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by andreyf 13y ago
I'd be really surprised if journalists who published leaks weren't well aware of digital fingerprinting, since protecting sources is integral to their profession.
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by andreyf 13y ago
I'm skeptical how accurate voiceprinting can be after all the distortion/compression of a cell signal. If you have a device you use to have contacts you want to keep secret from the NSA, you probably shouldn't call your friends on it.
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by andreyf 13y ago
Not surprising. Metadata (i.e. who you talked to, for how long, etc.) does not currently have the same privacy protections as the actual content of your communications. Jacob Appelbaum, an associate of Wikileaks and core member of the Tor p
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by andreyf 13y ago
Interesting. Who runs libgen.org? How are they in compliance with copyright laws?
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by andreyf 13y ago
It's not dead, it's behind a paywall, just as on the site you linked. Can anyone post the actual pdf?
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by andreyf 13y ago
Check without cookies (incognito mode in Chrome).
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by andreyf 13y ago
Mr. Jifa is obviously very inventive and resourceful, but dynamite fishing is actually quite detrimental to underwater ecosystems, kills more fish than are harvested, and because of this, is illegal in most of the developed world. "Underwa
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by andreyf 13y ago
If he can't afford to pay a parking ticket, he probably can't afford a good lawyer.
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by andreyf 13y ago
I didn't realize this was part of a standard. Could you link to the section you're referring to?
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by andreyf 13y ago
Did it stop being relevant? It did, since Apple now allows competitors to their apps in their store. I usually use Google Maps/Mail on my iPhone in leu of the Apple-provided apps.
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Humble Double Fine Bundle, Now with Bitcoin!(blog.humblebundle.com)
10 points by andreyf 13y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 14y ago
Just give me a unique url I can send my friends. You can provide a link for me to send post it to Facebook without my having to log in. As someone else pointed out, the HN crowd cares more about our privacy than the public at large. Respect
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by andreyf 14y ago
Why do you need my real name, facebook profile picture, gender, networks, facebook user id, list of facebook friends, and birthday for me to play this game?
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by andreyf 14y ago
I think it's a play on Suzy's op-ed "To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me".
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by andreyf 14y ago
> This website is dedicated to watching Internet Explorer 6 usage drop to less than 1% worldwide, so more websites can choose to drop support for Internet Explorer 6, saving hours of work for web developers. Hours of work? I think if yo
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Life lessons learned as a software engineer(plus.google.com)
3 points by andreyf 14y ago|0 comments
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by andreyf 14y ago
They weren't too busy because the author did all the work for them: all they had to do was walk half a block and arrest a guy.
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by andreyf 14y ago
Good call, I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by andreyf 14y ago
tl;dr: TOR traffic looks like https, but can be detected via traffic analysis. There is more info on how traffic analysis can chip away at TOR users' anonymity in this paper: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/oakland05torta.pdf
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by andreyf 14y ago
The user could detect that, though, so it's a no-go.
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by andreyf 14y ago
That makes a lot of sense. In that case, it seems the easiest way to wiretap an iMessage account would be to compromise one of the devices. Not surprising that the DEA doesn't have that kind of expertise/authority, though.
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by andreyf 14y ago
The popup (and e-mail) only notify you that a device has been added to your account. The approval is done by logging in with your Apple ID.
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by andreyf 14y ago
The messages don't always arrive in the same order between the devices, so it's definitely not passed from one to the other. I imagine the senders encrypt the message with every public key in your keybag. Someone who actually knows should w
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by andreyf 14y ago
I've seen the message notifying me that I've added a new device to the account, yes, but what does that have anything to do with the encryption? When someone sends me an iMessage, their client sends as many copies as I have devices?
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by andreyf 14y ago
> Apple claims that the private keys are known by no party including themselves Source? How can I add a new device (e.g. Messages on OSX) and get all the messages between my phone and friends?
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by andreyf 14y ago
> mapWith is the self-curried right partial application of the map function. If that seems like gobbledegook to you, it's because I'm using jargon. Reginald say "jargon" as if he's proud of it, but for this example, the more pejorative
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by andreyf 14y ago
But only the first time, after that it's bypassed (even after I clear cookies?). It says "Oracle" on the bottom right, maybe it's some product of theirs... Edit: oh, every linkedin help center page says "Oracle" in the bottom right? I never
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by andreyf 14y ago
I could swear learning somewhere that it's because forcing short/simple passwords makes it harder to recognize the password in keystroke logs, which is the attack vector banks face the most. Can't find any sources to back that up, though...
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by andreyf 14y ago
> Don't read on unless you are free to read patents, as usual. What does this mean? Why wouldn't someone be free to read patents?
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by andreyf 14y ago
> Except for all the tooling built into github that would have to be replicated locally somehow. What tooling? The issue tracker and code comments? I imagine the uptime requirements aren't >99% for those, but if you absolutely need

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