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spacefight··on WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers
Your argument reads to me as "people kill people not guns".

Yea I know, morale is a difficult topic these days.

spacefight··on WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers
I am not ignoring the legitimate use cases - and I never said that there weren't any. I simply pointed out that if you work in DPI/filter/blocking and your company sells to those regimes, that you support the oppression of the affected users.

I can help with some real world examples. One is Blue Coat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems#Controversy

spacefight··on WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers
Why do you misquote me?

Yes, it might be useful for some folks - it's really bad for others. People have died because of oppressive regimes targeting dissidents that way.

spacefight··on WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers
No it isn't. Blocking encrypted calls for millions of user _disables_ safety for exactly those millions.
spacefight··on WhatsApp Blocking Encrypted Calls to All Saudi Numbers
This case is a brilliant reminder to anyone working in deep packet inspection/blocking/filtering tech that your work negatively affects the safety of millions of people in such countries at once.
spacefight··on Ask HN: What to do when a Chinese startup clones your website?
eSports, really? Is that even legal in Germany?

http://www.gamblingsites.org/laws/germany/

spacefight··on Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science
Looks like it is piping the queries over to scholar.google.com - getting only timeouts right now though.
spacefight··on New European, U.S. data transfer pact agreed
So it looks like this needs (from EU perspective) another round of lawsuits to get this overthrown again - since the oversight by the US DoC is laughable.
spacefight··on The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (1996)
Who had their first website online back then in 1996 as well?

raises hand

Good memories... Claris Home Page!

spacefight··on Unethical Growth Hacking from YayView
That is not only unethical that is also illegal in some countries.

Also, this is the reason why you should have FB platform a) turned off and b) disallow that your friends "bring your data with them when they use apps".

spacefight··on [dead]
No I don't, but related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870892

spacefight··on UK at risk of losing Freedom of Panorama
What's next with these corporate shizzles? Do I need to pay a cent each time they detect me just looking at their buildings?
spacefight··on Craig Newmark Did Not Donate to EFF
Yes. And there are tons of other startups and probably also YC companies involved in heavy scraping, aggregating and selling that information to other folks.
spacefight··on Cameron reaffirms there will be no “safe spaces” from UK government snooping
Well, with all the previous relevations we've seen about various 3 and 4 letter agencies, we should have marched long ago.
spacefight··on Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
Thanks for all the insights about the Tomahawks. What OP is refering to is cheaper, smaller and therefore in much more numbers deployable fighting drones. Each and every anti-missile site, be it fixed or portable has it's limits on what they can defend against.

I also assume that OP was refering to drones that could go through current missile defence systems because they can't be easily identified, neither visually nor with radar.

Yes, we (or at least you guys in the US) had them in the form of expensive, capable systems, but not at a smaller, cheaper or whatnot scale.

Also, can't Tomahawk launches not be detected by a some signatures they emit? I assume that modern mil space radar systems are able to do that.

spacefight··on Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
That is still relying on comms which I pointed out will be solved eventually (if it hasn't already).
spacefight··on Test Pilot Admits the F-35 Can’t Dogfight
For a few hundred dollars, someone will make the drones self aware with pre planned routings along optically recognizable waypoints. No more need for a comms channel.

What then?

spacefight··on Energy
Maybe we can argue that "not dangerous" is simply not true? Chernobyl, Fukushima and many other "smaller" accidents happened.
spacefight··on A Walk Around Chernobyl [video]
DIY :)

http://www.twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com/

spacefight··on With 61 Seconds in a Minute, Markets Brace for Trouble
If your system is one of those 10% and if your trading algo is executing fucked up trades because of timing issues and you lose real money - I wouldn't call that exaggerated.

Also, not sure if any of the systems mentioned in the article run JS for critical server side code.

spacefight··on Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday
Greece is much larger than Cyprus, their debt is much bigger in absolute values and the outcome of the current status so unknown that it's very difficult to compare the current capital controls against those implemented in Cyprus.
spacefight··on Greek Banks, Stock Exchange to Remain Closed From Monday
This is really bad for the people of Greece. I have seen small bank runs with my own eyes where folks queued for hours to get their savings rescued. ($bigCorp going down with internal bank). Bad sad bad.
spacefight··on Amazon Echo Released
Has anyone analyzed the outgoing connections yet? What TLS cipher suites are being used?
spacefight··on Robots are leaving the factory floor and heading for your desk – and your job
And you will be replaced by software writing software.
spacefight··on Full Scale Simulation of SpaceX's Mars Rocket Engine [video]
Laser Melting in space! Love it!

https://www.additively.com/en/learn-about/laser-melting

spacefight··on Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
One should sue for trademark violation. I'll chip in if anyone is fundraising.
spacefight··on Logjam: the latest TLS vulnerability explained
Yes. I have said it before and I say it again: Cloudflare (and any other large CDNs) are a perfect setup for a MITM or a perfect target for a nation-state's secret service.
spacefight··on Logjam TLS attack
" We further estimate that an academic team can break a 768-bit prime and that a nation-state can break a 1024-bit prime. Breaking the single, most common 1024-bit prime used by web servers would allow passive eavesdropping on connections to 18% of the Top 1 Million HTTPS domains."

We need a new web.

spacefight··on Telegram Hits 2B Messages Sent Daily
Threema FTW.
spacefight··on How the DEA took a young man’s life savings without charging him with a crime
> a world leader in personal liberty

[Citation needed]

Thanks.

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