You jogged my memory... I forgot that only asymmetric algorithms are particularly at risk with quantum computers. Good news for my TrueCrypt FDE (well, VeraCrypt now). =)
Can you give an example what you mean by belt and suspenders approach?
Yikes! It's starting to happen fast. In terms of being prudent about encryption, what could one start to do now to prepare for the coming quantum computers?
I'm not certain, but I believe the elliptic curve algorithms are supposed to be quantum computer resistant, right? Specifically, what kind solutions would enable these kinds of algorithms in tools like TrueCrypt (for local encryption) and PGP (for message exchange)? I have large amounts of data stored in both formats in cloud backups that I would like to make sure doesn't get snapshotted and trivially decrypted in a few years.
Really? Another story about Uber not being a paradise of capitalism and unicorns? I never could have seen it coming that they were an evil company with evil leadership. Oh wait, unless I'd read anything about them in the last two years... http://observer.com/2016/02/ub...
security experts expect to see it ported to JavaScript and used to create browser extensions that bypass reCAPTCHA fields, especially when using the Tor Browser.
Funny because I just saw that Slashdot article too and thought of "you," whoever you are.:-) I agree there seems to be an increase here in coverage/visibility of Uber's shittiness all of a sudden. Maybe Slashdot editors are deciding they now want to rank negative Uber pieces higher in the inclusion criteria?
As for the broader media, well, I feel it's about time. I've been sick of seeing all this Uber is soooooo greeeeeaaaaat coverage for so long and such minimal coverage of their atrocious management. It's years overdue, IMO.
I agree! This video doesn't seem anywhere near as horrifying as many other things Kalanik has done.
And yet, he issued this statement in response: "My job as your leader is to leadand that starts with behaving in a way that makes us all proud. That is not what I did, and it cannot be explained away. It’s clear this video is a reflection of me—and the criticism we’ve received is a stark reminder that I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up. This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that"
Really?! He never thought calling his company "Boob-er" revealed his need to grow up?
It's obviously an empty apology stemming from the heat he is feeling these days on all fronts.
If he's ever used Uber though, he should be watching his back. They have a track record of using their geolocation data to find out where journalists they don't like live and personally threatening and doxing them.
If this company dies, the sooner the better. It's hard to imagine a more evil corporation, despite the fact they had a damn good product idea.
The objective of business however is to maximize profit, not unit sales. If it were the latter, all software would cost $0.01.
"In economics, profit maximization is the short run or long run process by which a firm determines the price and output level that returns the greatest profit."
> Why don't software makers look at the average income level in a given country -- per capita GDP for example -- and adjust their software prices in these countries accordingly?
Because that's not how supply and demand works. For the same reason that iPhones and Honda's aren't pegged to GDP... the costs of R&D and production don't change and make a product less costly to produce because it is sold in a country with lower GDP.
3D TV's always seemed stupid as hell to me. I can't say I'm surprised they're gone. I never got the point, even before you factor in the need to wear special glasses and their tendency to induce eyestrain/headaches.
Oh my goodness! You mean this person has downloaded porn on the internet?!?! That is so scandalous!:-P If the business model of this website is to blackmail people who downloaded porn through the threat of public shaming, I don't think it will work out very well. Maybe if 99% of the populace of the free world didn't download Internet porn it would be effective. But if you are threatening me to say, pay me money or we will tell people you have downloaded porn, I would laugh in your face and say go ahead. Yeah, and I've masturbated too, so you can tell them that if you want. And anyone who pretends to find that shameful is either in an infinitesimal minority, playing the sanctimonious card, or compensating to conceal their own severe porn addiction.
I checked this site out of curiosity, and all they're doing is scraping trackers and recording the information. Nothing different than the publicly available data the movie and music studios have been gathering for years to issue infringement warnings. The only novel thing is they are making the archival information publicly available. They also don't seem to be scraping very extensively. Performing some checks of IP addresses that I know should have histories, and a tiny amount of the actual activity shows up: 1) They seem to have only started scraping in December 2016 as they have no data I could find before that. 2) Even after that date, they have a very incomplete record of activity even for torrents that were using multiple public trackers.
Importantly, going to this site or not doesn't make them start tracking you or not. You are already tracked if they happen to have found a tracker with your IP address in it. If you visit the site and type in any IP address, they will show any activity they may have captured for that address, but can't suddently go look for new data they didn't already capture based on the fact you typed in or accessed from a particular IP address on their site.
