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by agd 11y ago
Yes, this seems to be a case of users not understanding how Tor works and malicious exit node owners taking advantage.
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by agd 11y ago
He works at the Intercept so presumably as seen the real set of documents held by Greenwald. The aren't all released for obvious reasons, not least because the source said they shouldn't all be released.
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by agd 11y ago
This story is very dubious. Timing very suspect. No official willing to say any of this on record yet they do a simultaneous briefing to the BBC and Sunday Times? China and Russia both decrypting the cache? Notice how none of the actual quo
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by agd 11y ago
But if people are concerned about performance, they can just pre-allocate/memoize the symbols. It doesn't seem like the registry adds any new functionality, and it might encourage use of globals. Surely that's a bad thing?
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by agd 11y ago
I guess I don't understand why the global symbol registry exists. If someone wants a global symbol map, they can create their own. What else does this add over a user implementation, and what are the use cases?
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by agd 11y ago
Call Symbol.for(string). This accesses a set of existing symbols called the symbol registry. Unlike the unique symbols defined by Symbol(), symbols in the symbol registry are shared. If you call Symbol.for("cat") thirty times, it
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by agd 11y ago
In London, lots of shops/bars support contactless card payments, and everyone I know has contactless bank cards. Doesn't seem to be a strong reason for mobile payment right now.
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by agd 11y ago
I believe PGP does support multiple recipients. The symmetric key is encrypted and included for every recipient.
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Record breaking clock invented which only loses a second in 15bn years(theguardian.com)
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Clockmaker John Harrison vindicated 250 years after ‘absurd’ claims(theguardian.com)
199 points by agd 12y ago|60 comments
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by agd 12y ago
It's kind of hard to make sense of that graph without a vertical axis scale. I can't even tell if it starts at 0. Is there a version with scale?
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by agd 12y ago
Great display of one of the reasons why GCHQ and the NSA can intercept so much.
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by agd 12y ago
What is more remarkable is that it's taken this long and cost so much money to get here. Assange's lawyers and the Ecuadorians have been asking for this for years.
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Can a Bitcoin-style virtual currency solve the Greek financial crisis?(theguardian.com)
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by agd 12y ago
Presumably, if they prosecuted the people responsible then Bush would end up in jail? Can't see the US doing that.
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by agd 12y ago
> Google has around 90% market share for search in Europe It's a complete monopoly and the barrier to entry is huge. Might be a good thing to break them up.
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by agd 12y ago
So even if you disable the location feature it still tracks your location? I'd be interested what they mean by 'broad location tracking' but I can't imagine that it's consistent with their anonymity claims. e.g. see
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by agd 12y ago
> That's entirely impossible under EU law. No it isn't. You have admitted yourself that it would be possible if the UK gave consent (which they would). > The obvious conclusion is that the US is not especially eager to get t
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by agd 12y ago
The original story (with more depth) is here https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...