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by afreak 11y ago
I met him when he was visiting Vancouver a few years ago and had exchanged e-mails with him a few times. It's really sad to see him pass away.
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Canario: In-depth analysis of data from breaches and public sites(canarypw.wordpress.com)
2 points by afreak 11y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 11y ago
12,000 transactions per hour translates to 200 transactions per minute or 3 per second. However, you're being generous here because what you're suggesting is what it currently does at best, when in reality it is anywhere between 1
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General Motors says it owns your car's software(autoblog.com)
3 points by afreak 11y ago|1 comments
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by afreak 11y ago
> Meanwhile, with most credit cards, the entire interface is that you hand out the secret directly. Maybe they'll even make a carbon copy of it with a click clack machine depending on where you live, and this is acceptable. So accep
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by afreak 11y ago
> For the things where reversing payments is a desired feature, you can build that on top of crypto-currencies (e.g. by using an escrow), so is not like it has to be the wild west. As it stands with credit cards, it's 180 days maxim
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by afreak 11y ago
> Meanwhile, you give your credit card number to someone and they can just pull money out of it Here's a Bitcoin private key: 5JcgxNrn4WFcA8trEix7ComAyLNEsDEyBqYVjEo8JaaXWQQNg1u Now you have the ability to drain whatever coins are i
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by afreak 11y ago
> As someone who has been robbed by PayPal I find bitcoin to be quite useful. So I buy a service with Bitcoin and it ends up being fraudulent, how do I get my Bitcoins back? If I buy a service with my credit card and it ends up being fra
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by afreak 11y ago
This is precisely it. The idea that Bitcoin is going to work better than credit cards because you cannot claw transactions back and saying it leads to leads to less fraud is absurd. As a consumer, I like knowing that if I purchase something
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by afreak 11y ago
> What is with the attitude you have? I wasn't going on about anything, really. You brought up transaction times which are related to confirmation times. Anything other than bitcoin is molasses-like. How is a credit card "molas
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by afreak 11y ago
This is what you said: > Credit cards take 180 days for the transaction to confirm. Now you're going on about chargebacks. Of course the window for a chargeback is going to have a lengthy period of time. Chargebacks involve a manual
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by afreak 11y ago
> Credit cards take 180 days for the transaction to confirm. Paypal is able to be clawed-back for up to almost the same amount of time. Cash can be counterfeited. Even some bank wires can be clawed back. Bitcoin works as a payment mechan
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by afreak 11y ago
This was posted in the duplicate thread: ================================================ There are three types of people who are into Bitcoin: 1. People who are in it out of sheer curiosity. 2. People who are in it to get rich quick. 3. Pe
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by afreak 11y ago
> How do you quantify a failure? I think that Hearn's article can answer that for you.
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by afreak 11y ago
There are three types of people who are into Bitcoin: 1. People who are in it out of sheer curiosity. 2. People who are in it to get rich quick. 3. People who have been scammed into it. The people who are in it out of curiosity are the peop
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by afreak 11y ago
> They are using companies to do it. There are also multiple bitcoin atms in other countries. Also a company in thailand has made it so anyone can send btc to a code, and someone using that code can get cash from the atm. Have you ever u
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by afreak 11y ago
And how many of these anecdotes do you have going here? BTC is not simple enough to allow regular people to send remittances to other countries. Also you're willfully ignoring the fact that Bitcoin doesn't scale. Are you telling m
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by afreak 11y ago
Why do people assume that Bitcoin is going to revolutionize the banking sector when it cannot even scale? Why would we want to subject the poorest to a system that won't be able to handle at best more than a handful of transactions per
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Bank of Montreal has horrible password policies and does not store them securely(colin.keigher.ca)
3 points by afreak 11y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 11y ago
You're more likely to see a copyrighted episode of Dexter removed from YouTube if someone complained than to see it improved. You seem to be grasping at straws here. Kimble Schmidt is getting what he deserves.
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Internet Identity, Threat Intelligence, and a Need for Cooperation(colin.keigher.ca)
2 points by afreak 11y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 11y ago
Well considering that the author went on to work at Apple, it sort of makes sense. I don't think he was explicitly told not to continue development, but it is likely that some sort of boilerplate part of his contract restricts him.
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by afreak 11y ago
It should be noted that certain 680x0 Macintoshes could run a real UNIX, created by Apple no less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX What was unique about it was that it could run System 7 applications alongside
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Comcast Breach by the Numbers(colin.keigher.ca)
3 points by afreak 11y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 11y ago
This sort of reminds me how some IRC servers that engage in hostmask obfuscation can have it possibly reversed via a table lookup because the seed value used to produce that is generated at compile time based on epoch and said time is gener
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Geotrust/Symantec has revoked all SSL certificates for .pw domains(colin.keigher.ca)
157 points by afreak 11y ago|99 comments
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What's in a name? Retiring the name “Canary”(colin.keigher.ca)
1 points by afreak 11y ago|0 comments
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Alex Stamos to Become CSO of Facebook(facebook.com)
88 points by afreak 11y ago|40 comments
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by afreak 11y ago
Actually in further consultation, BC Hydro is not affected.
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by afreak 11y ago
This is the device that BC Hydro uses I think: https://www.itron.com/na/productsAndServices/Pages/OpenWay%2... And here is the spec sheet on the CENTRON itself: https://www.itron.com/na/P

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