Blanket use of forged certificates would make it near impossible that such behaviour isn't eventually noticed, which would instantly lead to the whole certificate chain system coming down.
If anything, such a tool would be used very carefully for high profile targets.
I'm genuinely wondering, what makes Starcraft stand out? Is it something particular about this game or is it just the most well known RTS game, and AIs have generally a problem playing RTS games well?
But they also don't want to get involved with government. My neighbor is stealing public property? I'd rather not get involved, it's not like it's my business.
The more governments act against the interests of their subjects, the less said subjects feel obliged to heed their laws. Or report those that break them.
This is, by the way, one of the reasons the East Bloc fell. In the end people felt more committed to their fellow sufferers than their government.
In this time of fake news, https based communication is more important than ever. Less even for the encryption part.
Encryption, despite what most people think, is only the side effect. The main, far more important, aspect is to verify that I am actually talking to whom I think I'm talking to. Encryption means exactly nothing if I cannot determine whether a MitM is taking place.
And neither does it mean anything if I get information from someone without the ability to verify that whoever I'm talking to is actually who I expect to be talking to. Imagine someone pretending to be someone saying increasingly stupid things in an attempt to ruin that person's credibility...
Then we're down to doing what organizations with elevated security needs already do. Issue their own certificates, transport them to their partner via a secure channel and pin the certificate, i.e. to be valid, the site has to present this certificate, exactly this certificate and only this certificate.
Not true. Sorry, but yes it is possible to build a device that tells me everything about you without leaking the same information to anyone else. Actually, it would be in the best interest of said companies to make sure that they, and only they, get the information about you. Information loses value when it's shared, if everyone has free access to it, who would pay me money for it?
Don't worry, they would very much enjoy to be the only ones to collect the data gathered by the spy they sell you. Here you needn't even argue for incompetence in favor of malice, they are really that incompetent.
This is what happens when you try to pull a stunt like this.
Certificates are based on a system of trust. I trust a certificate because the issuer promises that it belongs to the party it was issued to. If that party now not only has the ability but also the obvious intent to intercept and snoop on traffic, the certificate is intrinsically untrustworthy. Because it can easily be used for such nefarious applications.
The Netherlands just made all their certificates along with every certificate issuing company under their jurisdiction untrustworthy.
So... you wanna say that they are a pretty good replacement for local papers? If they now have some "information" about the sales from local stores that drop their prices from three times Amazon's price to twice it, it would be complete.
I don't care about labels. Toss your label on the pile behind me, I think there's still room between "Fascist", "Misogynist", "Pinko Commie" and "SJW".
What's really crazy about this is that the older ones of us will remember Reagan well.
If I told you in 88 that Reagan will be considered in hindsight to be a level headed, sensible, intelligent and fairly moderate Republican, you'd probably have looked at me like I had three heads.
We've mostly "mastered" it because industries found inexpensive replacements for pollutants and they managed to use imposing pollution standards as a way to stem competition from poorer nations that cannot match environment standards and thus can't enter markets that require industries to heed standards.
It's not that easy this time. China is way ahead in its "green" industry efforts while your head honcho is trying to push coal. If you forced environmental standards onto industries, the US would not be among the winners this time.
A sensible meeting software will automatically calculate a given time based on the timezone of your partner and yours, not display "4pm" even though you're in Rome and he's in Sydney.
The original idea was to conserve energy by having daylight when people are actually awake in Summer.
In Summer, in Mid/North of Europe or the US, you have daylight from about 4-5am to about 8-9pm. Now, people rarely get up at 4am, and even if they do, they don't really care too much whether it's dark because they go to work anyway and don't need much light to get dressed and go to work. But it was thought that it would be beneficial to not need artificial lighting until about 10pm when most people would go to bed. That way we could "win" an hour of power consumption for lighting.
No later than when LEDs came along and the power consumption for lighting became an insignificant fraction of our power use, the whole shit became totally obsolete for its original purpose. So we now make up new shit because "It's always been that way, and who made you king that you wish to change it".
Then I guess in October we should turn our clocks back not only by one but actually 2 hours. Sunrise around here is no sooner than 7am. 8am in December.
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Too high a risk to take.
Blanket use of forged certificates would make it near impossible that such behaviour isn't eventually noticed, which would instantly lead to the whole certificate chain system coming down.
If anything, such a tool would be used very carefully for high profile targets.
Evidently people are talking about them.
I'm genuinely wondering, what makes Starcraft stand out? Is it something particular about this game or is it just the most well known RTS game, and AIs have generally a problem playing RTS games well?
