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by Buge 9y ago
I'm not sure it's worse, since it requires users to type their password into a non- google.com domain. Whereas the oauth phishing, everything was on google.com so it looked legit.
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by Buge 9y ago
3/4 of the page above the fold is dedicated to creating fake tweets and attributing them to Trump. I wouldn't call that truth.
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by Buge 9y ago
It isn't just outside of tech that people cover their webcams. Mark Zuckerberg does it[1]. EFF sells webcam covers[2]. James Comey does it (although maybe he's not exactly tech)[3]. I've seen articles claiming Snowden does it
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by Buge 9y ago
What percent of the top videos on Youtube were pirated from Viacom? Because according to the Kurzgesagt video, 73% of the top 1000 Facebook videos were pirated from Youtube.
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by Buge 9y ago
Was there any evidence that any phishing went on with that certificate?
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by Buge 9y ago
That's essentially what brainwallet did. Your bitcoin private key was deterministicly generated by your password. So using a list of common passwords, private keys could be pregenerated by attackers. So anyone who "created" a
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by Buge 9y ago
It depends on what the goal of the DRM creators is. If their goal is to prevent copies that most people would consider watchable, then they would not consider the iPhone to defeat the DRM. But some screen recording technique with framerate
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by Buge 9y ago
>Video playback only has one code path, instead of totally separate browser and plugin video pipelines. Video codecs are complex, so this means less security attack surface. Nope. For any effective DRM (aka what all browsers use) the vid
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by Buge 9y ago
>top-grossing game by worldwide iOS + Google Play revenue Does Google Play work in China?
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by Buge 9y ago
Same with Google right?
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by Buge 9y ago
She told him no, then he pushed her into a corner and kissed her. How is that not sexual assault?
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by Buge 9y ago
Title comes before reading. And reading comes before commenting (hopefully).
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by Buge 9y ago
Where did you get that link? Was it one of the sample links? I don't think those are real links. But if you type in https://facebook.com and click "Make it look dodgy" it will give you a real link. http:/&#x
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by Buge 9y ago
How is this relevant to the article? The article never talks about social engineering, computer security, encryption backdoors, or terrorism.
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by Buge 9y ago
Why is that? You can break patents without ever knowing the patent existed. So looking at this code wouldn't trigger a new patent problem. And simply looking at some code, closing it, then later writing code that does the same function
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by Buge 9y ago
More important than the Internet? More important than computers? More important than electricity? That's ridiculous.
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by Buge 9y ago
Do Hacker News moderators count as Big Brother? An website can decide how it wants to moderate itself.
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by Buge 9y ago
Are they requiring all communication to use e2e encryption? That seems like a restriction on freedom. What if I want to use some other protocol?
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by Buge 9y ago
> politics in democratic systems should transcend this immature behaviour. Yes it should. But in highly politicized subreddits, left or right, it doesn't.
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by Buge 9y ago
They clearly had a fluent Chinese speaker working with them. https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/blog/linguistic-analysis-wa... Of course I'm sure the NSA has a number of fluent Chinese speakers.
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by Buge 9y ago
And then they use a Chinese VPN. You can't stop a nation state with by geoblocking.
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by Buge 9y ago
You clearly haven't been following the front page of hacker news. From yesterday: Russia hacking US elections https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14547091 From 2 days ago: Russian government hacking Ukranian power gri
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by Buge 9y ago
You are correct that it seems the NSA is unable to tell the truth to the public. The NSA never stated publicly that WannaCry is from North Korea. >The NSA declined to comment.
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by Buge 9y ago
Sorry I don't know much about Mac update schedules, and just took the previous commenter's word that it was outdated, since no one seemed to be claiming otherwise. But the author also says he runs 10.9 in another partition, and cl
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by Buge 9y ago
I'm not saying Windows is more secure than Mac. I'm saying up-to-date Windows is more secure than outdated Mac.
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by Buge 9y ago
They're both vulnerable. Therefore the author shouldn't criticize Windows for being more vulnerable than Mac, when the Macs he promotes are just as, if not more, vulnerable.
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by Buge 9y ago
So they got a court order against Microsoft to hand over a hotmail account simply because the account was copied on a mass reply-all chain about a rat in a barbecue grill where one other person on the chain was under investigation? That see
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by Buge 9y ago
It's not AES-GCM-SIV causing you to lose indisginuishability. Every single other encryption algorithm also loses indisginuishability on nonce reuse.
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by Buge 9y ago
>like grep, but for binaries It doesn't really seem like grep to me. grep takes 2 inputs: a text and a search string. bingrep only takes one input, a binary. Without a search string it's hard to really say this is like grep. It
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by Buge 9y ago
I search nike on google and I get an ad. The ad is for nike.

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