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This is Zimmermann's third attempt at encrypted phone calls, at roughly 9 year intervals: PGPfone (1995) and Zfone (~2004/5).

I'll assume that this will be a lot easier to use than the earlier programs, and I'll also grant that smartphones are a much bigger market than VOIP software for desktops.

I want to see Zimmermann's product to succeed, and I'd love to see all phone calls have unbreakable end-to-end encryption by default.

However, as the article points out, it is difficult to persuade consumers to spend their own money on privacy.

The only way I can see consumers starting to care is if we get a massive wikileaks-style dump of millions of private phone calls that some malware or government has intercepted and recorded.
That's usually not how it works. I can only tell from my experience on what happens in Inida, but you usually apply for a "consulting" company which is basically a front for a shop that takes 30-50% cut in the developer pay by sponsoring them a H1 and sending them out to companies that need developers. A part of this is faking the number of years of experience they have on their resume, completely faking the technical expertise etc.

US govt. has kinda caught up to this and is rejecting many H1Bs that were sponsored by consulting companies now. So make of that what you will.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biol...

Biological systems are highly coupled but also very "fault" tolerant if manipulated at the right pivot points. That's why you can move a fly leg from the torso to the head by just manipulating a few transcription factors.
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were likely goes both ways.
I was worried about someone getting into my account so I made this: http://blog.jgc.org/2011/06/my-email-canary.html
I want my display and my computer separate. I want to connect non-Apple displays. Sometimes I want more than three screens. I want to be able to upgrade my graphics card, which I have done on my Pro 2 times. I'd love to be able to chain an arbitrary number of Thunderbolt displays together trading refresh rate for real estate but that's just not how it works, in fact it will probably never work this way.
ICS ecosystem is almost vaporware, it is supposed to be the best release yet, but i actually never saw it. Maybe its the best thing since sliced bread, but if nobody uses it, what exactly is the point?!

Your chances of getting ICS on your legacy device are virtually zero. whereas getting IOS 6 on the iphone 4S is assured.

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I have been an android user since it was essentially released, and have only recently switched to IOS, there are many things that i find absolutely maddening with IOS and find some elements poor in comparison to android.

That said, I grew tired of upgrading my phone on my own. Cyanogen was great, but it became a real hassle, I just want a device that works, and upgrades easily.

I am very disappointed with Android, primarily because its unfulfilled promise. We can blame the phone manufacturers for this mess and we will be right, but a chunk of the blame goes to Google as well, it was blind to entrenched interests, and now the users are paying the price. It smacks of arrogance, and lack of strategy.
This is an honest question, not a criticism, to the people who are disappointed with the Mac Pro offering: is a two-processor, 12 core machine at 3 GHz with 64 GB of RAM and 4 storage bays (up to 1 TB HDD, up to 512 GB SSD per bay) not enough workstation for you? If not, what do you use your workstation for, and what are your needs?

I ask because that seems like a hefty machine to me. The max specs on the Mac Pro are almost as much as the development nodes in the cluster I have access to, and those nodes host about 10 developers per node.
Where you got that bizarro idea?

You won't pay anything more. Pro Apple apps just got a free update to Retina-enabled, regular apps will get updated with Mountain Lion, and third party apps will also be updated for free.

I don't think you understand what this high-DPI thing is meant to be and how it is supposed to work. Giving you the real pixels is not an option, because every asset of every app would have to be updated or look tiny and be unusable.

It doesn't even make sense what you propose, because retina screens are meant to give extra detail for same sized elements, not merely extra pixels -- nobody needs 5MP in a 15", whereas the extra detail is easily appreciated.
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Well this service helps a lot, not only where access to /etc/hosts is restricted but also for other devices, just for convenience.
Lots of People don't know that applying for H1B Visa is not getting the work permit/Visa to enter the country. Tech Companies like Microsoft file the Petitions even if they don't really utilize/invite people in the current year. This is just to keep a pool of extra workers on stand-by. Out of the 65k ,how many will get approved by the USCIS and how many really qualify in the Visa interview ?. How many enter the US in the current year? Remember your visa is valid for 6 years so they can utilize it in the future.
>I have never understood why so many folks in the netsec industry are arrogantly pessimistic about the innovation of others. I found Flame jaw-droppingly amazing.

People are unsure as to why it has such a large file size (do we know why yet?). One very common explanation is that it is bloated because of poor software engineering, some of the people that believe this explanation attempt to fit the facts to that narrative.

