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Comment · 7 years ago
The problem is that it doesn’t matter if someone is told something isn’t true, their beliefs aren’t changed.
Comment · 7 years ago
The concern around deep fakes is that they could be used to trick people, fair enough, but apparently tricking people doesn’t require much, if any, believably. Throughout history up to today people are tricked by the most obvious untruths with disastrous consequences on large scales.
Comment · 7 years ago
It would be nice if this was one tool, rather than two overlapping tools with some incompatiblies between them.
Comment · 7 years ago
It works quite well, but you need a host that isn’t blocked, and they tend to block AWS IPs, so you have to change the IP every now and then. For browsing SwitchyOmega works well with ssh.
Comment · 7 years ago
My AT&T iPhone wasn’t blocked when roaming in China, it seems they make exceptions for foreign phones. They’re censors are very clever at knowing where the limits are.
Comment · 7 years ago
It’s not the same, Comcast and other ISPs don’t tamper with HTTPS, and if they break the HTTPS connection then it’s a clearer problem for the ISP to troubleshoot than corruption.

Sorry I don’t understand what double wrapping has to do with it, or why you’d ever do that.

Comment · 7 years ago
Yet it’s actually not simpler for the user, since their transfer can then be tampered with either by accident or intentionally leaving the user with a broken download and then what do they do? A redownlaod from a different mirror makes no difference.
Comment · 7 years ago
Which countries? I’ve only seen HTTP connections tampered with in practice, and China’s GFW blocks HTTP no different than HTTPS from what I’ve seen.
Comment · 7 years ago
He never explains why he wants to use HTTP, it’s only about why he thinks HTTPS isn’t nesscary.
Comment · 7 years ago
It’s missing customer acquisition cost, this is pretty important imo because it gives you a framework to measure and explore ways to improve it.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
It’s satstics applied to cultural anthropology in its current form, it doesn’t have a hard underpinning and changes from culture to culture. So it’s just relative opinions most of the time.

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