alecmuffett

What did Hart say about comity?

One of the hardest problems you can face is getting a community of disparate developers to do the right thing at scale; sometimes the easiest solution for that is a monolithic integrated blob.

OP here. I am sympathetic, really I am, but the challenge then is a diversity of solutions tends to lack really good high quality security systems integration, meaning that data leaks differently. It's hard to have a high integrity solution which is an open standard and implemented equally well by all players.

...in the UK riots

I kinda agree (and I wrote the cited article) but as soon as you pick a number (2^40? 2^64? 2^80? 2^128?) you are painting a huge target on your forehead, when it's better to teach people that the point is the asymmetries (plural) and how you use, combine and compose them.

That's my point, yes.

nicely put.

Analysis thread, beginning with link to full-text PDF of draft law:

https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/1524066299600683008

Confusingly, perhaps intentionally so, it's a global number, not a UK one.

Details here. https://alecmuffett.com/article/15902

Disclosure: I wrote the blogpost.

Author of original blogpost here; I am seeing a lot of discussion here about "what constitutes a public group?" and so I wrote this to help with the discussion. https://alecmuffett.com/article/15095

Indeed, I am not a patent lawyer; I am a crypto geek attempting to ascertain whether and to what extent this treads on current, and future, implementations of (edit: and enhancements to) the double ratchet algorithm. I believe that my tweets are pretty clear about that.

ps: other people have simply said to "read the claims", which is fine but does not help clarify anything.

Tor crypto guarantees an E2E connection to an entity possessing a key which matches the onion address which you sought to access. That's a benefit over DNS/TCP/BGP :-)

I get what you're saying, but it's an "all food will be cooked by machines"* argument; yes there are robochefs which can produce doughnuts, noodles, pizzas, etc; but there's an ever-expanding area of innovation and niche-filling that humans are really good at. Ask any Michelin-starred chef, or freelance software engineer.

Software engineering is not a zero-sum game where the AIs rise to the exclusion of humans - it's an expanding space.

*and then there's the meta: does using an oven qualify as cooked-by-machine?

Oh, the fun that could be had by starting a meme of "subliminal advertising for bots"; part-inspired by that "alexa buy a doll house" thing, we float a startup that will pitch audible product placement in YouTube/etc videos, in the hope that your Amazon Echo / Google Whatever will buy it for you. We make millions on VC and then skip the country. Deal?

If you are using Facebook on a recent phone client, or through a browser, whenever this happens, try this:

- There is a little "chevron" menu popdown in the advert, generally top-right.

- Tap it, and then pull down "Why am I seeing this?"

Then you will find out why you are seeing the advert.

Source: I used to work at Facebook