Putting even the most secure and resilient backdoor should be considered a failure of freedom, privacy, and politics.
At the end of the day backdooring encryption does nothing but weaken everyone's security without actually helping intelligence agencies, at least in the face of serious actors.
Fine, agree to a global backdoor or all crypto with a handful of trusted key holders, how long until the algo or key is leaked, how long until a flaw in it's implementation is found, how long until some TSA agent is photographed with the password blinking on his screen in a news article.
All this will do for bad actors is ensure they assume whatever service provider isn't to be trusted in their implementation and just use a 3rd party process and/or open source tool chain to produce encrypted messages that will be routed over already encrypted networks. Great, your backdoor got you to a second layer of ciphertext that you still can't make heads or tails of, meanwhile you've weakened the security of literally every person on earth.
A backdoor is unacceptable, no matter it's perceived strength, value, or safety.
I'll be interested to see how they prevent theft of their source. It doesn't take long to get around obfuscation and such. If a person takes their HTML libs and slightly modifies the code and releases as an open source alternative to GreenSock... just curious how they'd go about combating that. Obviously they'd have to go after the site owner, but I don't think most site owners know what underlying frameworks go into their sites functionality. If they have thousands of sites using a port of their code and it was developed in India by a small team found online or something... where does the hammer fall?
I think the "Dark" in "Dark Mail Alliance" is meant more in the sense that it's "off the grid" of NSA spying capabilities, not that it's meant to be used for nefarious purposes.
I was recently looking into some prebuilt libs for emoji support on web. One of them had a sprite, the other used data URI's in all of the background-image:url() parts of their core CSS. The sprite was crunched down to about 500k after some optimization tweaks (pngout, etc.) the data uri version could not be optimized, it's CSS file weight in at over 5MB.
The decision was pretty easy to make after that discovery.
seems like it essentially keeps data stored by catching data from ICMP (ping) packets, rewrapping them in another ping packet and shoving them back on the network.
Think of it kind of like network RAM, the data isn't stored anywhere persay and if either host fails to bounce back the payload the data is lost since it wasn't stored on any single machine and only kept alive in limbo.
Maybe the happy medium is cutting the labels out of the deal, allowing artists to self publish on the platform and see larger cuts of the proceeds for their contribution to the network. $500/m and $1/bn aren't exactly chump change until you realize the artists are getting tiny percentages of those payouts. If Spotify were to offer a convenient distribution platform and enticing terms to ditch labels and self publish the might find a sweet spot. That being said, piracy is popular because it's easy and free, the artists aren't competing against it because everyone's a pirate, they're competing against it because it's a more convenient alternative. Skip out on the most popular platform and your fans will adopt the alternative with a path of least resistance.
In some breathing exercises I've done as part of a self defense and training course we focused a lot on breathing, especially controlled breathing under very stressful situations. We'd spend good portions of the glass matching breathing with strides, punches, and grappling. That being said it really showed me the importance of breathing, even for random stress. We always did in through the nose and out through the mouth. The nose is a bit more restricted so it allows your diaphragm a little more resistance and seems to allow deeper more controlled breathing, plus it just feels good. When under heavy stress we often would take little bursts of fresh air through the nose and out of the mouth to help get oxygen to the muscles that needed it under said stress.
I didn't really stick with the class after finding some flaws with it but I learned some stuff in the long run, and the breathing thing has stuck with me after feeling it's effects.
This was my instructor, dude had a pain threshold that was unbelievable. You can see him using the techniques while being... abused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4_RfEmWBg
