skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some government comms such as areas including disaster relief and simple police dispatch are end to end

Thalw problem is the key is transmitted in dtmf or other means in the clear. I am not sure what my local pd uses for encryption but I'm guessing it's outdated.

You can set the tornado sirens off with a small transmitter and recording the very consistent tone pattern of you wanted.

The worrisome thing is that cops use their cellphones instead, which is much more secure but also is used accidentally or purposefully to avoid public records.
And the obvious conclusion, if you're a criminal, is that don't rely on others to encrypt your comms. Either go with classic PGP or make your own layers (as Schneier puts it).

But criminals are usually just dumb in regards to this, they are only "street smart". Those who are "intellectual smart" don't do it. Or if they do they don't get caught until they jump over the horse (see the current scandal with 2 billions "siphoned")
Thanks. What kind of process changes are you putting in place to prevent things like this from happening again?
It's a little confusing to see 2 accounts, with very different usernames (epi0Bauqu and yegg), that appear to be posting as Gabriel Weinberg . Are these both legitimate? And if they are, what's the reason for two of them?
Yeah, the title could be better
Why would criminals use these kinds of apps rather than e.g. Signal?
This is going to make arguing against EARN-IT a lot harder just now.
This is an endless debate among RVers, its personal preference.

I can tell you its really nice having the RV be usable down the road for the bathroom and the space.

I tow a 4 door Jeep which is actually much better for getting around and exploring once we are at our destination than a full size truck due it its smaller size and off-road capability.
When proof is not enough
I've seen plenty of people assuming SUVs are off-roaders just because they tend to have similar shape and proportions, or some form of 4/all wheel drive that's in no way comparable to true off-road vehicles. The second confusion is that every car that seems a bit "bulged" is called a SUV in Europe. Even small CUVs like the Volvo X40 or Mazda CX-3. The fact that they are also called "crossover SUV" or CSUV definitely doesn't help anyone.

Unfortunately most people can't afford the "right vehicle for right purpose" approach they they pick the compromise that will be sort of a jack of all trades and master of none but cover pretty much all the needs. This comes with some drawbacks (larger outside dimensions, larger fuel consumption, less maneuverable, etc.) and some advantages (larger inside dimensions, more likely to fare better in a crash due to the added weight and ride height).

Normally I'd say that if you have a specific driving need only 1% of the time, rent rather than try to tack the feature onto your car's requirements. There's no point in driving around with those drawbacks 99% of the time for that 1% when you drive with the advantage. But something like the safety advantage is there all the time, unless the manufacturer really screwed up someplace else.

The biggest problem and misunderstanding lies with the CUV/CSUV segment. They are somehow viewed as "SUVs" but actually have almost all the disadvantages of a SUV with almost none of the advantages. Compared to the equivalent hatchback they sport a slightly larger body that increases drag and fuel consumption, and decreases maneuverability, bigger wheels and raised axles that just eat up more interior space, and probably have little to no safety benefit because the added weight contributes almost nothing to this (a Mercedes GLA weighs ~100Kg more than a normal A-class hatchback).
Ok. Guns are off the street. It’s not like it’s not easy for criminals to get more guns.
> and if you think 'we' are rich..you are wrong.

Switzerland is one of the richest countries in Europe - it's GDP/capita is the 9th highest in the world.

This place (news.ycom) really has a skewed sense of reality. "Oh, you only got $100k offer straight out of University? That's a low number."

99% of the world lives far below anything you consider average.

For a website full of smart people, you all have trouble recognising your own extreme privledge.
> don't rely on others to encrypt your comms. Either go with classic PGP or make your own layers

You're saying "don't rely on others to encrypt your comms" and then the very next sentence says "use something someone else has made". Those two are conflicting. "Making your own" is even worse, because cryptographers don't usually have to resort to crime.
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> It's pretty darn hard to hit their page delivery targets unless you're serving from something close to their testing site.

Are you sure? Have you tried using a CDN?

