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Comment Re: no due process (Score 1) 15

"What makes the ISPs willing to "stomp" it is that by having information on what is talking to what, they are liable for participating in a crime, they are not the neutral carrier they should be."

Omfg no.

The USPS also has information on where packets are going, so do UPS and FedEx. Knowing the destination of some information is NOT what determines whether or not you are a common carrier.

Comment Registration for "Expensive" content (Score 1) 21

Stop allowing unregistered users to access even slightly [computationally] expensive content... Anything uncached, really.

Institute a delay and possibly an additional verification requirement before users can view the most expensive content.

Anything everyone can see should be aggressively cached.

Comment Re:Why hardware compatibility? (Score 1) 44

Why shouldn't those companies have to make their crap work with the Apple ecosystem? That aside, this sounds suspiciously like EU grift to me.

You can't put "that aside" because Apple is prohibiting those companies' "crap" working with Apple products. Remember when Microsoft used a secret API for Office, and the public API functions were often literally nothing but the secret API functions plus a delay loop? You should feel about this the same way you felt about that, except moreso — because this is the same thing, only worse.

Comment Re:why is that? (Score 1) 44

Well, it's pretty clear that if Apple starts handing over low-level control to non-Apple providers, it can't keep those promises.

If that's true, then Apple's platform is already insecure. Why? Because it's depending on security through obscurity. If you can only keep APIs secure by not allowing anyone to use them, then they are clearly insecure. And if your API's security depends on blocking third parties, then anyone who compromises one of your first party devices and has access to the API is going to have the opportunity to find its defects.

I don't know if that's true or not. It's at least equally likely that Apple's security is average, and they are only trying to protect revenues. That revenue protection is anticompetitive right on its face, and the only alternative is incompetence. And in fact, Apple is literally claiming incompetence here! They say they cannot maintain security while allowing others to access their APIs, well that only means that they cannot maintain security period. This is a glorious opportunity for Google to advertise Apple's statement of incompetence, and I certainly hope they press their advantage.

rather than say "we can't do that because of security and privacy," they should just have some disclosures that state that their promises do not extend to the use if third party components.

They are already making no promises about even their components. They exempt themselves from liability in the license, like everyone does.

Apple still won't like that, but it seems reasonable to me. The alternative is a level of vendor lock-in that is harmful to consumers.

That is literally the whole idea.

Comment Re: systemd (Score 1) 54

And then auditing. Oh my God, auditing a SysVInit script and tracking the execution model scattered across half a dozen utility scripts, (some with setuid bit!), then trying to cobble all that together into a cogent security model? Ridiculous.

Not nearly as ridiculous as trying to troubleshoot a boot problem caused by systemd which occurs before its bullshit logging eventually begins, which has to be done with a debugger.

Comment Re: Not only is the world stranger than I imagine (Score 1) 68

People who are employed find it easier to find work. I think the theory is that employed people are necessarily employable. This is bullshit, as companies hire the wrong people all the time, but the idea is attractive to the intellectually lazy (like most executives, managers, and HR workers.)

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