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Comment Re:Buzzword (Score 2) 16

Fintech is a real thing, but briefly it's basically a Silicon Valley startup trying to do financial services.

Note that the Silicon Valley strategy of "move fast and break things" has serious drawbacks when dealing with people's money and health, and that's why we ended up with Theranos, Synapse, Wirecard, and FTX, and that's ignoring the actual scam companies, and not even touching on the code bugs which are plentiful in fintech (not just security bugs, also payment bugs).

Comment Hard for users to trust a private CA (Score 1) 26

Other than that new versions of mainstream operating systems and web browsers make it harder for the owner of a device to trust the root certificate of a particular private CA. I seem to remember, for example, that iOS and Android put a scary warning on the lock screen if one or more user-trusted root certificates is installed, and Android application developers have to opt into user-trusted root certificates through a "Network Security Config".

Comment Re:What is the use case? (Score 3, Informative) 26

Different machines can respond to the same IP address as seen from the Internet vs. from a coffee shop's guest WLAN. Let's Encrypt sees only the former when evaluating an http-01 challenge. If you associate to a guest WLAN and connect to https://42.42.42.42/ and it offers a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt, that means you're seeing the same server that Let's Encrypt saw through the Internet, not a server on the guest WLAN that's intercepting your connection.

Comment Re:Trump (Score 1) 153

"That article is about Taiwan," -- War is war. "I don't think the US could "conquer" China." -- No because China has nukes. "If they could pull it off swiftly enough, I think it'd be successful." -- No because China is weaker than Russia, and Taiwan is much stronger than Ukraine. Taiwan is a porcupine on an island.

Particularly if they call the US bluff, and we don't react (which I'd guess the odds are better than 50/50 that we don't)

This is interesting to me, why do you think the US won't react? Public opinion seems to favor it helping Taiwan, and Trump seems to have supported Taiwan from the beginning.

Comment Re:Trump (Score 1) 153

Go, yes. Continue without risking the collapse of their regime? Questionable.

Your point is that it would be foolish for China to go to war (assuming they don't win). This article lists a lot of reasons why it would be a bad idea, and I agree. It would be a huge risk for China to attack Taiwan, and not a prudent course of action.

Will they be prudent?

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