> An ultra small, static site can sometimes get 100 though

Here's an example site I run that gets a close to perfect score that has a fairly complex landing page:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

(it should load close to instant once it connects in your browser: https://www.checkbot.io/)

The main tips I can give for a high page speed that most websites don't do are avoid large header images, make sure text is visible before custom fonts load, use minimal CSS (and/or inline the CSS for the header into the top of the HTML), don't use blocking JavaScript and especially avoid huge JavaScript triggered cookie popups (the blocking JavaScript + big delay for the Largest Contentful Paint will kill your score).
The DC offset can be considered as approximating a low frequency component that is so low frequency, relative to the measurement window, that it appears to be constant.

I think in the case described here, the zero average amplitude thing has to do with something a little bit different.
Define Marxist... I’m sure you wouldn’t know what a Marxist is if Marx himself stood in front of you and read you Das Kapital in plain English. Problem with getting your education at Fox News University is that you become progressively more stupid.
Is it just me or does the timing of this story seem a little fishy considering the EARN IT act that US Senators are trying to push through?

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/oppose-earn-it-a...
Cameroon gets e-learning resources boost
Good article. But i'm not sure if she advocating all students need to return to school full time or we should close down all businesses - in an effort of fairness - until the pandemic passes?
Yeah that's my bad. epi0Bauqu is my original account, but since no one knew who I was under that account I, some years later, made the yegg account and I try to post from there. The issue here is I logged in to post the comment, and then switched to my laptop where I was already logged in this other account.
House of Lords calls for loot boxes to be immediately reclassified as gambling
https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...
China uses slave labor and we eat it up while chanting rhymes about how we love freedom and black lives. It's really telling.
Among other results, they found that solo founders were 55 percent less likely to dissolve their businesses than teams of three, and that for-profit ventures founded by lone entrepreneurs were about 2.5 times more likely to survive than team-founded ones. Studies have found that 23% of new ventures failed because the team wasn’t right. So, they are hiring dedicated development teams to win the business. Here’s why dedicated development teams work best for the startups - https://nuvento.com/blog/why-dedicated-it-teams-work-best-fo...
The Dutch news mentions the police managed to snoop on the messages "before they were encrypted", so I assume they managed to hijack the app update process and installed a keylogger or something.
Good to see it's still a going concern.
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Thanks. Multiline certainly raises the value of a REPL.
MIT's tinyImages dataset withdrawn due to prejudicial concerns
This post has been my enlightenment about modal editing. Thank you for this excellent piece. And I've referred dozens of people to it after me.
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Chrome OS preparing Steam gaming support
It wasn’t just an app, Encrochat sold a modified android phone that had its camera and GPS physically removed and its custom app pre-installed.

Based on the article, Encrochat didn’t sound like a fully legitimate company and may have been run by criminals as well. The part I found interesting is how these vendors often block competitor apps and services from working on their phones, essentially requiring everyone to use the same type of modified phone. This made life a lot easier for investigators once the network was penetrated.
It could, but it already was hard for Intel to get Thunderbolt adopted because the controller is rather expensive. My guess is that they assumed most people would only use it for short distance connection and thus they moved the cost of EQ to chipped cables for those who would truly need it.
Shouldn’t we call it The USA war on Iraq, or the USA invasion of Iraq etc? It is a war the USA and its allies started on false pretense after all. The attacker is the USA the victims are Iraqis, not the other way around. Same goes for many other wars the USA started of course, for which we are all paying the price.
While you might only use Lightning for charging, it is an accessory port. It can transmit data to computers, it can talk to SD cards, it can output HDMI.

You could argue you that you don't need any of those features, but Apple disagrees and that's why lightning is not just a 5V DC jack.
>But criminals are usually just dumb in regards to this

I'm reminded of the film Sneakers:

Marty: Organised Crime?

Cosmo: Don't kid yourself, its not that organised.
Yes. I imagine, we would have hashtags, and algorithmic hashtags (in case your uncle stops using #rightWingConsiracy hashtab because everybody is filtering it?) and ability to filter by hashtags (with ability to selectively pick whether you block algorithmic hashtags, or normal hashtags). The problem I see is that your uncle might get offended that FB is marking his posts #rightWingConspiracy).
Why would you go through the trouble of sharing a list when you can just email them directly?
> Each message session with each contact is encrypted with a different set of keys"

Is this not a bad thing? Since transferring key-pairs is the weakest link on these apps. To be really secure, wouldn't you want to do this as infrequently as possible and ideally outside in person outside the app?
"My career exists because of it" isn't a great argument for its actual merit.
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Financial laws like employment and taxes should be formalized in code as much as possible.
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The report is written by "The House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic Impact of the Gambling Industry".

