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by Gasp0de 4y ago
This reads like it was written by echelons public relations department. Would you post an apple advertisement to hacker news?
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
My chainsaw runs on Aspen, which is a synthetic replacement for gasoline. It doesn't cause a headache when I'm exposed to the exhaust fumes for long times. It's quite expensive though, about 4€/l (15€/gallon).
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
No, see, this is the key difference: Right now, they can only get my biometrics if I travel to the US, which I don't. With automated access they can just guzzle up all the data of all the people and use it for whatever. We've seen
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Not every step needs to be automated, no. What's wrong with the way it is right now? I hand over my passport at the airport, it has my fingerprints saved on it and they can check those against whatever databases they have. No need to a
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Maybe this is the reason they started demanding this now, that before they could just ask Britain but because of Brexit, Britain has lost access to European biometric data?
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
The concern is they want to access biometric data in an automated fashion. The USA are known to be careless and/or evil when it comes to dealing with sensitive data. Why can't they just run someones fingerprint at the airport agai
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
So the same government that has just lost the biometric data of millions of afghan people (including afghan employees of ISAF military whose life is now in danger because of this) and merely shrugged when asked about it now wants access to
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
They were through a bug in the API.
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
It's not that difficult to do though? Just implement a mechanism that re-encrypts when the user enters their password.
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Use available and widely used libraries for the low level crypto parts (e.g. don't code RSA or key generation on your own). Apart from that, get audits if you have the means but I guess using libraries like openssl should be enough for
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
I am not from America, but iirc bail doesn't exist after you have been sentenced to jail, it's only to make sure that you will come to your trial? In Germany, you are only held in jail in the time before the trial if there is a re
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
How has this even made it here? There is not a single hard fact to be found, e.g. how many kWh of energy do they need to capture 1kg of CO2?
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
But afaik, solar panels currently convert only 20% of the energy to electricity, can you explain why this is close to the theoretically or practically possible maximum?
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
This is currently done in Germany (and possibly much of Europe).
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Bla bla bla "I fucked up" Blah blah "But ultimately it's everyone elses fault and my only mistake is being the CEO while other people screwed me" Bla bla bla
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
So 0.3% of the worlds greenhouse gas emmissions by JUST replacing a few propellers doesn't seem significant to you? Can you name another measure that would reduce emmissions in a similar scale with a comparably low effort?
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Have they disclosed the data? I think the title of the article is misleading. In the content, it says that they have been ordered by a court to disclose the data, but not that they have (they have in other cases though).
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
The only threat that comes from Signal using phone numbers is that if the police arrests someone you are communicating with, and police somehow unlocks their phone ( https://xkcd.com/538/ ), then they can see what you an
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
If you want an anonymous messenger, Signal is not the product for you. If you want a secure messenger that doesn't (and can't) collect any data on your communication, and at the same time (due to the lack of anonymity) prevents sp
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Yes, Signal is not an anonymous messenger and it is not meant to be. It's a SECURE messenger, that will not reveal metadata or message contents. It DOES reveal who you are, which is intentional and important to prevent spam. Without th
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
So what exactly do you think will happen? The government tells signal "We know that simiones phone number is +1 12345678, give us his registration date!"? I don't get your threat model.
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
So what exactly is your threat model here that signal doesn't counter? They need to know your phone number before asking signal about it.
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
While Signal does require a phone number to register, they only know your phone number, your date of registration and the date of your phones last connection to signal's servers. Anyone requesting your information from them needs to pr
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Thank you so much for the detailed answer! I will propose this as a possible solution, but seeing the costs and effort I assume a different solution than actually owning any IP addresses will be chosen.
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
We are already a customer at hetzner.com, so this might be one way to go. I am wondering what product will give me a more stable IP though, a floating IP or a dedicated server which I exclusively use as a reverse proxy.
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
We do have a solution like this for chinese customers, using stunnel and tinyproxy. However, it adds quite a bit of complexity to the customer side config which I would like to circumvent if possible. Also, this is in an industrial setting,
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
We are using a domain name, but customer firewalls use fixed ip addresses.
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Ask HN: Can I own an IP address and take it with me across providers?
48 points by Gasp0de 4y ago|59 comments
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
Just host the data on the darknet somewhere with hundreds of cheap VPS as internet facing fronts. Some countries still have strong protection laws for journalists (e.g. scandinavian countries, iceland) where these VPS would probably stay up
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by Gasp0de 4y ago
In Germany you cannot build "positive credit" by spending money. I also think this is inherently unfair. As long as you never defaulted on a loan or forgot/failed to pay a bill you automatically have a perfect credit score in

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