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CWSZon The FCC has fined robocallers $208M and collected $7k

Change might be coming. The SHAKEN/STIR framework to authenticate calls is making decent progress:

https://transnexus.com/blog/2018/providers-responses-shaken-...

Once implemented incoming calls can be handled differently (e.g. UI differences on dialer, dropped to voicemail) based upon the attestation.

CWSZon “100 spies” will monitor all SMS and email that goes in and out of Norway

>When TLS is used there is no metadata either... server x talked to server y for a while, but what, if anything, happened we know not.

Quite a bit of metadata really...

Client X: IP address

Server Y: IP address

Client X request: TLS parameters that can be analyzed through TLS fingerprinting

Server Y response: Hostnames supported by SNI

Server Y response: TLS parameters that can be analyzed thorough TLS fingerprinting

CWSZon Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors

We believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including consumers adapting to a world with fewer carrier subsidies, US dollar strength-related price increases, and some customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements.

Why spend $1,449 on an XS Max when you could have replaced the battery on your phone for $29?

CWSZon How Well Do We Understand Probabilities in Medicine? (2016)

I dislike exchanging anecdotes too. If you can point me to a treatment for schizophrenia tested in quality randomized trials with the success rate of antipsychotics (which still have a very poor success rate), please do.

CWSZon How Well Do We Understand Probabilities in Medicine? (2016)

Rather than provide rational treatment, they just force her to take "anti-psychotics" in the delusional belief that their drugs (rather than sobriety) are what allows my friend to be functional.

My best friend's father is a paranoid schizophrenic. Antipsychotic medication allows him to live a relatively normal life.

CWSZon Let's Encrypt: Looking Forward to 2019

We pride ourselves on being an efficient organization. In 2019 Let’s Encrypt will secure a massive portion of the Web with a budget of only $3.6M. We believe this represents an incredible value and that contributing to Let’s Encrypt is one of the most effective ways to help create a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.

That is incredible!

CWSZon Pay for US truck drivers is 'unbelievably low': Jetco CEO

I know of a guy who had previously run a successful VPS service. He dropped the VPS gig, sold the company, and is now driving trucks. Things aren't always as they seem.

CWSZon Lenny's history and why he isn't Creative Commons (2017)

No association with them, but the folks at Jolly Roger Telephone Compnay (https://jollyrogertelephone.com/) have an interesting approach to the problem. It's subscription based, but their bots are more advanced than Lenny and you get the conversations emailed to you after the transfer.

If just a few percent of callers used services like this, or wasted a few minutes time of the telemarketers, mass spoofed calls wouldn't be a viable business strategy.