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Comment Re:Right of asylum cannot be assumed (Score 1) 650

Except it isn't arbitrary code. There is a very well defined finite list of exactly what JavaScript in a browser can do.

So no, I no, I have no objection to you running arbitrary javascript code in the context of a webpage in a browser on my computer, because I know and understand enough not to have baseless fears.

Comment Re:Time Machine (Score 3, Informative) 227

TimeMachine takes about 15 minutes to do the prep work before it starts copying for me, on a 2012 Retina MBP with 16Gb of RAM and only 256GB of disk space ... 64 GB taken by an unbacked up BootCamp part and another 120 or so eaten in Windows VMs that don't get backed up either ... i.e. Its not a slow spinning platter backing up a terabyte of data.

I see no indication of any Journal, it certainly isn't making it faster. Pretty freaking slow actually.

Comment Re:Self signed certs (Score 1) 148

No matter how you spin it, the person at the top is still more trust worth than nothing at all. REAL people (i.e. not geeks who have nothing better to do with their time) are not dicking around asking their friends to build up a 'web of trust' only to have one of the certs lost ... and then having to start all over again.

Its also rather stupid to trust random other people to validate your identity.

As typical when some moron shouts 'p2p!', peer to peer is entirely impractical here.

Your p2p encryption and signing system already exists, and its entirely unused outside of a tiny circle of geeks who like to pretend they are better than the rest. Its called PGP, and its been the 'p2p' encryption system for 20 years.

You know why you don't know this? Because its such a pain in the ass to use that no one other than some dorks trying to look like ultra-geeks and raving tinfoil-hat butters.

99.999% of the people in the world just DON'T GIVE A SHIT. They certainly aren't going to put effort into some kludgy half ass system that adds no actual security due to its completely impractical implementation.

And for all those people using it ... when I want your data ... I'l just start beating the ever living fuck out of you with a pipe wrench rather than trying to decrypt it. I promise you that you'll turn your keys over fairly quickly.

Comment Re:Self signed certs (Score 1) 148

Uhm, self-signed certs are absolutely no help at all.

The signing happens on the PUBLIC key, not the private. They can still give their private key to the NSA, who can use it regardless of who signed the public key.

They have the private key, so your self-signed cert will still validate it as legit. It IS the key they claimed they had ... they just also gave it to some else.

Comment Re:I don't buy it (Score 1) 148

PGP is not my friend. Its just RSA without the privilege of having an 'trusted' third party to verify. You already have fully functional encryption built into EVERY EMAIL CLIENT THAT MATTERS to do encryption of this level that doesn't require using a bunch of shitty hacks to get it to work with the client.

SMIME with self signed/friend-signed certs is still far far better than PGP.

GPG is just a horrible implementation (from a usability perspective) of PGP for freetards who don't actually know what they are talking about.

$50 says there aren't a million GPG encrypted or signed emails total, ever, let alone in a single day.

Your world perspective is ridiculously skewed.

Comment Re:Most likely to hide PRISM (Score 1) 148

Having the keys helps prism get more data. PRISM doesn't magically have access to encrypted data.

The fix is to avoid US based services, either their servers are compromised by the NSA, or their keys.

Right, because you KNOW of a country that you KNOW isn't doing it as well ...

Let me give you a hint: The only countries not doing it ... are only not doing it because they have a grand total of 3 computers in the entire country with Internet connections. You aren't hiding from this behavior by running to another country.

Comment Re:In related news: Domestic spying got the OK (Score 0) 148

I will blame you.

I'll blame you for resorting to childish name calling, which makes your point completely disappear as people instantly flag you as just some other ranting lunatic.

Second ... STOP USING FUCKING BOOK REFERENCE WHEN YOU UTTERLY FAILED TO UNDERSTAND THAT PLOT. God, the slashdot meme of all time is for people to reference 1984, while Animal Farm is closer, you still failed to get the actual point. Stop trying to reference it to look smarter.

Comment Re:Good, someone needs to fix FreeNAS (Score 2) 58

As someone who uses FreeNAS and who has many customers running it in high demand environments, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

Speaks more of your lack of experience than FreeNAS itself.

FreeNAS has felt kludgy and broken for years now. Perhaps just because you work with even shittier and ridiculously expensive NetApp crap, you think that FreeNAS is impressive, but its really not.

I dropped FreeNAS some time ago, its ZFS support (due to using old releases of FBSD) was asstastic, and as such, performance was absolutely pathetic. Unless they've bumped up to AT LEAST 9.1-STABLE, ZFS performance is still going to be asstastic, forget about how shitty the UI is for it.

In the end, you're better off just using a bare install of FBSD and the CLI to setup a NAS. Using it for replacing high end NetApp gear? No fucking way.

Note: All my NAS equipment is FreeBSD based now, none of it is FreeNAS.

Great idea, shitty shitty shitty implementation.

JKH on the other hand, is one person I trust to make it not suck anymore.

Comment Re: I don't know about the 'cluster' mailboxes. (Score 1) 867

You really don't understand 'the terrorists'.

Standing in line to be shot is something many of them would ... Line up for. To them, that would be God-like and ensure them a good place in the afterlife.

    Reverse terrorism, which is what you suggest, doesn't work on them. They,ve been bombed and watched executions of their own since birth.

Nothing you can do in a single lifetime will stop them. This level of hate takes generations to fix, and killing mommy and daddy execution style isn't going to help at all.

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