Finally, the "track a friend" feature simply uses a goo.gl shortened URL to bounce via a redirect from Google to their website and then to a target URL you specify. This allows them to associate your "friend's" IP address with the link you made. Then it can show you the history for that IP. In other words, it doesn't do anything more sinister than allow you to discover your friend's IP address. If you already knew it, you could just type it into the website and get the same results.
Nothing in the article says screen time can lower one's quality of sleep!! That is entirely the hasty conclusion of the editor here. Perhaps people who are up with isomnia turn to their phones?!?
Short but quite accurate. Supply and demand sets wages. 1) Living costs are also much higher in the US than the nations with much lower labor costs. 2) If a remote worker were really worth the same value to an employer as a local US worker, the difference in salary would not be so great. (Note: H1B workers fall between the two endpoints, indicating there is likely some value also created by "culture," mindset, or other non-strictly C.S. skills related attribute.)
While I agree with your point, it's worth noting that burglars have successfully won civil lawsuits for being injured while trying to break into homes and, for example, falling through the roof. #F'edUpJustice
As soon as the iphone fingerprint reader works reliably, in all weather conditions without delay, and is no longer easily defeated by anyone with a 3-D printer, perhaps there would be some few people interested in paying extra money to make a perfectly functioning life-saving machine more complicated and prone to failure.
LOL. "The state of emergency is entirely consistent with France's modern military strategy of immediate and utter surrender. Following the terrorist attacks, since it was not clear who to surrender to, the French surrendered to their own government, which enjoys 70% popular support for the state of emergency that has suspended basic democratic civil rights, and you have complete and willing submission to a total electronic surveillance state."
True. France has even outdone the USA however with terrorist over-reaction... They have suspended democratic principles for over a year and even passed their own "Patriot Act on Steroids"...
https://news.vice.com/article/... "France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings." "UN experts expressed alarm that environmental activists in France have been under house arrest in connection with the state of emergency invoked following the November attacks."
http://rare.us/story/france-ha... "The fact is that France already has a latitudinous surveillance law—call it the PATRIOT Act on steroids. At least in theory, [the US's FISC is] a layer of accountability. France’s power of oversight, on the other hand, is vested in a committee chaired by [the Prime Minister], who can singlehandedly override the other members’ objections.The French law also forces Internet Service Providers to install “black boxes” that vacuum up metadata and make it accessible to intelligence agencies. It contains a “sneak-and-peek” provision similar to the PATRIOT Act, which allows government operatives to break into suspects’ homes and monitor them. And it green-lights the use of ISMI catchers—essentially incognito cell towers, they sweep up all phone communications within a given area, including, if needed, people’s locations. Even worse, while the PATRIOT Act is explicitly limited to terrorism, the French law applies to other cases, including those of “organized delinquency.” It can also be activated to protect the country’s “economic, industrial and scientific interests,” which is so elastic as to include just about everything. Senator Rand Paul was absolutely correct to call the French law “a thousandfold more invasive” than anything on the books in America."
Silly Ethiopians. Don't they know if they want to decree a human-rights-violating state of emergency, they also have to ban public gatherings?! Come on! France has been oppressing the right way for a full year now...
https://news.vice.com/article/... "France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings."
Slashdot Mirror
Ahh. Thank you!
You jogged my memory... I forgot that only asymmetric algorithms are particularly at risk with quantum computers.
Good news for my TrueCrypt FDE (well, VeraCrypt now). =)
Can you give an example what you mean by belt and suspenders approach?
Same thing would happen as if pigs could fly... ANARCHY!!!
It'd be ANARCHY!
Yikes! It's starting to happen fast.
In terms of being prudent about encryption, what could one start to do now to prepare for the coming quantum computers?
I'm not certain, but I believe the elliptic curve algorithms are supposed to be quantum computer resistant, right?
Specifically, what kind solutions would enable these kinds of algorithms in tools like TrueCrypt (for local encryption) and PGP (for message exchange)?
I have large amounts of data stored in both formats in cloud backups that I would like to make sure doesn't get snapshotted and trivially decrypted in a few years.
Really? Another story about Uber not being a paradise of capitalism and unicorns?
