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1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2019 22:00:33 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   I really enjoyed this Purism "'See Your Junk' - Behind the scenes" post and video, which goes into some detail on professional video production using free software:
   
   https://puri.sm/posts/see-your-junk-behind-the-scenes/
   
   Thanks @purism for taking the time to put that together, especially since it's such a specialized domain that many people don't have exposure to.
2. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2019 21:27:36 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   On the topic of #privacy and #surveillance, I often seen arguments that can be phrased as: "if someone you loved were lost, wouldn't you do everything you could to find them?" Of course I would. I have two young children. They mean more to me than anything, and that includes my principles. I can't imagine the desperation I would feel if they were lost, and I would do almo…
3. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2019 23:21:51 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   • mangeurdenuage
   @mangeurdenuage Any solution to any problem can be viewed as a specific application of some more general principle, recursively. If you first write that more general program, and then write the program you were _going_ to write in terms of that general program, then it might be useful for a larger class of problems, and more interesting to write (...also recursively). And…
4. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2019 22:49:04 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   How I doom almost every personal project I start to work on: "Oh, I could generalize this."
5. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2019 22:14:53 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   cnet: "Amazon's helping police build a surveillance network with Ring doorbells"
   
   https://www.cnet.com/features/amazons-helping-police-build-a-surveillance-network-with-ring-doorbells/
6. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2019 23:59:54 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   http://status.hackerposse.com/url/18658 This is impressive, and concerning. This is only going to get more convincing. A method like watermarking doesn't make sense---someone will just develop a system for their own use that _doesn't_ use watermarking. There's no choice but to develop better forensic tools. Inevitably, one day, those too will fail. If you want to know tha…
7. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2019 22:06:01 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   • Christopher Lemmer Webber
   @cwebber Ah, well, to actually answer your question: - I generally prefer to mitigate issues, even if that means inconvenience or lack of performance. I put a great deal of time into making life intentionally difficult for myself, for many different things, in the name of security. - In certain circumstances, I may choose not to adopt that practice depending on my threat …
8. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 20:45:08 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   • Christopher Lemmer Webber
   @cwebber Oh, I would certainly advocate for libre hardware. What I was replying to was your original message: > Would you buy/use a computer that ran 3x slower than modern machines if it were more secure (less vulnerable to side-channel attacks)? I interpreted this as buying a modern e.g. Intel processor that has Meltdown/Spectre microcode mitigations, which can cut perfo…
9. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2019 05:01:28 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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   • Alexandre Oliva
   • Christopher Lemmer Webber
   @cwebber @lxoliva Certainly we need to trust it as well. But if you're installing software on your system, there are generally other, more effective ways to compromise the user than resorting to side-channels. But ensuring your software is signed and reproducible also helps to mitigate targeted attacks---if you're running the same software that everyone else is running, t…
10. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2019 22:51:25 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • Alexandre Oliva
    • Christopher Lemmer Webber
    @lxoliva had some compelling words about this at LP2019:https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/who-s-afraid-of-spectre-and-meltdown/ I don't know if your comment related at all to Spectre, but---if all the software running on your system is free software, what is there to fear? And I agree. The biggest trouble is that people often run non-free and untrusted code al…
11. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 09-May-2019 22:15:30 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    Video for my #LibrePlanet 2019 talk "Computational Symbiosis: Methods That Meld Mind and Machine" is now available, and includes the slides:
    
    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/74281
    
    The PIP does slightly cover some slide contents. PDF of the slides is here:
    
    http://mikegerwitz.com/talks/cs4m.pdf
    
    Errata posted here:
    
    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/conversation/177288#notice-260018
12. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2019 22:20:26 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • David Thompson
    @dthompson I bought it more than a couple years ago, so I don't recall what I paid back then, but I thought it was >=60USD. The current Nitrokey Pro 2 price is ~54USD.
    
    Absolutely worth it, though. I use it every day for SSH, signing email, commit signing, decrypting personal files, and some other things.
    
    The U2F one is ~25USD, but it's not a smart card.
13. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 29-Apr-2019 22:33:30 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • Christopher Lemmer Webber
    • David Thompson
    @dthompson They demoed the PureBoot process at LibrePlanet, using the key, and it looks great. I have a Nitrokey Pro---which is all their key is, plus the extra LED---and they said it'd work with that. I asked them two years ago at LP if they'd consider adding Trackpoint, and it wasn't something they were going to do at the time. That's going to be a major disappointment …
14. Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2019 14:01:48 EDT Christopher Lemmer Webber

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    Jetblue is rolling out a procedure where they identify customers not by their boarding pass or passport, but by facial recognition provided by the Department of Homeland Security https://twitter.com/mackenzief/status/1118509708673998848 http://mediaroom.jetblue.com/investor-relations/press-releases/2018/11-15-2018-184045420

    Makes me feel sick to my stomach. I should stop flying places.

15. Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2019 14:07:05 EDT Christopher Lemmer Webber

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    • Sebastian Lasse

    @sl007 I didn't but :(

16. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Apr-2019 13:03:40 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • Yale Privacy Lab
    • Sean O'Brien
    @diggity There's a lot of good stuff your replies---thank you for all of the work that you and the others at @privacylab do! I will certainly stay tuned.
17. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:41:51 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    I love type inference, but please be explicit in the types of your public APIs. This serves not only as documentation, but also helps catch when the types change when you didn't intend for them to do so (because they're inferred).
18. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:33:49 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    • Sean O'Brien
    @diggity While this practice is expected (as the article notes, other companies do it as well), most users are definitely not aware of it and I think that many more people would be uncomfortable using these devices if they did learn that this isn't all just being processed by computers. Some of that conversation happened during the Snowden revelations---is it okay if it's…
19. Sean O'Brien (diggity)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2019 21:00:04 EDT Sean O'Brien

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    fresh off the press - this is why I don't like to give the "benefit of the doubt" to Big Tech, even though I will limit my comments to the available info:
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio

20. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2019 22:11:21 EDT Mike Gerwitz

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    "Online Speech and the First Amendment: Ten Principles from the Supreme Court":
    
    https://social.mikegerwitz.com/url/73591

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