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If it comes to that, for private communication, yep.

Was Lavabit founder in jail for not cooperating with the FBI? It seems he decided to play it safe and shut down, so there was no jail?

This seems clearly incompatible with Fifth Amendment. Any real cases where the person is held in prison for not revealing a password?

In case of authoritarian government likely to interfere with person's life, do not use just remembered passwords at all, but password in combination with strong keys that are frequently automatically changed so no one can remember them, and have a panic button that destroys all access to encrypted data.

> The Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the accused from being forced to incriminate themselves in a crime. The Amendment reads: > > No person ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-incrimination

> in United States v. Doe, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled on 24 February 2012 that forcing the decryption of one's laptop violates the Fifth Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law

The realistic scenario is company does not advertise strong encryption services, just messaging services. Then the onus is on the government to prove the message went strong encrypted. But just government not being able to see their test message in the traffic they captured on servers controlled by government does not constitute a proof.

A proof would require government gets their black boxes in almost every switch/router. Which I suppose is the end game.

Wait, which country supreme court did that???

Not sure what you mean. Re stance on civil rights, I'm surprised by Denmark being on this list.

Yeah, you see, it's a different kind of threat. Hamas is just the usual terrorists, from time to time they grow and get organized, and then we look surprised and outraged when they attack, and stump them out or use them in some proxy war. Don't worry, we have that under control.

With encryption, it's a whole another story. The danger is much greater. People may read hate speech or Putin's propaganda, and spread it on the Internet. This is a threat to democracy. Or even worse, they may communicate freely and share independent unsanctioned news. We don't yet have a tool for that, so we're working hard on it.

The data may be saved as jpegs of kitten and puppies. There is no law against animal child porn, at least not yet, so there are ways...

Orban & Co. "work for the family" so not a big shocker. Plus more power over what people can see or do on the Internet, an attractive tool of state power. Controlling TV stations and major outlets works on pensioneers, the next step is get control of the phones and computers. With more Orwell from the EU itself, stuff like phone hacks of journalists and political opponents will get easier.

If this passes, I expect disobedience and even more calls for leaving the EU.

EU: Company, this looks like you're facilitating breaking the EU law. Encryption we can't break is forbidden, except when we use it.

Company: Prove it. Maybe we're just sending random bytes to test the network.

The best legible monotype font for computer screens I know of is M+ 1m regular.

Example: https://www.dafontfree.net/data/41/m/94730/map/0-charmap-m-1...

This is standard mathematical analysis. Infinite sequence of elements may look like it converges to some target element, judging by mutual distances converging to zero. Such sequence is a Cauchy sequence. When the target element actually exists, then the sequence is also convergent. A space where every Cauchy sequence is convergent, is called complete.

Example: if the space is all real numbers except 0, then any sequence of real numbers accumulating around 0 (for howsoever small a distance, there is always infinite number of points closer to 0), the sequence is a Cauchy sequence, but not convergent (because 0 is not present). So that space is not complete (has a hole).

If the space is all real numbers, then the same sequence is also convergent, and the space is complete (no holes).

These attacks on CPU defects do work, and if they are being used to spy on people connected to internet, the attackers won't announce it.

If you really care about secrecy of your data, you would not be asking - you have to enable all mitigations, and do much more work to change patterns of computer use in a radical way to make your data somewhat secure against this level of craft.

If you care about sane practices that don't cost a lot but you don't consider yourself to be an interesting target, or you're not going to change your habits of computer use, chances are, someone on the internet slurping your data randomly is not the end of the world. If that is the case (most people), then on your personal laptop you can turn the costly mitigations off. After all, keeping them all on won't by itself give you solid security, most probably there are many more attacks on CPU/kernel out there for which there are no mitigations yet.

About the only scenario where keeping mitigations on is important and also "enough" is hosting/cloud vendors. "We follow the minimum industry security standard, but we don't guarantee someone else is not reading your data, that would be almost impossible."

Longer name, harder to type, probably won't catch on.

No, not "just". Unless all you know comes "just" from the headlines.

Greenwald at least is a well-known journalist. Sam Harris is a pestilent self-promoter.

> Glenn is a rare kind of American writer. He had been passionately writing on constitutional issues, national security, and problematic interpretations of government authority for years, but what made him stand out was his complete independence from the "access journalism" problem.

Edward Snowden, https://www.gq.com/story/exclusive-edward-snowden-on-glenn-g...

> I won't buy a vintage leather jacket

Are you by any chance Jensen Huang?

Do what? Let the market function?

Upper class does not care about price of food.

That should sort itself via the magic of the markets - either there is demand and the price should increase and the pay should rise, or there is no demand, and farmers will produce less, maybe some will close. The latter is a contraction, but there is no god commandment to keep prices low via immigrant work.

Another possibility that is surely called a conspiracy theory is to create conflict in society, so the government is allowed to put in place the desired solutions like increased systemic surveillance and more violent police. It's an effective way to erode civil rights.

This sounds interesting. Does that mean that if Rocky Linux and Almalinux die now, I can start paying you to provide security updates for my Rocky Linux 9 servers for 10 years?

Sysvinit also works. How is writing init files cumbersome? Writing startup dependencies is easy - there is the Required-Start header in the ### BEGIN INIT INFO block where you put the required services.

How did you came to that conclusion? In my experience, sysvinit comes with less bloat, and hangs randomly much less than systemd. I've worked with both old debian (sysvinit) and current centos (systemd) systems, and if I had a problem with init, it was always with systemd. If something related to disks or user login sessions fails, with sysvinit most of the time things proceed promptly, while with systemd, you're in for a waitfest/eternal hang.

Systemd seems to be propelled by distro packagers and developers, but for admins/users, it's not that great.

> As a rule, I think all cats should be indoors

Why?

> After 100 years I think we'd have seen consistent biological effects

Does ionizing radiation have only consistent biological effects? If not, why RF must have only consistent effects?

Effects may be varied, just like stochastic effects of ionizing radiation.

> Why is the US taxpayer so much more invested in this contrasted to a French or German taxpayer?

It's not about the taxpayer, but about what the powerful elites feel and want. France and Germany are closer to Russia, benefited from trade with Russia, and are strongly influenced by decades of Russian influence (Schroeder on the take, anti-war, anti-nuclear groups etc.) So they have to be brow-beaten and dragged into doing the right thing and help Ukraine. US benefits from Ukraine weakening Russia, it's a no-brainer.

How would suppressing the competition cut costs?

>Shay Assad: The landscape has totally changed. In the '80s, there was intense competition amongst a number of companies. And so the government had choices. They had leverage. We have limited leverage now.

Does anybody know some interesting practical applications of PCA?

What would "political freedom" be if it did not include the right of political expression?

"Democracy" is more general term than "liberal democracy", the latter includes protecting political freedoms. Suppressing protests because majority wants to is democratic, but it is not liberal democratic.

Liberal democracy is a check on the possible dangerous consequences of full naive democracy.

Hitler's regime came to power democratically.