Reading the article the extension does the right thing and actually modifies the timings to be constant (50ms between key presses by default). By setting the timings to always be the same, all users of the extension look identical.
Which probably makes them even more identifiable, since it is unlikely that more than a tiny minority of Chrome users will use such an extension. This is a fundamental problem with this sort of thing: if you really want to be hard to identify, you want to make yourself look as much like the rest of the clueless rabble as possible. If only one user in ten thousand is loading themselves up with privacy extensions, it probably makes for an excellent fingerprint in and of itself.
If you have scripts running inside Tor so that something can profile how you access the DOM (keystrokes or otherwise) you are doing it wrong.
I don't think that Thorsheim was using Tor in an attempt at any actual security, but simply to isolate the effect of keyboard timings from other potential means of identifying the user. He was using Tor to create a controlled experiment.
One of the things that has consistently mystified me about Americans' complacency with drone warfare is the underlying assumption that our current monopoly on drones is going to last forever. If it's ok for the U.S. to use drones to assassinate "terrorist" anti-American agitators in Yemen, what are we going to say when China starts using drones to assassinate "terrorist" Chinese dissidents on American soil, or Europe, or elsewhere? For all intents and purposes, we're already using killbots, and the really important point here is that airborne killbots can be used (for now) with impunity across borders.
"American Exceptionalism" basically means we allow ourselves to commit war crimes with impunity.
This is an issue that I think is handled beautifully by Ubuntu's release system. LTS releases come out on a relatively steady schedule, with bleeding-edge releases in between. I personally stick with LTS releases, which come out often enough to keep me up to date with features, etc., but without lots of things breaking all the time.
Here come the SJWs again, oppressing male gamers! Feminazis get offended by anything.
So a bunch of heavily armed people knocked down all the doors in your house, shot your dog, and handcuffed you and your family; quit being such a PC whiner.
If I encrypt something and lose my key, I should lose my data. But this policy is about authentication (i.e. proving your identity) and not encryption. They're different things, except for some reason they are almost always conflated.
I've worked as a physician with an IV in my arm during a bout of diarrhea and vomiting I caught from a patient (despite thorough hand washing). I've worked with pneumonia I caught from a patient. Its not always the physician passing the disease to the patient. In my experience it has been more likely for the physician to get what our patients have.
Whereupon you'll transmit it to another patient. Selection bias much?
Another implementation would be to encrypt each item with a unique key and destroy the keys, rather than the underlying item, in a delete event, such that not even forensic tools would have a reasonable chance at recovery once the key-storage media has been re-written.
Then you'll need cold storage for all those keys you never use. Which, of course, can't be deleted unless they're encrypted with yet more keys, which will themselves need cold storage, so you have to....
And the hypersensitivity of people these days is just ridiculous - especially when they aren't even in the group being "insulted". I find myself just not making jokes and making the most banal conversation now because of fear of pissing off an idiot and getting screamed at or shot. For example, back when that whole bullshit of those pizza place people not wanting to serve gay people, I didn't think it was a big deal - I DIDN'T say it was right, btw. But fucking A, I got screamed at by a straight person for being a bigot, and god forbid when I posted something like that on Reddit, I got voted down into oblivion. That couldn't have possibly have been from gay people because they are a very very very small minority. It was all sanctimonious bullies.
And I think that is where a lot of this PC backlash is originating from: sanctimonious bullies.
The flag we're talking about was created to boost morale of the soldiers, and was only for use in battle.
But the soldiers were fighting to preserve a system of hatred, slavery, bigotry, and treason. Many of my ancestors among them. Thankfully, they lost. I don't honor the cause of my ancestors, and I am flabbergasted that anybody would.
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Reading the article the extension does the right thing and actually modifies the timings to be constant (50ms between key presses by default). By setting the timings to always be the same, all users of the extension look identical.
Which probably makes them even more identifiable, since it is unlikely that more than a tiny minority of Chrome users will use such an extension. This is a fundamental problem with this sort of thing: if you really want to be hard to identify, you want to make yourself look as much like the rest of the clueless rabble as possible. If only one user in ten thousand is loading themselves up with privacy extensions, it probably makes for an excellent fingerprint in and of itself.
If you have scripts running inside Tor so that something can profile how you access the DOM (keystrokes or otherwise) you are doing it wrong.
I don't think that Thorsheim was using Tor in an attempt at any actual security, but simply to isolate the effect of keyboard timings from other potential means of identifying the user. He was using Tor to create a controlled experiment.
One of the things that has consistently mystified me about Americans' complacency with drone warfare is the underlying assumption that our current monopoly on drones is going to last forever. If it's ok for the U.S. to use drones to assassinate "terrorist" anti-American agitators in Yemen, what are we going to say when China starts using drones to assassinate "terrorist" Chinese dissidents on American soil, or Europe, or elsewhere? For all intents and purposes, we're already using killbots, and the really important point here is that airborne killbots can be used (for now) with impunity across borders.
