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Comment Re:Poll Response (Score 1) 376

by pairo (#60675270) Attached to: Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts
That's true, but that's taken into account. Whether the correct adjustment is made or not, that's debatable. But, both phone and in person polls _do_ work just as well as they did, they're just way more expensive to conduct. Yes, this year exit polls will be slightly less reliable, since you have basically a normal poll and exit poll, but, then again, exit polls aren't about finding out the winner early, they're about figuring out what went wrong with the assumptions made later on.
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Can Translucency Save Privacy In the Cloud? 86

Posted by timothy from the big-ol'-cumulus-clouds-maybe dept.
MikeatWired writes "Jon Udell writes that when it was recently discovered that some iPhone apps were uploading users' contacts to the cloud, one proposed remedy was to modify iOS to require explicit user approval. But in one typical scenario that's not a choice a user should have to make. A social service that uses contacts to find which of a new user's friends are already members doesn't need cleartext email addresses. If I upload hashes of my contacts, and you upload hashes of yours, the service can match hashes without knowing the email addresses from which they're derived. In the post Hashing for privacy in social apps, Matt Gemmell shows how it can be done." (Read more, below.)

Comment Re:Not about language preferences (Score 1) 542

by pairo (#38501564) Attached to: Techrights Recommends An Apple Boycott

On the first point, since Android is open source and I can't download all of that source either I see no reason why the partial codebase of iOS does not qualify.

You can download all of Android's sources.

Where can I download Moto-Blur?

Moto-blur is not Android, it's a replacement UI developed by Motorola. Which, btw, is not as easy to do in iOS (and probably a breach of contract).

the second is at least a questionable claim, given that language preferences vary so much.

That has nothing to do with it. The fact is Objective-C make code injection incredibly easy, which means it's much easier to hook into and modify specific parts of existing applications.

It's not about language preference, it's about a specific side effect of iOS software being written in Objective-C.

But then again, that's not exactly allowed, is it?

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