I never could have seen it coming that they were an evil company with evil leadership. Oh wait, unless I'd read anything about them in the last two years...
http://observer.com/2016/02/ub...
security experts expect to see it ported to JavaScript and used to create browser extensions that bypass reCAPTCHA fields, especially when using the Tor Browser.
Damn those pesky Tor Browser users!
Funny because I just saw that Slashdot article too and thought of "you," whoever you are. :-)
I agree there seems to be an increase here in coverage/visibility of Uber's shittiness all of a sudden.
Maybe Slashdot editors are deciding they now want to rank negative Uber pieces higher in the inclusion criteria?
As for the broader media, well, I feel it's about time. I've been sick of seeing all this Uber is soooooo greeeeeaaaaat coverage for so long and such minimal coverage of their atrocious management. It's years overdue, IMO.
I agree! This video doesn't seem anywhere near as horrifying as many other things Kalanik has done.
And yet, he issued this statement in response:
"My job as your leader is to leadand that starts with behaving in a way that makes us all proud. That is not what I did, and it cannot be explained away. It’s clear this video is a reflection of me—and the criticism we’ve received is a stark reminder that I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up. This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that"
Really?! He never thought calling his company "Boob-er" revealed his need to grow up?
It's obviously an empty apology stemming from the heat he is feeling these days on all fronts.
Something like that is usually handled internally and cleaned up with policies, HR visits, and 'training'.
Exactly! Unless the CEO is the one fostering a climate of misogyny and sexual harassment, as years of worth of data now suggests.
Hit job?! The media barely has time to cover all the crappy things Uber does because there are so damn many of them!
What?! So this shows the CEO is an A-hole?! Never could have known that before!
Uber’s 10 Worst Actions—Threats, Lies, Sexism & Shady Business Deals
http://observer.com/2016/02/ub... [observer.com]
Anticompetitive and dishonest business practices against rivals.
Using their geolocation data to harassing and personally threaten journalists who didn't cover them favorably.
Exploiting workers, not only as contractors but by enticing them to enter into exploitative financial agreements.
Rampant corporate sexism and misogyn from the CEO on down.
If he's ever used Uber though, he should be watching his back. They have a track record of using their geolocation data to find out where journalists they don't like live and personally threatening and doxing them.
If this company dies, the sooner the better. It's hard to imagine a more evil corporation, despite the fact they had a damn good product idea.
Uber’s 10 Worst Actions—Threats, Lies, Sexism & Shady Business Deals
http://observer.com/2016/02/ub... [observer.com]
Good riddance!
It would be hard to find an example of a more despicable corporation (with a damn good product idea nonetheless).
Uber’s 10 Worst Actions—Threats, Lies, Sexism & Shady Business Deals
http://observer.com/2016/02/ub...
Anticompetitive and dishonest business practices against rivals.
Using their geolocation data to harassing and personally threaten journalists who didn't cover them favorably.
Exploiting workers, not only as contractors but by enticing them to enter into exploitative financial agreements.
Rampant corporate sexism and misogyn from the CEO on down.
The objective of business however is to maximize profit, not unit sales. If it were the latter, all software would cost $0.01.
"In economics, profit maximization is the short run or long run process by which a firm determines the price and output level that returns the greatest profit."
> Why don't software makers look at the average income level in a given country -- per capita GDP for example -- and adjust their software prices in these countries accordingly?
Because that's not how supply and demand works.
For the same reason that iPhones and Honda's aren't pegged to GDP... the costs of R&D and production don't change and make a product less costly to produce because it is sold in a country with lower GDP.
3D TV's always seemed stupid as hell to me. I can't say I'm surprised they're gone. I never got the point, even before you factor in the need to wear special glasses and their tendency to induce eyestrain/headaches.
Good riddance!
Oh my goodness! You mean this person has downloaded porn on the internet?!?! That is so scandalous! :-P
If the business model of this website is to blackmail people who downloaded porn through the threat of public shaming, I don't think it will work out very well.
Maybe if 99% of the populace of the free world didn't download Internet porn it would be effective. But if you are threatening me to say, pay me money or we will tell people you have downloaded porn, I would laugh in your face and say go ahead. Yeah, and I've masturbated too, so you can tell them that if you want.
And anyone who pretends to find that shameful is either in an infinitesimal minority, playing the sanctimonious card, or compensating to conceal their own severe porn addiction.