"American Exceptionalism" basically means we allow ourselves to commit war crimes with impunity.
This one is going to generate a thoughtful, nuanced discussion.
Just like many people predicted in the submission for asking the questions, it looks like the good, hard-hitting questions were totally ignored.
I doubt she has an opinion one way or another on systemd.
This is an issue that I think is handled beautifully by Ubuntu's release system. LTS releases come out on a relatively steady schedule, with bleeding-edge releases in between. I personally stick with LTS releases, which come out often enough to keep me up to date with features, etc., but without lots of things breaking all the time.
And, yes, I like Unity very much.
Here come the SJWs again, oppressing male gamers! Feminazis get offended by anything.
So a bunch of heavily armed people knocked down all the doors in your house, shot your dog, and handcuffed you and your family; quit being such a PC whiner.
If I encrypt something and lose my key, I should lose my data. But this policy is about authentication (i.e. proving your identity) and not encryption. They're different things, except for some reason they are almost always conflated.
I've worked as a physician with an IV in my arm during a bout of diarrhea and vomiting I caught from a patient (despite thorough hand washing). I've worked with pneumonia I caught from a patient. Its not always the physician passing the disease to the patient. In my experience it has been more likely for the physician to get what our patients have.
Whereupon you'll transmit it to another patient. Selection bias much?
I submit Parent as Poster Child for the problem.
This is a blatant infiltration of one of the centres of power by the illuminati., If you don't know what the illuminati is, please do your research,.
Sadly, this is one of the least delusional posts on this story so far.
This. Furthermore, the questions are primarily policy related, so they are especially meaningless.
I don't know about you, but I personally would like to see science applied to policy much more often than it is.
Assholes as a Service
Man, they're putting everything in the cloud these days!
Which organization is that? You forgot to include the website this time.
Very sorry. I forgot to include the links too! I meant conservatives and liberals.
I would think that a link to their fucking web page counts as a definition of the acronym. YMMV.
You realize I'm the one who wrote the summary, right?
The correct figures for the Global Warming question are: AAAS members 87%, conservatives 29%, liberals 76%.
"I have to say, I don't really get the hatred of systemd. I think it improves a lot on the state of init"
He answered it. What the fuck is with you people?
Another implementation would be to encrypt each item with a unique key and destroy the keys, rather than the underlying item, in a delete event, such that not even forensic tools would have a reasonable chance at recovery once the key-storage media has been re-written.
Then you'll need cold storage for all those keys you never use. Which, of course, can't be deleted unless they're encrypted with yet more keys, which will themselves need cold storage, so you have to....
And the hypersensitivity of people these days is just ridiculous - especially when they aren't even in the group being "insulted". I find myself just not making jokes and making the most banal conversation now because of fear of pissing off an idiot and getting screamed at or shot. For example, back when that whole bullshit of those pizza place people not wanting to serve gay people, I didn't think it was a big deal - I DIDN'T say it was right, btw. But fucking A, I got screamed at by a straight person for being a bigot, and god forbid when I posted something like that on Reddit, I got voted down into oblivion. That couldn't have possibly have been from gay people because they are a very very very small minority. It was all sanctimonious bullies.
And I think that is where a lot of this PC backlash is originating from: sanctimonious bullies.
Self-aware much?
..and he got terminated from all of his positions.
He resigned from an honorary position at University College London. His day job is Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK. As far as I can find out, he still has that job.
Tim Hunt was attacked and dismissed from UCL, the Royal Society and other bodies
No he wasn't. He resigned from a couple (largely honorary) posts. He kept his paying job.
Oh, please. Sir Tim acted like an ass in public, and people made fun of him.
If this is the horrible face of Political Correctness run amok, I'm really not very worried.
The flag we're talking about was created to boost morale of the soldiers, and was only for use in battle.
But the soldiers were fighting to preserve a system of hatred, slavery, bigotry, and treason. Many of my ancestors among them. Thankfully, they lost. I don't honor the cause of my ancestors, and I am flabbergasted that anybody would.
Not to get in the way of a good rant, but Amazon does not appear to sell Nazi flags:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...
Nor does Walmart:
http://www.walmart.com/search/...
I'm not sure what a "Communist" flag is. I never knew Communism was a country.
Wow, saying the confederate flag means slavery, hatred, bigotry and treason and it gets a +5 Insightful?
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Maybe the reason they fly the flag is to respect their ancestors who fought and died for what they believe in.
I think the whole point here is that their ancestors believed in slavery, hatred, bigotry and treason.