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Comment Re:Only the "flagships"? What a ripoff (Score 1) 46

Only the richest of us are worthy of privacy, right?

Unfortunately GrapheneOS needs a bunch of hardware support to do the security they do so your baseline model isn't going to hack it. However, if you get a second hand one later it'll be cheaper. These phones are going to have a better resale value for sure. Even if you are just planning to run Android and want this level then probably a reason for choosing Motorola anyway.

Comment Re:This reads like fake news (Score 3, Interesting) 37

If something like this event was indeed false reputable sites would not be mentioning it.

Looks like we've got massive vote moderation manipulation on Slashdot again. I guess inevitable when someone mentions "Iran" since they have an online propaganda operation almost as big as Russia and China do. All the sane takes downvoted. Just simply wrong (as maladroit mentions) takes upvoted because they make people feel uncertain.

Comment Re:Kremlin surveillance (Score 1) 44

No, I mean like "the UI is at IP a.b.c.d and the password is 'password', now integrate it to the monitoring dashboard". Following which the whole history of each camera would be available on demand wherever the management system is.

Which is the opposite of a weird backdoor involving sending text messages from a specific dedicated list of phones.

Comment Re:Kremlin surveillance (Score 2) 44

Hmm. Probably originally implemented to enable Kremlin surveillance of Russians (in Russia), but there was no reason to remove the surveillance back door for the export version/

The Kremlin would just get the installers to give them the direct access. No need with getting special complex software features written. Also, historically their crypto stuff has not been bad and has been paranoid so this is unlikely to be official. This is either done by private people associated with the company or, more likely, done by Russia with the speculative hope that they get installed somewhere interesting abroad. Likely there are hundreds of these cameras in countries all over the world and if they can do number plate recognition or be fed into a system which can then they can be used to track dissidents and so on.

Comment Re:Wrong conclusion. (Score 1) 60

There doesn't seem to be as much money in green energy than there is in, lets say, oil.

It's a bit more specific. The money in oil goes to a specific group of, typically quite corrupt (because it involves land purchase and government permits) businessmen. There is less money in renewables (which is why they are cheaper for the consumer) however the money goes either to sophisticated engineering such as turbine and solar panel production or to the local owners of the solar systems.

That means that where oil tends to damage the local economy (look at very oil rich countries, like Venezuela and Nigeria - exception being Norrway), renewable generation can be very much a positive.

Comment The definition of "job" needs tightening (Score 3, Interesting) 108

It seems that in all the news about "jobs" in the US, the definition used is "job == someone does something for money". Which results in completely different reporting than if the definition of "job" used was "working position that dependably earns someone a livable income". I understand that for economists, a world where every human works 3 gig-economy jobs may appear 3 times as good as one where humans need just one job to make enough money for a living, but most people do not fancy a future where all the (previously well paid) jobs are done by some robot.

Comment Re:Once again (Score 1) 52

You aren't exchanging keys, you are generating fresh ones. The information you exchange is the entangled state, but even if it's intercepted it's not an actual bitstream so Eve gets nothing. The entangled state is then distributed at less than light speed. Now you come to use the state and "generate" the key. At this point the two different entangled particles both give you the same number instantly depending how you measure them, but there's nothing traveling in between so nothing to intercept.

Comment Re:A good test (Score 1) 209

So no idea what you argue about

Not sure we really are arguing much. More like violent agreement.

So since 3 years, we are consistently around 60% production of electricity by renewables.

Germany is not under the top 10 yet, but we are working on it.

This, IMHO contrasts with the earlier comment

We switched to renewables ... you must be living under a rock.

I'd say you are switching and that the nuclear turn off should have been delayed so that the reliance on natural gas during the changeover was lessened compared to what it currently is. I'd also say that this is the time for saying "there is a war on", overriding some farmers concerns and then settling on full compensation once Russia is completely and soundly defeated. The Norwegian and American gas which Germany is using now could be beneficially delivered to the new Hungarian government instead, allowing them to switch off their reliance on gas.

In the end, though, it's a glass 60% full vs 40% empty story. Without German determination and taking responsibility Russia would have had much more money than they already have. The people who blew up Nord Stream should be treated as European heroes, however. Merkel's record should be disowned, and Schröder considered for treatment as a traitor.

Comment Re:Once again (Score 2) 52

My understanding is that you also cannot use entanglement for communication at all (for example, by separating entangled particles and relaying state information between them).

Careful. You can't communicate information with it, but it could be useful for securing communication. If it was done right and both sides know that they are going to simultaneously measure a series of entangled states then they both get a shared data stream that they know nobody else has access to and can use for encrypting other data that has been transferred at normal light speed or below.

In real life, however, when systems based on this were examined it turned out that they mostly weren't done right and you would be better off using conventional encryption, probably some quantum resistant form. You definitely want any such system to have been audited by competent conventional security people.

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