I checked this site out of curiosity, and all they're doing is scraping trackers and recording the information. Nothing different than the publicly available data the movie and music studios have been gathering for years to issue infringement warnings. The only novel thing is they are making the archival information publicly available.
They also don't seem to be scraping very extensively. Performing some checks of IP addresses that I know should have histories, and a tiny amount of the actual activity shows up:
1) They seem to have only started scraping in December 2016 as they have no data I could find before that.
2) Even after that date, they have a very incomplete record of activity even for torrents that were using multiple public trackers.
Importantly, going to this site or not doesn't make them start tracking you or not. You are already tracked if they happen to have found a tracker with your IP address in it. If you visit the site and type in any IP address, they will show any activity they may have captured for that address, but can't suddently go look for new data they didn't already capture based on the fact you typed in or accessed from a particular IP address on their site.
Finally, the "track a friend" feature simply uses a goo.gl shortened URL to bounce via a redirect from Google to their website and then to a target URL you specify. This allows them to associate your "friend's" IP address with the link you made. Then it can show you the history for that IP. In other words, it doesn't do anything more sinister than allow you to discover your friend's IP address. If you already knew it, you could just type it into the website and get the same results.
There are designers, who are creative, and programmers, who are code monkeys.
There are binary thinkers, who are tools, and people with cognitive nuance, who are awesome.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc!
Nothing in the article says screen time can lower one's quality of sleep!! That is entirely the hasty conclusion of the editor here.
Perhaps people who are up with isomnia turn to their phones?!?
You've just described SUPPLY of qualified labor for a given position. So, that *is* supply and demand!
Short but quite accurate. Supply and demand sets wages.
1) Living costs are also much higher in the US than the nations with much lower labor costs.
2) If a remote worker were really worth the same value to an employer as a local US worker, the difference in salary would not be so great. (Note: H1B workers fall between the two endpoints, indicating there is likely some value also created by "culture," mindset, or other non-strictly C.S. skills related attribute.)
While I agree with your point, it's worth noting that burglars have successfully won civil lawsuits for being injured while trying to break into homes and, for example, falling through the roof. #F'edUpJustice
As soon as the iphone fingerprint reader works reliably, in all weather conditions without delay, and is no longer easily defeated by anyone with a 3-D printer, perhaps there would be some few people interested in paying extra money to make a perfectly functioning life-saving machine more complicated and prone to failure.
Citation: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5... [Your phone’s biggest vulnerability is your fingerprint]
LOL. "The state of emergency is entirely consistent with France's modern military strategy of immediate and utter surrender. Following the terrorist attacks, since it was not clear who to surrender to, the French surrendered to their own government, which enjoys 70% popular support for the state of emergency that has suspended basic democratic civil rights, and you have complete and willing submission to a total electronic surveillance state."
True. France has even outdone the USA however with terrorist over-reaction... They have suspended democratic principles for over a year and even passed their own "Patriot Act on Steroids"...
https://news.vice.com/article/...
"France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings."
"UN experts expressed alarm that environmental activists in France have been under house arrest in connection with the state of emergency invoked following the November attacks."
http://rare.us/story/france-ha...
"The fact is that France already has a latitudinous surveillance law—call it the PATRIOT Act on steroids. At least in theory, [the US's FISC is] a layer of accountability. France’s power of oversight, on the other hand, is vested in a committee chaired by [the Prime Minister], who can singlehandedly override the other members’ objections.The French law also forces Internet Service Providers to install “black boxes” that vacuum up metadata and make it accessible to intelligence agencies. It contains a “sneak-and-peek” provision similar to the PATRIOT Act, which allows government operatives to break into suspects’ homes and monitor them. And it green-lights the use of ISMI catchers—essentially incognito cell towers, they sweep up all phone communications within a given area, including, if needed, people’s locations. Even worse, while the PATRIOT Act is explicitly limited to terrorism, the French law applies to other cases, including those of “organized delinquency.” It can also be activated to protect the country’s “economic, industrial and scientific interests,” which is so elastic as to include just about everything. Senator Rand Paul was absolutely correct to call the French law “a thousandfold more invasive” than anything on the books in America."
Silly Ethiopians. Don't they know if they want to decree a human-rights-violating state of emergency, they also have to ban public gatherings?! Come on! France has been oppressing the right way for a full year now...
https://news.vice.com/article/...
"France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings."