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If you have to replace words to interpret the statement correctly, then there is a problem with the statement, not the reader.

You hate to say it, yet you were able to ignore the substance of the article and say it anyway.

This links to a blog post that is mostly marketing fluff and quotes from fawning CTOs. Useful documentation and examples are here: http://ksonnet.heptio.com

Reporter decries company for prohibiting its employees from discussing company business with reporters.

This advice doesn't seem to be getting through regardless of how loudly it is proclaimed. Everyone should have a backup plan with multiple points of failure, but of course lots of people don't because it's not trivial to set that up.

I don't think current operating systems go anywhere near far enough in helping users to get this right. When I buy a computer, the computer should be in charge of ensuring that catastrophic data loss cannot easily occur. 9 times out of 10, the user simply doesn't know how to set things up that way.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. Amazon is to blame for this state of affairs.

> The best doesn't win, the easiest does.

Exactly. Diaspora and its ilk miss this point entirely. If users have to set up their own infrastructure or even think about how it works then it's never going to scale.

Are you going to fix this? https://amphtml.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/image1.png

The maximum penalty for violating the GDPR is 4% of worldwide turnover. Possibly stupid question: I keep hearing that this is considered a "high" penalty, but if you're Google or Facebook and this (or any) regulation substantially threatens your bottom line to the tune of more than 4%, wouldn't you just eat it like a tax?

It turns out that if you strip most of the JS bloat from a webpage and serve it from a fast CDN, the page loads way faster. Shocking stuff.

It's got nothing to do with the law. They're notifying third parties about people who they suspect of posting "offensive" content.

Above and beyond? This is a simple yet effective countermeasure that the content providers have likely insisted upon.

This will not stop until we get secure communication and collaboration tools into the hands of election campaign operatives.

I wrote a similar letter: https://medium.com/@flukes1/my-letter-to-amber-rudd-on-encry...

They already gave the data to Facebook, so I think that ship has sailed.

> Duckling is now used at scale internally by Facebook.

I'm thrilled to hear that Facebook has a new toy for extracting structured data from vast quantities of text.

Whose fears, exactly? This is tabloid nonsense.

Any government employees who played a part in this outrageous attempted abuse of power should be removed from their position(s) of authority.

It'd be neat if there were an app for one-click deployment of OpenVPN using one's own AWS or Azure account. That would be much safer than picking from a list of shady VPN providers.

It's gimmicky. I prefer Signal's numeric encoding - easy to read aloud with no room for ambiguity.

I wrote a letter to Amber Rudd based in part on your comment: https://medium.com/@flukes1/my-letter-to-amber-rudd-on-encry...

Nope, there's a company in Shenzhen that makes a plug-and-play bypass device: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/warner-bros-sues...

Turns out it was important business information after all.

According to Bloomberg, veteran Waymo employees were paid "F-you money". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-13/one-reaso...

Probably because it's difficult to explain E2E to users in an easily-digestible way, and most users don't know the cryptographic definition of zero knowledge. I'm not excusing their use of the term, but I can see why they think new terminology is needed.

If the service doesn't enforce end-to-end encryption of customer data, then it's a misleading statement.

What would be the point of the CIA sponsoring jailbreak teams? The exploits they find are generally burned very quickly.

NYT's original scoop hints that the missiles or the systems controlling them were compromised by malware similar to Stuxnet, which worked by tampering with parameters used to control industrial hardware. That kind of attack could work regardless of the accuracy of NK's guidance systems.

Does CF redirect all non-HTTP traffic to HTTPS? If not, NSA could have passively intercepted tons of leaked data, and all it would take is for one of their analysts - people paid to find stuff like this - to notice a single out-of-place leaked secret and trace it back to CF.

This smells like FUD.

> They could have simply moved things on the desk.

Is there any evidence suggesting something else happened?