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> Speaking as a developer. I'm not qualified to answer this for sure, but my gut feeling is that such a feature in the hands of typical end-users might actually be a bad thing for security.

I think users should be allowed to make the security tradeoffs they consider relevant. Many people leave a key to the door of their house somewhere outside but nearby, yet I don't think the people who build locks should decide that that is never acceptable and decide to play parent and come up with a solution to this problem: I would prefer people to be informed about the tradeoffs they are making, but they should be allowed to do what they want. Meanwhile, this enables the people who want more security than "I trust Apple, all of Apple's employees, Apple's security from hostile third parties, and the government under which Apple does business" to go "above and beyond".

> That's why I think calling this a backdoor isn't a fair assessment.

I am using this term because Apple is using this term: they said "They [the FBI] have asked us [Apple] to build a backdoor to the iPhone." when what the result would be would still require brute forcing a passcode to get the data in question. They make it sound extremely hard, but in fact it is really easy for them to do this: it is a single line of code changed; what makes it possible for them to do this is not that they haven't bothered to build it, it is that they are moral enough to not want to do it, and they are the only people with the key... but the key, fundamentally, is equivalent to the power the FBI wants. The FBI could "build" this backdoor for themselves if Apple handed them that key.
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Your Cook quote is DH3 on the disagreement hierarchy.[1] I agree with it, but it doesn't engage with any arguments for or against the court order.

> Bill Gates still owns some 13 billions in Microsoft stocks.

Do you really think Gates would dissemble, throw privacy under a bus, and draw the ire of his peers... just for a potential bump in net worth? I think it's far more likely that he believes what he says he believes.

As much as the HN crowd likes to side with Apple on this matter, reasonable people can disagree about what's best. I hope Gates's position causes people to reflect on why they have the opinion they do. Gates doesn't have some shady ulterior motive. He's simply stating his opinion on the matter, and using some hastily-conceived analogies to explain it to the general public. That's all.

1. http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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The clients are all open source; the server isn't, but the last time I checked they plan to opensource it as soon as they make sure there aren't any major exploits someone could use against it. Which I know might sound silly, because the open source community could find and patch those, but in light of all the recent crypto-related security bugs lately, it makes you wonder if it is a wise decision after all.
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> I think most users do not own a 4K monitor at home or in their companies.

I've just migrated one of our offices from 17" 1280x1024 screens to handed down 24" 1920x1200 screens. The latter were replaced in another office with 25" 2560x1440 screens… 4K is just not cost effective right now.
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Looking through the drops.wooyun.org website, it appears that every image posted is watermarked. It seems to be a blogging platform targeted towards hackers, with lots of authors represented. I imagine that the watermarking is an automated process applied to every image uploaded to the platform.

Of course, the author should have given attribution.
UK telecoms are a bit peculiar. E.g., Giffgaff bans users for 30 mins (first warning). This is pretty well known. They try to avoid tethering through SSH tunnels.
Belfast is 64th? Not too bad all things considered.
Damn that was impressive.
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And surprisingly (at least it was for me, I'm French and stereotype for Welsh people is that they "should be" introverted/rugged), Wales is an extremely welcoming place. I've found the Welsh to be warm, proud of their land and willing to give it a good name to the outside world.
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> At the least you'd have to be a gambling person with a penchant for long odds to continue with Scala at this point.

I attended a (non-scala) meetup recently and got talking to a guy who does consulting in the Scala world. He'd been to a major conference in the past few weeks and reported that the vibe there was exceedingly bleak, with lots of negativity over the future of the Scala project.

One data point, but still...
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> This makes no sense. Sure: someone can make their device less secure if they want. I absolutely support you doing that.

Well yeah, I guessed so. People in Cupertino probably think that's basically your mission :D (I don't, though).
What I wanted to say is that building a security platform that completely locks you out of the device you're building is 1) Hard 2) full of political and legal implications.
Even then, Apple is the only manufacturer with such a clear roadmap in that.
Why are they the only one to be held so strongly accountable for building this king of security while Google Android phone can be snooped upon in an extremely easy way? When they're less secure by design?

