Briefly, once you have say 256 random bits it is trivial to use AES and CTR mode and turn that into 2^71 random bits until you need to rekey. If you cannot get more entropy in the time it takes to use up all of those numbers something is completely broken. The only problem you can have is not having enough entropy to bootstrap (such as VMs or needing to generate a key at poweron on an embedded device), but this paper gives little more than lipservice to it.
Murray claims that a clause about "reverse-isms" is a cornerstone of a CoC and yet three out of the four resources she mentions as being acceptable do not have one. The only one that does is a community explicitly designed to be a safe space[0] for marginalized groups with a shared ideology. That requirement is perfectly in line with their communities goals. That does not mean it is appropriate for all groups or even all groups that are trying to promote inclusiveness. The argument about "tone policing" and other supposed deficiencies is exactly the same.
The rest of Murray's article is not actually about the actual CoC or any flaws with it.
They did hastly accept the supposed "problems" (that is, it was not a 1:1 copy of the geekfeminism CoC) and tried to fix them. People then complained because they do not believe that things specifically designed for one specific community and are not recommended by most of the experts are appropriate for a general CoC to be used for myriad different communities with far different goals than one specific wiki. TODO then decides that maybe they should actually take some time to think about things instead of circling the wagon around their kneejerk changes.
Garrett then argues that they released something broken and should have consulted the experts and that was one page document is of the same complexity as a 1,000,000 loc kernel. Well, it wasn't broken and it is in line with what most experts suggest, or at least it has not been cogently argued that it was not.
Aaron Swartz's last interview is really apropos. [1] He discusses how speech has changed and why we should be concerned over private companies' suppressive actions now rather than just governments.
Also, those arguing that governmental assertions of free speech rights only apply to government actions are not familiar with the relevant case law in the US. [2]
Similarly, those claiming that censorship can only be done by state actors are using an incredibly idiosyncratic definition that basically anyone other than a hardcore libertarian would disagree with. [3][4][5] Say it is the 1980s and a college newspaper prints something that upsets someone. They then steal and destroy all copies of that issue once they are printed. How is this action by a non-state actor different enough to be put in another category?
Scott Alexander also has a good read on these issues. [6]
They think it is a world first, there there was an Xbox one ad[0] that was doing this over a year ago. They could have easily found it just googling "voice command ad" or similar.
If you like this sort of thing you'll love Chris Tarnovsky's old blog [0] and talks like this [1] DEFCON talk about ST19WP18 chips where he compares different versions
The power differentials in WoW are a lot bigger than 2%. I would wager that less than 90% of the players even are LFR geared, but assume a casual player with a mix of LFR gear, crafted, legendary, heroic BoEs is probably sitting around ilvl 663. Depending on their spec and the fight and playing well they are probably doing 30k DPS [0]. Someone in full mythic 4p (ivl 700+) is going to be doing 55-60k+. [1]
These numbers aren't going to be a perfect comparison because of fight length, strategy changes when you overgear content, skill differentials, etc but gear is pretty important.
One could easily argue that having the highest end gear does not really serve a purpose if you aren't doing any actual raiding or PvP though.
edit: I should probably mention that the last expansion (released last November) did a massive stat squish. In the last tier, t16, an LFR geared player would be doing 30k (ilvl 496ish), 100k (ilvl 528-540), and 1.0m+ (mythic/580+). Player power was increasing so much they had to start working around not being able to increase raid boss HP higher than 2^31 - 1. 25 man heroic Thok had ~2b HP for example.
This article is simply incorrect. The passwords are only stored in plaintext when there are no OS-level or desktop environment options available to protect them.[0] In the absence of such a system where exactly do you expect Chrome to store the encryption key for the list of passwords?
edit: Apparently there are people that run either incredibly old versions of chrome or don't run a keystore daemon and actually upload all of their dotfiles to github so I guess that part is technically accurate.
That would presume that the dictionary in question was a copyrightable work. The US has weak database copyright protection due to Feist. There is also Assessment Technologies to consider, but I don't believe that involved the DMCA.
No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital audio recording device, a digital audio recording medium, an analog recording device, or an analog recording medium, or based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings. [0]
In fact, the Rio's operation is entirely consistent with the Act's main purpose – the facilitation of personal use. As the Senate Report explains, "[t]he purpose of [the Act] is to ensure the right of consumers to make analog or digital audio recordings of copyrighted music for their private, noncommercial use." S. Rep. 102-294, at 86 (emphasis added). The Act does so through its home taping exemption, see 17 U.S.C. S 1008, which "protects all noncommercial copying by consumers of digital and analog musical recordings, " H.R. Rep. 102-873(I), at 59. The Rio merely makes copies in order to render portable, or "space-shift", those files that already reside on a user's hard drive. Cf. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, 464 U.S. 417, 455 (1984) (holding that "time-shifting" of copyrighted television shows with VCR's constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act, and thus is not an infringement). Such copying is paradigmatic non-commercial personal use entirely consistent with the purposes of the Act. [1]
[0] 17 U.S. Code § 1008 Prohibition on certain infringement actions
So the law does specifically say that making digital copies of music for non-commercial use is ok and it has been reviewed by the judiciary (to some extent).
There is also 17 U.S. Code § 117 which allows backup copies or computer programs "that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful".
You can still get yourself in trouble related to the DMCA depending on what you are doing, but all of your assertions are false.
People use methods like towels, hair dryers, heatguns, and ovens to do the same sort of repairs on PS3s and xbox360s so this doesn't surprise me too much.
https://popehat.com/2015/10/08/bad-reporting-on-matthew-keys...