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by Asdfbla 9y ago
It's possible to write provably correct code, though. At least then you reduce the problem to the issue of correctly specifying what the code is supposed to do. Certain classes of contracts might be small enough to do that. Granted, th
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Always surprises me a bit because it seems to me like those large corporate players don't necessarily need all the features offered by Ethereum (or Bitcoin), especially proof-of-work, since there's enough non-adversarial cooperati
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Well, there's the simple fact (or what seems to be a fact at least, might not be true) that the reality of physics confines us to this rock, more or less. We don't travel faster than light, so at best we can achieve a Mars colony
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
While this would certainly be a blow for science in general, I don't understand why people are so enamoured with human space travel and think it's a realistic avenue for humanity to get out of the responsibility we have for Earth
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I always wonder where the upvotes for those posts that simply plant a link to highly specialized lectures/books that likely take months to work through (given a sufficient mathematical background) come from. Especially since the materi
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
The problem is such traditional calculus doesn't apply anymore in cyberwar. For one thing, your big "guns" weaken your own infrastructure, since you use about the same technology that your adversary uses too. Secondly, your g
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
What's the justification of traditional providers to charge for the certificates? Do they offer services or extended certificates that "Let's encrypt" doesn't or is it just a matter of "no one tried to offer it
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Never really thought of Apple as a defender of user privacy, but it does make some sense. They aren't in the market for ads, so there's no reason for them to make their users the product. I think it shouldn't be surprising th
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Interesting, thanks for the tip! I will check it out.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I remember that only a few years ago, in a computational statistics class I took the lecturer mentioned how SVMs (and Random Forests) have largely replaced neural networks. How things can change so quickly... I always liked SVMs for the ele
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
My takeaway from this post kind of is that there are probably too many variants and derivatives of SHA-3. Then again, these days normal developers should probably use some recommended interface of mature crypto libraries anyway and shouldn&
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Since questions about crypto came up, here's a summary paper by Daniel Bernstein about it: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/314.pdf Symmetric cryptography would be safe even with quantum computers (they just half the
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Thanks for your analysis, seems like a realistic reading of the situation. I wonder if the threat of the net going dark is really anywhere as bad as the intelligence agencies pretend, considering that there is more information available th
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I'm surprised the EU hasn't acted against Google already. Remember when they (rightfully) went after Microsoft and forced them to offer a browser choice? And that wasn't even the peak of the Internet Explorer monopoly. And ye
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
"during a meeting with FBI and FSB, a Russian official came to a member of the Dutch police team, pointed at someone from the FBI and said "he is copying your data". An investigator went looking and saw that indeed the Americ
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
While I don't really believe Apple will not also eventually succumb to the idea of making more money by incorporating tracking and selling out users, I really liked their initiatives for privacy-preserving data collection like the diff
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that homomorphic encryption was already advanced enough to be feasible for actual computation. Years ago I just read about the proof-of-concept systems that worked but were too slow. I'm still doubtful i
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I don't seem to get the efficiency table (or how efficiency is defined here?). Since Base65536 encodes 16 bits, why can't it encode UTF-16 with 100% efficiency? It says the efficiency is 64% instead. I'm sure it's true,
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I suppose Samsung tuned the system to avoid false negatives, which might be difficult in all the lighting conditions that might come up in real world use. It's a device for the mass market and average user after all. Might be that they
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
>Iris recognition may be barely sufficient to protect a phone against complete strangers unlocking it I suppose that's the attack scenario those systems (at least in phones) are supposed to protect against, to be fair. Suppose the a
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I guess it will unfortunately take a long time for the world to realize that the rules of "cyberwar" are different from the conventional military. (Of course, there's a lot of literature from security and cyberwar researchers
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
One of the side effect if states participate in the proliferation of offensive tools. Won't be the last time state-sponsored tools, exploits or backdoors fall into the hands of interested third parties. I think collateral damage like t
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I have the same problem on Firefox a 2560x1440 monitor. (Still very nice presentation though.)
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
If only intelligence agencies spent as much money and effort on securing its critical systems as they invest in sabotaging other countries' infrastructure. Maybe putting defense first would be helpful, especially considering how easy t
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
While probably not wrong, such lists about how to optimize my lifestyle make me anxious if anything. It kinda suggests if I don't start my fitness diary, self-improvement plan and life goal milestone list right now, I'm wasting my
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by Asdfbla 10y ago
It's very telling and somewhat disappointing that the Deutsche Post (not a traditional car maker) can get a fleet of electric cars up and running while traditional German automotive industry is still delaying as long as possible, showi
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by Asdfbla 10y ago
You say that as if everyone had the ability to changes ISPs freely. Consumer choice is irrelevant if there's nothing to choose from.
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by Asdfbla 10y ago
At least consumers still have https going for them I suppose? Or maybe ISPs are now more motivated to man-in-the-middle those connections to get to the data, under the guise of security or something?
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by Asdfbla 10y ago
I morbidly curious how many terrorist attacks we are away from actual laws that will attempt to outlaw encryption as used by WhatsApp (even if it wouldn't make sense to do that). Resistance against such measures outside of the tech sce
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by Asdfbla 10y ago
Well, the Pirate Bay probably never really caught the interest of totalitarian states that really wanted to suppress its existence. Now, the UK isn't at that point obviously, but if they really wanted to use draconian measures against

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