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You're making a different argument than the PDF does. The example it uses is heartbleed, which would be difficult to use for mass surveillance and, even assuming without any evidence that it was put there intentionally, sits along a large class of vulnerabilities of a similar nature that certainly are accidental.

You're talking about explicit backdoors separate from the encryption algorithms, with the exception of DUAL_EC, which is really in the same category because cryptographers have considered it suspicious from the beginning and the only people using it are using it because of the backdoor rather than in spite of it.

The difference is that the consequence changes from "encryption is useless" to "don't trust implementations from the likes of Microsoft, AT&T or hardware vendors."
Bit sad how someone trying to contribute to an open source project is shoved on hn with the sole intention to ridicule them without explanation.
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Sure enough. But is it a sane thing to do for a "convert readable date to date object" function to silently amend the current day-of-month to a otherwise underdpecified date?

I really don't see the use case for that anywhere.
I wonder if you could build a particle accelerator of sorts. A toroidal tube in which the vehicle is placed, and magnetically accelerated to launch velocity. Would just need some way to let the vehicle out; some kind of track switch. Such a setup would not require a large area to bring the spacecraft up to speed, and could be vacuum sealed to negate air resistance.
Commented code, yuk.
You don't want to turn. To orbit you need to have velocity tangent to the earth (i.e. along the ground), not directly up.

You only turn ever so slightly heavenward, mainly to avoid air resistance.
Perhaps I missed something in the article where the television has its own LTE (or other data connection) to call home without the owners knowledge.

My "smart tv" stays disconnected from the WIFI. Problem solved.
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There was a time in India when people with leprosy were left out to die along the streets and no one would come near them. If you had it, your family and the society would ask you to leave the area. I have heard stories from people of my grand fathers generation of how Mother Teresa and her followers (Sisters of charity), would physically carry the lepers and care for them. They really believed in the cause and had a lot of courage. Many of the sisters contracted leprosy doing this. For this they gained enormous respect from people of all religions in Calcutta.

If you have ever seen a leper in India and their condition, you would not have called her sick and twisted.
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This is nice, but what would be really nice is if they gave out slide rules as part of their promotional material. Preferably something 5-6", with W1/W2 scales as seen on the Faber-Castell 62/83N... yeah.

A quick test: When I search for "data structures", or "structure data", for that matter, and filter by "advanced", I get "Advanced Data Structures" as the first match, ahead of stuff on crystals and the like. That's good.

Their "learning paths" seem like a positive-value thing, and surprisingly they seem half-decent. It's not the same as the stickied posts at the top of some forums at programming tutorial websites and the like, telling you how to get started in some subject by choosing between one of 10 recommended books. It's... an actual learning path.
Rather than saying nope and ignoring the request only causes the contributor to not contribute again . If you could only explain why it should not be done.
Also this is one of the main reason why people don't contribute to open Source. Rather than ridicule them , tell them what they should do better.
Technically he could have been referring to C, where it's also true that 1 + "0" > 9, albeit with a warning. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_driver
OK, I get the surveillance and all that aspect. But how is it a good idea to have voice controls and gesture controls for a TV? First of all, I'm far from the TV. So I'd have to yell to it? Not enough that I'd feel stupid talking to my TV, I should make myself looking as completely gone bananas? And instruct everybody in my home, including the dog, to be quiet around the TV lest it misunderstands and takes something as an "erase all recorded shows" command? But as that is not enough humiliation, I should also try to capture it's attention by gesturing at it from my couch - and never again be able to scratch my knee or turn to the other side without TV switching a channel or making a permanent configuration to record everything Kardashian-related on every channel? How that is a useful feature, all surveillance aspects aside?

The article author complains if cameras and microphones in the TV are disabled, it would not function properly. I say, that's the only way it would function properly! I'm ok with my remote, thank you very much, and I don't want to converse with my TV or dance for it. I want it to entertain me, not the other way around.
That is not what the linked patent describes. In that patent, the base key in the hierarchy (the one created by the administrator, NOT the storage root of trust or SRK) is created outside the TPM and stored elsewhere, then imported and used. If the TPM is cleared or reset, then loading the key will fail and the base key will need to be imported again.

Creating key hierarchies under the SRK that can be duplicated or moved is actually very clearly specified in the TPM 2.0 spec, and is at least partially meant for exactly this sort of recovery process. The seed that's used to derive the SRK itself will still never leave the TPM, so any keys that are in a separate hierarchy under the SRK (instead of the imported base key) are still secure.

https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/resources/tpm_20_libra...
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To me, MSFT's efforts to become a centralized hub for fitness& health data, is the more exciting bit of news. [0]

With machine learning & cloud pieces in place, MS health could potentially be HUGE !

Health care data is all over the place, & if msft can become a central repository for all/a significant portion of fitness/health data, it will be really valuable.

from [1],
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0. http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/10/29/introducing-micro...

