This is hands down the best contract I’ve ever seen. Hats off to O’Brian and the rest of the negotiation team. It gets a much needed pay raise for the Part Time guys and gals, has strong language for keeping cameras and spy-tech out of our faces, and addresses much needed safety issues. I’m looking forward to sitting down and reading the contract in full in the next couple of days.
Not a backdoor. A backdoor is when there’s a secret key or method that’s deliberately builtin to sidestep the encryption.
Instead, they created an encryption algorithm that only used 32 bits for the cypher key. That was a design choice to comply with the Arms Export Control Act back when encryption was considered a munition. This is roughly equivalent to putting a really crappy lock on your front door. Anyone with the proper skillset can get past it.
The real problems are:
They used a proprietary encryption algorithm: TEA1. This is highly frowned upon because an algorithm needs to be tested repeatedly by experts in the field to prove its worth. Or as they say, don’t roll your own because you WILL mess up.
The hid the algorithm from scrutiny using a non-disclosure agreement. This was basically security through obscurity. There were people that knew it was broken but let it fly under the radar.
They continued to use a broken algorithm when it should have been deprecated over 20 years ago then left out of future products.
It’s all implemented on a bunch of hardware that can’t easily be upgraded.
There are 4 people in the FCC that get to vote on policy, 2 democrats and 2 republican. The republican ones are just Comcast and att lobbyist. The democrats don’t suck but can’t do anything without a third vote. The president gets to appointment someone to be a tie breaker, but Biden didn’t do it until after midterm so they no longer had the votes to get her approved, and by the time the current one gets through the next election will be happening so nothing will get done. If Biden wins another FCC voter will have to step down and wait for Biden to pick a replacement and Congress gets to approve or Biden losses and the republican appoints another lobbyist.
Maybe read the article before being a total shitass.
While the readings would’ve been considered a possible outlier or sensor error, surrounding buoys recorded similarly high temperatures, with 99.3 F at Murray Key and 98.4 F at Johnson Key.
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