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quazar··on Russia uses civilians as 'target practice' for killer drones
https://archive.ph/v5qeA
quazar··on Ethereum Foundation removes their canary
Why is this not on the front page? Are people flagging this? Why?
quazar··on High-Throughput, Formal-Methods-Assisted Fuzzing for LLVM [pdf]
Formal specification of LLVM and compile semantics to Z3, I would guess.
quazar··on Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker handed indefinite hospital order
The idea that we should, to some extent, organize society around neurotics to the detriment of young boys is disturbing.
quazar··on Man with no ticket or passport flew from copenhagen to Los Angeles, FBI says
https://archive.is/kgaxs
quazar··on Google sued for negligence after man died following map directions
This is not Reddit.
quazar··on Millions of UK voters’ data accessible in cyber-attack
magnet link?
quazar··on Nim 2.0
https://github.com/belamenso/v

This cleans up Nim's syntax a little, we use it in production with not much maintenance.

quazar··on Google Web Environment Integrity Is the New Microsoft Trusted Computing
time correlation between the isp and the authentication system
quazar··on Red Programming Language
Why? These are two very common commands known by every programmer and used very often, why would having short mnemonics for them be confusing?
quazar··on Interaction to Next Paint (INP)
It's much less than I expected.
quazar··on Greek shipwreck: hi-tech investigation suggests coastguard responsible
Do these people have really have nothing better to do than doing "high-tech investigations" of such matters?
quazar··on Terrible real estate agent photographs
This site is completely broken without JavaScript.
quazar··on Supreme Court Opinion on Student Loan Forgiveness [pdf]
They are famous for the required specific printed document style which includes wide margins. When you argue before them you have to physically print everything you mention in full in this specific style. And this is per judge. Steve Letho on his podcast once said that for larger cases, the printing cost goes into hundreds of thousands of dollars which stuck in my memory.
quazar··on Russian paramilitary chief says his forces will turn around
They already made peace: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/RWApodcast/status/16726544795...
quazar··on India bans 14 encrypted chat apps to stop terrorism
This was not a total ban, but might be a beginning of one. Not all apps were included.
quazar··on Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
Do you still have that resource list? The links in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32260345 are expired.
quazar··on Leaked source – CS:GO
Who is going to stop me?
quazar··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
I think there are some multi-key schemes but they are much more expensive and very rarely used, I don't know much about them
quazar··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
In one-key scheme you, the encryptor, would also have to encrypt the naughty word list, allowing you to cheat, so it will not be allowed.
quazar··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
Did the other anti privacy laws and customs backfire? Did big tech which is in bed with the goverment censoring you while the goverment pretends you have your 1st ammendment rights backfire? Did mass metadata collection backfire? Did KYC backfire? Did banning open wifi networks backfire? Did banning face coverings in public backfire? Did indefinite contempt for refusing encryption keys backfire? Did Patriot Act backfire? Did judges signing every warrant without reading backfire? Did that FBI raid on anonymous vault storage for people, where they admitted to laying on the warrant backfire? Did civil asset forfeiture backfire? Will the soon introduced kybc (know your business customer) forcing hosting and cloud providers to identify their customers before allowing them a Vps backfire?
quazar··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
Well yes, if you're not using encryption and it's a one off thing, the judge will probably find you not guilty.

The OP seemed to suggest that when you ban encryption, random people will randomly get in trouble, therefore banning encryption is a bad idea. But judges have common sense and law enforcement has limited resources (prioritization) therefore random people will probably not randomly get in trouble. Therefore strong encryption ban is very realistic and very easy to sell to the population, and not like the OP claimed something that will backfire. This is why his comment is naive. He likes encryption and doesn't want for it to be banned therefore he deludes himself with some alternative reality where doing something he doesn't like backfires and is reversed.

Strong encryption ban will not backfire.

quazar··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
So what's the point of sending random static over the network and looking for trouble like that then? Complying in a way that you find slightly less humiliating but still complying?
quazar··on Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption
You're speaking as if this will help you. If you go to the prosecution/trial phase, you will be found guilty since you probably hadn't the best opsec and forensic analysis of your computer found the encryption/steganography software you used, or you left something in the system logs (e.g. timestamps of accessing files), or you left something in the thumbnail cache, or you did not rename the file before deleting it, or the timestamp analysis of e.g. you browser data and logs will show clear behavioral patterns pointing to you hiding data. If you use VMs, their ram is stored in a plaintext file unless you configure it otherwise, on your ssd it never goes away due to wear protection. Even if you had an encrypted drive you will be forced to give them the key, then they will rederive the master key and analyze parts of the disk free space to find something on you, again on ssd this is a certainty and on for example Bitlocker you can never change the master key, ensuring you going to jail.

Even if all of this did not incriminate you, you're in trouble for something in the first place, since you're on trial, right? So probably other people you communicated with lead them to you. And in this case, the judge applies common sense, there is this traffic cell of 6 people and on 5 computers we have clear evidence but on 6th nothing, therefore you're still probably 95+% guilty? Judges aren't stupid.

People making comments like yours annoy me since you seem to be calming people down that we could endure total strong encryption ban, while we absolutely could not.

quazar··on JunoDB: PayPal’s Key-Value Store Goes Open-Source
Watch out, it will call the cops on you if one of the keys is "ALEP".
quazar··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
Where do you buy it from to ship to Poland?
quazar··on The UK’s Secretive Web Surveillance Program Is Ramping Up
https://archive.is/keLfj
quazar··on The EU suppressed a 300-page study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales (2017)
Please stop spamming these websites with fake content.
quazar··on Z-Library to let users share physical books
Sorry
quazar··on U.S. No Fly list publicly shared on a hacking forum, government investigating
https://breached.vc/Thread-TSA-NoFly-List-Database-Leaked-Do...
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