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by Perseids 13y ago
For everyone who was also looking for the tweets: https://twitter.com/pbarreto/status/395378161631784960
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I guess when there are some more established exchange services they could slowly pull some of that money out in relatively good anonymity. (Assuming that a more established service would not sell their name to the press.)
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> What these revelations reveal is that the NSA supplemented the data they got on a case-by-case basis through NSLs by outside-the-datacenter fiber taps of traffic, as well as upstream unencrypted HTTP and SMTP/IMAP traffic. Which s
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Why is the traffic in the fiber cables not encrypted between the endpoints? That would instantly nullify the attacks. Is AES hardware not cheap enough yet?
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> I use Windows exclusively and wouldn't touch SkyDrive because it didn't have clients for other operating systems. I don't understand your point. If you only use Windows what is holding you back from using SkyDrive? (Exce
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> and then go on to list obscure commands and software packages that have to be tied together in just the right way? Which one of these is actually obscure? curlftpfs is just a remote mount tool, SVN/CVS/FTP - I don't thin
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Even though I know that IP addresses are just 32 bit of data I find it very interesting that browser support these representations out of the box. There is no reason to and from a security point of view it is even detrimental.
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> Polish high school students indeed know more and are better at problem solving than most US high school students, * that said, there are high schools (public!) in the US that offer university-level courses and are excellent, * and univ
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I just stated the definition of having one and only one solution, yes :). That was kind of the point I was making. I originally intended to write a statement specific to ODE, but was then to lazy to look the specifics up ^^.
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As a more advanced examples take a look at perfect hashing. Without some randomization an attacker can produce collisions for any fast hash functions and thus degrade your hash table to the worst case possible. This was a real DoS attack ve
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> I remember reaching the level of ordinary differential equations and realizing that "most" non-linear equations had no exact solution at all. This may be a bit theoretical for most readers, but every ODE that has one and only
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Quite interestingly, the axioms mathematics is build upon do not let you decide every question that you might come up with. As such in mathematics not everything is black or white. For example, the continuum hypothesis is independent of
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I'm sorry, but do you actually read what I am writing? "For unrelated reasons [...] I would prefer to leave names out of such blog entries" First of all, I did not say anything about shutting up in that sentence. Second, even
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Please calm down. Neither have I said that, nor do I believe it. For unrelated reasons - namely that I don't believe naming and shaming is a working justice system and that it diverts from the underlying social issues - I would pre
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> If you want to say what she did is problematic then you have to argue that she is lying. Plain and simple. Do you do that? Can we stop having these black or white discussions? After more then half a year, there is no such thing as the
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Some people live their lives online, others don't. I won't comment on how much benefit of the doubt he deserves, but whether he defends himself on the internet or not should be totally irrelevant to that decision. 99.9% of us are
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> A situation like this doesn't call for debates or intellectual analysis. I would wholeheartedly agree with you, except that with the way attention is focused on the web and on the news in general I feel like there is no other time
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It is also amazing what can be done programming in brainfuck. That something is powerful enough to do the job does not mean that it is a good tool to do the job.
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As far as I have understood the draft in the context of my mental model of TLS, there already is a counter available for every message to prevent replay attacks. And if you get one for free then using it is definitely better than using a ra
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6524430 . What I would be interested in is to have a religious scientist explain how he can choose to believe (for example in an afterlife) against statistical significance. I fo
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Yes, but as a scientist I see no reason to believe in some specific unprovable concept over any other. I find Christian believe as arbitrary as Muslim believe as arbitrary as anything else I can come up with. So how could I believe in any o
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Even if there are different realms, I don't see how I (personally) can use different ways of reasoning in these realms. I'm quite certain that believing in some afterlife (as opposed to total oblivion after death) would make me mu
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I don't think it's hacked. I got them the other way around: First Martin's Killer and then the TrueCrypt Review. My guess is that their software is severely broken.
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> I'm just curious if it's the security industry itself is particularly in need of better communication of best practices and things to avoid. The thing is, there is no such thing as a security industry that would be interest
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Why? Given the company's graceful response she has probably done them a huge favour with all the extra publicity. > If it is, it's pretty stupid - I'd never hire her for anything that entails responsibility after seeing th
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Is there some way I can donate money via Amazon payments? It would be vastly more comfortable.
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by Perseids 13y ago
> Ignore them — you do know, what are you doing, right? No, I don't :). I heavily rely on my CVS to never loose any data and to be able to go back to a previous state whenever I need to. This works great with Git's reflog. >
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One of the great reasons to use Haskell instead :D
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You can use the same argument about debuggers, dependency managers, editors, etc. If you are happy with whatever tool you are using, why change?
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The underlying data structures do matter, even with mercurial. One workflow I immensely appreciate with Git is locally committing some series of messy changesets and commit messages and then afterwards, when I have finished the feature, tid

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