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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>How is pen testing of iPhones stealing Apple's secrets? Did you read the article? The CIA -- in addition to pentesting -- is trying to exfiltrate GID keys of Apple devices. That is quite literally, trying to steal Apple's sec
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Regardless if you think "copyright" increases or decreases quality of life, it is irrefutable that it violates Natural rights. If I memorize an illegal number [1], then I've made an copy that the corporate/state doesn&#
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>the most important job of a UI designer [...] is how you communicate with your users. >[...] it's too common that people [...] put aesthetics first. While aesthetics don't need to come first in a design, they do allow a lar
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>I didn't expect big corporations would get their "privacy" violated by tacking apps. Why? Corporate espionage (either collecting metadata for speculation or exfiltrating corporate secrets) has the highest incentives aroun
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If a single party in a chat has their keys reset that's not a MITM attack because a MITM would need to rekey to both parties. If the two clients communicate via at least one uncompromised service to communicate that their counterparty
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Same story, different halvening: "A digital commodity which is the only kind in the world whose supply function is solely governed by time had an extreme absence of ask liquidity and unrelenting demand which caused prices to increase ~
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Issuing invoices and paying directly in the terminal via Bitcoin's Lightning network would be pretty cool add-on. Machine to Machine payments: Say you deploy a bitcoin miner to stranded gas. It starts to mine coins and can start payin
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For senders and recipients who have execution privileges, OnionShare has: Much lower trust assumptions Functionality for dropboxes https://onionshare.org/ https://github.com/micahflee/onionshare
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The closest you could get to OP's idea is to have a human-readable, non-configurable (but minable) mnemonic that maps to a public key.
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>The moment [cryptography] becomes a viable way to subvert the state, they'll just change the laws. Does that sentence make much sense? Government decrees don't eradicate goods, they create make black markets. >if people ac
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>You're supposing It's a single example of the value of decentralized property rights. Say I'm an alcohol maker in Sharia-law country, I want to be able to make wine but prevent the state from expropriating my wealth beca
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>Even if you could somehow do this...That simply will never be possible You already can: bitcoin. >I doubt you would actually really want to do this even if you had the capability If I'm a Jew in 1930s Germany or a grocery store
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>a 51% attack is practically impossible today It appears you think a 51% attack is when an external agent attempts to out hash the network. This is only one type of 51% attack. A 51% attack means there is a almost equal amount of hash r
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>are you making the point that ultimately, all authority derives from violence? Authority is different from aggression. If Alice and Bob, ex ante, agree to have Mandy the mediator settle a contract they have willingly given her authorit
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>Bitcoin is wasteful because the increasing energy costs does not increase the total number of transactions that can be processed. Are you saying the number of transactions the market will demand of a system is independent of the trust o
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>[Bitcoin] is dwarfed by other forms of distributed wealth storage such as [S.A.] old fashioned pieces of gold Hi can you let me how I can immigrate out of my country with $10e6 without thieves at the airport taking my wealth? If we can
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>all transactions are public Not the case, see payment channels.
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>economic interference does not equal war Please tell me how you are able to interfere in trade without violence. Interference necessitates violence. If country A has a ban on products from country B, country B sends a ship with produc
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I provided the link for jurisprudence context, not to support an argument of transgression of the Japanese legal structure.
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By this reasoning, an economy which banned all imports would thrive more than one where trade wasn't micromanaged. Do you believe isolationism is a wealth-maximizing strategy? >makes you less vulnerable to foreign economic pressure
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Searches and Inspections in Noncriminal Cases https://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-04/05-searc...
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
"We take your privacy and security very seriously"
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The policy is called Protectionism ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protectionism ) and is a subsidy paid by local consumers to local producers. It biases local producers towards less naturally-profitable production and
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I wonder if the Apple representative who said this would be "fixed later this week" realizes this allows any attacker to wiretap any iPhone user (that has the vuln)
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You're talking about T&D redundancy when I'm talking about an open market of competition. You don't have to have T&D redundancy to have open market of competition. If you live in an area with an abundance of sun and
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This isn't a privatization of a public service, it's a state-granted monopoly. If private property was respected, you could freely associate with another provider. Citizens of California can't.
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Järlström didn't claim he was a Professional Engineer (a very specific certification) just an engineer. This case is akin to someone who does wood working in their house (maybe even studied it) calling themselves a carpenter but not a
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>any multivariate Monte Carlo analysis that doesn't show your sensitivity to correlation is essentially useless This rational is why this tool shouldn't be used for anything consequential -- like business decisions that can sin
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2018 in Review: Bitcoin Protocol Improvements and Proposals(bitcoinops.org)
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Ever since we've been at war with Eurasia

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