That was my objection.
What will happen to these devices once 'Magical Leap' launches?
I'm Italian and I was embarrassed for the whole duration of those terms he served whilst I was an adult: not because his buffoonery (every country has people like that) but because collectively the voters of the country had had no better judgement than to elect this guy. This is why I would deeply sympathise with any American whom, come 2017, would find him- or herself represented on the international stage by Trump.
But making updates require password input would close the backdoor entirely
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Well I have to admit, my understanding of what constitutes terrorism was not solid, so I googled it. It seems the statements don't necessarily need to be political in nature.

The FBI defines domestic terrorism[1] as:

> "Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:

> - Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;

> - Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and

> - Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.

The first point, I imagine mass shootings qualify as acts dangerous to human life that violate law.

For the second point, I would argue that sending a manifesto[2] to media with nuggets like what follows are designed to intimidate/coerce a civilian population

"Thanks to you, I die, like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the Weak and Defenseless people — my Brothers, Sisters, and Chil- dren —that you fuck.
Like Moses, I spread the sea and lead my people —the Weak, the Defenseless, and the Innocent Children of all ages that you fucked and will always try to fuck —to eternal freedom. Thanks to you Sinners, you Spillers of Blood, I set the example of the century for my Children to follow."

Lastly, the attack occurred on US soil.

1 - https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/terrorism/terrorism...
2 - https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/cho_manifest...
I successfully installed it on my Nexus 6P (using gentoo; wheezy couldn't be unpacked, and I had permissions errors in aboriginal).

Problem: "dnf update" simply fails with a "KeyError: 'armv8l'". I guess this is isn't 64 bits ready yet…

Edit: Fedora 23 does support Aarch64, this image does not.
> > Bill Gates still owns some 13 billions in Microsoft stocks.

> Do you really think Gates would dissemble, throw privacy under a bus, and draw the ire of his peers... just for a potential bump in net worth?

Check which companies sided with Apple this time and which didn't, then compare with some other older cases, for example after Snowden's revelations, then you tell me how you see the current state this time.

Almost certainly the phone doesn't contain anything relevant: it was just a business phone of the killer who actually took care to destroy his private phone and computer, the backup data out of the phone is already owned by the FBI and they just clumsily locked themselves out.

Even if I can imagine Gates believes what he says the context matters and shouldn't be left unmentioned. Interests and affiliations of somebody influential making the public statement are certainly important to mention. Also to compare, Cook was almost presented guilty for trying to preserve the products of his company.
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Or vampires. It's gonna really suck for vampires once these are in iPhones. >:-[
Bill Gates wants debate on Apple's FBI clash
This is true as well.
You see cellphone store advertise feature phones as Galapagos phones, and I believe it was Panasonic or Sharp that even had a line of phones called Galapagos.

I'm not sure I get what word "Gara" is a homonym with, to me it seems like a fairly normal word.
I have the utmost respect for people fighting censorship, whether they're on the inside breaking out or on the outside breaking in.

But the idea that only Tor can be used to fight censorship is a false equivalence. If you look at the usage data for e.g. Turkey when they stepped up censorship a few years ago, Tor usage increased a bit, but it was a tiny amount compared to HotSpot Shield (a VPN product). Most users evading censorship in places like China or Turkey are happy to trust the VPN provider in return for superior performance or app compatibility, because they know little VPN providers aren't going to snitch them out.

Yes, normally people have to pay for VPNs whereas Tor is free. I think it'd be great if there was a collaborative network of people who donate their bandwidth to a kind of decentralised VPN (single hop, authenticated, with abuse checks, unlike Tor). But ultimately running these sorts of networks takes effort and time, and most organisations don't have access to the various grants and such that Tor has.

> please suggest what should an open network do about abuse and rather, why should they be the ones doing anything about it

Keep it under control, same as all other networks are expected to do. There are all sorts of networks that range from very closed (e.g. university networks) to very open (e.g. open signup clouds, Google, Microsoft email networks etc). But none of them have a get-out-of-jail-free card, not even the biggest.

