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Comment Re:We'll see (Score 1) 36

That street is a public space, and there are myriad laws and court cases allowing that to be photographed or otherwise recorded.

New legislation supersedes old legislation and jurisprudence unless that old legislation (respectively, the legislation the old jurisprudence is based on) is more binding (e.g. the constitution). Maybe it's time to start pressuring for new legislation which explicitly recognises an expectation of a certain level of privacy even in public spaces. There are places where your business' security camera isn't allowed to see the street in front of it: I live in one, although it's not in the USA.

Comment Re: Free Money, Free Housing and a Free Miele (Score 2) 92

In your haste to defend Morocco you've responded to a non-existent attack. GPP didn't say that migrants would be raped or killed in Morocco (although I suspect that your claims about the police's attitude to foreigners only really hold up for rich foreigners, not for South Sudanese with nothing but the clothes on their back and a phone because they gave everything else they had to the people smugglers). Migrants die in the Sahara, in the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic every year trying to get to Europe or the Canary Islands.

Comment Re:Social engineering. (Score 2) 92

Key word: "enclave". It's a small city separated from the rest of Spain by 200km (120 miles) of sea. I have a Spanish friend who thinks that Morocco is cozying up to the US with the goal of getting US support for it to invade Ceuta and Melilla: except for the Ceutans and Melillans, the main impact on Spaniards would be the propaganda it would unleash. It's not some kind of Maginot line which when breached leaves open a land route to the rest of the country. So what do you think would be a proportionate deployment of the Spanish army?

Comment Re:AES crypto attacks (Score 2) 32

The attack is against 7-round AES. As I read the abstract, they claim to optimise an attack from 2013.

Cryptanalysis of 7-Round AES via the Algebraic Structure of its S-box

Milad Nasr and Nicholas Carlini

The AES S-Box is not a random permutation; we show that its algebraic structure allows for improved attacks on 7 rounds in the single-key setting. We focus
our efforts on extending a 2105 chosen plaintext and 299-time algorithm designed by Derbez, Fouque, and Jean [DFJ13]. Our core contribution is an algebraic Möbius bridge that exploits the invert-then-affine-transform structure of the AES S-box to eliminate one of the nine guessed key bytes required by [DFJ13]. This immediately leads to a factor-of-256 reduction in the number of key guesses required. But calculating the necessary Möbius Transform is not free, and the work required to perform the naïve calculation cancels the savings. We therefore present several improvements that reduce the time required to calculate this transform; depending on the exact methods used for accounting, we reduce the attack’s runtime to between 289.3 and 291.4, at the same data complexity. This paper presents these improvements along with the computational techniques we used to help us empirically gain confidence in the correctness of our findings, something that was particularly important because these improvements were discovered autonomously via a large language model fully end to end. We conclude by remarking on the future of LLM-assisted research in cryptography and computer security more generally.

Comment Re:Bullshit. (Score 1) 118

Consumers don't recycle: they place items in the recycling bins, with or without various preliminary steps to clean and separate said items. Some of the items may, due to lack of cleaning or separation, affect the viability of recycling others of the items. The goal of public policy should be to encourage a mindset and habits which facilitate the recycling of the items which can be viably recycled (where "viably" ideally takes into account all externalities), not to encourage thoughtless mixing of non-recyclable waste into recyclable waste.

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