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They do https://protonmail.com/tor

I think that quote is saying that if you modify your public key locally then the data you encrypt with it will no longer be decryptable by the private key you previously sent backblaze.

> If that's true, as an iCloud user you are exactly as likely to be charged with a crime based on your photos as you were before

Is this strictly true? I feel like the evidence that a photo was present on specific device is different from evidence that a photo was uploaded by a specific account (and a specific ip address probably).

It seems like it would be far easier for the government to justify a search warrant if they have evidence the photo they are looking for was on a specific device. Just having evidence that a specific account uploaded a photo seems like far shakier grounds to search a specific device, after all accounts are often stolen to be used for criminal purposes and ip addresses don't map cleanly to people or devices.

They actually can be forced to reveal sources, the choice not to force them to reveal sources was executive branch policy not law and this policy was rescinded by the Obama administration. I think they realized this was pretty bad optics though so Obama and Trump mostly just relied on using their broad intelligence powers to track down reporter's sources.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/27/obama-administra...

"Freedom of the press" in US law just means the freedom to create and distribute media (as opposed to freedom of speech which is specifically about the spoken word). "The press" references the printing press not the news media or journalists who are in modern times called "the press" also in reference to the printing press. Journalists have the same first amendment rights as everyone else (actually they could be said to have less because for certain purposes such as defamation they are actually held to a higher standard).

Yes Clearview has been abused as specified TFA.

Also Clearview itself has been found breaking the law repeatedly.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/14/class-action-suit-against-...

So yeah you lose out on pay if you were planning on working overtime.

What is full payment if you are paid hourly?

By the way, in the United States copyright is owned by the author of the work unless there is a written contract assigning it to someone else. The only real exception to this is an employee can assign copyright to their employer by mere verbal agreement. Since you were a contractor they don't have the copyright unless you actually have a written contract assigning it to them.

Some people do believe that non ionizing radiation has effects other than those produced by the added thermal energy (or that the thermal effects are in some way significant). The actual scientific evidence for this is minimal though.

Salaried employees don't have free time.

I'm sure they would if it wasn't against the law.

So do they not have jury nullification in Brazil?

But they shouldn't. The key you enter as a user is actually only half of the key needed to decrypt the data. The other half of the key is generated by the secure enclave when the device was first powered on. This part of the key alone should be impossible to brute force and is stored in tamper resistant flash memory on the secure enclave co-processor.

So you would need to break open the co-processor without destroying its contents and read the secure enclave key before any brute forcing could happen directly on the encrypted data.

And no you can't just try to brute force it by sending decryption requests to the secure enclave. The secure enclave itself implements a exponentially increasing lockout time and won't respond to decryption requests during it. [0]

[0] https://www.apple.com/in/business-docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pd...

The lockout delay is implemented in the chip itself in newer iphones (I think starting with iphone 5S). So no, taking the chip out buys you nothing.

> To further discourage brute-force passcode attacks, there are escalating time delays after the entry of an invalid passcode at the Lock screen. ...On devices with Secure Enclave, the delays are enforced by the Secure Enclave coprocessor. If the device is restarted during a timed delay, the delay is still enforced, with the timer starting over for the current period.

https://www.apple.com/in/business-docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pd...

Generally when newspapers put quotes around a word like that it means they are using a word quoted directly from a source.

Hemp is a plant which consumes CO2 from the atmosphere. Using it as part of a structure keeps it sequestered within that structure.

Sadly the court considers detainment to be non-custodial and rarely do they venture to better define when a detainment turns into an arrest.

That's not entirely true. They ruled that silence in a non-custodial interview could be admissable at trial. Silence in custodial interviews is still not admissable and they didn't actually decide the question of whether or not silence can be taken as substantive evidence of guilt.

Yeah they are still made with animal products. "Natural beef flavor".

Youtube doesn't allow you to create an account if you select an age that would make you a child. But you don't need an account to watch youtube.

Do those services suck because of operational problems or were they designed to suck?

Its not clear from your answer how much blame you are putting on operational issues and how much blame (if any) you are putting on the misaligned incentives between governments and the people who use their services.

Wasn't the request sent to Microsoft Spain? And Microsoft Spain is under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Government.

This is minified code, so couldn't the minifier have replaced the constants with their values or something?

But would version control solve the email issue? I guess I would still rather get an email with a git repo or patch than I would a word document with a revision set.

> You can also use the Git attributes functionality to effectively diff binary files. You do this by telling Git how to convert your binary data to a text format that can be compared via the normal diff.

First, you’ll use this technique to solve one of the most annoying problems known to humanity: version-controlling Microsoft Word documents. Everyone knows that Word is the most horrific editor around, but oddly, everyone still uses it.

...Now Git knows that if it tries to do a diff between two snapshots, and any of the files end in .docx, it should run those files through the “word” filter, which is defined as the docx2txt program. This effectively makes nice text-based versions of your Word files before attempting to diff them.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Customizing-Git-Git-Attribute...

Git has all those things, except yes it is a different tool.

> The “Statute of Limitations” for credit card debt is a law limiting the amount of time lenders and collection agencies have to sue consumers for nonpayment.

This makes it sound like the limitation is on how long you have before you can't sue. But if you have already sued and won then the statute of limitations wouldn't apply. I think instead there is a time limitation for collecting on the judgment from the suit.

This looks a ton like Battleships Forever, which is a huge complement as that is an awesome and underappreciated game. It's also free if anyone hasn't tried it yet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleships_Forever