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My company just started using ZScaler (one of these HTTPS intercept services). Hopefully, this will make some impact on our security team.
Story time: I live very close to the office (almost walking distance). I've never worked from home all the time while employed by this company (outside of one-off need-to-be-home-for-delivery type stuff). The day after we implemented ZScaler, I submitted a request to work from home 2 days week. Was approved. Those two days of the week are -each- more productive than the other 3 days combined, because, as it turns out, having every HTTPS call routed halfway across the continent and DPI'd before being sent to the "real" destination takes a tremendous toll on network speed. Who'da thunk?
You would not believe how many developer tools break when an impersonating certificate sits between you and the real server.
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A partnership between the secret-spilling group and Google, Microsoft, and Apple has already hit its first road block. "You can shake me for a while, live it up in style. No matter what you do I'm gonna take you down"
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That's WikiLeaks reaching a whole new level of low. Tantamount to blackmail.
The fact is that they are actually damaging the user's of those tech companies products by doing this, not the tech companies themselves. About time someone started an alternative to WikiLeaks that actually involved ethics, rather than an ego-trip for a questionable individual.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The tech companies deal with (and compromise themselves for) governments who issue death threats to Assange and those he works with.
I'd cut him some slack for playing hardball (and not hold my breath for a more ethical group to rise up and also do the public favors for free).
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It looks that way, but further comment isn't possible without knowing what the demands are.
E.g. Don't screw us over by helping the feds take out charges against us for handing you the data would be a perfectly reasonable demand.
Since no reason has been given for the companies' reluctance to say what the demands are, it's possible that they're all perfectly reasonable.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'll guess that WikiLeaks suddenly realized that they could be subject to civil lawsuits and/or criminal prosecution by simply relaying this information.
"Here, let me show you how to break into your house."
"Hello, police, someone just broke into my house."
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Google has developed and open-sourced a new JPEG algorithm that reduces file size by about 35 percent—or alternatively, image quality can be significantly improved while keeping file size constant. I'll save so much space after my cat pictures shrink!
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Scientists at Oxford say they've invented an artificial intelligence system that can lip-read better than humans. "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"
And that's on BBC lips too.
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Quote: As it keeps watching TV, it will learn
What could possibly go wrong?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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ISPs that want the federal government to eliminate broadband privacy rules say that your Web browsing and app usage data should not be classified as "sensitive" information. How about, "delicate"? "tactful"? "defensive"?
Now everyone will know of my Neopets addiction.
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Worth a fortune... This is what you are looking for!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Repeating my comment on Ars itself: I invite any ISP executive who actually believes this to start publishing every detail of his browsing history in real time. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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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"Dark Matter Did Not Dominate Early Galaxies:
A new study finds the mysterious substance was at most a minor constituent of large galaxies in the early universe" [^]
Scientific American, March 17. Note: I am able to access this article without a paid subscription; but, I am using a VPN right now, connecting through a US server.
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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And here I thought this was going to be a post about this. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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HackerRank finds that bootcamps and other alternatives to four-year degrees are now seen as viable. Maybe if they added, "Must be able to Google for one's self" to the requirements?
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Culture and complexity still keep developers and operations managers apart. You know what would make it faster? If everyone did all the jobs.
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Windows 7 is supported until 2020, and Windows 8.1 will get updates until 2023, right? Not if you're trying to run those older Windows versions on new hardware, as some frustrated customers discovered this week. "No soup for you!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "No soup for you!"
Oh no, the Soup Nazi?!  [^]
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So if you want to block winio automatic updates, just get your machine to pretend it's got a 9th-gen CPU.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Some users have reported that one of this week's Windows 10 updates crippled their PCs, according to a thread on Reddit. And the band played on
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And that is different to any other week when a different group suffer the same problem?
You need to make sure you keep up with your sacrifices to the great update god to stay in their favour.
In vino veritas
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leon de boer wrote: And that is different to any other week when a different group suffer the same problem?
so true... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Phew, dodged the bullet!
Updated yesterday and still fine! 
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First thing I did, killed the Update service.
Oh yeah, I'm actually using W10 on a laptop I recently purchased.
Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I don't know why people keep complaining about the best windows ever.
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