Competently done propaganda doesn't read like propaganda. If you think it does, you're falling for the competent stuff.
People think they see a whole lot more with their own eyes than they actually do. If they're told about it, and it suits their prejudices, they'll often start to believe they've seen it with their own eyes. Journalism gets no respect from people who don't want to hear the truth. It's hardly perfect, but it gets a lot right.
If you work an 80-hour week, that's approximately half your time at work. Assuming you sleep eight hours a night (seven is probably too little), you're working and sleeping 136 hours a week, leaving 32 left for everything else. You're going to have to fit commuting, meals, etc. into that 32 hours. You're not going to be doing all that much that's stimulating with what's left.
The real question is, would the person putting in the 80-hour week produce more or less with a 40-hour week? They may say they accomplish more, but we've found self-reporting to be unreliable.
Ideally, companies would want their workers to be productive, and that means not overworking them. Hiring new employees is expensive, and so replacing burned-out employees is expensive. From a purely selfish point of view, a company should not demand work that will reduce immediate productivity or have longer-range ill effects.
Of course, there are a large number of managers and executives who wouldn't know informed self-interest if it bi them in the ass.
There's a difference between fossil fuels for power and fossil fuels for plastic. They burn the stuff for power, which typically releases pollution and certainly released sequestered carbon as carbon dioxide. Plastic is not necessarily burned, and therefore the carbon remains out of the atmosphere, and I'd guess it's easier to control the pollution.
I'd say that Free Speech means that the government won't prosecute you because you say something. Prior restraint is an infringement on free speech, but imprisoning somebody after saying something is also.
That Abraham was willing to kill Isaac isn't changed by a last-minute change of plans. That's a perfectly good place to end the story, without the pasted-on happy ending.
Key escrow. Right. That escrow storage now gets a kilometer-high glowing sign saying "Hack me!" Keys have to travel to the escrow storage. This means that manufacturers have to store keys at least long enough to transfer them; given normal attention to security, that storage will be permanent and a high-value target.
Right now, the key to my iPhone's storage exists and existed only in the phone's Secure Enclave. Nobody ever saw it. There was no way for it to leak. If Apple needs to know it, there's people at Apple who can leak it, and some sort of storage whose security can be breached. Right now, nobody hacks into Apple to try to find iPhone keys, because they aren't there.
When you say it may or may not be possible to breach the security on the escrow, I hear that it's possible. (And of course it's possible. There are going to be people who can leak the information, and they will have loved ones that can be tortured to death if the people don't cooperate.) So, there will likely be a breach. Then, you say, invalidate all existing keys, which means destroying all information on everybody's phones. Hand out new keys somehow - how? By introducing a process to handle tens of millions of phones at one time without security leaks? Right.
And let’s assume Timmy & Co. cave in because they like money.
You seem to think that the German government can ban iPhones with impunity, and that the German public will meekly go along with it. Another possibility is that Apple stands firmly behind privacy, and the German authorities can either give in or ban the iPhone, which will (a) prove highly unpopular, and (b) ensure that Apple Stores in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland get a lot more business. (Did I miss any bordering countries?) It's not like Apple is going to be losing all those German sales.
If the private key can be exported from the chip, how unbreakable the asymmetric cipher system doesn't matter. Anyone who can get the private key will be able to read the ciphertext. That's the point of a key. Crypto is designed to make it hard to read something without the key, not with. Unless you're saying that the crypto is complete crap in the first place.
I'd respond to your second paragraph if I knew what you were saying. It seems irrelevant to your arguments.
A warrant gives law enforcement the authority to look at what they want. It does not mean they are guaranteed to understand what they find, and it never has. I'd assume that law enforcement has run into enciphered papers now and then, so this isn't new. I don't personally care what you want law enforcement to do with your phone, since you seem determined to destroy the security on mine. You suggest a way to do something without weakening my security and I'll consider it.
The key would be a very valuable thing for state-sponsored crackers to get. I don't know that the EFF is capable of securing the key while still making it usable. As long as nobody can get my iPhone key, there is no such target.
Yeah, and the last time I suggested a better acronym you said I was working for the CIA, and rejected it. BTW, I've heard that the NSA carefully regulates the quality of tinfoil in this country. (Amazing the things you can correctly claim you heard when you say them yourself.)
We should probably be more precise. As a US citizen and resident who does not deal with classified information or other internationally important stuff, I don't really care about the Chinese or Russians spying on me, because they're highly unlikely to care about me or cooperate with anyone who does. That's one reason I keep using Kaspersky: I'm fairly sure they don't install back doors for the NSA or CIA or FBI.
If a good person can find the vulnerability they can warn of the issue, maybe collecting some small bounty (or maybe getting sued/prosecuted for their trouble).
And here we see another advantage of F/OS software: a negligible chance of being sued if you bring up a problem.
Microsoft doesn't have to care. Lots of people use Microsoft products because it's what's there. Microsoft - it's not just good, it's just good enough.
I approximately never see this happening. People with rifles rarely shoot people at the top. I'm not going to condone assassination, but there's times when it seems like a few bullets in the right brain stems could have some very positive effects.
It's a question of whose secret it is. Companies tend to not secure their customers' secrets well. The government tends not to secure company's secrets well.
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History shows that Democratic Presidents run smaller deficits than Republicans, and least since 1981.
Are you claiming Napoleon wasn't Christian? Frederick the Great? King Leopold?
If Trump wants to stiff the upper class and make the middle class like him, he's really doing a bad job of it.
I suppose I was naive for hoping that "off the books" meant that the government wasn't paying for it. Fooled by that "private" designation.
