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Ask him if he still wants to get rid of healthcare for poor people. How are you guys linking to tea party assholes?

Steve Stockman is "less than constructive". Anyone who would link to his site is brain dead. Just Google some of the crazy hatred this guy has put out there...

You assholes can downvote all you tucking want. Its still republican bullshit.

Are you shitting me? Stockman is a grade a douchebag. Let me guess you still think that the IRS scandal is real? Also, I love how not paying your fair share is patriotic somehow.

This site has become a fucking joke.

I think that the main reason that people keep wanting to do this is that web developers would like to work on this problem but don't have skills that are applicable immediately. It's going to require a great deal of learning on most of their parts that is at least as daunting as becoming a good front-end developer to use existing crypto libraries well...much less engineer new cryptosystems. That would be the difference between being able to code and being able to write a high quality optimizing compiler, for instance. With study and hard work you can use the fruits of the crypto community well...but you have to start by realizing where you are starting from. In browser javascript isn't just another programming language and runtime that's completely akin to c and the c runtime. The Matasano article does a great job of describing why.

Yep. This whole NSA thing has forced a new generation to start reading Applied Cryptography...or at least make it plain that they need to.

Why did this get downvoted? No one even replied!

No such thing as a secure keystore? He needs to look harder. Aside from hardware which is tamper proof... which exists in smart cards and TPM chips... most operating systems use file system ACL's. Yes running as "root" means you can get the keys... you have to protect them...

You are assuming that your views wouldn't change over time. Ideas aren't static. You said that one would end up being reactionary over time when the new ideas disagree with your own...but that assumes that yours wouldn't change...

So the only way for a position to be correct is for it to have been widely seen as right and important by a large group for a long time? Obviously the number of people interested in gay rights was smaller in the fifties than it is now.

Are you one of those moldbugian jackhats? This kind of simplistic thinking smacks of their pseudo-intellectualizing...

That's a cliché and a bad one at that. Progressives don't see value only in "new-ness"...that's just plain stupid.

You are assuming that the positions held by the left are held solely to undermine status quo...some parts of the status quo aren't discriminatory.

Do you really think that's what progressivism is?

That was my first thought when I started reading these comments.

The part in the article about tech CEO's being "less free" than other people was too much...I mean seriously.