Why should they be the ones to do anything about it - because that's how the internet works. If your network spews abuse onto the platform then it's gonna get blocked and blacklisted. If you don't want your users to all be lumped in the same bucket, then you have to do the differentiation yourself.

The linked thread already explains why simple GET requests can be problematic all by themselves.
The article contains no useful information as to why you need a developer diary.
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There's a port of ATS programming language for the ESP8266. There's some slides on it here:

http://www.slideshare.net/master_q/safer-iot-using-functiona...

ATS is a functional programming language that does not use a garbage collector and uses dependent and linear types to do safe system programming. It provides a similar level of safety to Rust with the ability to drop down to C: http://www.ats-lang.org/
Some VPNs don't and they get treated the same as Tor i.e. CAPTCHAd a lot, throttled, outright blocked (I've seen it happen).

Others do keep logs and use them. Guess what? They're not pointless. Lots of people don't require absolute anonymity against everyone - they just want to get over a particular firewall or shield their IP address from one particular network. But they don't include the VPN provider (or host country) in their threat model.
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Google and Amazon do have extensive anti-abuse teams. So do hosting providers, to varying degrees.

It may not seem like it when you're receiving abuse from those networks anyway, but it'd be much, much worse if they weren't doing the work at all.
I don't... you just seem really confused here :(. You are conflating the key used to sign the data on the disk with the key used to sign a software update for the system; the FBI here wants firmware for the device, signed to work on this device, that will allow them to brute force the PIN code (or password) used to generate the disk encryption key. I am saying that the actual software is something that many people in the community could build, and would require almost no effort for Apple to produce. The only reason I, in fact, can't do this, is because I don't have a key that Apple is sitting in possession of right now: the key that is used to sign these firmware updates. That one key is the backdoor, as that key is the only thing standing between someone and accomplishing what the FBI wants, and it will let you do not only this but all kinds of other evil things you want to do to anyone's phone.
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Thank you for the link! :) I've recently gotten a MIDI controller to finally take some first steps into electronic music (I'm used to playing "regualr" keyboard) and this is what I was looking for!
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Ah. I'm conflating multiple threads. I was referring to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11157666

I agree with you about All Writs, I don't see any precedent for "change your product". Thanks for pointing my mistake out.
Given the US' horrendous abuses of human rights in Guantanamo and abroad, I'd say it's far more likely that they are spying on such people and organisations because they may be negative towards some aspects of US foreign policy.

Essentially, they seem to be looking out for 'dissidents' - the same sort of behaviour that US politicians often berate when other countries, such as India or China, do it (also wrongly!).
I dont know, why their homepage does not advertise the desktop app. But if you check out their blog, you'll find this page: https://actorapp.ghost.io/desktop-apps-updated/
Whilst I think this was inevitable, as banks have become increasingly technical, it also makes me a bit sad that now you need a Math PhD from MIT and a Harvard MBA to go and be a trader.

I think back to an earlier HN discussion [1] on the article "The Rent Seeking is Too Damn High" [2] - when my father worked at a bank he said it wasn't uncommon for your market salesman from the street to get picked up as a trader, indeed my friends mother went from secretary to trader. She was given a chance because her boss felt like she had a spark about her.

It's fun to look back on the past with rosy eyes thinking "those days were better" but truly how can we hope for meritocratic (in the true sense of the word!) social mobility if you need 0.5 million USD in school fees to get a job as a trader?
No privacy policy seems available though.
And "that one key" isn't a few bytes in your mother's basement, it's something with which all the Apple's products, hundreds of millions, are secured and are to be secured and which you should not have, FBI should not have, and should not be misused without proper laws made. This time, instead, All Writs is attempted to be used.

It's wrong and dangerous, not because only the key, but because the way the whole issue is constructed, the demand to Apple is to "just" change the iOS (Apple's product) "because we say so and we can." Dangerous precedent.

It's not "give us the data from the phone." FBI has the data already. They are encrypted, and FBI locked themselves out. Bad luck.
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Bill Gates led a company that shipped products with poor security for decades just to maintain their first mover advantage. He actively and deliberately took part in abusing the fact that security is not the first thing assessed in a product.

