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JDEWon Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption

I find it strange that there isn't already some precedent from the supreme court on the right to encrypt under the second amendment. This isn't a new idea [1] and the debate about whether or not encryption is a fundamental right is already going on for ages...

If Americans cared so much about their freedom to protect themselves from their government, rationally it would make far more sense to be up on the fence about encryption than about firearms.

[1] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/3696/is-the-right-to...

[Edit] I don't want to start a flame war about guns, I'm genuinely curious about what the law would say about encryption under the second amendment.

JDEWon Belgian startup Magnax has found a way to mass-produce the axial-flux motor

I remember this being mentioned in car related articles once in a while, would love to learn more. Any sources you can recommend?

JDEWon How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?

I think the article is already quite concise. Moreover it is nicely written and explains a current open problem in physics from first principles.

A summary like this is useful if the underlying article is bloated and clickbait-y but in this case potentially detracts a reader from a good article.

As featured on the front page a few days ago [1]: knowledge without understanding is meaningless.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/24/dougla...

JDEWon Capital One Announces Data Security Incident

> We believe that a highly sophisticated individual was able to exploit a specific configuration vulnerability in our infrastructure. When this was discovered, we immediately addressed the configuration vulnerability and verified there are no other instances in our environment.

In other words, someone didn't put a password on their S3 database exposed to the internet...

JDEWon We can no longer leave online security to the market

If anything should be regulated it's ethical hacking and security research. Having a bug bounty program that is accountable to some government agency should be mandatory for every single enterprise that does some form of development and the prizes/awards should be some function of the revenue and the severity of the vulnerability.

JDEWon Germany, seeking independence from U.S., pushes cyber security research

Are you referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect