It's not just you. I consider myself a real-life cyberpunk character. Makes me feel bad about any fleeting moment where I thought it would be cool to live in a cyberpunk dystopia...
Good idea in terms of key management, but by itself it doesn't entirely solve the rubber hose problem, it just makes sure they'll beat you until they're sure you really can't decrypt the files, leaving you without the photos and with extensive injuries.
Combined with deniable encryption it's a pretty good solution though. The only trouble is keeping your adversary from finding the key which would blow your deniability out of the water. I had the idea to use symmetric-key encryption with a user-entered key held in RAM to fix that problem, although it introduces other vulnerabilities.
I'd bet it would work against any non-Five-Eyes government. It would even have a chance against those, if they don't suspect you heavily enough to pull a cold boot attack and do firmware inspection on a camera.
Maybe selective encryption to a hidden partition could be useful there.
For example, you're a journalist in North Korea. In the morning before you head out, you load your encryption key into the camera's RAM for future use via an on-screen keyboard and D-pad (no touch support for security), where it will stay until the SD card is removed or a USB connection is made for example. This won't stop the NSA but it's plenty good enough for less sophisticated attackers. You're taking pics of the things your "guide" wants you to see. Then you see something she surely wouldn't want you to take a picture of, like maybe a family being hauled out of their home to be transported to a death camp, and you snap a picture while your guide isn't looking, and you press a key combination on the camera that copies the picture to a hidden encrypted partition on the SD card and wipes the original. Your guide is suspicious and wants to see what's on the camera and you show her - and it's only the things she's approved of! See, nothing to worry about!
Maybe your guide is still suspicious and takes your camera to be inspected by the authorities. Unless they dump and inspect the camera's firmware AND do a cold boot attack, they won't find anything out of the ordinary.
You may be falling for the "I want a pony" trick. The music industry asks to be able to cut off people's Internet access entirely, and you see the Great Firewall of China (But for Music) as a reasonable compromise.
Ahaha if only that were true! Racism would be as small of a problem as colorblind people believe it is. Klansmen, neo-nazis, and racist old men from the South are actually the smallest part of the problem, the jutting tip of the iceberg. They're easy to defeat because they acknowledge what they're doing and can be easily marginalized. The majority of white people (in the US) are in fact responsible for the majority of racism through unconscious efforts such as the colorblindness you're advocating, and because they don't even know they're doing it and will invariably deny their involvement when confronted with the damage they've been doing, it's an incredibly hard problem to solve.
you can and will create white on black racism with that. If you continually make someone the bad guy without any reasonable provocation you'll just wind up with a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And here we are having a discussion on race centered around the protection of white feelings. A discussion where you categorically absolve virtually all white people of any responsibility by simply not recognizing the reality of their unconscious racism. This is colorblindness in full force, a safe space for white people who want to avoid confronting race issues, composed of an impenetrable turtle-shell of denial with egalitarian posters on the inside for reassurance. It's not "actively racist" and blinds adherents to the very "passive" racism it perpetuates, which is good enough to keep it going forever I guess?
What's worse is when you think that racism perpetrated by the very few justifies racism as a whole. An attitude that is in and of itself racist.
No, I'm saying that it's not racist to point out that in the US, most white people have a racism problem because they in fact do. Just as surely as white South Africans during apartheid did, except that present-day Americans' problem is subtle and mostly unconscious.
Recognition of this fact is colorblindness kryptonite, and most of Manveer's posts which have been called racist are only identified as such for highlighting this fact in some way or mocking its denial (such as making fun of the idea that anti-white racism is just as common and damaging as any other form of racism in the US). He's not helping by being dismissive and mocking instead of trying to have a meaningful and informative debate, but to call it racism only serves to deny the reality of the problem and perpetuate it.
Clearly she wants Brexit to happen. If democracy has anything to say about it, it won't. The uninformed/misinformed and much regretted referendum is the closest thing to democratic consent to Brexit that will ever exist, so she has to take that and run with it, and not let the people have any more say in the matter.
