What don't you agree with in that quote? This is not a scenario where every person has to be security aware, if only ONE person ever catches WhatsApp doing this then it would break the whole thing wide open. You don't have to rely on every user being security-aware, only that at least one person will notice if they are actually using this attack on anything approaching a broad scale.
If you look at the "quality of life" figures such as the health of the economy, inflation rate, national debt, unemployment rate, average income, etc, Obama is leaving the country in a significantly worse state than when he took it over.
At least three of those (inflation, unemployment and income) are easily disprovable using quickly available data. National debt has been monotonically increasing since 1940 so... not sure wtf you expect there.
This is actually an incredibly positive and encouraging time for many Americans. There's actually a great chance that they'll see economic and social policies that will truly benefit them.
lol cool story bro. Most Americans are not billionaires, unfortunately.
How about when he trash talked John Lewis on MLK day because John Lewis hurt his feelings by saying he wasn't going to the inauguration? Calculated move?
There's plenty of reasons to distrust WhatsApp and even more reasons to avoid it like the plague, not the least of which being that it hands all data over to FB [gizmodo.com] despite first claiming and vowing that it would never do that.
They might do that eventually, but they currently don't and never have, FYI. The plans were scrapped after some legal conflict in the UK.
What are you even talking about. A bunch of people that signed the editorial are academic cryptographers who work for universities. What big business are you talking about now? Mozilla is the biggest business represented in the list, do we hate them now too? The EFF? Do we hate them? I can't keep up with things around here.
Read the article. The people they are concerned about are journalists and activists in repressive countries who use WhatsApp because it provides encrypted messaging. If they switch to Signal, which almost no one uses, just being observed using it may be enough cause for the government to pick them up. If they are able to use WhatsApp, however, they are hiding among the millions of other people that use it for no special reason other than it is a good messaging app.
Did I say any of that? Do you really not see a different between personally taking responsibility for slavery and acknowledging that maybe some other people had a tougher time than you and it is okay to give them a hand?
Did I say impossible? No. Some people do it obviously. That doesn't mean that everyone is capable of it and we shouldn't act like it is no big deal. Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge that maybe other people had it harder than them, and it doesn't hurt anyone to offer a helping hand every once in a while.
Having seen a lot of government waste, I would rather pay employees extra salary than spend $100 on a hammer or get upcharged on IT purchases 200% because you have to buy from a shady middleman instead of directly from the manufacturer.
Your problem is that you think this all happens in a vacuum. If you are born in a neighborhood where half the houses are abandoned and you don't get consistent access to food, you won't have the luxury of making good life choices. It is a perpetuating cycle that started with slavery and continued with segregation. Tough to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford shoes.
I don't see how signing prevents that. NPM is not a bunch of third-party mirrors, it is one central repository. If someone hacks NPM then they would also presumably have access to the key they use to sign packages so it wouldn't matter. You either trust NPM, in which case TLS is enough, or you don't in which case why are you using their repo?
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lol Trump? Statistics? I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what that word means. He just said some baseless nonsense to lash out.
Not really. The huge majority of research funding comes from the government (NSF, DoD, DARPA, NIH, DoE, etc.)
What don't you agree with in that quote? This is not a scenario where every person has to be security aware, if only ONE person ever catches WhatsApp doing this then it would break the whole thing wide open. You don't have to rely on every user being security-aware, only that at least one person will notice if they are actually using this attack on anything approaching a broad scale.
Because he has to know there is going to be huge backlash. Even Republicans denounced him, it was stupid as hell.
If you look at the "quality of life" figures such as the health of the economy, inflation rate, national debt, unemployment rate, average income, etc, Obama is leaving the country in a significantly worse state than when he took it over.
At least three of those (inflation, unemployment and income) are easily disprovable using quickly available data. National debt has been monotonically increasing since 1940 so... not sure wtf you expect there.
would have been dead for even trying in the day time
Lol ok. You know, generally people don't want to murder you for no reason. Even black people! I didn't believe it at first either, but it's true.
I live in the UK
just some pomp and ceremony
Doesn't check out.
This is actually an incredibly positive and encouraging time for many Americans. There's actually a great chance that they'll see economic and social policies that will truly benefit them.
lol cool story bro. Most Americans are not billionaires, unfortunately.
How about when he trash talked John Lewis on MLK day because John Lewis hurt his feelings by saying he wasn't going to the inauguration? Calculated move?
The question is whether Facebook shares it with third parties. Of course Facebook "owns" the data, no one is arguing that.
Because they want the IP and engineers to make their messaging better?
There's plenty of reasons to distrust WhatsApp and even more reasons to avoid it like the plague, not the least of which being that it hands all data over to FB [gizmodo.com] despite first claiming and vowing that it would never do that.
They might do that eventually, but they currently don't and never have, FYI. The plans were scrapped after some legal conflict in the UK.
Good question that can be immediately answered by reading the actual editorial.
What are you even talking about. A bunch of people that signed the editorial are academic cryptographers who work for universities. What big business are you talking about now? Mozilla is the biggest business represented in the list, do we hate them now too? The EFF? Do we hate them? I can't keep up with things around here.
Read the article. The people they are concerned about are journalists and activists in repressive countries who use WhatsApp because it provides encrypted messaging. If they switch to Signal, which almost no one uses, just being observed using it may be enough cause for the government to pick them up. If they are able to use WhatsApp, however, they are hiding among the millions of other people that use it for no special reason other than it is a good messaging app.
What happened to you as a child that caused you to be incapable of empathy?
Did I say any of that? Do you really not see a different between personally taking responsibility for slavery and acknowledging that maybe some other people had a tougher time than you and it is okay to give them a hand?
Did I say impossible? No. Some people do it obviously. That doesn't mean that everyone is capable of it and we shouldn't act like it is no big deal. Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge that maybe other people had it harder than them, and it doesn't hurt anyone to offer a helping hand every once in a while.
Having seen a lot of government waste, I would rather pay employees extra salary than spend $100 on a hammer or get upcharged on IT purchases 200% because you have to buy from a shady middleman instead of directly from the manufacturer.
Your problem is that you think this all happens in a vacuum. If you are born in a neighborhood where half the houses are abandoned and you don't get consistent access to food, you won't have the luxury of making good life choices. It is a perpetuating cycle that started with slavery and continued with segregation. Tough to pull yourself up by your bootstraps when you can't afford shoes.
Fantastic argument. Truly you are one of the great orators of our day.
I don't see how signing prevents that. NPM is not a bunch of third-party mirrors, it is one central repository. If someone hacks NPM then they would also presumably have access to the key they use to sign packages so it wouldn't matter. You either trust NPM, in which case TLS is enough, or you don't in which case why are you using their repo?
Doesn't the repo use TLS? What type of attack scenario are you referring to?
It's almost as if more hours worked does not actually equate to getting productive things done... https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
I know you think you got a superior education compared to all us lowly millennials, but sorrow is not an adjective.