isn't it a bit strange that a small organization of non computer scientists produce something that was painfully missing for at least 50 years? Isn't it clear that a first approach to such a thing must fail and that this can only be a prototype for a process that should be adopted and worked out by people who understand what they are doing?

Isn't it a bit strange, that there is no such thing as that scoreboard produced by an international group of universities and industry experts, with a transparent documentation of the review process and plenty of room for discussion of different paradigms?

The eff scoreboard demonstrates painfully the obvious omissions of multiple generations of security experts who failed to establish a clear definition of what security exactly means, how to discuss it and how to find an acceptable approach to establish a thing that would allow to be named "review" in the scientific meaning of the word.

It is totally clear that Apple and Microsoft have very different ideas about security than OpenBSD developers, but it would still be of great value to have a space where people could follow that discussions and compare the results of different approaches and solutions to security related problems.

The eff scoreboard carries the embryo idea of a global crypto discussion, review, comparison and knowledge site that could also serve as a great resource for non-crypto people and students to learn a lot about that field. The highly valued information you and other experts are dropping here and there in HN threads and/or on various mailing lists should be visible in a place that collects all that stuff and allows for open discussion of these things in the public, so people can learn to decide what security means for them.

If such a thing exists, please show me.

If not, please build it.

The project was able to get a CA to sign their keys, this is what happened. Using the word "trust" is simply wrong and might be interpreted as a too simple kind of propaganda after we learned a lot about the untrustable nature of a hierarchical certification infrastructure.

Another, even bigger trust-breaking elephant in the room is the fact that this project is USA based - as long as US government and agencies are insisting on practices we know from authoritarian and anti-democratic states like e.g. China or Saudi-Arabia there is no way any US based project can use the word "trust" for their product description - it might be recognized as a simple lie by informed people.

Questions to the project leaders:

* you must obey US laws and therefore offer MITM access to every Let's-Encrypt "trusted" network stream - why aren't you educating your users about this serious limitation of your product?

* why don't you rebase your project to a country where a government policy exists that is allowing companies to build trustable security based products?

Some big companies should finally stop talking and start acting, this is the only chance for a real change.

Cut the NSA-Brotherhood ties! These little Hitlers from all the affiliated "Clubs of Distopians" and the War-Industry completely destroyed the most important association of "USA == Freedom" in the world. Face it. Deal with it. Act accordingly.

For people interested in history: it might be interesting to look at the post-ww-2 de-Nazification process in germany to understand how hard it is to remove established circles of anti-democratic bureaucrats from power structures. This will take a very long time (if it happens at all).

The better immediate reaction would be to support progressive and freedom-oriented societies with your technical powers until "good old USA" is restored. Europe is not perfect, but what happens in USA nowadays is pure distopia, a very unhealthy development that will lead to a negative outcome for all of us.

Once people came to The USA because of suppression and lack of freedom in their home countries. Just a few generations later if you have the same sense and longing for freedom like these ancestors of you, it is now time to leave that continent as the suppressors followed your trails - come home to Europe and together we can build a better future!

So free eduction may play a role in producing positive results for the whole society. Also maybe the poets are more important to this than a person from a country where no free education is available can understand.

Please also read about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

Many underdeveloped societies and failed states can be identified by looking at the education situation. In the worst cases education is held hostage by a leading group of brutal oligarchs that are raping education into a "business-model" - these societies will need a lot of help from other nations to overcome the dark neandertaler age they are stuck in and it is important to teach them about the basic abilities of Homo Sapiens Sapiens - solidarity, compassion and love.

Good Luck!

The "immature" mindset they develop is of course a mirror of the deep misantropic, paranoid and life-disrespecting mindset produced by the Leaders of Your Society (TM), that serves only the war industry, but creates more and more distrust, chaos and destruction everywhere on this planet - for some this might be a welcomed result.

This is an interesting study and our generation can learn a lot from it. It also shows why it is so dangerous to establish surveillance and control technologies everywhere like we do nowadays - kids will always do what their parents did.

https://www.youbetrayedus.org/

USA and China now working together on crypto-backdooring the whole industry might give you a good hint about where the real right-abusers are today.

  * Under what license is the data published at wikimapia?
  * Where can I download the data?
  * [How] can I use it for my own website?

Now imagine, one manager coming to you with an idea:

"Hey, here is a great way to make big money: we fire all our expensive US workers and move the whole production chain to China, people are much cheaper there and governement will keep it that way!"

Would you adore such a greedy $$$hole and make him manager of the century?

Just another crazy idea: Imagine we would produce all our hardware for all our communication devices in a country with such an authoritarian neandertal-government! Oh, wait...

This site should be renamed to "The Historical Horror Graveyard of Bad Computing Ideas" - go and show your students how operating systems should not work and how the ill-minded hierarchical-company-business-religion destroys creativity and good ideas and harmed human progress for much too long.

It is good to know that Windows 10 is the last Windows - may that prophecy fullfill itself quickly.

Make device fingerprinting impossible.

Remote workers must have some sense for privacy and security, this is more important than anything else.

1) how was your experience of changing the code from Python to Go, did it feel ok or have you had major headaches?

2) Why didn't you choose Elixir, there are already massively scalable messaging servers in Erlang and it looks like the best choice for a project like this?

Thanks!

If you are a Hacker, you will be overwhelmed by the great amount of development tools that are much easier to handle than on any other system.

There are very few reasons nowadays not to use Linux.

Here are some more to spend the winter with:

http://www.opensourcedigitalassetmanagement.org/

Quick questions:

* are there some video features (like kaltura or youtube simple editing)?

* how does "Indesign integration" exactly work?

* is it possible to use local storage, not Amazon services?

* is there some ansible / salt / chef / whatever installation scripting available?

Also one special consideration, none of the tools I checked, no picture gallery and no web service that hosts pictures offers this simple but very important feature:

* picture approval workflow: please allow to upload pictures, show input fields for email(s) of person(s) visible on the picture and send them a link to a page where they can allow to publish the picture. This could be a (customizable) form with some specific text or some more details, however the user should be able to simply agree publishing the picture. Save the user agreement status in the datastore.

Every software / web service allowing to publish pictures online should have such a feature - the fact that this is not available anywhere shows that we are still in the very beginnings of the internets. One day, certainly, humans will laugh about the "non-privacy-by-default"-internetz of the early days...

Yes, I know, as a journalist usually you have rights cleared material, however this functionality would still be a great step forward, also for pro material a good rights management workflow would be very important to have. How to implement this, is there some developer documentation / plugin system available?