Posts by Charles 9

Re: NIMBY

Aleternate take on the alternate take:

New legislation passes, all DoH providers move to France or elsewhere, out of the UK's reach. Since DoH tunnels through HTTP/S, how's the legislation going to be able to tell the difference (one of the key aspects of DoH, as any dedicated port can otherwise be hijacked wholesale by an ISP or anyone else upstream)?

"But that is why we need legislation restricting its usage, especially use by the police and government, they are much less trustworthy than any private corporation."

Corporations can go transnational and play sovereignty against you, so your claim is debatable.

Re: The antisocial network.

And if you go that far, you might as well ban cameras since it's going to be impossible to track or even obtain the explicit informed consent of every bystander caught in the frame by accident when they just as quickly vanish into the crowd never to be seen again...

Re: O rly...?

"Because frankly, anything less is worthless security theatre at best - obtaining permission is not a "formality", you either _are_ in control or you _aren't_. And I think I know the answer to all of the above..."

So how do you teach Joe Stupid all this when changing the channel is a challenge for him?

As in, for all you ask, you still (like in the comic) have to deal with Dave.

"Yes of course - since microkernel gets out of the way entirely, you can have better performance because that removes the context switch."

Not necessarily, as networking is I/O, which tends to be privileged due to the security implications (an I/O interface allows for intrusion).

Re: A new OS from Google

Or just build a chain enough that you can do gcc, which is open source. Is gcc (the compiler's source) strict C?

In principle, yes, but in reality nVidia and AMD are in hot competition and keep a lot of Trade Secret Sauce around because of that. You see the same thing with IoT/mobile SoC manufacturers who release their drivers only in blobs for fear of Giving Information to the Enemy.

IOW, sometimes there are bigger concerns.

Re: Filesystems in user space...

And Bruce Schneider produced a counter to the exercise using multiple compilers running against each other to make an evil compiler trip up, and it's possible to build a clean compiler in steps going all the way back to a hand-assembled program too simple and overt to subvert.

Re: A new OS from Google

But the differences shouldn't be that great? Something like a telemetry package would include bits that would stand out, wouldn't it?

Re: Filesystems in user space...

How do you make source code produce a binary not consistent with the source code, especially if you employ a third-party compiler? Unless you're saying they can subvert say gcc?

Re: A new OS from Google

So get another compiler from outside the walled garden. Build one from scratch using hand-tuned machine language on an old 8086 if you must. There's nothing to prevent the use of an outside compiler, is there?

What about networking, then, which is latency-sensitive? I know talk about microkernel performance has said they can do 1Gbps in userland, but now the talk is 10GBps and up. Can it still handle the throughput?

Re: It's BeOS, it's the OS

I think Hydra is the oldest, going back to 1971. The Wikipedia article on it lists them, and I think they're roughly in chronological order.

Re: It's BeOS, it's the OS

"IIRC one of the problems with wanting to put stuff in userland for security reasons was that performance on x86 was shit due to the overhead of context switching."

I believe ARM is no different in this regard because the architecture doesn't include hardware features for this (which would be required to avoid the associated penalties of switching back and forth between kernel mode and user mode). This is especially true for parts of the hardware that historically needed close-to-the-metal coding for performance reasons such as graphics and networking (both of which are latency-sensitive, recall the original Windows NT).

Re: It's an opinion.

And if you need 16-bit programs, that's where DOSBOX can come in.

What's stopping feature phones having telemetry? I'm seeing feature phones with Facebook, after all.

Humans, like other primates, work best in clans and tribes. It's large enough to manage resources and defend itself but not so large as to get you a "too many cooks" situation.

Re: Usual Story

I too am quite familiar with suicidal tendencies, and I've lived in the Far East. While suicide can be an impulse, those tend to be so brief that just the mere act of walking across the room can create second thoughts. The ones that don't tend to have reinforcement; time makes it worse, not better. And you don't need a gun to carry out that impulse, either; a sharp knife can do it, too; remember, two inches in the right spot is all it takes; cut the right place (not just the neck or wrists, either), you can bleed out in a few minutes. No, most suicides are slow boils: the popping of long-term pressures. That's why the suicide rates in Japan, South Korea, and even Scandinavia are so high; intense social pressure results in rejects, which often become breaking points.

No, they'll just change the law to change the loophole. And sadly, nothing in the Constitution prevents this. Any Amendments that would actually get through would be to our detriment. Frankly, a long-term analysis would probably show humans aren't cut out for large-scale government, period.

Re: Usual Story

I disagree. The three preferred methods of suicide in the Far East (where guns aren't available) are vehicle encounters, self-defenestration, and poison/overdose. Of those, the first is usually pretty certain, especially if the vehicle in question is a train. For the second, a flat or head-first landing from at least 10 stories tends to assure results. The third is usually the choice of the infirm and elderly. Remember, they have much worse rates so they must know how to make it stick (South Korea is second worst in the world, INCLUDING the Third World).

Re: Usual Story

Suicide's a tough one to pin down because those bent on doing it resort to what's available. The US is middle of the pack whereas two of the worst (Japan and especially South Korea) have very tight gun controls.

Re: Am I the only one who...

You should see some of the fora floating around the Net. Not even gaming is immune as the two are often put together; both in mods and in dedicated games.

Re: This is only the start

Some people are totally shameless and will take insults as praise.

Re: 5G Use

How do you do that when the ground is already heavily built-over...or rocky (Manhattan happens to have BOTH problems, being built up ON a rocky island)?

Re: Android vs Robot?

Which is why the proper term for a machine made to resemble a woman isn't ANDRoid but GYNoid.

Re: Why not watermarking it..

It's been tried. Back when Palm did eBooks, the key to unlock your books was your credit card number . I'd have thought they would try some more subtle watermarking techniques such as space encoding or subtle errors and substitutions.

Re: It's a book

How many of those can I pack along with my things into a 20-lb. Carry-on limit? And yes, my vacations tend to be lengthy.

Re: ECG still suffers from the same problem as all biometrics

So what's to stop a replay THROUGH the hash function? The argument is that, if it can be captured (and nigh anything passing through a wire can be captured), it can be replayed.

Re: /etc/hosts restricts access into my private property

But you can't just replace a host name with an IP to bypass DNS because most hosts use SNI (which is a server-side thing) to multiplex hosts from a single IP.