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If you don’t have good connectivity to your data wherever it may reside, then it’s hard to do applications like artificial intelligence (AI) or analytics. They are very data dependent technologies. Mind your goesintas and goesoutas
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The PIN would be encrypted with a public key which can only be decrypted by the manufacturer's private key with a warrant "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy."
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That was a really informative article and I have a few ideas on some of these problems.
As much as I don't like it...
On key to rule them all.
Form a company that is funded by the industry to generate and store one single private key. This key should be stored on a custom ROM stick and is only accessible by a custom built OS; both being on on-of-a-kind hardware. Both the ROM and the computer needed to read it should be stored behind heavy physical security such as in Fort Knox or at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Both items need separate layers of security such as ensuring that no one person can access both. Each participating company could get their own private key ROM for vanity purposes.
Now, since there might be dozens if not hundreds of decryption requests daily, there needs to be a convenient way to get this decryption. I think that we should go really old-school with this by using punch cards to physically carry the encrypted data to the vault where the custom computer reads the card, decrypts it, destroys the card, and prints out the decrypted passcode all in one step. And that's the crux of it.
While I can't offer any ideas to a security chip in the phone I can say that not all problems in the digital world have solutions that are exclusive to the digital world.
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Foothill wrote: stored behind heavy physical security such as in Fort Knox or at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Good luck getting every country in the world to agree where the master decryption key should be stored. 
And while you're at it: good luck convincing every single terrorist, paedophile, and other bad guy to switch from the current unbreakable encryption to your back-doored encryption.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Good luck getting every country in the world to agree where the master decryption key should be stored.
Possibly not a factor as U.S. law enforcement has no jurisdiction outside of U.S. borders, therefore only phones sold in the U.S. would be in-scope and have the option or requirement to be tethered to this encryption scheme. If other countries wanted to be part of the system, I would suggest some ultra-secure bank in Switzerland, Antarctica, or possibly the moon.
Richard Deeming wrote: And while you're at it: good luck convincing every single terrorist, paedophile, and other bad guy to switch from the current unbreakable encryption to your back-doored encryption.
Very true. It would have to be required on all phones by law in order to work. Here-in lies the problem because nobody wants "big brother" to be anywhere close to their encryption.
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Foothill wrote: It would have to be required on all phones by law in order to work.
Because criminals are well know for obeying laws, right? 
Even if there was a way to get every country / state to agree, and to update every network to reject phones that didn't comply, how long would it take an organised crime syndicate to set up their own network?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Probably no time at all. One could look at this scheme from this vantage point: locks are there not to keep criminals out but to keep honest people honest. In reality, if someone was intent on breaking into your home to steal your stuff, there really isn't much to stop him even with the best security system. So, locks are there to prevent crimes of opportunity.
I guess the real question comes down whether or not to force criminals out of the mainstream communication channels and into black market devices.
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Foothill wrote: locks are there not to keep criminals out but to keep honest people honest
Except the whole point of the crypto backdoor argument is to allow LEA to access data from criminals' devices.
So if the backdoor doesn't actually do that, then there's not a lot of point to it. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It’s been about 9 months now since I first heard of the term “Serverless”. I can clearly remember feeling a sense of awe at the fact one day I’ll be able to create web apps without the need to have and manage a server, which for a front-end developer, like myself, would be a dream come true. Spoiler alert: there are servers
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A Romanian hardware expert has published proof-of-concept code on GitHub that will crash most Windows computers within seconds, even if the computer is in a locked state. FWIW
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A well placed blow with a hammer can also crash any computer in a split second.
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And doesn't need a proof of concept! (but it does go 'poc')
TTFN - Kent
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Businesses can meet latest Government cyber security guidelines in seconds with new downloadable pack. I'm glad the National Catholic Student Coalition cares about security
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Very nice.
Is there any way for home users (including those running Windows 10 Pro) to install these settings, or are we (as usual) left out in the cold?
Ad astra - both ways!
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Zurich-based DeepCode claims that their system — essentially a tool for analyzing and improving code — is like Grammarly for programmers. It looks like you're trying to codez. Do you want help with that?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Zurich-based DeepCode claims that their system — essentially a tool for analyzing and improving code — is like Grammarly for programmers.
So it's a cancer on CatTube videos then?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So it's not just me? I thought CatTube was trying to tell me something.
TTFN - Kent
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It's telling both of us that we need better adblock. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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... What if the fixes themselves are not quite relevant?
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"False positives" will still be a major problem.
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AI and machine learning technology have spread rapidly as a scientific tool, enabling discoveries in fields as diverse as animal behavior, nuclear physics, and exoplanet hunting. As its capabilities expand, artificial intelligence may someday change not just how scientists work, but how they think. "This world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's "
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Computers are faster sifting through mountains of data to find patterns.
It is as interesting as any story where a typewriter improves efficiency. Is that due to the AI part involved? No, has nothing to do with. Does science get done differently? No, we've been analyzing patterns for years, with different machines.
Kent Sharkey wrote: "This world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's "
Yup, cats are everywhere 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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H. G. Wells (almost) wrote: No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over computers. ... Yet in the laboratories, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And in the mid-twenty first century came the great disillusionment.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Recently, I have been interviewed over the phone by a Google recruiter. As I qualified for the (unsolicited) interview but failed to pass the test, this blog post lists the questions and the expected answers. That might be handy if Google calls you one day. Now you can cram for this exam!
Yes, probably from 2016, but making the rounds today. And isn't mocking recruiters always in fashion?
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