Posts by joshperry

Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode

Re: "Who actually WANTS their car to be self-driving?"

This. I think it's become quite apparent that the powers-that-be have no clue how to solve the traffic problem in cities. I believe they are hanging their hopes that self-driving will fix it before the transportation system completely breaks down.

I come from a relatively small city, Salt Lake UT, and the traffic is so bad that they can't add roads fast enough. Even the 12-lane N/S freeway has become saturated already. They are pulling out all the stops to implement novel traffic control(diverging diamonds, continuous flow, dynamic direction lanes, left turn after intersection), but it doesn't help much and are actually somewhat more dangerous as people are forced to understand them in situ.

Re: Full Self-Driving (Supervised) mode - what's the point?

The point is to train the Tesla FSD AI. Without a flow of human-created data around disengagements, it can not progress. Much like Satan, AI cannot create; it requires the spark of the human soul. In my mind, it's quite a shame the results of such a large undertaking is all to the sole benefit of a private corporation (the safety concerns notwithstanding).

Let's authenticate: Beyond Identity pitches app-wrapped certificate authority

I've been using FIDO with a hardware token (yubiko) for years and it brings game changing usability and security to sites that implement it. It is also now supported on mobile devices using NFC to communicate between websites and the same hardware token, I'm not sure why the HSM in modern mobile devices couldn't also play this role. This new company sounds like they're just bringing middleware for weaving together the ugly authn world that corps deal with, a la Auth0.

There are a few problems in the general identity space, and I think penetration is the largest. The most important attribute in an identity system isn't authentication, it's trust, and almost nobody is trying to build a system that includes it. Thawte's Web-of-trust was an interesting attempt, but because of the number of users it never got large enough to work as intended.

The honest truth is that normal people just don't give a shit about security, and in a lot of ways they really don't need to. If more people cared, PGP wouldn't be the pinnacle of our p2p PKI systems. It doesn't matter much anymore anyway, the internet that most people use these days is just a sterilized corporate and government propaganda tool where your identity is used primarily to track and profile you.

systemd-free Devuan Linux hits version 1.0.0

Excellent

Really enjoyed this article. Thank you.