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darkarmani··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
I thought patents had to be published for anyone to read? Isn't that the tradeoff of our freedoms, in exchange for a "limited" time monopoly on the idea, you have to publish the idea.
darkarmani··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
> Because it's very hard to stop accidental or incidental information leaks.

It's really hard if it is in your interest not to stop accidental information leaks, because it is easier to bulk classify everything and blame this difficulty. There is no incentive to stop accidental leaks if you can always hide everything.

darkarmani··on Spain train crash: 'At least 10 dead' in high-speed collision
Wait to you hear people claiming that Russia is invading Ukraine! Why would Russia murder women and children? Definitely psychosis!
darkarmani··on About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs
> most likely their Rapid Security Responses / Background Security Improvements framework does not already support this file

Why would it support this file? Are CA trust stores really that important? /s

> and no other vendor has been nearly as thorough about this

1. That's totally not true. Apple has messed up something that is trivial to fix. 2. The EU's CRA is going to crush them if they don't get their shit together.

darkarmani··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
> Court records show the feds used an administrative summons request reserved for violations of customs and taxation requirements, which does not fit the activity that made up the criminal charges filed by the Minnesota US attorney against former CNN anchor Don Lemon and others.

When they are arresting news anchors for reporting on ICE's activities, it should be obvious that Trump and his administration is fascist-curious.

darkarmani··on Owed a billion dollars in Nvidia stock
Are the expat parts in Cryptonomicon inspired by him (small sovereign island nation in south east asia)? He was involved with cyberspace and Neil should have known about him from Snowcrash.
darkarmani··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
> This is the first administration in a long time with the cohones to do something about it.

Containment worked WAY WAY better than "doing something about it" and surrendering the strait to them. They "solved it" by aerosolizing asbestos everywhere and still have no cleanup plan. Sometimes containment works much better, which is why intelligent foreign policy worked the problem from that angle.

Wasn't victory declared 1 year ago and also a number of months ago?

darkarmani··on Vint Cerf, a “father of the Internet”, is retiring
Do you know something about this that no one else knows? How many innocent people do you think are mentioned in those millions of documents?
darkarmani··on ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
Did he predict odds? How are you so sure his odds were wrong?
darkarmani··on FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss
> or simply look at outcomes. Good work being done at the FDA, just fact.

A good outcome doesn't mean there was good work being done. You are conflating the two. You can make bad decisions and still have a good outcome.

I'm happy that this looks like a good outcome, but the current FDA is doing terrible work.

darkarmani··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
> co2 will cook the planet

It doesn't have to cook the planet to cause massive suffering. Do you think there hasn't been global warming? What amount of global warming would change your mind?

darkarmani··on Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
Are you sure it is just clay? Sandy clay packs even tighter than just clay: https://www.uaex.uada.edu/farm-ranch/crops-commercial-hortic...

"If you mix sand into clay, the clay particles will fill in all the open spaces between the sand particles and often the clay will act as a ‘glue’ sticking all particles together, ultimately resulting in a more dense soil."

darkarmani··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
> they should have oversight

Congress provides oversight and accountability of the Fed. The GAO does audits as well. Frank-Dodd provides more windows into the Fed. Why did you think the Fed doesn't have oversight?

> Not ever passing an audit of any kind

It might have been hard for you to find because it is hidden under the "audit" page on their website: https://www.federalreserve.gov/regreform/audit.htm

> Why is the independence of the Federal Reserve sacrosanct?

It's never been completely independent. It's independent from short-term (4 years) political influence. It's audited and has congressional oversight and the President nominates people to the board.

What else do you want? Interest rates set by Presidential tweets?

darkarmani··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
One can not be happy with that and understand that Trump would have found ways to lock up his son for 20 years. No one thinks this dude was going to be punished for political reasons.
darkarmani··on I Went to SQL Injection Court
Is the schema considered private information or just information not required to be released via FOIA? ie: Can't some nice employee leak this information or is it legally protected?