He might be a brilliant man, but he clearly doesn't have the vision when it comes to security and privacy.
He-said/she-said is poor reporting.
And don't forget that you need a 70kg lead cylinder to store just 1 kilogram of hydrogen. And hydrogen, being the smallest particle, escapes from literally any container, no matter what it's made from. Usually a whole tank will leak out naturally within 2-3 weeks. That's really not ideal, not to mention dangerous if your car is parked in a closed garage.
This. Telegram got a lot of things right. They have clients that work well on all platforms. Features like the Bot API and Channels have a lot of potential. However, their home-grown crypto and dismissal of feedback from the crypto community makes it hard for me to recommend it to anyone.
> People in Cupertino probably think that's basically your mission :D (I don't, though).

Good, because anyone who thinks that even casually is either completely uninformed or an idiot :/. (I vaguely apologize for the bluntness, but this is an insinuated attack even with the statement that you don't believe it, at which point one would question why you brought it up in the first place.)

> Why are they the only one to be held so strongly accountable for building this king of security while Google Android phone can be snooped upon in an extremely easy way?

You clearly have never been to one of my talks; I outright told an entire audience of people at DragonCon, most of whom used Android devices, that they should not use an Android device if they even remotely cared about security, and sat there and took it as they boo'd me: I am extremely vocal about the flaws in Android devices.

Only today, we are talking about Apple. And today, Apple is being disingenuous: they are making it sound like it would be some herculean effort to build some massive crowbar to defeat their otherwise impenetrable device, when in fact what the FBI wants can be accomplished by Apple in a matter of hours, and that the underlying security of this device comes down to something Apple would rather people believe is a good thing--that they have more access to the hardware you own than you do--than ever even momentarily consider to be a flaw.
As impressive as that is, it's even more impressive that the last commit in the project was in 2012.

This 'little' web project is more than three years old and still amazing considering how much web browsers and web technologies have moved forward in this time.
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> Supermarket milk is generally ultra-heat treated to increase shelf life, even the so-called "organic" variety.

Yes, it is, but I'd like to know why you frame this as a bad thing.

> In the end, I don't mind paying more, and I'm supporting local dairy farmers. What the hell are you doing?

While I appreciate your good intetions, I think the "What the hell are you doing?" is a little bit overstated, since this is a low-impact, low effort activity and, really, does the fact that you're doing something oblige me to somehow "one-up" you?
Some meta discussion: "xyz reaches/releases version number 234234.324234" is entirely meaningless and the best way to ensure that nobody will care about your release announcement. Your project may internally have a very well defined and entirely logical policy as to how exactly to change version numbers based on internal project changes, but from the outside this is 100% untrustable and invisible, meaning your 2.0 release could mean anything from "we rewrote the entire thing" or "a set amount of time went by" (see Firefox/Perl/probably others).

If you actually care at all about your release announcement being read, include in the title line the actual benefit the new version provides to people.
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I recommend it just because it has questionable crypto, to feed at least some data into Russia and not only to USA. Just to not have only one unchallenged world surveillance power.
>Terror on the other hand is practiced by governments and law enforcement officials, usually within the legal framework of the state.[1]

Depending on the circumstances the scenario you describe can be terror. IMHO swatting on shaky grounds would qualify.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_(politics)
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> monetize it

The owner is a billionaire high-tech enterpreneur partial to the cypherpunk ideas. He is basically doing it out of spite, to piss off the establishment.
Possibly a strained analogy - but for a very simple system that is Turing-complete there is always Combinatory Logic which only needs two very simple functions (S & K):

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Toki Pona isn't meant as a universal language to be translated from nor to translate into (unlike e.g. Esperanto). When you translate from/to, a lot of subtleties are lost (which is exactly what Toki Pona intends).

Toki Pona is just a "toy" language (for lack of a better adjective), somewhat like yoga for the language (for lack of a better simile). Each person uses Toki Pona in their own way: for some it's pushing language to the limit, for some it's just fun, some others consider it an experiment in psychology, an experiment in language construction, an introspection tool, a challenge, poetry in and of itself...

Obviously it's not the best to communicate precisely, just like yoga asanas aren't meant to walk.
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