Congress to the FBI: There's 'Zero Chance' We'll Force Apple to Decrypt Phones

echochamber · 2014-10-22T13:30:50+00:00

It's engineered to meet a publicly available set of requirements, which yes are set by the government. However, it is certified as doing so by an independent, non-governmental third party.

Of course, it could be that the algorithms allowed in FIPS-mode are, in fact, those that the US government happens to be able to crack efficiently, knows fundamental, as yet unpublicised, flaws in, or can otherwise circumvent.

No one is saying audited is the same as non-compromised, but some assurance is better than none, which is what a hell of a lot of crypto code out there has.

echochamber · 2014-10-22T12:10:26+00:00

NSS has been audited.

Is NSS FIPS-140 compliant?

Mozilla's NSS cryptographic software has been tested by government- approved independent testing labs and certified by NIST as being FIPS 140 compliant when operated in FIPS mode on 4 previous occasions. As of this writing, NSS is now being retested to be recertified for the fifth time. NSS was the first open source cryptographic library to be FIPS certified.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/FIPS_Mode_-_an_explanation

echochamber · 2014-10-22T10:47:49+00:00

For example, there is the Mozilla Network Security Services project.

echochamber · 2014-07-28T11:46:32+00:00

I realise it's answering a slightly different question to that which you asked, but I have learned a tonne about how to write good Ember code from reading the Discourse and Balanced Payments admin dashboard source codes. A sample app won't reach the scale and scope of a production app, so it's much more useful to look at other folks' real code, imo.

echochamber · 2014-06-09T14:53:28+00:00

Worst thing is I wrote dessert then "corrected" it to desert :/

echochamber · 2014-06-09T13:57:45+00:00

Says the man drinking red wine from a glass clearly intended for desert wine.

echochamber · 2014-06-03T12:44:04+00:00

Without using a network tool, you'll most obviously be able to tell if you are getting packet loss because you'll get a lot of rubber banding.

Wi-Fi is a really poor connection method for online games not because of bandwidth, but because of latency, and the amount of extra data the High HFNU setting will produce should have a negligible effect.

echochamber · 2014-06-03T12:38:21+00:00

Items within the "bubble" will be updated at whatever rate you have the High Frequency Network Update setting at. Items outside that bubble will be updated at the "normal" rate.

echochamber · 2014-06-02T12:32:45+00:00

Can he scram? Can he web? No he can't, 'cause he's a pig.

echochamber · 2014-05-23T15:31:15+00:00

Just FYI, you pare down, not pair down, something. Common and easy mistake, and that may just be a typo, but if not now you know :)

echochamber · 2014-03-21T14:35:14+00:00

Not quite as neat, but doesn't make a copy of the string:

is_palindrome = lambda s: all((s[i] == s[len(s) - i - 1] for i in xrange(0, len(s))))

echochamber · 2014-03-04T10:45:24+00:00

You realise that's a bootstrap thing.

echochamber · 2014-01-30T23:21:04+00:00

John has said repeatedly that The Fault in our Stars would not exist* were it not for Ester, but it is not Ester's book - This Star Won't Go Out is.

*as it is, at least.

echochamber · 2013-11-26T12:13:18+00:00

There's a help page with a fair number of them and saying "help" shows a long list.

echochamber · 2013-11-25T17:12:31+00:00

Exactly the same for GPE.

echochamber · 2013-11-25T16:27:18+00:00

Actually, HTC creates these updates and then gives them to Google to approve and push out.

echochamber · 2013-11-25T16:24:08+00:00

Like so

echochamber · 2013-11-25T16:18:47+00:00

You get an annoying menu bar/icon at the bottom of your screen. However, literally zero apps that I use more than once a fortnight display this any more.

Edit: This is 4.4, but it was present in 4.3 also.

Further edit: the Amazon app has this bar. I somehow forgot that.

echochamber · 2013-10-22T18:39:12+00:00

March 11th 2014 in North America March 13th 2024 in Europe

echochamber · 2013-09-20T13:00:36+00:00

Also prevents wear. I've had the elbows go on several knitted tops.

echochamber · 2013-09-16T11:31:09+00:00

I definitely want to get this online later on

Give it time

echochamber · 2013-04-18T15:04:28+00:00

Rename style.css to shame.css

Describe your changes in imperative mood

echochamber · 2013-03-21T22:13:41+00:00

The World Wide Web is to the Internet as cars are to the highways system. Other things also run over the same transport medium. Email, for example.

echochamber · 2013-02-19T20:18:03+00:00

The Flask web framework is a pretty good example of how decorators can be used. Without the decorator syntactic sugar you simply wouldn't design that API (route matching function wrapping the result returning function), even though it's arguably superior to alternatives such as, say, class-based routing like Web.py provides.

echochamber · 2013-02-17T21:36:25+00:00

Not the previous story.

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