I wouldn't expect him to know it right after the breach. If this had been the first question asked right after he learned about the breach, I'd be with you.
But we're literally MONTHS after the public learned about it. Which is usually at least DAYS after he learned about it. His CI(S)O didn't immediately and without being asked hand him that information? Fire that CI(S)O. Out of a cannon.
He didn't ask for that information? How the FUCK did he become the head honcho of a company dealing with insanely sensitive personal data? Why is that guy still not in prison?
I know it's quite common to bash Antivirus, from "they create the viruses themselves to create a market" to "they are snakeoil anyway", so the headline is very Slashdot-y, but please realize that this is exploitable because three things come together:
1. The way Windows symlinks is FUBAR. 2. There are STILL programs that simply go by the logic of "let's just load every DLL in this directory". 3. A program (in this case an AV tool) allows to "restore" files into a directory, does not double check where that ends up and has admin privileges.
You can probably get the same effect with backup programs.
The difference is that US officials first talk about the elimination of rights they have in mind, to see whether the outcry is still bad enough that it has to be postponed.
Correct. So why lock up anyone? Just shoot everyone that breaks a law and be done with it. That would solve so many issues, we'd save a lot of money on prisons and of course on courts too. Yes, you'll probably kill a few people who're innocent, but it's not really like we have any shortage of population, I mean, just look at the unemployment statistics.
2) Imprisonment greatly reduces recidivism for the duration of the prison term, or at least confines it to somewhere where the general public isn't victimized by it.
But the problem is when you release them. You then have someone who is mostly, well, older than he was when you locked him up. But he still has no job, no income and now a police record too which doesn't exactly improve his employment chances. No, sorry, I still think shooting people on the spot is the better solution.
I am not convinced. Taking away my ability to get a boner would really get me pissed enough that I want to kill someone. Preferably the one(s) responsible for that.
But... why wait for people to break the law? I say let's round up everyone and just off them then and there. That should lower crime by a LOT.
Dead people don't break laws. Well, maybe littering laws if there's nobody left to dump the bodies somewhere.
Then reject both and find someone who is sane? Believe it or not, they exist. They just don't get a lot of media attention because their agendas are sane and don't really offer too much of a sensationalist "OMG HE DIDN'T SAY THAT!!!!!111" angle.
No. For one simple reason: Such a key, a master key to any and all encryption of any and all devices and servers in the USA is going to be wanted. And I mean by other countries. Which implicitly means that other secret services WILL want that key.
At any price.
You think that some nefarious countries like NKor would shy away from finding out someone who has access to this key, kidnap his whole family and hold them for ransom? We're not even talking bribery, we're talking countries that would do ANYTHING short of starting a war with the US to get this key.
Unlikely to happen. But I would like to hear those named and shamed that refused to be patriotic and are traitorous enough to not bend over, I mean, cooperate with the authorities.
Would you rather they were hit by a truck or stabbed with a knife than shot with a rifle?
Yes. The potential bodycount of a knife is quite low and it's easier to defend against a truck than a rifle if you can plan ahead (as is being done now that terrorists have discovered that trucks make a nifty tool to mow down masses).
It's trivial to ram some iron bars into the ground, effectively nullifying the ability of a truck to run into a group of people. Now please let me hear your suggestion how to easily do the same about a gun.
My government runs gun control and healthcare. Oddly enough, the sky is still up there and we're doing fine.
And still I wouldn't trust that very same government with encryption matters. Why? Because I can SEE what they do in terms of gun control and healthcare. I see a lack of shooting sprees and I see a medical system that works. How do you suggest we should be able to know whether they abuse encryption backdoors?
Well, opening your mouth to talk about something publicly when you very obviously have NO idea what you're talking about does qualify someone as an idiot, to be blunt.
You could start by not jailing five times the amount of people than the rest of the world. That could ease the burden on the legal system considerably.
There is two possibilities why this happens. Either people in the US are more likely to be a criminal. Or your laws make it impossible to not be one.
To be fair, most countries that have about a percent of their population in jail also don't give too much of a shit about "due process" or "fair trial", or in other words, countries that don't feel the urge to jail a sizable portion of their population most likely also have fewer trials to handle.
Then it is absolutely trivial to solve. Simply wait two months before paying a dime, put it in your EULA that you don't see a cent if your video is "bizarre" (and I mean not a cent AT ALL, not "from whenever we notice") and you'll see these videos vanish pretty fucking quickly.
If it's not the video itself that's the goal for these people, like with the terrorists who don't give a fuck whether they make ad revenue with their message from imaginary friends that want you dead, but if they game the system for money, all you have to do is deny them the money and their incentive to make those videos ceases immediately.
The difference between a delusion, a conspiracy theory, a cult and a religion is basically the number of people that believe the same impossible, harebrained bullshit.
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I wouldn't expect him to know it right after the breach. If this had been the first question asked right after he learned about the breach, I'd be with you.
But we're literally MONTHS after the public learned about it. Which is usually at least DAYS after he learned about it. His CI(S)O didn't immediately and without being asked hand him that information? Fire that CI(S)O. Out of a cannon.
He didn't ask for that information? How the FUCK did he become the head honcho of a company dealing with insanely sensitive personal data? Why is that guy still not in prison?
