Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 396
Yeah, set up encrypted WebRTC with multiple peers from a mobile device, and see now negligible it is.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah, set up encrypted WebRTC with multiple peers from a mobile device, and see now negligible it is.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Freedom does not require you to operate in secret. If you feel the need to operate in secret, either you need to fix your culture, or you need to fix yourself.
Preventing misrepresentation is a social positive. Preserving secrecy is a social negative. Compromises have to be made, but protecting your secrets is not a noble goal in and of itself, shouldn't be necessary in a free society, and in fact represents a threat to other peoples freedom.
Did you ever see Christopher Walken in "Pulp Fiction"?
The practical effect is the same - the user is denied access to the site via an attack on the name resolution protocol. If the registrar is subpoenaed, it doesn't matter if they set the domain to resolve to a takedown notice or a NXDOMAIN result - the practical result is that anyone who doesn't have the site's IP address written down will be unable to access it.
Both hosting and registering the domain outside of the US will provide some resilience if you are doing something they don't like, though they can still block resolution for everyone who isn't using DNSSEC.
Except the effect is NOT the same. In the one case, you still end up going somewhere, and the reason is explained to you, so you have some recourse and know what happened. With the NXDOMAIN result, you have no idea what happened. And on the other side, you have a court order backed by a judge (meaning probable cause needed to be proven) versus someone (or some bot) deciding something on your site looked like it might belong to someone else.
It might not make a difference as far as immediately accessing the data located at that domain, but it makes a world of difference for the person who owns the domain, as well as anyone attempting to mitigate the issue.
I lived long enough to see cyber limbs. Now to make them specialized for specific tasks, and have quick release mechanisms.
Two words: cyber penis
Passports are easy. Just microwave the thing. Fries the chip but looks normal. "I don't know why it doesn't work,officer."
Got my passport in 2006, don't think it has RFID. My VISA card does - or did until I centered a hole punch over the chip and whacked it with a hammer. That was strangely satisfying
To hear Sony explain to its shareholders how spending tens of millions of dollars to produce and millions more to promote a movie that they now have no plans to release is a good thing.
I'm sure Sony has insurance for this sort of thing and will actually make more money from that than by releasing the movie.
So you won't mind the cable company injecting javascript to bombard you with adds _and what not_?
Cox already does this with their "browser alerts" by injecting HTML. Shows up with either HTTP or HTTPS - I had to block the source hosts at my router. Regardless of their intentions, this is, of course, unfriendly - to say the least.
Currently only about 33% of websites use HTTPS, according to statistics gathered by the Trustworthy Internet Movement which monitors the way sites use more secure browsing technologies. In addition, since September Google has prioritised HTTPS sites in its search rankings.
Um... Secure != Trustworthy and, seriously, most web connections DO NOT NEED to be HTTPS.
Furthermore, I cannot filter HTTPS via my proxy filter (Proxomitron) to strip out annoying things, like the fucking Google sidebar and other forced "user experience" settings - which is why I use nosslsearch.google.com
Encryption has a cost, it isn't free. It increases CPU utilisation and power consumption. It interferes with caching and reduces network efficiency.
This is a dumb idea. A very dumb idea.
So, protesting a fictional, comedic film about assassinating their leader, the "Guardians of Peace" hack the studio that produced the film and then threaten violence against theaters showing and people who might watch the film. Wow. (I guess that's in line with people who follow a certain "Religion of Peace" threatening violence against those who draw, even respectful, images of their prophet because it's against said religion.)
Narrow minded people thinking mindlessly...
Chechnyans don't really have any reason to export terrorism
Except for the fact that a lot of the ones who fought against Russia (and their pro-Russian compatriots) are fucked-in-the-head Islamists that behead, dismember and enslave people for fun. A lot of Chechens are fighting for ISIS right now. A Chechen conducted the boston bombing.
And yet, Russia is the enemy and Chechens are our friends. It's a bizarre world.
"The enemy of my enemy is likely out to get me too, and is not to be trusted."
Ya, but you'd already be 50km above the surface. How would that affect the launch budget?
That's the difference between the Communist model and the Capitalist model: in capitalism, you generally get a single executive leader with charisma, who rises to the position because of that charisma and their politicking. They then lead as they see fit, within the bounds that have been laid out for them by the people.
In Communism, it's rule by party, not by individual; this is partly by design: if a single person dies/goes "bad" etc, the party routes around that, and keeps going as they were. It's extremely difficult to change the regime unless it is overthrown completely. Even then, if it has had time to become entrenched, things won't change all that much if it is overthrown.
Just look at Russia and China as examples: Russia's regime was pretty much overthrown from within, and yet has been replaced by Putin's regime, which isn't really all that different in many ways. China saw the writing on the wall, and made incremental changes over time such that the regime could stay entrenched while not depending too much on any person/event/change.
Personally, I'd rather Cuba take China's long and twisted route to democracy than Russia's.
You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all alike.
