A1kmm

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by A1kmm 11y ago
> There’s been speculation about whether the UK, China or > the NSA are to blame — but today’s revelation strongly > suggests that it might have been the US. Why would the NSA infiltrate Juniper to change the Dual EC DBRG paramet
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by A1kmm 11y ago
I think the dream of homomorphic encryption ever being practical (at least for what I would consider practical) is unrealistic. Let f(x) represent the encryption of x. I would assume that a practical system has the following properties: *
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by A1kmm 11y ago
'Native' usually means one of two more precisely defined terms: * Indigenous - it got there without any human intervention. * Endemic - it is not found anywhere else. I imagine that many sea birds would be indigenous ther
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by A1kmm 11y ago
I suspect the author of the article is American. Everyone thinks that their own accent is neutral and measures everyone else relative to that. As a non-American, the mentioned singers don't sound American to me, although I would also a
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by A1kmm 11y ago
> But what if the otherwise loathed real name policy could > be turned to service this particular need? The link between a real person and a Facebook account isn't secure - I could make an account with your name today without to
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by A1kmm 11y ago
While it seems (based on other comments) that the product mentioned here doesn't do that, if the phone has an alternative link (e.g. GPRS / 3G / 4G) data link to the server that stores the credentials, it would be possible to
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by A1kmm 12y ago
> find a seemingly unrelated reason to terminate you (or > make you leave). That doesn't make sense. The guy who is going around harassing people is creating the liability, not the victim, and will probably create more liability
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by A1kmm 12y ago
> That's a failure at the management level, not the developer's level Management don't necessarily accurately know how much effort the work will take. They can ask developers to estimate this, but even then it will not alw
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by A1kmm 12y ago
It is a radar device so the speed of sound is irrelevant. The speed of light in air (and hence the refractive index) does depend slightly on temperature / pressure, but not by very much: https://physics.stackexchange.com&#x2
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by A1kmm 12y ago
If you physically protect your book sufficiently and don't let anyone who is a threat see it, and choose strong passwords (which baNana3 isn't for most purposes - it's only 7 characters long, and based on a dictionary word wi
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by A1kmm 12y ago
It is better than using the same password everywhere, but not by much. When password databases are leaked, there have been instances of people / groups who take passwords from those leaked databases and try to log in on other sites (fo
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by A1kmm 12y ago
The person who gets to decide how to break down policy into binary decisions and when to ask questions is the one with all the power here. Suppose they want to suppress a 49% minority who care far more than the 51% majority and will pay far
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by A1kmm 12y ago
> This website is simply _enabling_ people who intend to > violate this (potential) term of their airline ticket > agreement. Which might, in some jurisdictions, open the website operators to claims of tortious interference ( htt
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by A1kmm 12y ago
The article doesn't mention anything about clinical trials or anything beyond anecdotes and some n=1 experimentation that Cronise did on himself. And yet he has already started selling a product. That is really the sort of thing that n
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by A1kmm 12y ago
Intent matters. Microwave ovens generate RF radiation to heat food, not to stop radio devices inside the microwave from operating correctly.
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by A1kmm 12y ago
It was pretty obvious fiction, and I assumed it was satire, but I still can't work out what exactly it was satirising. It has the feel of being a satirical allegory of something; a ridiculous premise and lots of details about it.
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by A1kmm 12y ago
I'm not sure the document released actually reflects the claims in the articles. It looks like the intent is not to delay them forever, just to make sure that they don't look silly for allowing any more patents that don't mak
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by A1kmm 12y ago
RMS's line of thinking here is an example of coming up with a rule (i.e. use Free/Libre software on your computer) that approximates the right thing to do to achieve a certain outcome (maintain control of your computing and avoid
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by A1kmm 12y ago
https://github.com/wybory2014/Kalkulator1/blob/master/Kalkul... - if you can't connect to https://syswyb.kbw.gov.pl/ , try an unencrypted connection to http://klk.kbw.gov.
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by A1kmm 12y ago
From the article: I think that It's very unlikely that Parallels will release any significant fixes or improvements for described mechanisms, because any reasonable fix will break the easy way of opening Windows docume
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by A1kmm 12y ago
It is a side channel that breaks the intention of the protocol - Bob and Charles are 'good nodes', one of who paid for the meal. Alice (bad node) is not supposed to be able to find out if it was Bob or Charles who paid. If the par
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by A1kmm 12y ago
Lets say that Alice, Bob and Charles play this game. To simplify, let's say heads is 1 and tails is 0. Then the scheme can be defined using XOR. r1 represents the value of the coin Alice and Bob can see, r2 represents the value of the
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by A1kmm 12y ago
Storing the operations for ever is not necessary - they could apply an upper bound on what latency is reasonable; the server then could coalesce changes into groups (sorted by position in the document, transformed into a position at the end
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by A1kmm 12y ago
Usually states make laws in good faith to solve real or perceived problems like unsafe taxis and unfit drivers. Then those who get through the process lobby to raise the barriers higher to protect their 'investment' in the process
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by A1kmm 12y ago
Or less charitably, candidate-Obama said things he didn't believe in that would get him elected, and elect-Obama acted based on his beliefs. I agree that the head of the executive and the legislature could change things if they wanted
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by A1kmm 12y ago
We have only heard one side of the story, written by the author herself. It is very easy to paint someone in a misleadingly bad light even without lying by selectively presenting facts and writing the story so that the reader draws incorrec
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by A1kmm 12y ago
Once the public adapts a term or practice from an in-group, it is usually futile for members of the group to fight it. Hacker, troll and inline posting (vs top-posting) are a few examples, and there are many more where specialised crypto &#
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by A1kmm 12y ago
I think that the article trying to imply a stronger link between apologies and the law than really exists in practice. Corporate apologies are not about trying to win a lawsuit or reduce damages, they are about trying to regain trust and pr
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by A1kmm 12y ago
To an extent it is; if your phone never connects to any WiFi device (and instead uses GPRS / EDGE / LTE etc... to a mobile carrier), and your laptop only ever connects to your phone, then the probes the attacker will see are for y
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by A1kmm 12y ago
I am skeptical of the security of the self-organising map based scheme in the paper of his own (s)he links to in the article, despite the Fourier-transform based hash scheme. For a start, the scheme requires all passwords to be stored in pl

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