Also Consider the culture of the demo scene/exploit writers. The smaller code the better the programmer.

Personally I like to think that the flame authors intentionally exploited this prejudice and made it large so that: 1. it wouldn't look like malware, 2. if it was discovered no one would take it seriously and look deeper, 3. reverse engineering it would be complicated by it's large file size (cost > benefit from an AV perspective).
You cant log in without the App from an untrusted computer, the app is not connected to the internet, there are no notifications.
The point is: Nothing is ever truly secure. Do what you can to avoid being the low-hanging fruit and you'll probably be OK.
Probably because functionality is what counts. who cares how you get there? and one of the upsides of Android having open development is that features will get built in more rapidly via third parties.
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The test case using Redis is not affected by indexing, as Redis does not support indexing.
I get the impression that at every "resolution", we're really at the native retina resolution, but with UI widgets scaled to different levels, and different present-day resolutions reported to applications. Can anyone with one of these beauties confirm?
And another type. Canadians with TN-1 status (and Mexicans with TN-2) will typically switch to an H-1B in order to apply for a greencard. I worked in the US for about 8 years on TN-1 status, and then switched to an H-1B for the 6 months it took to go through the accelerated greencard process.

The xenophobia also seems a little over the top on this issue. With the rather broken American education system, is it so unbelievable to people that there may actually be quite a few non-Americans that are simply better qualified for these jobs?
This article did not outline at all why most managers suck.
The idea is exciting, but the execution is awful.
Open source is great; can't create something? Bitch about licensing!
This is odd. I thought I remembered reading someplace that telemore length was longer for children of younger mothers also.
I'd actually rather it make it to the floor without watering down and fail than make it to the floor in a form that could pass. I'd really love to force every member of congress to be on the record voting on this.
I personally wouldn't mind the GPL being revised to disallow weapons of war using the code.
I think they mean that iOS's platform restrictions have disallowed apps to do this so far, while Android has not, and there is no need for the OS to step in. What people tend to forget is that many apps are not supported on all API versions, and they will not work as reliably when not integrated into the system. The article is clearly written by someone rationalizing his refusal of iOS.
As far as I know, Android apps can add core functionality to the phone. For example, if I download the Facebook app, I can now share my photos from the Camera app via Facebook, without having to actually open the Facebook app itself. Same with Dropbox, Twitter, and the like.
It's hard to compare getting ICS on legacy phones to getting iOS 6 on your iPhone 4S. Of course, first gen Android devices aren't going to be able to run ICS, but neither will first gen iOS devices. iOS 6 is not going to be on the original iPad, the original iPhone or the iPhone 3G.
I did this, more or less, in the original Civ. I was a player in my own game, I built a city in the Arctic, built a military unit in it, then disbanded the rest of my civilzation. The AI doesn't ever go there.
Are you really saying that people should avoid writing software that could help people who are subject to evil regimes because said evil regime might be upset at them?

No, I'm saying that "my software helps people who are subject to evil regimes" is approximately as irresponsible as "my homeopathic remedy solves cancer" except in this case cancer has essentially infinite computational resources, arbitrarily high numbers of very savvy domain experts, and an army. Any hacker who believes their software, or their community's software, will hold up to dedicated adversarial interest from a nation-state is dangerously delusional.
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I don't think it's fair to compare the iPhone 4S to legacy Android devices like that.
Why? Apple products have always been such that to gain maximum "value" they need to be bought at launch. And isnt an OS upgrade going to be 'just' $30?
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iOS 6 will even come to 3GS :)
Removing the single call to update Redis takes execution time from 3 minutes to ~5 seconds. Profiling the execution shows the most of the time is taken up inside the Redis driver, but I see similar times if I use the MongoDB Python driver.

The drivers are open-source, so I could invest some time in looking for bottlenecks there, but I believe the authors of those drivers are better Python developers than I.

Interest in a different language comes with some thought that drivers written in faster languages will perform faster.
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As a bitmap editor, it can access 100 times those pixels.

As a GUI, it renders as it always did in Retina resolution, i.e it is not shows it's buttons and labels any more detailed, or any smaller. This is how every non-Retina ready app behaves.

That doesn't affect how big an image it can edit at all.

