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by albntomat0 4y ago
Since the headline is a bit click-baity: "Spoiler alert: I did not break AES, and this work does not concern the security of AES."
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by albntomat0 4y ago
To be clear, this isn’t a break of AES itself, but the implementation of a whole system, of which AES is a part.
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by albntomat0 4y ago
Just because something isn't a legally protect group, doesn't mean discriminating against that group is acceptable.
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by albntomat0 5y ago
That it does, but I understand that Bitcoin's deflationary by default nature has also been criticized. Bitcoin also adds new failure cases such as irreparably losing money through address typos and lost/failed hard drives, not to
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Given that the number of tenure-track professor positions is so low, isn't this to be expected? What percentage of the top schools is needed to fill all the positions? Top 5%? Top 10%? I'd be highly surprised if it the top 25% of
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by albntomat0 5y ago
I absolutely agree that there are numerous reasons why the numbers are not equal. My sole reason for posting is the "P0 is a hit squad against Apple/Mozzilla/Microsoft" comments that come up whenever their blog posts end
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Since this comes up whenever there is a Project Zero article, here is a summary I made in summer 2020 on the distribution of the bugs they find/report: Since this always comes up, here's an overview I made several weeks ago about
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by albntomat0 5y ago
“Over the course of their working lives, American college graduates earn more than a million dollars beyond those with only a high-school diploma, and a university diploma is required for many jobs as well as most professions, technical wor
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by albntomat0 5y ago
While your point is true, I'm confident in saying that vast majority of the 42.4% of Americans who have an obese BMI are not highly muscular.
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by albntomat0 5y ago
True, but there's a wide range of things that can be done to change how difficult it is to find those 0-days, while also provide good incentives to those capable of finding said O-days. Writing the iMessage parser in a memory safe lang
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Wasn’t there confusion recently on whether it was fully cashed backed (per their website), when USDC actually had a bunch of other stuff in it?
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A New Attack Surface on MS Exchange – ProxyLogon(blog.orange.tw)
4 points by albntomat0 5y ago|0 comments
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Adding on: Well educated parents are more likely to have the skills themselves to help with homework and are more likely to put more emphasis on academic performance.
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Since others may be curious, here is the discussion on those specific config changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830330
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by albntomat0 5y ago
> Not possible. Tether's terms of service explicitly state they have no obligation to redeem. Which also leads to a scenario where no one wants to hold Tether > Tethers only hold value so long as other people believe they do...wh
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Maybe? I don't think it'd be existential threat, but could be a massive shock/crash, in my opinion. I'll guess we'll have to wait and see!
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by albntomat0 5y ago
It could also be an issue if a large number of people try to redeem a large amount of Tether for USD. Ideally, it would be easy and high trust to go from Tether to USD and back. This requires high confidence that the various backings of Tet
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by albntomat0 5y ago
In my understanding, part of the issue is that we can't value or risk assess the backing ourselves. This is due to the lack of transparency on whose commercial paper Tether is holding, etc.
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by albntomat0 5y ago
How would a custom Uber on Solana app work differently than the Uber of today adapted to accept a standard cryptocurrency with sufficient throughput?
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Honest question: How is that different from proof of work, where those with significant resources (1%, a nation, etc) can spend significantly on mining equipment?
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Restler – Stateful REST API Fuzzing(github.com)
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Both can be true. SpaceX had the first reusable first stage, and Tesla provided large improvements in electric vehicles. Maybe those wouldn't have been possible for someone lacking the confidence/exaggeration of Elon Musk at the h
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by albntomat0 5y ago
That way also makes reading/writing a buffer go from top to bottom, similar to reading/writing normally.
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by albntomat0 5y ago
I definitely understand what you're saying. Whether or not a technology's pros outweigh its cons is some appropriately weighted average across all the people that it affects. The person who gets hit by crypto-enabled ransomware li
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Yes, and it's pretty clear that computing as a whole comes with a huge amount of downsides (hacking, revenge porn, video game addiction, etc). It's also pretty clear that the overall benefits outweigh the downsides. I'm perso
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by albntomat0 5y ago
Your argument ignores whether or not the technology makes the crime significantly more likely. Technology comes with negative externalities. The cryptocurrency world needs to accept that it does have negative externalities, and show that t
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by albntomat0 6y ago
I think we agree, that it solely serves as clickbait to the rest of his point. My initial impression was that there was the implication that something significant is being given up, which is not the case.
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by albntomat0 6y ago
I appreciate the author's point, but it's not like selling the diploma prevents him from saying he went to Harvard, nor does it allow the purchaser to claim that they did themselves..
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by albntomat0 6y ago
It’ll have to be a highly concentrated effort, as (to my understanding) taxation policy is pretty much prisoners dilemma. One state has incentive to have slightly lower taxes than all the others to get companies to incorporate there, and th
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by albntomat0 6y ago
For those looking to learn the basics of v8 exploitation, there have been a handful of CTF problems on it, including the following recent ones (many with writeups!): - PicoCTF 2021: Kit Engine, Download Horsepower and Turboflan - Hack The B

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