1. http://www.theverge.com/2014/10/29/7118533/microsoft-health-...
It's almost as if Nintendo and Apple have very similar cultures that cause them to always act as iconoclasts, choosing formats and channels different from their competition, and betting big on innovation. It's remarkable how both the original Wii and iPhone were both released within a year of each other. What I don't understand is why both companies like to use the same distinctive off-white color. Maybe it makes their products look like porcelain, something classical and timeless.
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Sure, remote attestation is one of many capabilities of TPMs. It does not need to be used to use other features of the TPM (and its use sometimes presents privacy concerns), and there's no "back door" in using it: it's the entity that's setting up the TPM to enable remote attestation that has the ability to compromise the privacy of the next user of the machine, not the manufacturer or anyone else. This is no more a "back door" than Debian shipping an SSH server with the OS for you to use.

I'm having trouble reading the machine translation of the article, but it sounds like Microsoft is enabling the TPM by default. This is a little concerning -- analogous to Debian adding their own public key to root's authorized_keys (but significantly _less_ concerning than that). However, it doesn't seem to indicate a back door in the _standard_ or its cryptography, any more than the Debian case would indicate a back door in OpenSSH or the secure-shell protocol.
It may be circumstantial, but the OP has the same name as the github user who posted the issue and was shot down. Same person? Without more info who knows (or cares). I can't remember the last time I saw a post on HN that was so pointless.
You are always pointed "up", but as long as you don’t accelerate too much, earth’s gravity keeps you on a circular trajectory. This is especially true if you fix the vehicle to the ground using e.g. rails. It would then be conceivable to accelerate to a high speed on ground-level rails (which is considered “free” as you can get energy delivered through the rails) until your speed is such that gravity alone does not hold you down any more and then unlock from the rails and fly off.

I did not do the maths.
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Starting from a ground propulsion is a priori a bad idea due to friction forces in the atmosphere. An almost plausible design though, would be to have a first stage taking advantage of the atmosphere (i.e. using jet engines with oxygen from the environment).

To build one's intuition about space exploration, Kerbal Space Program is an excellent start.
The NSA claims to have a significant breakthrough in cryptanalysis from the Snowden revelations. I personally believe that through the commercial relations the NSA has partnered up with AMD/Intel to weaken chips and CPU's and could be even pushing microcode updates that could defeat encryption at such a low level that it would be nearly undetectable.
I'm still lost. Isn't being tangential along the equator less advantageous than being perpendicular at the poles. When you start tangential, as soon as you cover a distance equivalent to the radius of the earth, you are then perpendicular (maybe not directly so but there is no practical difference as far as the gravity well is concerned).
This is why 40% of people who buy a smart TV never connect it to the internet, and over 80% don't connect after trying it once for the novelty after unpacking.

(These numbers were stats collected internally by a minor TV manufacturer)
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I guess I was thinking more broadly.

To most people everything feels like a walled garden, their phone, their computer, their TV. Sure you can install software on them, but very few people actually install new operating systems on anything at a low enough level that it would actually help their privacy.

As the technological elite, something like a TV that has so much embedded junk seems extra walled off. But I'd argue that most people have no clue how to stop websites from tracking them or to protect their privacy on any device. Most people have no IDEA what a cookie or an IP address is.

You happen to be familiar with software. To many people putting a piece of thick tape over the TV screen's camera, and microphone might be much easier than installing TOR. Dealing with the underlying embedded OS is probably super annoying, but hopefully you can still use your TV as a direct display using something similar to a Roku.

If a market for do-not-track devices exists someone will fill it, but I worry that the general population will have no idea that it's necessary or even care.
One reason could have to do with very strict sense of quality. If the games would run on wide variety of platforms, Nintendo couldn't make sure that the experience for user is exactly what they want it to be, unlike when games are played in their own specific emulation hardware and gamepads.

I think a Mario game played without guaranteed tight controls could hurt the expectation what Mario games are.
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Congrats, this looks great and promising.

I am wondering how localhost works. When Linux version comes out, will it support storing database on a remote host? In other words, using own virtual host as a server.
Right, the key is stored elsewhere. It is escrowed.

Whether this becomes escrow for law enforcement depends on where/how it is escrowed. The example with Bitlocker and Device Encryption is one such way to do that.
Completely agree. I am not repeating cryptome's argument but adding to it.

(It is difficult to say whether heartbleed was accidental or intentional - intentionally introduced bugs or purposefully accepted buggy code are likely to be deniable. Asking whether a bug is intentional is ultimately a question about the mind of the programmer and not the code. Check out the underhanded C coding contest if you'd like to try a hand at writing or trying to find intentionally deniable security bugs.)

> You're talking about explicit backdoors separate from the encryption algorithms, with the exception of DUAL_EC

Well I also mentioned the TLS one... and the removal of e-to-e in Skype. If you want to compare to heartbleed again that was an explicit backdoor - not actually similar to DUAL_EC.

> The difference is that the consequence changes from "encryption is useless" to "don't trust implementations from the likes of Microsoft, AT&T or hardware vendors."

