Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44212908

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

If someone wants to run another platform, go for it. Of course are shortcomings in iOS (as with any system), but viewing entire problem space of security and privacy, the default install of IOS + Safari could rarely be any better for the average consumer. This is why Security and Privacy is literally a paid feature of the IOS platform, and anecdotally everyone professional I know (who isn't in tech) is using IOS devices.

Personally, I'm planning to blocking RCS and any third party app stores on any of my own (and families) devices -- again, control and minimizing attack surfaces and eliminating an entire class of issues is better than trying to manage them to no end.

2. Deep fakes will precipitate the need for digitally signed media. This likely means further reliance on root-of-trust systems like x509 certificates or some new international body designed to issue a new form of lightweight signing mechanism that works at low resolutions/low bandwidth.

3. Continued climate change will result in at-least one major U.S. city losing population due to feasibility/costs of providing either clean water or breathable air.

4. China and Russia will split their version of the internet entirely apart from the traditional internet and will sell products and services to other countries to do the same (I.e. Iran).

5. The era of horizontal drilling and fracking for ultra-cheap gas and oil will slowly wind down and energy costs will increase to 2000’s era costs.

6. Most ominously: this might be the first decade where we see large scale orchestrated micro-drone attacks (death by a thousand paper cuts) and autonomous vehicles being used for delivery of some kind of malicious purpose (I.e. explosive delivery).

7. Massive inflation globally during 2010/early 2020’s will result in stagflation in the U.S. and other countries.

As far as sports, your average engineer isn’t typically consumed by them, but half the engineers I’ve worked with from the bay seem to be fans of whichever team is doing great at the moment (warriors or giants or often the sharks).

I’ve also done more sport fishing and crabbing here than anywhere else I’ve lived.

I think the huge numbers of foreign residents have a large impact on the overall culture compared to say rural Texas, but it doesn’t seem too far off imho.

One other point is just how many super packed country concerts there are at shoreline.

Tl;dr San Jose/SV is just as country music/sports obsessed /game and fish oriented as the rest of the country (if you don’t surround yourself with non-North American engineers for eg).

Edit: on mobile, autocorrect at word.

ESNI as it has been developed to essentially require two other components to work properly:

1) a large scale cdn 2) a trusted dns infrastructure (i.e. DNS-over-HTTPs or DNS-over-TLS).

So people are absolutely right that in distant future when IPv4 fronted sites go extinct, it may be possible that site hostnames can be correlated to a set of IPv6 address(s). ESNI doesn't and can't solve for that. I imagine that as the internet continues to become more and more centralized, a few large CDNs will host most (or very close to all) internet traffic through a few sets stabilized anycast addresses (thus obfuscating any individual hostname among many hundreds or thousands of other sites as they would all correlate to the same ip blocks).

That being said, I still don't understand why it's so important to have the SNI on the "outside" of the tunnel. Seems like we should have another layer before the symmetric key exchange where the sni is exchanged on its own.