So, what "horror and dismay"?
Hell, the 3GS is getting iOS 6. What 3 year old Android phone will get ICS? Like you said, I'm guessing not many if any at all. Agreeing with your point, Android is heavily fragmented, with phone manufacturers having the final say on which software gets deployed to their phones. Many of them are going to use new OS version to force software upgrades
For the same reason that features of a single companies own skin/theme/Frankenstein bolts on top of android are included?
Compare the iPhone 3GS, then.
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I don't have any evidence that you're not correct in general, but that's certainly not how it always works. I (British) worked for six years for Apple under the program (2001-2007), and there H1 holders - from all over the world - were treated (and hired) in exactly the same way as US employees. They just want to hire the best candidate.

Go after the abuses of the program, yes, but it's not fair to many good, valuable people in the USA on visas like this to imply (and you may not be trying to imply this, but it's the impression many people come away with) that it's all abuse.
>> We're going after target markets that have a special need for this," Zimmermann said. "For example, U.S. military serving overseas that wish to speak to their families."

An interesting example. "See, government? There's an upside for you in citizens having encryption tools."
Yes, 3rd party devs can add all kinds of system components, ranging from custom keyboards to homescreens. Only some functionalities are root-only.
I bought a Galaxy SII last October - about a week or so before the Galaxy Nexus was released - and here I am without an ICS. T-Mobile JUST announced support for it, saying it would be here within a week. The only update I have received was a patch update, with minor UI changes.

Even depending upon CyanogenMod has failed me. T-Mobile loves getting non-standard devices and then not releasing drivers that could help boost their own popularity - likely for IP reasons. I have owned dev phones in the past, and this was my first consumer device, and coincidentally the first Android device that I could not easily unlock and update on my own.

No, you can't compare a first gen Android device, but you sure as hell can compare a device more powerful than some netbooks.
He's not saying that, I am.

There's no personal risk to writing regime circumvention tools. Iran isn't going to have you assassinated for your work on Tor.

There is serious risk to using Tor in Iran. Death squads and disappearances aren't a conspiracy theory in Iran; they are the regime's well-understood M.O. When circumvention tools like Tor work, they hide your traffic from the regime. When they stop working, or are turned, they do exactly the opposite: they attach a statistical marker to your traffic that says "whether or not you can read these packets, the person sending them is interesting".

The people working on circumvention tools are mostly well-intentioned (many of them are friends of mine), but they are delusional about the SWOT analysis at play here. None of them have any unique skills that aren't available to an organization willing to shell out 6-7 figures to a team in a month. Money buys competence. A lot of money buys a lot of competence. Iran has a lot of money. Circumvention projects do not.

Kickstarter hasn't seen the amount of money that a world government could spend without director-level approval on a project to turn a circumvention tool against its users.

And that's before you get to the fact that many, if not most, of the computers in authoritarian regimes are probably already rootkitted.
Which reminded me of the picture of an American cluster bomb dispenser I took in Belgrade military museum: "Mishandling may void terms of the warranty" -- https://twitter.com/dchest/status/204289416779403264/photo/1....
The point in the first paragraph regarding 'scope creep' is a non sequitur because Julian Assange was in fact not assassinated and public figures calling for his assassination were not taken seriously.

The second paragraph and points a and c are non sequiturs.

In b it seems you are in favor of a lynch mob.

Just explaining why I down-modded your comment
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Americuh©, land of the free™ (* conditions apply).

*Free speech does not apply in any oversea detention facility or if you can't pay the 'lawyer-up' protection fee.
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Everytime someone makes such a comment, my mind is blown at how we already live in the future. Just a few weeks ago if someone would've told me that they're planning to _downscale_ to 1920x1200 on a _15"_ screen, on a portable computer I would've thought they were crazy.
401 Unauthorized, 402 Payment Required, 403 Forbidden, 410 Gone are all 4xx error codes. I could see an argument for just using 305...
My coworker just purchased a new Android phone. It's on Android 2.x. Meanwhile, the iPhone 3GS is about to get iOS6.

Chances are iOS6 will have a higher percentage of iOS users than ICS of Android users after the first day or so.
No, I don't think that's the point. The point is more like "something I can access" is not a factor that's as strong as "something I know/am/have".
One of the biggest shortcomings is the inability to get a modern top-of-the-line graphics card in an official supported Mac Pro configuration. I know people with heavily GPU-dependent workflows that have switched to Windows workstations for this purpose specifically.
> What's more disturbing is that you seem to think there's content which should be banned from being published.

If you'd read TFA, you'd know that this case is where the trolls impersonated a woman, setting up a facebook profile with her name and photos on it - so that people who knew her IRL thought it was her profile. That profile painted her as a paedophile and drug dealer. They did this just for fun.