The report page is here: https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z...

Note that they say that changes are needed now, and that most of these changes do not require any change in law.

> The liberalisation of gambling by the Gambling Act 2005, the universal adoption of smart phones, and the exploitation of soft-touch regulation by gambling operators has created a perfect storm of addictive 24/7 gambling. The Committee expects the Government and the regulator to make changes now. Many of the report's recommendations do not need legislation, and all of them are urgent if consumers are to be protected and lives saved.
I get the feeling that the owner didn't quite understand the request and promptly freaked out.
https://www.oberlo.com/blog/facebook-statistics
This is already happening with Kotlin driving people to use functions instead of annotations. E.g. the kofu project gets rid of most anootation driven configuration for Spring Boot; specifically with the aim to speed up startup and ultimately enable native compilation via Graal.
Given the care with which the software was built, I wonder if the hardware itself was compromised. The open hardware folks always talk about the insecurity of the closed hardware in phones; I wonder if any official narrative discussing a software exploit is simply a parallel construction. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
It's hard to detect what HTTP DELETE does without, well...
During a gold rush, sell shovels
And out of curiosity, taking some from this:

https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings/blo...

especially the Asian ones, seems to varying from mildly amusing to interesting effects, when you try to set them as SSID.
For me it does the opposite. Hearing engineers speaking off-message inspires trust, while pr-evasion and weasel speak makes me think they have something to hide.
Hi Swyx
Like the bank robber, you seem to mistake a threat of self-harm by the UK for an existential threat to the EU. No deal is not mutually assured destruction, it's certain destruction for the UK and some damage to the EU.

That's not a very convincing lever in a negotiation. The final relationship will benefit the EU far more than the UK, simply because of the balance of power, regardless of delusions to the contrary and empty bombast from Johnson.
The issue was highlighted from open-source code from a company who proactively works to reduce privacy.

It seems rather reasonable to assume that in the goal of maximising privacy in search engines, it would be wise to add user-friendly and convenient features so that the alternative is appealing and does not sacrifice too much convenience.
>This assures non-reputability of messages.

No, they're assuring reputability, not non-reputability.
Exactly, perhaps I'm just revelling in nostalgia but to me they were more like the golden ages of the web, when everything still seemed possible.
He's also teaching a course on Ethical Hacking which just makes this even more bizarre.
I thought the "Web Dark Ages" refered to people imagining us looking back on it in 20 years and finding it had dissapeared with only a tiny fraction of it archived. Under that definition the web dark ages ended when web archival services started to save snapshots of a majority of sites.
I think it's too late. My friends already only use FB for groups, messenger and marketplace. Hardly any of them post anything.
Allegedly they captured the servers and compromised the clients through an update. The trust was probably due to not getting caught for a while.
Walking to places, transit, good restaurants, etc.

I don't have town sewer but I have a septic system (tank and leach field) and that's pretty normal in more rural areas. I'm not sure I've ever heard of someone with a cesspool that needs to be pumped on a regular basis although I'm sure that exists. Septic tanks should get cleaned out now and then too but that's an every few years thing.

I do also pay for trash disposal and some things like that which are paid for by taxes in most cities but that's hardly a problem.
Would be a shame if someone added a..... JavaScript framework to it.
I read that as more of a criticism of the ORM/JPA and maybe xml than Spring Boot. In practice it's easy to pull down half the database with an errant "eagerly loaded" collection or attempt to deserialize a giant xml document into an in memory DOM, both of which can exhaust memory and hang jvms with very little information on what happened than an 'out of memory' exception.
Why does no one mention FBP (facebook purity) ff / chrome / opera extension ?
corporate censorship and disinformation on ad-driven social media

Censorship as opposed to moderation?

In any case, the corporations exacerbate the problems of dredge going viral, prioritizing engagement over information.

