blahbl4hblahtoo

To be fair Android is doing very well.

I can't help but think that if there was a Venue Pro 8 with a decent dock so that you could use it as a desktop and take it to a meeting as a tablet would be just a no-brainer for corporate IT shops. I can't count the number of times I have seem someone running between meeting rooms balancing their laptop like a waitress running through a restaurant with a huge tray above her head. So, maybe a thunderbolt port for docking?

Used to be a libertarian? Still a right winger, though.

Obama rewrote the bankruptcy laws to help a union? Speaking of union's, firefighters are a problem now? Since when?

Ted Kennedy the murderer. The serfs are being disarmed? How about "cabal of (most) politicians and (some) CEOs"...because (to the right wing mind) it's more likely that politicians are pulling the strings than business people...they make are jerbs! Plus one drudge point for saying that the Google guys are hypocrites (shocking) that voted for Obama.

RSA, a company that makes money, took money from a customer to do something that benefited the customer? That doesn't rise to the level of tragedy as the problems in the justice system.

Let's see the NSA is the Stasi...he also mentioned pre-revolutionary France...the right wing mind loves dreaming that we might have a revolution...and then all the "serfs" that haven't been "disarmed" will throw off their shitty jobs and fight fer freedum!

Here's a gem: "to every politician who goes on moral crusades while barebacking prostitutes and money laundering the payments, to every teacher who retired at age 60 on 80% salary, "

Hypocritical politicians who commit crimes are like retired teachers? Fuck you. You wormy douchebag.

I think that all evidence points to states having far far more power to respond to technologies than anyone here can imagine. Frankly, in light of all the public disclosures this year I can't help but wonder where all the bitcoin optimism comes from.

every time i have read a statement like this in the past it has been followed at some point by a crushing, total and complete, reversal that shows that the exact opposite effect was produced from the anticipated outcome.

I don't guess that all of this has been corroborated?

Maybe I'm missing something but all of the stuff in the article and several things in these threads aren't in the cryptome pdf listed below.

Voter fraud just isn't a large problem, no matter how much some people would like it to be.

That is a fundamentally bad idea.

Votes and "dollars", what ever your concept of dollar is, should never be the same thing.

This is an area where the downvotes are just waiting to crush you...but as per usual, I disagree with the premise that these guys have done something wrong.

Patents and copyright provide small businesses or inventors the means to monetize their innovation for a time. I don't see what's wrong with that. It could stand being reformed, like almost everything in American civil life...institutions are broken all over...but holding this small group of ira glass look-a-likes responsible for the larger system being broken is kind of lame.

They made something wonderful, they should be able to be rewarded under the terms of the law. Don't like the law? Take that up in the political process.

At this point usually everyone says that the political process is irreparably broken and the Republic is lost. If you think that's the case...I don't know...just kill yourself. There's nothing you can do and everything, everywhere, is bad. Woe is me. Oh. Oh, woe is me.

for fsck's sake. Unix fans always forget that there were other host systems with lineages that are longer...some of which are still in use.

Unix people love to go on and on about Unix...that's the take away message.

Also, what would Hindu be in this worldview? It's older, and more people "use" it and its decedents than Unix.

Wow...Telegram. The only thing you will ever get from engaging the "public" on forums like HN is heartache. You will never get them to like you...they just aren't that in to you.

Contact people that are actually in the crypto community and go the normal route. Once their betters tell them to love you there is actually nothing that you could do to make them stop.

It's only "earned overseas" because Google pays foreign subsidiaries money from its US operating company. Its a dodge and everyone knows it.

Google is an American company in an area that desperately needs the tax revenue. Even the money they "earn in the US" is washed through subsidiaries overseas.

Google shelters a great deal of tax money outside of the us...

If Google would pay their fare share of taxes instead of sheltering them offshore then the bay area could have awesome public transit for everybody.

For all of you bitching about the "burning man" types. The bay area is full of runaways that look just like those kids and are easily radicalized. San Francisco is a "libro-cryt" city. Its very liberal, but they treat the poor like shit.

Apple and Goolge should stop sheltering their taxes.

Hello, Mr. Moxie...I was just wondering if I understood you about what you said here...is the PGP model being considered a dead end because of the "store it forever in Utah" model of the NSA? Excuse my ignorance, but, don't all public key systems actually end up using a symmetric key to crypt a message and that key doesn't get re-used? How is that different from PFS? (If this is too grade school, a "RTFM" is cool...)

Wow...this thing just keeps on giving. It's Christmas in crypto-fail land!

This contest is a direct result of some arguments that happened on HN when they announced their product.

