agreenberg

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by agreenberg 5y ago
Sure, traditional finance is also subject to powerful forms of financial tracking. (Though in some respects, Bitcoin is even less private: https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-drug-deals-silk-road-blo... ) Monero is desi
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by agreenberg 5y ago
Author of the article here. Can't help but ask: Do you not believe that Bitcoin's blockchain sometimes allows powerful forms of financial tracking? Are you aware there's a whole industry that of companies designed to do exact
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by agreenberg 12y ago
To address your points: I'm not sure where to find someone with this expensive machine. I know where to find Shapeways.com pretty easily. And as I wrote above regarding your second paragraph, a precisely-printed key surely is more reli
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by agreenberg 12y ago
Yeah, the story doesn't mention printing anything from your own $1,000 printer. Shapeways sells much higher quality 3D printing as a service, which is why these guys used it.
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by agreenberg 12y ago
How much does that Easy Entrie machine cost? I'm seeing something like $10,000. A 3D-printed bump key ordered from Shapeways costs $5, and surely works better for obscure keyways than the ad hoc stuff you're describing.
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by agreenberg 12y ago
"with the correct resources." Yes, the story here is about resources. Now they're not nearly as much of a hurdle, as you say.
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by agreenberg 12y ago
"If I have access to a mill"..."rubber vacuum set" These sound more expensive and harder to obtain than a Shapeways key ordered by mail for $5.
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by agreenberg 12y ago
Yes. The feature of these locks is that now you can bump them with 3D-printed keys.
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by agreenberg 12y ago
So tell me how one would have bumped an Ikon SK6 in the past.
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by agreenberg 12y ago
Author of the story here. Like I wrote, 3D printed bump keys make locks that weren't easily bumpable in the past more easily bumpable. That's not a 50 year-old idea. Likewise, if your 3D-printed lock picking tools were more effect
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How The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Us: A Detailed Timeline(forbes.com)
1 points by agreenberg 13y ago|1 comments
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Android App Scans Barcodes To Show Which Products Support SOPA(forbes.com)
1 points by agreenberg 15y ago|0 comments
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by agreenberg 15y ago
Done.
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by agreenberg 15y ago
Just discovering this thread...I'm the author of the article linked above, and I actually wrote a follow-up to the story a couple of days later. http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2011/03/09/tsa-nev... The DHS was totally dishonest