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Comment Re:and the question everyone is asking is (Score 1) 26

It's worth figuring out what your threat model is. There probably are ways that some government agencies can get into iPhones or decrypt these messages, and they probably are collecting all the encrypted data in case quantum computers can decrypt it later.

But are they going to waste any of that on you? Unless you are a high value target for them, and unless they intend to avoid any judicial process where their capabilities might become public, they probably aren't going to use their best tools to help the local cops break into your phone.

Comment Re:beat them senseless (Score 1) 96

That's the crux of it. We have a bunch of legislators squawking like frightened chickens about "printing guns" who don't realize that the essential parts that make it a gun can't be printed in plastic (unless you WANT to go have an ER physician pluck plastic bits out of your face).

Meanwhile, no regulation whatsoever on the plumbing aisle of your favorite hardware store where you can get parts for a useful improvised gun.

Comment Re:Significant (Score 1) 26

RCS isn't a good standard. It was so crappy that Google essentially bought it, added the minimum necessary to turn it into an acceptable messaging platform and made their proprietary version (as opposed to the original GSM's proprietary version) their messaging platform. Er, their fourth (fifth?) messaging platform.

Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 149

Why? If she's an experienced speaker I suspect the VP of strategic alliances for a multinational private equity holding company is used to talking to a very specific type of audience. We even have a phrase for that that comes from a similar type of speaker: "preaching to the choir."

The real hilarity is that someone from a humanities college thought she'd be a good pick.

Comment Re:Unpopular but correct opinion (Score 1) 149

That, by its very definition, is an area where AI should have very limited use

The definition of AI is essentially:

"to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."

So no, by definition, the stuff those humanities students do is a prime target. We used to think that the creative humanities stuff was going to be really hard, maybe the ultimate goal for AI, but it turns out it's not.

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