Competently done propaganda doesn't read like propaganda. If you think it does, you're falling for the competent stuff.
People think they see a whole lot more with their own eyes than they actually do. If they're told about it, and it suits their prejudices, they'll often start to believe they've seen it with their own eyes. Journalism gets no respect from people who don't want to hear the truth. It's hardly perfect, but it gets a lot right.
When I see a website featuring "the ten best" of anything, I assume that they divide it into twelve pages, each 80% advertising.
If you work an 80-hour week, that's approximately half your time at work. Assuming you sleep eight hours a night (seven is probably too little), you're working and sleeping 136 hours a week, leaving 32 left for everything else. You're going to have to fit commuting, meals, etc. into that 32 hours. You're not going to be doing all that much that's stimulating with what's left.
The real question is, would the person putting in the 80-hour week produce more or less with a 40-hour week? They may say they accomplish more, but we've found self-reporting to be unreliable.
Ideally, companies would want their workers to be productive, and that means not overworking them. Hiring new employees is expensive, and so replacing burned-out employees is expensive. From a purely selfish point of view, a company should not demand work that will reduce immediate productivity or have longer-range ill effects.
Of course, there are a large number of managers and executives who wouldn't know informed self-interest if it bi them in the ass.
There's a difference between fossil fuels for power and fossil fuels for plastic. They burn the stuff for power, which typically releases pollution and certainly released sequestered carbon as carbon dioxide. Plastic is not necessarily burned, and therefore the carbon remains out of the atmosphere, and I'd guess it's easier to control the pollution.
I'd say that Free Speech means that the government won't prosecute you because you say something. Prior restraint is an infringement on free speech, but imprisoning somebody after saying something is also.
That Abraham was willing to kill Isaac isn't changed by a last-minute change of plans. That's a perfectly good place to end the story, without the pasted-on happy ending.
I've been calling out cowards for years now, as appropriate. So far, people ignore me.
Key escrow. Right. That escrow storage now gets a kilometer-high glowing sign saying "Hack me!" Keys have to travel to the escrow storage. This means that manufacturers have to store keys at least long enough to transfer them; given normal attention to security, that storage will be permanent and a high-value target.
Right now, the key to my iPhone's storage exists and existed only in the phone's Secure Enclave. Nobody ever saw it. There was no way for it to leak. If Apple needs to know it, there's people at Apple who can leak it, and some sort of storage whose security can be breached. Right now, nobody hacks into Apple to try to find iPhone keys, because they aren't there.
When you say it may or may not be possible to breach the security on the escrow, I hear that it's possible. (And of course it's possible. There are going to be people who can leak the information, and they will have loved ones that can be tortured to death if the people don't cooperate.) So, there will likely be a breach. Then, you say, invalidate all existing keys, which means destroying all information on everybody's phones. Hand out new keys somehow - how? By introducing a process to handle tens of millions of phones at one time without security leaks? Right.
You seem to think that the German government can ban iPhones with impunity, and that the German public will meekly go along with it. Another possibility is that Apple stands firmly behind privacy, and the German authorities can either give in or ban the iPhone, which will (a) prove highly unpopular, and (b) ensure that Apple Stores in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland get a lot more business. (Did I miss any bordering countries?) It's not like Apple is going to be losing all those German sales.
What's this "allow" business? I didn't know I had veto power over idiots banding into groups. If I'd known this years ago....
Alternately, people are authoritarian, racist, and sexist on their own moral authority.
The frightening thin is that there really isn't such evidence. People all over like authoritarianism.
If the private key can be exported from the chip, how unbreakable the asymmetric cipher system doesn't matter. Anyone who can get the private key will be able to read the ciphertext. That's the point of a key. Crypto is designed to make it hard to read something without the key, not with. Unless you're saying that the crypto is complete crap in the first place.
I'd respond to your second paragraph if I knew what you were saying. It seems irrelevant to your arguments.
A warrant gives law enforcement the authority to look at what they want. It does not mean they are guaranteed to understand what they find, and it never has. I'd assume that law enforcement has run into enciphered papers now and then, so this isn't new. I don't personally care what you want law enforcement to do with your phone, since you seem determined to destroy the security on mine. You suggest a way to do something without weakening my security and I'll consider it.
The key would be a very valuable thing for state-sponsored crackers to get. I don't know that the EFF is capable of securing the key while still making it usable. As long as nobody can get my iPhone key, there is no such target.
Yeah, and the last time I suggested a better acronym you said I was working for the CIA, and rejected it. BTW, I've heard that the NSA carefully regulates the quality of tinfoil in this country. (Amazing the things you can correctly claim you heard when you say them yourself.)
We should probably be more precise. As a US citizen and resident who does not deal with classified information or other internationally important stuff, I don't really care about the Chinese or Russians spying on me, because they're highly unlikely to care about me or cooperate with anyone who does. That's one reason I keep using Kaspersky: I'm fairly sure they don't install back doors for the NSA or CIA or FBI.
And here we see another advantage of F/OS software: a negligible chance of being sued if you bring up a problem.
Microsoft doesn't have to care. Lots of people use Microsoft products because it's what's there. Microsoft - it's not just good, it's just good enough.
I approximately never see this happening. People with rifles rarely shoot people at the top. I'm not going to condone assassination, but there's times when it seems like a few bullets in the right brain stems could have some very positive effects.
It's a question of whose secret it is. Companies tend to not secure their customers' secrets well. The government tends not to secure company's secrets well.
What country will be better than the US at not requiring back doors? I can't think of any that I'd trust.