TheEskimo

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   by TheEskimo 15y ago

   At this point software patents are broken beyond repair. The express purpose of patents is to encourage innovation. They're being used only to dampen innovation now. Why is that? The main reason is that patents, when created, are absurdly b
2. 32.▲
   by TheEskimo 15y ago

   Sadly Mt Gox used salted and at one point unsalted MD5s for its passwords. Finding a collision would be far easier with that consideration taken into account.
3. 33.▲
   by TheEskimo 15y ago

   You missed the option of SpiderOak. It's very similar to dropbox and, to my knowledge, has impeccable security.
4. 34.▲
   by TheEskimo 15y ago

   My reason for not using LastPass is because it is proprietary. In fact, there has been an XSS attack on them in the past which was somewhat successful. I use KeePassX because it allows me to avoid laying trust on any proprietary entity. At
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   by TheEskimo 15y ago

   Just for example: Let's say I want to log into google's jabber service with a non-web client (pidgin or something). If I used firefox's built in password storage I could not easily log in. This applies to passwords that are not web based. I
6. 36.▲
   by TheEskimo 15y ago

   If you wanted you could write your own userscript to hide HN items with "LulzSec" in the title. This is not a feature that is needed as LulzSec articles are interesting to at least some of the community (they get points ... Clearly people w