But they also don't want to get involved with government. My neighbor is stealing public property? I'd rather not get involved, it's not like it's my business.
You say this like it mattered.
The more governments act against the interests of their subjects, the less said subjects feel obliged to heed their laws. Or report those that break them.
This is, by the way, one of the reasons the East Bloc fell. In the end people felt more committed to their fellow sufferers than their government.
https doesn't prevent fake news. But it prevents impersonation. A lot of misinformation is based on someone pretending to be someone else.
Only if I get paid to do so. Or if I have reason to assume an epidemic might be afoot.
In this time of fake news, https based communication is more important than ever. Less even for the encryption part.
Encryption, despite what most people think, is only the side effect. The main, far more important, aspect is to verify that I am actually talking to whom I think I'm talking to. Encryption means exactly nothing if I cannot determine whether a MitM is taking place.
And neither does it mean anything if I get information from someone without the ability to verify that whoever I'm talking to is actually who I expect to be talking to. Imagine someone pretending to be someone saying increasingly stupid things in an attempt to ruin that person's credibility...
That's ok. Most Dutch also ignore what these two parties say.
Then we're down to doing what organizations with elevated security needs already do. Issue their own certificates, transport them to their partner via a secure channel and pin the certificate, i.e. to be valid, the site has to present this certificate, exactly this certificate and only this certificate.
Not true. Sorry, but yes it is possible to build a device that tells me everything about you without leaking the same information to anyone else. Actually, it would be in the best interest of said companies to make sure that they, and only they, get the information about you. Information loses value when it's shared, if everyone has free access to it, who would pay me money for it?
Don't worry, they would very much enjoy to be the only ones to collect the data gathered by the spy they sell you. Here you needn't even argue for incompetence in favor of malice, they are really that incompetent.
This is what happens when you try to pull a stunt like this.
Certificates are based on a system of trust. I trust a certificate because the issuer promises that it belongs to the party it was issued to. If that party now not only has the ability but also the obvious intent to intercept and snoop on traffic, the certificate is intrinsically untrustworthy. Because it can easily be used for such nefarious applications.
The Netherlands just made all their certificates along with every certificate issuing company under their jurisdiction untrustworthy.
You ... you really believe that one can get rich by working?
Hey, folks, gather 'round, I found the dupe that still believes the "American Dream"!
If Gawker didn't break the law, they probably would have faded into oblivion.
My hobby is being a billionaire, you insensitive clod!
So ... you wanna say that they are a pretty good replacement for local papers? If they now have some "information" about the sales from local stores that drop their prices from three times Amazon's price to twice it, it would be complete.
I don't care about labels. Toss your label on the pile behind me, I think there's still room between "Fascist", "Misogynist", "Pinko Commie" and "SJW".
What's really crazy about this is that the older ones of us will remember Reagan well.
If I told you in 88 that Reagan will be considered in hindsight to be a level headed, sensible, intelligent and fairly moderate Republican, you'd probably have looked at me like I had three heads.
We've mostly "mastered" it because industries found inexpensive replacements for pollutants and they managed to use imposing pollution standards as a way to stem competition from poorer nations that cannot match environment standards and thus can't enter markets that require industries to heed standards.
It's not that easy this time. China is way ahead in its "green" industry efforts while your head honcho is trying to push coal. If you forced environmental standards onto industries, the US would not be among the winners this time.
A sensible meeting software will automatically calculate a given time based on the timezone of your partner and yours, not display "4pm" even though you're in Rome and he's in Sydney.
The original idea was to conserve energy by having daylight when people are actually awake in Summer.
In Summer, in Mid/North of Europe or the US, you have daylight from about 4-5am to about 8-9pm. Now, people rarely get up at 4am, and even if they do, they don't really care too much whether it's dark because they go to work anyway and don't need much light to get dressed and go to work. But it was thought that it would be beneficial to not need artificial lighting until about 10pm when most people would go to bed. That way we could "win" an hour of power consumption for lighting.
No later than when LEDs came along and the power consumption for lighting became an insignificant fraction of our power use, the whole shit became totally obsolete for its original purpose. So we now make up new shit because "It's always been that way, and who made you king that you wish to change it".
Hey, if you're fast enough you can land before you leave!
Then I guess in October we should turn our clocks back not only by one but actually 2 hours. Sunrise around here is no sooner than 7am. 8am in December.
Way ahead of you.
If you schedule meetings before noon, don't count on me to be there. Or that the next meeting I schedule that involves you will be before 6pm.
A quarter to Revolution.