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Wow, if only we used this much time (10+ years) and resources (Half a billion x the expected 100x) to bring real war criminals to justice.

People have made a career off of this decade long witch hunt with their international kangaroo court trying people in absentia.

FTA:

"The trial judges — an Australian, an Italian, a Jamaican and two Lebanese — are distinguished by the red vests they wear over their gowns, which themselves have red sleeves. The Australian, David Re, is the presiding judge and a veteran of the special international tribunals for Bosnia and Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia. Like Re, many of the other judges and lawyers involved in the case have made a career of serving in such international tribunals.

The tribunal’s budget makes it possible for lawyers to present their graphic exhibits in the clearest possible manner. During some hearings, prosecutors place impressively accurate before-and-after models of the scene of the bombing on an enormous table at the center of the room. The model makers, who spent weeks constructing them, put special emphasis on precisely reproducing the destruction, even the damage to trees. The proceedings are conducted in Arabic, English or French, and transcriptions are produced in all three languages. I have read thousands of pages of these records and found only two typos.

The process in The Hague is also likely to establish new precedents in murder convictions on the basis of circumstantial evidence. For all the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the investigation, the prosecution has produced no direct evidence, let alone secured cooperation from any of the defendants or their potential accomplices. Its case is largely based on the records of dozens of cellphones that it claims were used by the assassins, among them the five defendants."

No direct evidence, no defendants but a nice chunk of change to sit around and pervert justice for their personal gain.

"Ask Hollywood producers, and they’ll confirm that there are only a limited number of proven, reliable craftspeople for any given task. Projects tend to come together quickly, with strict deadlines, so those important workers are in a relatively strong negotiating position. Wages among, say, makeup and hair professionals on shoots are much higher than among their counterparts at high-­end salons. Similarly, set builders make more than carpenters and electricians working on more traditional construction sites. It helps that, despite the work’s fleeting nature, Hollywood is strongly unionized, which keeps wages high. According to the rate card of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 728, which represents union film-­lighting crews in Los Angeles, even entry-­level electricians on a major film set make more than $35 an hour — i.e., more than 40 percent higher than the national average for electricians — and make that wage over 12-hour days."

This is essential. The only reason the worker sees any of the massive amounts of money that are thrown at these projects is because of collective bargaining.

It's an important lesson we should learn given the massive profits our industry sees.

If you're a 10x engineer why don't you demand 10x pay?

I'd say spin up the VMs on a machine that doesn't matter if you're attracting automated attacks.

If you wake up one morning to an exploit being discovered and have an unpatched host machine, is it still a honeypot?

You don't need a backdoor since you can MitM either/both the user and Apple.

http://blog.quarkslab.com/imessage-privacy.html

You're right. Those presidential pardons are reserved for important people.

No. A good portion of the population never has to see this problem ever and gets uncomfortable by the implications of why that is.

Another possibly overlapping portion believes the executive and judicial branches need more power to do their jobs correctly. That usually means legislating away rights and reducing accountability for those involved.

And yet another portion is being too systemically harassed and locked up on a massive scale to have a real front for public discourse.

The rest/majority don't give a shit unless it becomes their problem and it rarely does.

Just be aware of the unicode differences between the two versions and you should be fine with Python 3.

When I think of other tiered justice systems I'm reminded of third world countries where things are literally two-tiered.

Suddenly that picture of a luxury condominium overlooking a favela is less hyperbole and more of an accurate depiction of what we're doing over here.

Show me where I slammed white people. No where did I slam white people.

I'm sorry if having to take responsibility for the system we've been handed and benefit from makes you uncomfortable.

But since mentioning race is inherently racist, we can go back to not mentioning race and pretending we're a post-racial society while the boys in blue continue to knock down doors and arrest every black person on the street corner because, by cop heuristics, they're all guilty.

It's almost as if being asked to acknowledge the racism of the system bothers you in some way. A way to get rid of that bad feeling is to put your color-blinders on and pretend society is race-blind as well. I can do that, too, and never once have to face the injustice of or account for the system I maintain.

PS I can't downvote.

Do you feel as strongly about the people that can provide for themselves, do much better than yourself, yet still choose to live off of you?

What about large groups of people who pay lawyers more money than you'll ever see to figure out ways to take more to live off of you and never contribute back?

Does anyone who takes a tax break classify as a parasite as well? Are parents parasites until their kids are independent?

Why is it that someone who consumes no social services (no address/documents? have fun), besides an odd meal or night in a shelter provided from donations, produces such vitriol from you while an entire class of people exists that rake in trillions of dollars that are skimmed directly from your taxes?

Anyway, have fun dehumanizing a disadvantaged class of people on the internet.

Tell me more about how I'm the real racist for pointing out that the system is intractably racist.

If this makes you uncomfortable, you need to come to terms with history and the present reality.

We (white people) have been at the reigns and designed the legal system from the start to give us an advantage. I'd say we have to hold some accountability for maintaining a system we knew was broken for too long.

I'd also go as far as to say those with power (in America, well-endowed white people), who have worked hard to change the the legal system such that they get a Fast Pass through it, have a responsibility to fix that system.

I'm white. Systematic injustice has a funny way of being swept under the rug for years, decades and centuries when it doesn't inconvenience us or when powerful people of our race benefit from it.

