Well, that's just the normal situation. The black market drug business has always been in favor of draconian drug laws. It keep prices and profit margins high.
Re: What's the best API for the Facial recognition?
Since a recent discussion here highlighted the fact that far too many people misunderstand what an API actually is, I need to correct this. You're looking for the best engine for face recognition, not the best API. An API is the specification for how you'd communicate with the engine.
"then that company is basically forced to lie about whether or not they've received such an order."
Not really. The company is free to say something like "if we were to receive such an order, we would not be legally allowed to publicly acknowledge it."
Oops, and I forgot to add, I would not trust a public key that Facebook claims belongs to another user. It may be excellent at identifying them, but I have no trust that it's actually their key. It could be a Facebook MITM key.
"Some people will never, under any circumstances, trust that PGP public key. But those individuals aren't facebook's primary target audience"
Yes, this is me. There is no circumstance in which I would trust Facebook with any data about me at all, but particularly not something as sensitive as a crypto key.
it seems fairly bizarre that three separate Senators, all of whom are seen as staunch defenders of the surveillance state
The mistake has an obvious source: it must have been on the sheet of talking points that the NSA provided to them. What would be bizarre (in a good way) is if they even looked at any information other than those talking points.
Re: Re: Re: Not sure what all the hubbub is about...
"The people elected Obama, he's there to represent the people's interests"
The President's main job isn't to represent the people's interest. That's the job of Congress. The President's job is Chief Manager and to represent the government to other nations. Also, to the extent that the President is supposed to represent the people's interests, almost none have actually done so in my lifetime.
"Addition of a GPG key - even a newly generated GPG key - to a well established Facebook account will allow potential key users and signers to have a higher degree of trust in said key"
I don't feel this way, personally. The scheme requires you to trust Facebook, and I don't think Facebook is a trustworthy company.
Re: Effectiveness Or Lack Thereof Is Not The Main Thrust
"The reality is that Moore's, Kryder's, and Nielsen's laws are all in effect, and it's only a matter of time before Big Data analytics tools actually manage to make sense of this massive haystack."
Ed C. is correct. The same things that improve the ability to collect and analyze huge amount of data also increase the amount and complexity of the data to be analyzed.
It's a bit like crypto: increased computing power makes breaking crypto easier, but it also makes it possible to build even stronger crypto. It's a perpetual race.
The ineffectiveness argument kindof drives me nuts. Not because its' wrong (it isn't wrong) but because it's allowing the terms of the debate to be derailed from the real argument (ubiquitous surveillance is wrong) to one of technical capabilities.
I agree. To me, "small town values" is a code phrase indicating all kinds of terrible things, probably because most of the time that I hear it, it comes from the lips of people who are defending terrible things.
I don't think that's what tqk is intending to convey with the phrase, though.
The way I see it, a properly functioning legal system does essentially two things. It restrains people from doing things that harm other people's person or property without their consent and it provides a way for people to settle disputes without having to resort to such harm. It's a practical thing: I think those are the bare essentials you need to be able to have a society that is larger than a handful of people. A law against murder would not exist because murder is immoral but because murder is harming a nonconsenting other.
Of course, all that is easy to say in the stark sterility of simplicity. That the devil is in the details is apparent at a first quick glance: what is "harm"? What is "consent"?
And we have haven't even got to your (quite correct) point: what is the appropriate response to breaking the various laws?
I guess the point I'm rambling towards is that this whole business of laws is really nothing more than an aspect of the business of human interaction -- and that's something that gets very messy very quickly.
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Re: What's the best API for the Facial recognition?
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In all fairness, everybody does this. Due to the state of our laws, you pretty much couldn't function in our society if you didn't.
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Re: Re: Re: Forced to lie
Not really. The company is free to say something like "if we were to receive such an order, we would not be legally allowed to publicly acknowledge it."
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Re: USApathy, The National Disease
That's from Democracy in America, written in 1831. Anyone who hasn't read this book yet, should.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: It's not surprising
Yes, this is me. There is no circumstance in which I would trust Facebook with any data about me at all, but particularly not something as sensitive as a crypto key.
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It seems obvious to me
The mistake has an obvious source: it must have been on the sheet of talking points that the NSA provided to them. What would be bizarre (in a good way) is if they even looked at any information other than those talking points.
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Re: I would care
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Re: Re: Re: Not sure what all the hubbub is about...
The President's main job isn't to represent the people's interest. That's the job of Congress. The President's job is Chief Manager and to represent the government to other nations. Also, to the extent that the President is supposed to represent the people's interests, almost none have actually done so in my lifetime.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: It's not surprising
I don't feel this way, personally. The scheme requires you to trust Facebook, and I don't think Facebook is a trustworthy company.
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I find that utterly amazing. I wouldn't touch that sort of system with a ten foot pole.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Even if he IS an employee, how's he eligible?
Your employment contract specifies what counts as misconduct.
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Re: Effectiveness Or Lack Thereof Is Not The Main Thrust
Ed C. is correct. The same things that improve the ability to collect and analyze huge amount of data also increase the amount and complexity of the data to be analyzed.
It's a bit like crypto: increased computing power makes breaking crypto easier, but it also makes it possible to build even stronger crypto. It's a perpetual race.
The ineffectiveness argument kindof drives me nuts. Not because its' wrong (it isn't wrong) but because it's allowing the terms of the debate to be derailed from the real argument (ubiquitous surveillance is wrong) to one of technical capabilities.
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Re: "a society based around small town values"
I agree. To me, "small town values" is a code phrase indicating all kinds of terrible things, probably because most of the time that I hear it, it comes from the lips of people who are defending terrible things.
I don't think that's what tqk is intending to convey with the phrase, though.
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Re: Transgressions
Of course, all that is easy to say in the stark sterility of simplicity. That the devil is in the details is apparent at a first quick glance: what is "harm"? What is "consent"?
And we have haven't even got to your (quite correct) point: what is the appropriate response to breaking the various laws?
I guess the point I'm rambling towards is that this whole business of laws is really nothing more than an aspect of the business of human interaction -- and that's something that gets very messy very quickly.
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