Pet your dog? Now you're singing my song, potnuh...

Note to everyone in technology...Hacker News isn't the crowd that you need to impress.

The cryptanalysis community, in particular, has a small group of experts that can credibly critique your ideas. They would probably love to pick apart a new system...seriously in the hopes that it advances the art, but critically in the case that it doesn't.

Claims of some kind of "tightly knit" cabal of closed minded people excluding you would be a warning sign. (It sounds like creationism. Not that this is what these guys did. I'm just saying.)

Maybe instead of a competition they could have just approached some of the cryptanalysis community for an early look? Those guys could kick the tires and pass it on to others that they know. That really seems to be how this area works.

That's actually the new security model that Metro apps use. They are sandboxed by default with a declarative privileges model. I think its called AppContainer?

Here's a blog post: http://recxltd.blogspot.com/2012/03/windows-8-app-container-...

Do you honestly think that I have never tried Linux? Seriously? The first time I installed Linux I had to download the floppy images over a 2400 baud modem connection to a bulletin board.

I'm not bashing people for using Linux...I'm saying that its not good security to say..."Linux is secure"...and not review your security needs from the standpoint of what you are actually trying to accomplish. I'm not making it out to be a holy war...I'm saying that people are just accepting that "Linux is more secure" on blind faith.

Not all implementations are created equal. I will cede that point.

And you're right, I would call that configuration.

Learning Linux makes you a better programmer? That's what I'm talking about in a nutshell. "Learning GNU/Linux" doesn't make one a better programmer. I'm not even sure how that's supposed to work...you know that there are really good programmers that use other platforms, right?

I'm not a MS employee or even a stockholder. I just get tired of the group think around here. It doesn't do anybody any good to let some of these "everybody knows" style truisms pass unquestioned.

The accusations of being a shill are also pretty annoying...but hey...

Windows has DEP and ASLR. They are actually pretty much on par with each other from a TLA standpoint.

There are configuration issues that affect security that should be taken into account if you have high security needs. Its not a capabilities issue.

Here here and right on.

That's one that I do think it's cool to be paranoid about. Cellular networks were designed with lawful intercept in mind. Combine that with the work published recently about baseband processors and it looks to me like staying off of 4G networks is a good idea if you are doing something security sensitive.

I love that "Microsoft has backdoors"...no one credible has said that they have proof of that. They give the US Government early access to vulnerability data...they give those updates to several governments and large corporations early as the result of agreements they have made with big customers. They also let these same entities audit the source code for windows. Look it up. If you have the money and its important to you then, yes, you can audit the windows code base.

"security-conscious people prefer Linux"...That's kind of a sweeping statement. What does security conscious even mean?

To me it sounds like this..."People who talk about security a lot use Linux by and large"..."but some of them are really partial to OpenBSD"..."and lots of Windows security experts really use Windows a lot."

I say that its a shit lifestyle decision because what is it accomplishing? You use this really restricted platform to make sure that people can't track you doing ??? What exactly? Communicating with your team of spy's??? Downloading midget porn??? Why do you think that you can have a single workstation that's good for every security corner case? What in the history of computer security makes you think that is a good idea or even desirable?

Let's take the example of the Iranian dissident trying to avoid the oppressive badies in their weird ass government...what does tails or Linux buy you? You are better off with the "throw away laptop" plan using good opsec and running tor from public places. Don't use it for anything but tor and tweeting your pics of black helmeted assholes. Get a new one as soon as possible. Rotate them with other people. The OS means next to nothing.

People keep conflating tor's uses with every possible InfoSec edge case. The dissident has different needs than a guy trying to make sure that the NSA doesn't catch him posting documents. The whistleblower has different needs than the guy buying drugs.

In all cases applying some critical thinking about what you are trying to do is a bigger exercise than "Winblows is the suxor at securitehz!"

Unix doesn't have a monopoly on security. I'm not saying windows does, but Unix people are kind of crazy about their pet platform.

"1. don't use windows"...I realize how unpopular it is to question the groupthink on this site but this strikes me as simplistic. The public takedowns related to tor have been more about firefox than windows. But I get that Linux fans like to think that this is their sole bailiwick.

If you are using tor and you are using a web browser as your primary means of communication AND YOU REQUIRE SAFTEY you have already made a serious mistake.

Using a JSON or XML based API would be much safer since you aren't having to trust any level of javascript, css, or html...fetching executable code over the internet from a third party is the ROOT of the problem.

It all comes down to what you are trying to do...why are you using tor? who is your adversary?

Just using tails or whonix and being super paranoid...because security...is kind of a shit lifestyle decision. It can also lead to a false sense of security.