Super cool and seems to have a depth of historical knowledge
I’m shocked to see that LORD can’t be used because of licensing. Legally I know that’s how it is, but it Just Feels Wrong(tm) that a popular game based on 9600baud phone modems is encumbered in the era of fibre, wifi, and smartphones
Indeed. Vital to the solution yes, but if it was all that was needed then the surveillance systems would have been dismantled and prevented each time enough people became aware. The fact that we are here now is it’s own evidence
You’ve missed the point: each addition can (and likely will, based on history) be the way to bring more patents into the market. It rarely has anything to do with objective quality (except in the marketing)
Through all this I kept wondering (and excuse the question if it is inappropriate): what’s the benefit of a transcription of the sounds since the ideal is a 1:1 IPA representation to audio recording and neither is itself a translation?
Isn’t the recording itself “more ideal” than any representation of it?
You may be underestimating the desire to earn through differentiation.
Assuming the product companies accept the plateau on resolution (I agree it’s likely), there are many ways to exploit the other stuff. Colour space, tacling each type of compression artifact, additional channels (probly not long until we have HDR RGBW), etc etc and those will each come with their committees made of patent-hungry companies seeing non-encumbered encodings as “undesirable”
Definitely curious about the breakdown of data-broker relationship for each link in the chain. Unencrypted data is easy to store and share so it’s reasonable to assume that even the most stringent privacy policy for an IoT device is essentially meaningless if it’s unencrypted PII passes through a single tracking server (including the user’s ISP who may have a direct relationship with multiple brokers)
Yes China has an anti-privacy relationship with their own government
But none of these mean that the average company/coder is any more likely to create security holes or more likely to be malicious. Western companies/coders have created more than enough security issues for even the unskilled to walk through it’s just that they go “unknown” because the attacks are kept out of the public eye
This has always been true to some extent: some have used weaponized security tools against competitors. It comes with legal risks (as it does with AI) but overall it doesn’t really improve the security baseline unless those holes are made public
“6-12 mo to shaky profitability + ability to quickly iterate” is a business that has a good chance of surviving while “However long it takes to be fully secure” is a business that is not only rigid but needs massive up-front capital to get there and even then there’s no guarantee that the market fit is right
And after that is something we could call the “Pareto spiral”: if a company find market fit and builds an excellent product, competitors can survive at 80% of that quality. If the “100%” fails for any reason, the competitors become the new ceiling and now their competitors can survive at 80% of that (now 64%)
And only one round in, how secure could that 64% company be?
The current reigning social script is that drone enthusiasts are piloting all the drones. I know this will change as articles like this come out but for now the police are in a very convenient bubble of essentially undetectable surveillance
As someone with a long-time interest in Tim Ferriss I’d say he’ll probably go most places he’s invited out of pure curiosity. He’s also attended TED and has been in many VC spaces so it’s not surprising that someone (maybe even Thiel himself) would invite him
I’d like some confirmation if possible, but my gut says the general internet (and therefore the training data) probably has a lot of sloppy Python code along with a lot of sloppy writing about Python whereas Phoenix has majority good code and well-reasoned writing
Let’s say first that we know (some) users will inevitably agree to let malware compromise their system, no matter the popup or protections
A compromised system that’s transparent:
- Has only one way an executable can be started and, being designed as a “salt flat”, it’s easy to read
- Exposes all I/O and all network requests (to admins), regardless of driver abstractions
In this case, even a young enthusiast can look at a system and immediately see that it’s compromised, remove it’s ability to start or do work, and likely remove it from the system entirely.
The inspiration for this approach is a backlash against the absolute glut of places to hide in current user-focused systems. From multiple startup options, to services, to drivers, and in to the “hidden from the admin” executables that can be compromised it’s an ever-worsening problem that erodes user’s ability to keep their own system secure
For a long time, I’ve believed that the actual solution is to make the system transparent enough that a compromised system is obvious. Imagine playing hide and go seek in the salt flats
Devs and other people who have seen behind the scenes at large companies know that most security is at best shaky and mostly hand-waved
It’s not even really the fault of the people who pushed for these setups, it’s a seemingly simple business decision: build it in a way that looks secure, add some black-box process, and tell the overseers that the reason there are no attacks is because it’s bulletproof, and definitely not because no one has really tried
Then, when someone finally turns their attention to you and walks in: fire whoever needs to be fired, patch that specific hole, maybe spend a bunch of money on a different system, assure the overseers that it’s handled, and move on with business as usual
It’s cheaper in the long-run, it makes stockholders happy, it relieves the bosses and their bosses, and for the most part there are “no security holes”.
I’m shocked to see that LORD can’t be used because of licensing. Legally I know that’s how it is, but it Just Feels Wrong(tm) that a popular game based on 9600baud phone modems is encumbered in the era of fibre, wifi, and smartphones