Pfft take your persecution complex soaked strawmen elsewhere, or better yet find the elusive wacko who actually called every criticism of Obama ever racist and confront him directly.
or more likely, he's one of those people who's so focused on their field he doesn't know anything else, but so egotistical he thinks he knows everything.
This. He knows everything about brain surgery and nothing about virtually anything else, including many medical topics. In all these non-neurosurgery areas the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force.
"Let's see, an article about Hillary Clinton running a child sex & cannibalism ring out of a DC Orange Julius kiosk with the proceeds going to ISIS? 100% factual, obviously! [Submit] Heil Trump!"
And OJGate is born...verified as factual on Facebook!
I'm wondering which they will use. A perceptual hash greatly increases the chance of a false positive but greatly decreases the chance of a false negative. A cryptographic hash virtually eliminates any chance of a false positive but allows media files to be trivially altered to get a false negative.
One is a real solution and the other is somewhere between a basic effort and a symbolic effort.
The people cheerleading the current direction of things believe that the 1% can demand enough goods and services to provide employment for the rest of us. Building pyramids in their honor or something, I don't know.
I'm not sure which is worse, if they turn out to be right or if they turn out to be wrong.
The technocrats had some interesting ideas...some terrible ones too, most notably a belief in the possibility of apolitical leadership. But some interesting ones.
Actually it was the curtailing of greed from the New Deal until just before Reagan was elected that created the middle class. Before and after that the middle class has always been wasting away as inequality was left unchecked to maximize itself, as it naturally does. The greed was curtailed due to political pressure from a credible communist rival. We need to learn to curtail greed once more to restore the middle class.
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It's not just you. I consider myself a real-life cyberpunk character. Makes me feel bad about any fleeting moment where I thought it would be cool to live in a cyberpunk dystopia...
Good idea in terms of key management, but by itself it doesn't entirely solve the rubber hose problem, it just makes sure they'll beat you until they're sure you really can't decrypt the files, leaving you without the photos and with extensive injuries.
Combined with deniable encryption it's a pretty good solution though. The only trouble is keeping your adversary from finding the key which would blow your deniability out of the water. I had the idea to use symmetric-key encryption with a user-entered key held in RAM to fix that problem, although it introduces other vulnerabilities.
I'd bet it would work against any non-Five-Eyes government. It would even have a chance against those, if they don't suspect you heavily enough to pull a cold boot attack and do firmware inspection on a camera.
Maybe selective encryption to a hidden partition could be useful there.
For example, you're a journalist in North Korea. In the morning before you head out, you load your encryption key into the camera's RAM for future use via an on-screen keyboard and D-pad (no touch support for security), where it will stay until the SD card is removed or a USB connection is made for example. This won't stop the NSA but it's plenty good enough for less sophisticated attackers. You're taking pics of the things your "guide" wants you to see. Then you see something she surely wouldn't want you to take a picture of, like maybe a family being hauled out of their home to be transported to a death camp, and you snap a picture while your guide isn't looking, and you press a key combination on the camera that copies the picture to a hidden encrypted partition on the SD card and wipes the original. Your guide is suspicious and wants to see what's on the camera and you show her - and it's only the things she's approved of! See, nothing to worry about!
Maybe your guide is still suspicious and takes your camera to be inspected by the authorities. Unless they dump and inspect the camera's firmware AND do a cold boot attack, they won't find anything out of the ordinary.
Not me, I completely agree with you!
You may be falling for the "I want a pony" trick. The music industry asks to be able to cut off people's Internet access entirely, and you see the Great Firewall of China (But for Music) as a reasonable compromise.
problems generated by a very small subset
Ahaha if only that were true! Racism would be as small of a problem as colorblind people believe it is. Klansmen, neo-nazis, and racist old men from the South are actually the smallest part of the problem, the jutting tip of the iceberg. They're easy to defeat because they acknowledge what they're doing and can be easily marginalized. The majority of white people (in the US) are in fact responsible for the majority of racism through unconscious efforts such as the colorblindness you're advocating, and because they don't even know they're doing it and will invariably deny their involvement when confronted with the damage they've been doing, it's an incredibly hard problem to solve.
you can and will create white on black racism with that. If you continually make someone the bad guy without any reasonable provocation you'll just wind up with a self-fulfilling prophecy.
