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uh_oh··on Prominent Scientists Sign Declaration that Animals have Conscious Awareness
A computer can easily know right from wrong to the degree most humans are capable of (and too often they aren't very sophisticated at that) even today. But it's safe to assume that that ARM processor has no conscious awareness. Conscious awareness is simply the feeling of observing things, a feeling we assume the machines we've built do not have, for example.
uh_oh··on ‘Location tracking’ of every Indian mobile user by 2014
In India corruption runs through all levels of government. This is a fact. So, yes, misuse is much more likely. I understand that you may have wanted to express that it's less likely that the data is abused for political reasons _by the government_ to further certain political goals. This may be true, I don't know.
uh_oh··on What worries me most about the NSA fibre issue...
When the forged certificate was created MD5 has been _throughly_ broken for a long time, much more so than SHA-1 even now.
uh_oh··on GCHQ intercepted foreign politicians' communications at G20 summits
There is very little international law that governs interactions between nations. Those governments trusted their host. They were betrayed.
uh_oh··on PRISM fears give private search engine DuckDuckGo its best week ever
I wonder why so many people believe this. Many simple and weak ciphers have been around for decades and - although they are considered to be very insecure by cryptographers - certainly can't be decrypted in real-time (!) on this scale (!).
uh_oh··on German Girl Turned Away at Border Due to Private Facebook Messages
It is certainly not one of the big newspapers, but still the largest regional one.
uh_oh··on Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit
Thumbs up for this coming from the conservative party as well. As others have said, this really is a bi-partisan issue and we should build as broad a coalition of the unwilling as possible.
uh_oh··on iOS7 – Why Is Everyone Suddenly A Design Critic?
Who are those users to have an opinion of their own? If that's the way you think about your users, you probably don't deserve having them.

Maybe some people don't like the design, but can't move because they have already invested too much into the platform? A brand is a promise to not mess things up.

If users love everything Apple does we criticize them (The sheep!). If they form an opinion while still using Apple devices we criticize them as well (Those "experts"!).

Btw, I actually like the design. I was sort of shocked when I first saw it, but it grows on you pretty quickly.

uh_oh··on Google may not like it, but facial recognition is coming soon to Glass
Yes. Just ensure that the glasses always show an LED when recording, one that can't be controlled by software drivers.
uh_oh··on Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM
My understanding is that MITM (but in a perfect way, using the leaked private key) is still required, if ephemeral Diffie-Hellman is involved. You can't just passively record the stream and decrypt it, since you don't know the exchanged DH secret.

The suggestion that the companies actually gave them the keys and this explains the "direct access" phrase makes a lot of sense!

uh_oh··on Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM
If moles are involved, they might have simply leaked the private SSL keys. If used together with MITM this would be almost impossible to catch.
uh_oh··on Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM
Yes, but how would they do this exactly? To collect anything valuable from Google they would need to MITM SSL on a large scale. And Chrome actually ships with a list of pinned certificates, including those for Google, making it difficult to MITM even for the government.
uh_oh··on Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM
My thoughts exactly. And not just the content, but the vocabulary and the whole way the language is structured.
uh_oh··on Show HN: CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app
We were are talking about a random guy in front of the house, not the government.
uh_oh··on Show HN: CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app
If you are the recipient of the link, SSL can't be stripped.

Even if you are an author, assuming you have visited the site over SSL at least once, then it can't be stripped on future visits since the site seems to use HSTS.

uh_oh··on Show HN: CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app
No, he can't. Not without a valid SSL certificate for cryptonote.org. Sure, there are problems with CAs, but it would nevertheless be very difficult to obtain such a certificate.
uh_oh··on Why Stuff From China Is So Cheap
This article has it backwards. These workers don't work is unsafe conditions, _because_ we don't pay them enough. Rather, the economic reality in China means that in order to compete with production elsewhere (e.g. in the US) even a high risk for workers still seems acceptable to them if that means they can get the job. If we would pay more, the jobs would be done elsewhere or by robots and those workers won't be happy about that, either. Still, this is capitalism at its worst, I guess.
uh_oh··on What is Happening in Istanbul?
Turkey was famously founded as a secular state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%C3%AFcit%C3%A9#Turkey). Things may have changed, but still ... "Muslim" probably just refers to the fact that most people living there are muslim.
uh_oh··on If Tesla Would Stop Selling Cars, We’d All Save Some Money
They mentioned Honda, of all companies!

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cato_Institute#Co...

American Petroleum Institute, ExxonMobil, General Motors, Honda North America, Toyota Motor Corporation, Volkswagen of America