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ivl commented on Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/iamnothere

ivl · a month ago

Cloudflare is right. But, it's a pretty typical EU play. Protecting more established interests but kneecapping progress.

In this case, hitting a massive number of small sites, which aren't engaged in piracy, to protect a few large entities from some other small piracy sites. It's what's happening in both Italy and Spain.

ivl commented on Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers torrentfreak.com/cloudfla... · Posted by u/iamnothere

giorgioz · a month ago

I hosted a website on Cloudflare and I sent a link to it to a friend on a Sunday. The friend told me the website was down. Turns out Spain blocks IP addresses belonging to Cloudflare during big football matches because some pirate streaming websites are hosted on Cloudflare. https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1nm80wz/trying_to_u...

I decided to go back to AWS.

Frankly Cloudflare is choosing the wrong battle on defending pirate streaming websites. There are other gray areas that I apprecciate Cloudflare defending freedom of speech online, but pirate streaming websites aren't one of those.

ivl · a month ago

I don't even think that case was from Cloudflare hosting, just providing DDOS protection.

And it wasn't a Spanish government policy, but rather a single judge's order.

ivl commented on 3rd Circuit: CFAA Does Not Turn Workplace Policy Infractions into Federal Crimes [pdf] www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opi... · Posted by u/ivl

ivl · 2 months ago

Apologies for the PDF link. The opinion is amusing, and has some benefits. If it's appealed and this decisions is upheld, the blast zone around the CFAA will be diminished.

The key point is rather simple.

> In doing so, we hold for the first time that, (a) by its text and purpose, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030, does not turn these workplace-policy infractions into federal crimes, and (b) passwords that protect proprietary business information are not themselves trade secrets under federal or Pennsylvania law.

Footnote 2 is also amusing: "To the dismay of IT professionals everywhere, the document was titled "My Passwords.xlsx." App. 2770"

ivl commented on Plutonium Mountain: The 17-year mission to guard remains of Soviet nuclear tests (2013) belfercenter.org/publicat... · Posted by u/jmillikin

Havoc · 6 months ago

Who would be crazy enough to go into soviet tunnels full of questionable radioactive stuff? I'm sure there is fun glowy stuff down there but surely that is a rough risk ratio for even desperate people

ivl · 6 months ago

There are many people who die every year going into tunnels without knowing if the air is safe to breathe where they're exploring.

Do you think they'd be worried about radiation?

ivl commented on Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/c420

no_wizard · 8 months ago

The testers aren’t wrong. There is no safe level of artificial lead exposure, scientifically speaking. Even small amounts over time (re: decades) will have adverse effects. Science is pretty clear on this

The whole idea we allow “safe levels” of anything toxic is a concession to industry at the expense of the environment and consumers

ivl · 8 months ago

> Even small amounts over time (re: decades) will have adverse effects.

If the adverse effects happen decades after you'll statistically be deceased I'm not sure it's fair to say there's no safe level of exposure.

It's not at the expense of consumers and the environment. It could make much of what consumers buy prohibitively expensive, for potentially no benefit.

ivl commented on Making Software makingsoftware.com/... · Posted by u/calme_toi

georgewsinger · 8 months ago

The author should make a meta-entry about how he makes the (insanely beautiful) diagrams in the book (ideally walking through the process).

ivl · 8 months ago

The pair of animations on the page are beautifully done, not just technically but aesthetically as well. If the rest of the book is like that I'll be getting a copy.

ivl commented on Encryption Is Not a Crime privacyguides.org/article... · Posted by u/freddyym

wulfstan · 8 months ago

Playing devil's advocate here...

What is wrong with:

* an expiring certificate

* issued by the device manufacturer or application creator

* to law enforcement

* once a competent court of law has given approval

* that would allow a specific user's content to be decrypted prior to expiry

There are a million gradations of privacy from "completely open" to "e2e encrypted". Governments (good ones!) are rightly complaining that criminals are using encryption to commit particularly awful crimes. Politicians are (mistakenly) asking for a master key - but what I feel we should as a community support is some fine-grained legal process that would allow limited access to user information if justified by a warrant.

Competent jurisdictions allow this for physical search and seizure. It's not unreasonable to ask for the same thing to apply to digital data.

ivl · 8 months ago

Prior to expiry would suggest the encryption is broken from the start.

Although I do disagree on the reasonable/unreasonable angle, because I don't tend to analogize the contents of your phone to the contents of your safe, but rather to the contents of your mind.

ivl commented on Encryption Is Not a Crime privacyguides.org/article... · Posted by u/freddyym

loftsy · 8 months ago

You can make gun fairly easily with what can be accomplished with a CNC machine. It is still illegal.

ivl · 8 months ago

Where that is illegal they don't go making CNC machines illegal because of that.

ivl commented on Encryption Is Not a Crime privacyguides.org/article... · Posted by u/freddyym

loftsy · 8 months ago

Something is a crime if society determines that it should be so. Nothing more.

Clearly the pressure on government to write these laws is coming from somewhere. You should engage with the arguments the other side makes.

ivl · 8 months ago

The arguments are mostly that they dislike what can be accomplished via math. “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia” isn't exactly an 'argument' so much as an insistence.

The article does address the flaws in some of their arguments (encryption inconveniences law enforcement, think of the children) by pointing out that the average person and children are kept save from criminal elements by encryption.