And here we are having a discussion on race centered around the protection of white feelings. A discussion where you categorically absolve virtually all white people of any responsibility by simply not recognizing the reality of their unconscious racism. This is colorblindness in full force, a safe space for white people who want to avoid confronting race issues, composed of an impenetrable turtle-shell of denial with egalitarian posters on the inside for reassurance. It's not "actively racist" and blinds adherents to the very "passive" racism it perpetuates, which is good enough to keep it going forever I guess?
What's worse is when you think that racism perpetrated by the very few justifies racism as a whole. An attitude that is in and of itself racist.
No, I'm saying that it's not racist to point out that in the US, most white people have a racism problem because they in fact do. Just as surely as white South Africans during apartheid did, except that present-day Americans' problem is subtle and mostly unconscious.
Recognition of this fact is colorblindness kryptonite, and most of Manveer's posts which have been called racist are only identified as such for highlighting this fact in some way or mocking its denial (such as making fun of the idea that anti-white racism is just as common and damaging as any other form of racism in the US). He's not helping by being dismissive and mocking instead of trying to have a meaningful and informative debate, but to call it racism only serves to deny the reality of the problem and perpetuate it.
In other news, the NSA and GCHQ have been spying on ROT13'd telnet connections!
Clearly she wants Brexit to happen. If democracy has anything to say about it, it won't. The uninformed/misinformed and much regretted referendum is the closest thing to democratic consent to Brexit that will ever exist, so she has to take that and run with it, and not let the people have any more say in the matter.
You're quite confident in your "colorblindness"...just don't fool yourself into thinking it isn't harmful.
Works fine for me (in Chromium). Less than 1% CPU usage.
Pfft take your persecution complex soaked strawmen elsewhere, or better yet find the elusive wacko who actually called every criticism of Obama ever racist and confront him directly.
or more likely, he's one of those people who's so focused on their field he doesn't know anything else, but so egotistical he thinks he knows everything.
This. He knows everything about brain surgery and nothing about virtually anything else, including many medical topics. In all these non-neurosurgery areas the Dunning-Kruger effect is in full force.
"Let's see, an article about Hillary Clinton running a child sex & cannibalism ring out of a DC Orange Julius kiosk with the proceeds going to ISIS? 100% factual, obviously! [Submit] Heil Trump!"
And OJGate is born...verified as factual on Facebook!
I'm wondering which they will use. A perceptual hash greatly increases the chance of a false positive but greatly decreases the chance of a false negative. A cryptographic hash virtually eliminates any chance of a false positive but allows media files to be trivially altered to get a false negative.
One is a real solution and the other is somewhere between a basic effort and a symbolic effort.
That's a perceptual hash.
Only 1 bit has to flip to create a mismatch on a cryptographic hash check, and if this system is widespread, doing so will become standard practice.
$949T per year is roughly enough to pay every man, woman and child on earth about $135k per year.
I suggest you get a lawyer, track down every math teacher you ever had, and sue them.
If you believe UBI won't work then the remaining options are:
1. A luddite economy that prohibits certain forms of automation
2. Killbot-powered genocide of the working class
I assume you're thinking #1?
The people cheerleading the current direction of things believe that the 1% can demand enough goods and services to provide employment for the rest of us. Building pyramids in their honor or something, I don't know.
I'm not sure which is worse, if they turn out to be right or if they turn out to be wrong.
After all those putdowns of the "mainstream media" you praise the doctored and misleading videos that shut down ACORN? Credibility = 0.
I'm sure the NSA has already done that in-house.
The technocrats had some interesting ideas...some terrible ones too, most notably a belief in the possibility of apolitical leadership. But some interesting ones.
Actually it was the curtailing of greed from the New Deal until just before Reagan was elected that created the middle class. Before and after that the middle class has always been wasting away as inequality was left unchecked to maximize itself, as it naturally does. The greed was curtailed due to political pressure from a credible communist rival. We need to learn to curtail greed once more to restore the middle class.