Our corporate overlords choose what to display, and thus they choose what to take away.
I started programming a long time ago (more than 35 years) and if I could go back then I would've told myself that my code will live far far longer than I thought and was told then. This still applies. Most juniors I meet think their code will be tossed out in months or maybe years. It doesn't; it stays for decades. I still make the same mistake now when I write stuff; I was trying to fix some bugs in a system I wrote in 2 days and then hacked on for 2-3 weeks over time. It is a real (objective) mess as it was a hurry-hackjob and was supposed to be replaced within 3 months (I was doing someone a favor; that's how bad things start :); I realised looking in git that it is from february 2012... And used by millions/month since then.
Your theory is based on other social networks that were both never as big or mainstream and that didn’t have the money to buy up competitors.
Too risky to use such services,. As soon as they become too big, they have nation state resources thrown at them...and they're without Google or FB resources to defend.

If all else fails, DEA-like agencies can easily offer employees millions of dollars for keys or assistance to plant bugs, offer immunity and so on. Very hard to resist.
Cybercriminals Aggressively Exploit Post-Covid Attack Surface
I'd say the contrary: isn't this a prime example of how law enforcement can work around encryption without weakening encryption in general by law?
Nice, I'm always on the lookout for a new todo app
As a member of the MySQL community who is not a native english speaker, I never payed attention to the terminology, it's all greek to me.

However, just one conversation (and I had more than one) with other members who are both people of color and native english speakers made me aware that the terminology negatively affects their work life, as you use these commands (or read columns with these names, monitoring systems information, etc.) pretty much on a daily basis. For most of them , the problem is the use of master and slave, just master alone doesn't seem bad if used with, e.g., replica. I can relate to that too, as there are demeaning terms used to represent "my" people that would annoy me or eventually bring me down if I had to use them in my work life. Say I had to use a system where worker processes where called "Sudacas", which is a derogatory term for south american migrants in some parts of Europe. Suddenly "stop sudaca", or "change master(owner) to" would probably bring me down.

So while I don't think for a second this is solving racism, and I also think this is just a corporation doing what they think will make them look better in the public, I know for a fact this will improve the work environment for real people that I know, and that's good enough for me.
I agree a big RV seems like a US thing and the kind of travel you are talking about appealed to me more when I was younger, but with a family and kids its really nice to go explore during the day and go by to our bubble at night and move on to the next place.

We have seen a lot of diverse stuff in the US and financially, well traveling for pleasure doesn't really make sense, its worth it to me so far.

I did do a good amount of work to make my RV drive better, again if someone could make a simple well made RV I think the demand would be high, its really nice way to travel and see the US.
Telia is just horrible. I use them because I have no other option where I live, which is very unusual in Sweden. Their support is absolute horse shit. You can't get a static ip unless you have a company and it regularly goes down for hours.

If you login on your account on their homepage you get this popup 1 time each day:

https://imgur.com/Y0Gx8EY

Where they utilize a dark pattern to make users check the boxes and have their customers web traffic data monitored and analyzed for ad purposes. The only other option is "Svara senare" which translates to "Answer later". If you login after 24 hours, the same popup will be shown until you tick those boxes.

This should be illegal.
I think this is a good article on the theory of law and how it's quite paradoxical -

Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law - James Grimmelmann

https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...
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exactly my thoughts too
Threatening the researcher really is the cherry on top here
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What do you think of it?
It (deniable authentication) has been provided previously by OTR.

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

TLS provides a weaker version (instead of everyone in the world being able to forge a message, just your peer is able to forge the message).
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It’s not a matter on how to reach this artificial goal, because you can lie your way in. You wouldn’t trust someone becoming a medical doctor in two years than in ten years or a lawyer. So why would that be any different with SE. Also I’m not saying that SE has the same prestige as medicine or law, but only that experts have a lot of experience and someone with ten years under their belt has put in always more hours than someone with under five
These tactics are as old as international drug smuggling itself. Howard Marks(Mr Nice)[0] says in his book that he stationed one of his associates in Amsterdam to operate as a communications node, he finds out later that the Dutch police had tapped the phone lines within weeks.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks
Debugging Abstractions: The Benefits of Mindfulness for Software Engineers