TechRadar: Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Tor have been disclosed online

2020-07-31 Thread jim bell
TechRadar: Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Tor have been disclosed online. https://www.techradar.com/news/tor-network-hit-by-two-major-zero-day-attacks

Ars Technica: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption

2020-07-31 Thread jim bell
Ars Technica: IBM completes successful field trials on Fully Homomorphic Encryption. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/07/ibm-completes-successful-field-trials-on-fully-homomorphic-encryption/

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Mirimir
On 07/31/2020 09:25 PM, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:14:24 -0700 > Mirimir wrote: > > >> >> I'm mocking the idea that anarchy is workable for the existing >> population, generally. > > > so who the fuck you think are? =) > > Oh yes, you're an enlightene

FJWs: Facial Justice Warriors unite! -- Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Zig the N.g
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 01:49:20PM -0300, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:44:45 +1000 > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > Had a friend annoyed at masks the other day, complaining heavily "muh > > human right to shop at the supermarket without wearing a mask!" > > > I: If you su

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Mirimir
On 07/31/2020 05:47 PM, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 17:27:22 -0700 > Mirimir wrote: > > >> >> But I suppose, in your happy anarchy, it could mean whatever cabrón >> develops some vaccine. > > are you mocking anarchy on an anarchist mailing list? Though of course,

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Mirimir
On 07/31/2020 03:21 PM, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:05:51 + (UTC) > jim bell VOMITED: > >>   As long as there are people willing to volunteer to take the risk of >> getting vaccinated with these new COVID-19 vaccine candidates, I think >> society should take up th

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 31/07/2020 14:05, Robert Hettinga wrote: On Jul 31, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I: Well, we're the survivors - we are that part of the herd that did not die. And the survival rate of Covid-19 is somewhere north of 99 percent. Er, no. It's actually about 97-98% overall, m

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread jim bell
On Friday, July 31, 2020, 03:02:38 AM PDT, Peter Fairbrother wrote: >(herd immunity is when sufficient members of a herd are immune that  there aren't enough non-immune members to spread a disease - the non-immune members could still get the disease, but there isn't anyone around who's infe

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Robert Hettinga
> On Jul 31, 2020, at 2:44 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I: Well, we're the survivors - we are that part of the herd that did not die. And the survival rate of Covid-19 is somewhere north of 99 percent. I’ll take those odds. Also, the ‘precautionary principle’ is bunk. Also, see also, Hay

Mozilla's Firefox can go to hell!

2020-07-31 Thread Zig the N.g
FireFox's new multi-process "Web Content" process (per tab) is now being forced on Debian Sid users, hitting 70% CPU consistently at all times, even with all plugins disabled and a browser restart. Effing, morons! In time, FireFox will now be replaced. Such stupidity, in this case from Mozilla

Re: what is "Herd Immunity"?

2020-07-31 Thread Peter Fairbrother
On 31/07/2020 07:44, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Had a friend annoyed at masks the other day, complaining heavily "muh human right to shop at the supermarket without wearing a mask!" Interlocutor: So you'd prefer herd immunity? Complainer: Of course! Weren't you even listening?! I: Well, do you kn

Re: "We don't control our lives" - smartphones - tinkerphones - debian on smartphones

2020-07-31 Thread Steven Schear
What about GrapheneOS on Pixels? On Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 5:14 PM Zenaan Harkness wrote: > With respect to "smart" phones, it can be reasonably claimed that we don't > control our lives. > > At the hardware level, the baseband (radio) computer in almost all cases > has access to RAM, thus access to

Re: "We don't control our lives" - smartphones - tinkerphones - debian on smartphones

2020-07-31 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On 7/29/20 11:12, this fell into my inbox by way of the cypherpunks list: > The average Android and iOS Apple phone, is a strict walled garden > into which only authorised software may be installed. iOS, sans jailbreaking, yes. Every Android phone I have seen, however, will allow you to install fr

Re: [Tinkerphones] "We don't control our lives" - smartphones - tinkerphones - debian on smartphones

2020-07-31 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 09:51:16AM +0200, rhn wrote: > Regarding both emails, I think there's a shared concept that we have, but > it's never explicitly stated, making it really hard to argue for it. > > The value of having an explicit goal is that it can be talked about: > different aspects are