Totally agree.
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Moreover, often this is not what you want. Generally you'll want either "the last past day that had that number" (logging of activity), or "the first future day that has that number" (appointment planning). But having a date that can be randomly in the past or the future sounds a bit strange.
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Thanks for posting this, I have had the same unpopular opinion since Twitter first appeared. While I don't necessarily think that Twitter should go away, I do think it should get out of the way of other methods for communication. There are much better forms of communication for many circumstances where communication is needed. Which is damn near everything aside from communicating with marketers and expressing witty one-liners to the world.

EDIT: I forgot about one great thing about twitter that I normally don't think about (since all the other uses cloud this function for me): real-time news. There's not many tools out there that can handle this type of functionality better. Reddit serves the same purpose for many people and does so in an even better way in my opinion (no character limit, communities focused on a topic, etc.).
North Korea have a network of internment camps where regime opponents are imprisoned - nobody really knows what the imprisonment rate is, but estimates[0] are 250,000-300,000 people.

On a per capita rate, they would be about even with the United States (around 700 per 100k[1]) at the top end of estimates - which is worrying considering North Korea also practice a policy of "three generations of punishment" where entire families are collectively punished and you have children being born in camps.

The land of the free and the most totalitarian state in the world with a horrible history of human rights abuses - it really shouldn't even be a contest as to who is worse, but unfortunately it is.

[0] http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13618693-the-hidden-gulag

[1] Doesn't include territories, juveniles, military prison or immigration detention. Including those on parole or probation it increases to 3.2% of the population.
I agree wholeheartedly with this. In fact the German gov't specifically claimed that TPMs + Windows is considered harmful - not the TPMs themselves.

TPMs are a device that has DMA on your machine, that you can't inspect and can't run code on. And then there's the similarity to the Clipper Chip in function. These things should make you at least pause.
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Myspace has no impact on my life... Thats "close enough" to gone for my purposes, and I assume the author's as well.

I don't mine if there are people going around using tools that I don't care for, it's only when they're insanely popular beyond all cause do they exert social pressure on people who would prefer to not use them.
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The german c't magazine examined smart TVs and what data they send home (and how to stop them) earlier this year. Check out http://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Spion-im-Wohnzimmer-c-t... if you speak german.
Well it's clearly a strategy which has worked for them, and they stick to what they know works.

A pure white color is notoriously hard to manufacture well, even with expensive equipment, or so I've heard.
Ahh, real time news! Yes I think that is the one biggest positive feature of twitter. When I was trying to remember some positive things about Twitter to respond to this with, I failed to remember this one due to all the other not-as-positive things Twitter is used for.
It makes me question the entire context of the presentation.
It works fine for me. AFAICT the cert they use is okey.

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I'm not so sure.

I'm curently thinking about getting a new console (very light/casual gamer).

I've got the PS3 mostly for playing Blu-ray and never found a compelling game.

The Wii U is extremely interesting, not only because of its price, but primarily because of the games.

I have no idea about the business case, but releasing the games elsewhere would certainly cannibalize their own console.

And while it may be profitable, I think a Nintendo without a viable console on its own would be in very dire straits.

That's why I have always seen the disappointing sales figures for the Wii U in the past with a crying eye, even though I was not looking to buy a console. The Nintendo empire is kind of precious.
Once I recognized a certain test pass on all days except on Mondays.

The test created models for a few days and tested for a sum of the current week.
The dates where all relative (today, yesterday, etc.), so when the test run on a
Monday some records where for the last week and that's why the sum wasn't the same.

But I guess your problem is harder to debug.
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It's also important to note that timing attacks on AES are trivial, whereas other ciphers (Serpent is a popular favorite) is timing-free with naive implementations.

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Vizio has a much less intrusive system. Some of their TVs have "Vizio apps", which can trigger popups on the screen based on the content being played. This can be completely turned off. They don't have microphones or cameras, just remotes. Still, the TV does phone home to Vizio HQ.
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When going tangentially, you'll maintain tangentiality until you're going so fast that gravity isn't pulling you down fast enough to keep you pressed against the track you're on (because the Earth's surface curves downwards like the widdle spheroid it is). At that point, you're in low earth orbit (though you might want to fire the rockets a little bit to give yourself an orbit that doesn't intersect the planet). The whole point is that you gain your velocity while you're pushing off the earth, instead of your own propellant. That way, you don't have to carry so much propellant.

> When you start tangential, as soon as you cover a distance equivalent to the radius of the earth, you are then perpendicular (maybe not directly so but there is no practical difference as far as the gravity well is concerned).

If you were assuming the tangential take-off would continue going a straight line instead of curving in an orbit, I still don't get what you mean -- after covering one Earth radius, you'd be traveling at a 45-degree inclination relative to the surface of the planet, not perpendicularly.
Yeah, I have always chuckled at the irony that the apple followers criticize Nintendo for not releasing its IP on other platforms. Because, of course, I can install OS X on my custom computer and Safari on my Android.

The strategy of Nintendo makes as much sense as Apple's, and anyway, I have always though that it is far more likely for Nintendo to launch an Android smartphone where you could play their games (And only there).