Swaths of people go through this regularly or are targeted and treated, much, much worse than this guy for the sole virtue of being the wrong race. Somehow, many white people, especially those in the upper class, never have to see this injustice ever.

There's a reason MLK's strategy during the civil rights movement worked. It inconvenienced or scared white people into seeing the injustice of the system they are a part of and control.

Police brutality and injustice is a side of America we are privileged to be mostly excluded from. When it becomes our problem, the system at least attempts to correct itself.

As an aside, for many people I know, the whole police brutality meme really started brewing when it became common knowledge that cops can come into your house and shoot your dogs. It doesn't and didn't matter that has been going on for decades to those of the wrong race or religion, often with deadly consequences.

In an ideal world, people would be paid their fair market value compensation for their labor.

In a practical world, collective bargaining provides a front for fairer negotiations such that a compensation that's closer to what a free market would bear is met for the individual.

This is standard fare for any police department ever.

It took me about 4 months to get my phone back from the NYPD, which was fun.

I love it when white people are shocked by their first arrest, because it (unfortunately) means something might get done. The system sucks. Now please scare other white people about it.

An internet soapbox for anyone with a camera is hardly comparable to the concentration of written knowledge, skill and talent that is any library ever.

Text editors aren't IDEs. However, static analysis tools are available for both emacs and vim.

This is true.

This is also a reason unions exist, such that a fairer negotiation can happen where both sides come from a more even footing.

In other industries not experiencing our current boom, desperation and a deep applicant pool can make things more difficult.

Always know where you stand in negotiations, you are the only advocate your worth has.

Yes. It's an attitude promoted by management to keep people ignorant, divided and too paranoid to demand their fair market compensation from their employer.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/13/301989789/pay-secrecy-policies...

Hey, if it works for you that's great.

As an alternative, VCS have solved the problem of picking up where I've left off in an IDE-agnostic way so I can use the tools I've grown accustomed to.

I tried using my laptop to edit a document I had saved on Google Docs on the train once. Docs was unusable with a cellular connection. I didn't get to edit the document and now I post on the internet about it at 3am.

I wish I could agree, but debugging deployment or your app was close to impossible if you ran into a problem with their web IDE.

Maybe with time they'll workout the bugs.

No, because none of them contain the static analysis and developer tools one comes to expect from a competent IDE.

Also coding in the browser has been a miserable experience.

Single point of failure is that someone who really wants your stuff/identity/what have you will end up taking that RFID chip + body part with them.

Try designing a system that can't be exploited and must rely on its algorithm's correctness such that only a brute force solution exists.

Few algorithms are correct such that their computational complexity alone is what provides their security. Without a formal proof, an audit and some testimony of experts I will not believe your hand-rolled algorithm is correct.

This is why you rely on proven algorithms and implementations and never roll your own. But you should not believe that using a correct algorithm alone should be enough to deem a system secure.

Its implementation might be exploitable in a way that sidesteps the security provided by your algorithm.

The idea that it might take an attacker five billion years to brute force your cipher text for a solution is nice, but if you're exchanging keys in an insecure way then that security goes right out the window.

Storing your salt on the same DB? Your search time for a solution is cut down since you can grab that as well.

This is why emphasis is placed on tearing apart a system that claims it is secure. Most of the time it isn't, and usually in ways that are easily identifiable.

Having good faith in the developer isn't an ideal when the well-being of many people might be at stake because of claims that cannot be backed up.

So do I have to tie both hands behind my back to find a problem before Tesla will acknowledge their error or award a bounty?

What if there is an intractable design flaw that is costly to fix? Will it get swept under the rug as they get litigious with those who attempt to expose it?

The assumption usually is if the bounty is less than the expected reward from exploiting a system, then you're really not doing anything other than a PR stunt.

I don't see a mention of a bounty. I do see a mention of them keeping track of those trying to exploit their system at Defcon. Not sure of what the supposed benefit to those that attempt to break their system is.

It makes a nice headline though.

It works great if your intention is to intimidate and fragment communities that promote widespread piracy into irrelevance.

I want to see you design a system so complex it cannot be understood.

Some people think cryptography is this utterly complex thing sitting on the edge of understanding. It isn't.

Evidence of rolling your own crypto, authentication or key-exchange mechanism is the first thing an attacker you'd want to worry about will look for.

Developers design systems that are easy to break because of ignorance and hubris. That's not to say you can't learn how to implement a secure system, just that if you did any research, you'd know that Rolling Your Own Is Bad because proper design is Hard and people, with much more experience than you, are aware of choke points in your design that you aren't aware of.

There will be less incentive when developers are raided and brought to court for their high crimes against the industry.

Why not have the FBI go after the pirates instead of changing the structure of their business?

It works well for them when it comes to unlicensed reproductions and hardware that facilitates piracy.

If Popcorn time could turn a dime while playing the game legally, and become a threat like Netflix was, I'd believe it.

It's easier to crack a few skulls legally when pirates start getting flagrant than it is to treat them like a legal competitor.

With patents, 1 is ensured.

Lights need to stay on and mouths need to be fed every night. There isn't room in the budget to break contract, switch providers and buy a new phone.

Regardless, if you don't see the power play in the threat of being able to take one's communication and whereabouts out of context at any point, you need to look harder.