Once the information is released, can anyone can make FOIA requests using the schema?

darkarmani··on I Went to SQL Injection Court
The gov't releasing the hardware and software licencing used in CANVAS already gives that away.
darkarmani··on DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
> They could have taken legal actions against Sectigo's CCO directly

You are only suggesting they could have handled it worse. Why would they take legal action against the CCO for statements on a bug report other than to squash transparency?

darkarmani··on DigiCert: Threat of legal action to stifle Bugzilla discourse
> If DigiCert is about to do something crazy like take down all your websites, courts are generally willing to put a temporary stop to it without understanding all the details. "Preserve the status quo" and "prevent irreparable harm" are the buzzwords.

So if DigiCert's irreparable harm was great would that prevent it? Like legally requiring CAs to follow their revocation policies or pay millions in damages?

darkarmani··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
That sounds like a legal height then.
darkarmani··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
They don't need approval for under 400 FT AGL in class G airspace.

The idiots reporting on it have NO idea how high these drones are. And the military has a bunch of carved airspace in various places. I think last time i looked (4 weeks ago), there was some reserved airspace off Cape Hatteras for the US Marines.

darkarmani··on Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'
> despite the drones being bigger and higher tech than retail drones.

How does anyone know how big these are? I've heard reports like this:

1. They looks larger than normal drones. 2. The look like they are operating at a height greater than 400 ft AGL.

How do they know the height? If they don't know the height, they certainly don't know the size. If it looks large, it isn't very high.

If it is large and high, I would think they would get some radar contacts.

If these are heavier than 55 pounds, I think we'd see the FAA jumping all over it. I also don't see why any LE would announce that they are actively figuring it out as they'd want to keep the element of surprise and track the drone back to the operators.

> Why isn't anyone bringing them down?

Only federal authorities can do anything to aircraft. This is in the realm of the FAA.

> How can anyone know these aren't a threat without knowing whose they are?

What kind of threat are we worried about here that wasn't around yesterday (last year)?

> White House says they aren't foreign adversaries I don't think the military is going to reveal its methods and capabilities.

darkarmani··on The Onion buys Infowars
> Yes the court's judgment is so high, 1B USD, that he cannot make money without it being garnished. How does he get back to work? I personally do not think anyone should lose their livelihood over speech

He was harassing parents of dead children in order to personally enrich himself. Why do you think he shouldn't have to forgo his ill begotten gains? It's only 1B USD, because he refused to stop doing it. And then he decided not to really show up for court and accept the summary judgement of 1B USD.

Most of his penalty has nothing to do with speech. He can keep on speaking all he wants. He might suffer consequences, but he is free to say whatever he wants to.

darkarmani··on The Onion buys Infowars
How could Hillary lose if she had an 80% chance? That seems impossible (if i'm bad at math)!
darkarmani··on Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
Instead of a pihole, you'd run a https proxy that doesn't trust the certs i guess.
darkarmani··on Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
Oh! That is a good way to conflate the issue. "It's for signing and verification."

That definitely has almost nothing to do with TLS and browsers. Why does my browser need to verify national ID cards? (no need to answer that)

darkarmani··on Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
It's not a "security check" it's just informing the user about their certs...
darkarmani··on Last Chance to fix eIDAS: Secret EU law threatens Internet security
The second they do that the entire internet is going to download it to see what the fuss is about.

While they could legally do that, it's going to blow up in their face if they did it. I remember the old crypto export wars in the US and OpenBSD being based in Canada so they could ship string crypto in SSH.

darkarmani··on Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
> don't leave sensitive data out there

Where "out there" is Okta. You are basically saying: Don't leave sensitive data with Okta.

darkarmani··on Cloudflare mitigated yet another Okta compromise
"yet another Okta compromise" sounds passive to you?
darkarmani··on How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?
802.1x. At least that was what could be used 12 years ago. I don't know about state of the art now.
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