I’d argue we need to advance spaceflight technology at as fast a pace as possible. Yes it does add CO2 to the atmosphere, but we’ve also gained some great advances through our exploration of space.

We’re doing a lot of things wrong on this planet, a whole fucking lot. But rocketry is one of the few things we’re starting to do right and the bottom line is this, the situation on earth is not great, and it could get worse. Ultimately, the situation on earth will get a lot worse when a huge, life ending, continent obliterating asteroid hits the planet (and not if it hits earth, but when it hits earth). We should absolutely continue living on earth and striving to make it a good place to live, but we also, desperately need to get a foothold off of earth. When the next global calamity occurs (and it will), I would prefer if it didn’t end all known intelligent life in the galaxy.

My understanding is that quantum computing has been taken into account for some modern cryptography. And that memory-hard cryptography basically defeats quantum computing solutions. There are a few methods, but one of them is just very long keys, it’s trivial to make a cryptographic key longer.

So sure, you could defeat some of that with a machine operating with 1024 entangled qbits, (which is… oh man… not an easy task), in which case, wow, congratulations. But what if I increase my key length to 100k? It might take an extra 3 seconds to check the key and log in, but it’ll take an extra 25 years for quantum computing to catch up.

True, but honestly look at that lock, you can open that with a paperclip.

I still like it.

My mom had a nice little notebook for passwords. But when she passed, we couldn’t find it anywhere… We went through the whole apartment, everything.

Not having her passwords made a lot of things harder, closing her accounts, accessing her laptop, phone, etc. So while you shouldn’t advertise it, do tell a few people where to find it if they need to.

No, he did, here’s where the confusion is.

Serinus is asking if the site in question needs to be compromised. In other words, can the attacker compromise a random site to fool your password manager into entering credentials for Gmail.com, or does the attacker have to compromise Gmail.com to do that?

Because those two attacks are very different levels of complexity.

And frankly, if someone compromises the site you’re actually trying to visit, there’s simply no defense against that at all.

I was really excited about this until I remembered that I actually already own Civ VI…

I just forgot. I guess I haven’t played in a while.

How could that possibly not be a HIPAA violation?

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I do agree with that completely and I’d like to add to it with an additional point.

When things break it sucks, but this does present you with an opportunity. If it’s already not working, there’s no harm in taking it apart and taking a look around. Maybe you’ll see something obviously at fault, maybe you won’t. But there’s literally no harm in trying to fix it, especially if otherwise you were planning to toss it out.

And I really can’t tell you the number of times I’ve seen a device stop working, and apon closer inspection the entire problem was something very simple, like an old wire broke at the solder point, and with it disconnected, the power switch doesn’t work. When I was a kid and didn’t know how to solder, I would fix issues like that with some aluminum foil, and often it worked. Just start with a screwdriver, open things up, take a look around. We owe it to ourselves and to the planet to just give it a shot.

They went and built the torment nexus…

They can’t not use it!

That’s not how that works though…

All true.

Nobody’s really complaining about these bike lanes. It’s obvious to anyone that they’re a good idea.

Wu is kicking ass.

As a fellow Massachusetts resident, I have to say… Hah, you got owned kid!

Fine, give up on hope universally. Just do it less vocally.

(That is to say, shut up)

Apple has a history of being the good guys when it comes to issues of encryption. As a rule, they want to keep your privacy (and theirs). But they also want to continue operating in many countries, and when something like this happens, they may fight it in court, but if they lose, they won’t pull out of the region, they’ll find a way to comply.

In other words, this is a problem with national governments. They need to stop asking app and os developers to do unethical things, there’s enough pressure for them to do that already.

And who knows maybe it also shuffles these developers down a slippery slope… Maybe developers figure “if we must spy on users, we’ve already lost their trust, we might as well make a profit from it”. And that leads us to the relationship we have with technology today, our tech is untrustworthy, we feel the oppression of the surveillance state and we have nobody to blame but ourselves.