I'm pretty sure that identity theft and libel (or the equivalent definitions in other legal systems) are illegal just about everywhere; and can and should result in this content being "banned from being published", and the anonymity of the people doing it being stripped away.

This law could be over-broad, I don't know, but if you find the take-down the most disturbing part of this case, check your sense of proportion.
Agreed! Will do! Thanks for the suggestion!
If RSA 2-factor tokens can be hacked (or "stolen" I guess, but the effect is the same), there's not much hope for the rest of us. Still a whole lot better than not doing 2 factor.
If we cannot put aside assassination and torture,
then the human race has no hope.

We can and should put aside torture. Assassination, however, is still a preferred tool, when often an alternative is a larger scale military conflict. A focused attack has a better chance of avoiding hitting innocent bystanders.

important point of a democracy - being a beacon of hope
for the future generations

I do not think this is a point of "a democracy" at all.

the choice of targets, is not discussed in a democratic manner,
and almost certainly would not be my choice.

This is a serious point. And it arises in any military conflict. How the democratic public controls its military is a matter of serious study; I am not competent in this, but perhaps someone could suggest a few links?
The same question was asked of Stuxnet; the answer is probably boring: state-sponsored malware authors are not like demo scene writers and do not care if their code is particularly elegant. They probably care more that it's J2EE-style maintainable.
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If your phone is running the right version. Which you don't get to decide.

People care "how they get there" when the phone they purchased a month ago can't run a cool new app because the manufacturer or their network provider decided they should be using a 2 year old version of android and that upgrades are not allowed.
So that makes Pinkie Pie's 92-step Chrome exploit especially likely to be a backdoor, then? :)
This seems potentially labor-intensive for online community operators. That said, verified trolls need to die, so if you're doing your job right, you've already got a mechanism for reporting and banning (ninja or otherwise) trolls, and most victims of abuse will hopefully turn to that before requesting ID on their attackers.
As for the main point of Mikko's post, I have never understood why so many folks in the netsec industry are arrogantly pessimistic about the innovation of others. I found Flame jaw-droppingly amazing.

Infosec is an inherently pessimistic enterprise, although spending time here makes me think it's not a perspective limited to security.

Just look at how almost every post here ends up littered with comments like "This isn't new. My XYZ already does all of this." People like to feel superior (it helps reinforce the individual nerd exceptionalism)
From the article it seems that Zimmermann is reusing ZRTP, which was/is also part of Zfone.
It is weird to see the public discussion about ICS being one about dismay and vendors holding the platform back, but with those of us who took the time to research, hack, and even program for Android, I've enjoyed more control and flexibility than even a jailbroken iPhone could give me. So, on one hand, I completely agree with all of the negative press about the droid platform, but on the other hand, I couldn't be happier.
This reminds me of this time when I was younger and my grandfather told us he had a time machine in his workshop.

Nobody in the family believed him and he locked the workshop so we couldn't look to see. He kept telling us it was in there, though.

This went on for weeks until finally he did an unveiling. We all stood outside the workshop and waited for him to open the door. He was about to open the door but then my aunt left the room to take a bundt cake out of the oven.

Finally she came back and we had cake. We almost forgot about things until my grandfather opened the door and walked out holding a small digital clock.

"This is my time machine," he said. So it was a time machine, but not a time travel machine. There's a difference.

The bundt cake was terrific.
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It would be interesting if he exported the game state, so other people could try resolving the conflict.
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You should also link to data showing how H1B workers are paid less than Americans, this one says on average $13,000 per year less:

http://www.cis.org/PayScale-H1BWages
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You realize this law has nothing to do with web-filtering right ?

What this law means is if a UGC website is used by an individual for the purpose of harassment, the UGC website won't be liable for it as long as they co-operate in allowing the individual responsible to be prosecuted directly.

It essentially gives UGC sites safe-harbour protection whereas before they could have been considered responsible for the content themselves as publishers. The legal responsibility is pushed back onto the individual who created the content, which is exactly how it should be.
Of course, only 7 percent of Android devices currently run it....
> Hell, the 3GS is getting iOS 6

Do you know how much of it will be enabled? (e.g. will it have Siri working out of the box?)

(Genuine question, btw.)
This may be nit-picking but in their diagram the color chart, portrayed visually as a venn-diagram, is rather misleading. It seems to imply that if you have colitis and worms, you have colorectal cancer. And if you have everything, you're A-OK. Really, a color wheel would have been a far better choice of diagram.