The threat to society is the scummy speculator hotel owners^W^W "landlords" who have units sitting empty and unattended for months (or years in the case of many places around here) in an attempt to drive up or sustain artificially high rent...
Personally, I'd do the same thing as the cops if I were in the situation you describe: do nothing and rake in the moolah, and if anyone has a problem with that, pretend it's someone else's fault.
Because they're not a threat to society, have not been determined to be guilty, and throwing people in jail (only to bond out anyway a couple days later, in most cases - funneling more money to bondsmen) is a great way to (a) spread a pandemic and (b) waste money giving them what they want (shelter, food, healthcare, etc.)?
I don't know of anything in crypto which actually works (read: does something better/cheaper than pre-existing technologies). The single value of it is speculation.
Do you really want Microsoft adding tabs to it, though? Because they'll do it the same way they did it in IE. "Your tabs are also windows because we don't understand the difference, enjoy!"
> Respecting my property rights is actually an infringement on your liberty
No, disrespecting other people's property rights is an infringement on their liberty. You being told not to disrespect other people's rights is NOT an infringement on your liberty.
> Not being able to legally kill me without some just cause is also an infringement on your liberty
WTF?
> everyone agrees that its a matter of degree
Oh how I wish that were true. Not even most people can agree on that.
What citation? LOL There wasn't one (just a footnote, and not even on the proper page) but I'm not sure why you think a citation would make a blatant falsehood any more true.
This sentence is an ad hominim: I don't think you know what "ad homenim" [sic] means.
Saying something about the way someone presented their argument? That's not an ad hominim.
No, virtually nothing made 18 years ago is secure. In fact virtually nothing made a day ago is secure, but when something has been sitting around stagnating for 18 years that means the world has had ~6575x as many opportunities to find a vulnerability.
> I think I’m doing a pretty bad of following the DNS RFCs
Yeah, probably, which makes this experiment much less worthwhile than just... doing the same thing on an actual DNS host.
BTW, experimentation is no replacement for training/education/experience. Just because an experiment results one way on the computer you're testing with, doesn't mean it will resolve the same way in another browser - or on another OS - or even just on a different ISP(/resolver).
> finding out who owns IP addresses with an ASN database - When a DNS requests comes in, it comes from an IP address. I wanted to tell users who owns that IP address (Google? Cloudflare? their ISP?). The obvious way is to do a reverse DNS lookup. But what if that doesn’t work?
Or just use one of the many databases that exists for exactly this purpose (and are free, like MaxMind's GeoLite ASN). Except, oh wait, you did do that (although with some random, auto-scraped database). Not sure what the point of rDNS is.
> I do a database write every time a DNS request comes in
Why? There's no reason to store that info on disk. As you say, "I could easily clear out old requests every hour and it probably wouldn’t make a difference"
> let’s talk about security
Sure, except you skipped over the "huh, I'm sharing cookies across all these people because I'm not on the PSL". But at least "the website's domain" isn't sharing cookies with 'em too?
Oh, and you also skipped over things like whether or not your roll-your-own DNS server is vulnerable to being used as an amplification vector (probably).
> I have one main opinion about programming, which is that deeply understanding the underlying systems
It's a shame she doesn't deeply understand the underlying systems she's using.
... can we talk about the fact that it has a copyright year of 2003??? Sure, I totally believe there aren't a billion known vulnerabilities in that OOB management chip's code... the damn thing is old enough to vote!
I never said it wasn't subjective, so I'm not sure why you're commenting here. I said IF one insisted on a single definition. i.e. like the person I was replying to did.
"That orange cell right next to Raleigh" is an outlier, unlike say... St Louis.
No. They should be held responsible for their own mistakes. I'm not sure who else but the CEO and board you think have the ability and responsibility to make sure their company is acting appropriately.
> We have functional civil courts, and they are more than capable of remediating wrongs
> The culture around ARM mobile phones and tablets heavily emphasized bootloader locking
Virtually all of which are user-unlockable. But keep telling me how unopen they are?
(BTW, those of us who actually want secure systems very much appreciate the fact that malware can't overwrite my boot sector without a hardware-level vulnerability.)
Huh? You mean empty hotel rooms? Did you read the comment?
> It is easy for that to escalate into a violent encounter
[citation needed]
> and it makes people feel legitimately unsafe living in the city.
So did desegregation.