justadudeama's comments

Couldn't you open it in a browser? Or does it want to install regardless of if you open Adobe?

It's also illegal to lie to a boarder agent, and that would probably include this.

I agree with this. If anyone from GitHub is here, there should be an option to "create new repository and give access for this course" option.

What line of work are you in that makes this such a issue for you when you travel?

So if I follow all this advice, how am I supposed to receive or send sensitive documents?

> If you deal with sensitive documents like legal artifacts in immigration cases, you want to have control over which of your documents wind up in the cloud and which you retain custody over.

This is incredibly easy with Dropbox or Google Drive. Everyone I know who uses these services has an intuitive knowledge for 'stuff in this folder goes in the cloud', and if they wanted to keep sensitive data off it they would know exactly how.

I am on an iPad, so no mature options for encrypting it myself with pgp or something really exist. I shouldn't upload it to a cloud service (although chances are that it already is, because pretty much every iOS app uses a cloud of some sort). I shouldn't email it. I can't plug in a physical usb device because iOS doesn't have File reading access to. I guess I convince everyone to use Signal? That is pretty impractical for 'normal' people to convert everyone over to their own messaging app.

Also, on your phone, what browser do you use? Chrome? Well, not really because it is all webkit under the hood, so you are going to be using Safari no matter what.

Oh wow, I never checked the date. Thank you!

I feel like there is conflicting information still.

> Google Mail is, for most people, the safest email service, with the most mature and comprehensive 2FA, direct connectivity to GDocs to make viewing attachments safer

> If you work with sensitive documents (this checklist was originally devised for journalists and the airport lawyers), all the cloud drive services (not just Google Drive) are a bad idea.

So is Google Drive a good idea or a bad idea? Maybe for normal people Gmail is good, but in the next point you say this list is for journalists and airport lawyers, wouldn't you advice them to use something more secure like fastmail/proton mail, or if you are serious, your own mail server or something? Why does this list not talk about TOR / PGP, the most fundamental tools for security for journalists?

> Chrome is the safest browser with the most mature and reliable anti-exploitation hardening and the most responsive security team.

I don't think this is true at all. What is wrong with Chromium or Firefox open source alternatives? Why doesn't it mention things like no-script and ublock origin?

> iOS devices are, for most people, far more secure than computers, which aren't locked down at all and for which any kind of local code execution is almost invariably game-over all the way through the kernel, and at least game over for all of the user's data. Most computer users are never more than an errant couple of clicks away from losing their whole machine to an attacker, which is not the case for someone reading their mail on an iPad.

My fundamental problem with this is that if you are going to be doing things on an iPad you are almost certainly going to be using cloud services. Weather it is Google Docs or Pages or Word or anything, it is very difficult to keep things 'local' to your hard drive on a iPad, where on a computer with dropbox it is much more clear that files in there are going to leave your computer.

I feel like this has some conflicting advice. Use Gmail but don't put sensitive information on Google Drive, but do use Chrome?

> Do as much of your work as possible on an iPhone or iPad rather than on a laptop. Use a bluetooth keyboard for easier typing.

Is that serious? I mean sure, iPhones and iPads are generally less prone to viruses and such, but I feel like it is generally safe to use computers, and if you do other things on this list you won't end up with an infected computer. In addition, if you are doing most your work on these, it is almost guaranteed that all the information is going to be sent to iCloud / another apps 'cloud'.

I wish there was a follow up for this article. At the end it says

> Special arrangements will have to be made between Iranian and US authorities.

Which makes it sound like they worked something out so that this doesn't effect their travel.

I don’t understand this. Are the hash values stored somewhere unencrypted?

I am not so sure about this. I think more and more non-tech things are going towards Slack. A lot of non-technical companies use Slack, and it is in constant use as a University student as a improved group chat.

I highly doubt it, even for American citizens at the border. The "Border search exception" pretty much says that anywhere within 100 miles of a boarder, the fourth amendment doesn't apply[1]. I imagine they would make a similar rule for the fifth amendment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_search_exception

I agree with this as well. Reading this book really helped me get organized.

Some of the information on it is getting a _little_ bit dated. In particular, it talks a lot about the different 'contexts' you have your tasks to complete, like at home, at work, at a coffee shop, etc. I feel like this holds up a little bit less nowadays, because almost the entirety of all my work can be done if I have my laptop with me.

This book is a great foundation for you to build off of and make your own 'system'.

USB C != Thunderbolt 3 != Thunderbolt 3 < 1m, but all of them have the same port.

Things like charging your phone can be done with USB C.

Things like external hard drive are generally done with Thunderbolt

Things like External GPU's have to be done with a Thunderbolt cable that is less than 1m

All of that said, I am not 100% sure of all of that, because it is all so confusing.

What advice would you give to undergraduates that are interested in getting a Ph.D who don't have the best of grades?

This is why I personally don't love using Windows. The user is left with duplicate, inconsistent experiences like Control Panel and Settings, Edge and Internet Explorer, all because Microsoft is too afraid to cut off old APIs.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, supporting things longer than Apple, and shorter than Microsoft.

I think this is a delicate balance as a user.

On one hand, I understand the commenters frustration over constantly changing API's. I understand that it is difficult and not fun and a lot of work.

On the other hand, as a user, I appreciate the fact that Apple forces people to update their code. I don't know how true it is, but there are roomers that Microsoft didn't release Windows 9 in fear of code that checked to see if the Windows version started with "9". Look at Windows first party apps, you have things like control panel and settings, two apps that have no excuse for being duplicates besides the fact that Microsoft refuses to stop supporting legacy code.

In my opinion, software is something to be maintained. Maintenance is ugly and isn't glamorous (won't see BBEdit on product hunt anytime soon), but is necessary. I think the user and developer experience would be worth is software written 25 years ago ran perfectly on my computer, I don't want that.

How are they going to enforce it if you don't mind me asking? When it expires doesn't that mean they can't enforce it?

Edit: Ah, trademark, not copyright, sorry!

James Mickens has a great part of a talk where he talks about this: https://youtu.be/7Nj9ZjwOdFQ?t=1574

A little too close to home.

Isn't this what hiring talent is for? I feel like companies who are interested in the best research going on right now, are either going to do it themselves or hire someone who is familiar with the topic. I don't know though.