I know it's quite common to bash Antivirus, from "they create the viruses themselves to create a market" to "they are snakeoil anyway", so the headline is very Slashdot-y, but please realize that this is exploitable because three things come together:
1. The way Windows symlinks is FUBAR.
2. There are STILL programs that simply go by the logic of "let's just load every DLL in this directory".
3. A program (in this case an AV tool) allows to "restore" files into a directory, does not double check where that ends up and has admin privileges.
You can probably get the same effect with backup programs.
You know any greater motivation than addiction or libido?
And if that doesn't help, try it in subspace. Or with a tachyon beam. Or a reverse tachyon beam in subspace.
Or as someone said about the Star Trek murder mysteries: The particle-of-the-week did it. In all of them.
The spores are the midichlorians of the Star Trek universe. An answer to a question nobody asked and gave a fuck about.
If the government can break it, so can other criminals.
Don't sugar coat it.
So... since it's (obviously) not used for this, you lost it?
We should limit DoJ positions to smart people, if anything.
No. A message encrypted by a one time pad that is also only used once is by definition unbreakable.
The difference is that US officials first talk about the elimination of rights they have in mind, to see whether the outcry is still bad enough that it has to be postponed.
1) Death reliably prevents recidivism.
Correct. So why lock up anyone? Just shoot everyone that breaks a law and be done with it. That would solve so many issues, we'd save a lot of money on prisons and of course on courts too. Yes, you'll probably kill a few people who're innocent, but it's not really like we have any shortage of population, I mean, just look at the unemployment statistics.
2) Imprisonment greatly reduces recidivism for the duration of the prison term, or at least confines it to somewhere where the general public isn't victimized by it.
But the problem is when you release them. You then have someone who is mostly, well, older than he was when you locked him up. But he still has no job, no income and now a police record too which doesn't exactly improve his employment chances. No, sorry, I still think shooting people on the spot is the better solution.
3) Lowering testosterone levels reduces recidivism.
I am not convinced. Taking away my ability to get a boner would really get me pissed enough that I want to kill someone. Preferably the one(s) responsible for that.
But ... why wait for people to break the law? I say let's round up everyone and just off them then and there. That should lower crime by a LOT.
Dead people don't break laws. Well, maybe littering laws if there's nobody left to dump the bodies somewhere.
Then reject both and find someone who is sane? Believe it or not, they exist. They just don't get a lot of media attention because their agendas are sane and don't really offer too much of a sensationalist "OMG HE DIDN'T SAY THAT!!!!!111" angle.
No. For one simple reason: Such a key, a master key to any and all encryption of any and all devices and servers in the USA is going to be wanted. And I mean by other countries. Which implicitly means that other secret services WILL want that key.
At any price.
You think that some nefarious countries like NKor would shy away from finding out someone who has access to this key, kidnap his whole family and hold them for ransom? We're not even talking bribery, we're talking countries that would do ANYTHING short of starting a war with the US to get this key.
Unlikely to happen. But I would like to hear those named and shamed that refused to be patriotic and are traitorous enough to not bend over, I mean, cooperate with the authorities.
It's easier to have a whitelist than a blacklist.
Actually, a murder is pretty much national news for a few days around here. It sometimes has its merits to live in backwater nowhere.
Would you rather they were hit by a truck or stabbed with a knife than shot with a rifle?
Yes. The potential bodycount of a knife is quite low and it's easier to defend against a truck than a rifle if you can plan ahead (as is being done now that terrorists have discovered that trucks make a nifty tool to mow down masses).
It's trivial to ram some iron bars into the ground, effectively nullifying the ability of a truck to run into a group of people. Now please let me hear your suggestion how to easily do the same about a gun.
My government runs gun control and healthcare. Oddly enough, the sky is still up there and we're doing fine.
And still I wouldn't trust that very same government with encryption matters. Why? Because I can SEE what they do in terms of gun control and healthcare. I see a lack of shooting sprees and I see a medical system that works. How do you suggest we should be able to know whether they abuse encryption backdoors?
Simply because I'm far more convinced that people will rather stand up against a government abusing violence than privacy.
Well, opening your mouth to talk about something publicly when you very obviously have NO idea what you're talking about does qualify someone as an idiot, to be blunt.
Well, if they had any marketable skills they could do some honest work...
You could start by not jailing five times the amount of people than the rest of the world. That could ease the burden on the legal system considerably.
There is two possibilities why this happens. Either people in the US are more likely to be a criminal. Or your laws make it impossible to not be one.
To be fair, most countries that have about a percent of their population in jail also don't give too much of a shit about "due process" or "fair trial", or in other words, countries that don't feel the urge to jail a sizable portion of their population most likely also have fewer trials to handle.
Then it is absolutely trivial to solve. Simply wait two months before paying a dime, put it in your EULA that you don't see a cent if your video is "bizarre" (and I mean not a cent AT ALL, not "from whenever we notice") and you'll see these videos vanish pretty fucking quickly.
If it's not the video itself that's the goal for these people, like with the terrorists who don't give a fuck whether they make ad revenue with their message from imaginary friends that want you dead, but if they game the system for money, all you have to do is deny them the money and their incentive to make those videos ceases immediately.
The difference between a delusion, a conspiracy theory, a cult and a religion is basically the number of people that believe the same impossible, harebrained bullshit.
So it's now the internet's business to protect your kid?