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by antics 13y ago
Yeah, I agree with pretty much everything you said. I too think they could do a lot of things better. Yes, they've been really really slow to fix known issues. I did not mean to denigrate your work, which seems solid. :) I'm just
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by antics 13y ago
Yeah, I mean, my major point is that Snapchat cannot deliver the services without trusting the client at some level, but that trust cannot be guaranteed.
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by antics 13y ago
I'll see if I can put it briefly. Maybe Chad will show up, he's much better at this than me. The problem basically comes down to the fact that Snapchat needs to be able to discriminate between clients that are legit, and clients t
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by antics 13y ago
Hey Chris, how's it going? Yeah, I just dropped Bobby a note. I was like: "here's what I did", and he was like, that's pretty cool, how did you get in. And then I described the exploit. And then we had a short conve
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by antics 13y ago
I'm one of the authors of Snapchat FS [1]. In order to build this, my coauthor Chad and I had to reverse engineer their API, which included decompiling the Android APK and snooping around for the call site of util encrypt. While a lot
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by antics 13y ago
Meh, I literally ctrl-F'd and looked for "encrypt". Worked on the first try. You're right about the keys though, I always forget which keys get used for what.
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by antics 13y ago
Hey, I'm one of the authors. Our process was: * Use MITMProxy to execute a man-in-the-middle attack, which lets you see all the packets in plaintext. It's a command line app which prettifies the packets in a readable way. * From t
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by antics 13y ago
Hi, I'm one of the authors. I don't read PHP, but you're right that we're not the first to get through the API. We might be among the first to misappropriate the service for use of storing and managing arbitrary files, t
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by antics 13y ago
When I saw it on HN frontpage, I freaked out and started adding more customization and features. :) As we speak I'm writing the feature that will allow you to use a config file ('~/.snapchat_fs') to configure, e.g., the
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by antics 13y ago
Hey, I'm one of the authors. In fact you can delete a file. Just "view" it in the app and it gets deleted. What you can't do is delete it from the command line! As for your "is this useful" question, I use it t
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by antics 13y ago
The short answer to whether that is a good phrase to be using is that it depends on where you are. Outside of the wind tunnel of American politics, "liberal" tends to mean that many liberties are afforded you, with the implication
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by antics 13y ago
Thanks for the spirited reply, Perceval, but I don't see a place where you justify a disagreement with the substance of my position. What I do see is you bragging about your acceptance to a nice school. Not to belabor the obvious, bu
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by antics 13y ago
Almost a year ago to the day, The Economist ran a leader ([1], also cited at the bottom of the OP) that described itself as "radical centerist", blatantly "stealing" ideas from both right and left. The surprisingly poor
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by antics 13y ago
I am a member of one of the underrepresented groups aphyr mentioned in the "who is this for" section of the intro. Let me tell you what effect the discussion these HN comments threads have had on me. aphyr's introduction seem
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Twitter's IPO in simple terms(blog.nullspace.io)
2 points by antics 13y ago|0 comments
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Replacing Python(roscidus.com)
173 points by antics 13y ago|139 comments
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by antics 13y ago
A lot of the comments here claim that the deal breaker here is the culture. This could come off as glib, but is Silicon Valley really in any position to be complaining about another culture being too homogeneous, or too exclusive of "d
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by antics 13y ago
I don't have the Apple //e in front of me, but I remember this not being present on our version of ProDOS.
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by antics 13y ago
The C code that encodes the audio is listed in the dependencies section [1], and ADTPro is freely acknowledged there. However, I'm more than happy to add some reference to the post because I think you're right. EDIT: Aaaaaand ackn
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by antics 13y ago
Is this sort of anti-hack mentality one of the reasons why, in some versions of ProDOS, there was a conscious decision to omit the assembler, and to encourage programmers to use BASIC? (Our version, in this article, for example, had no asse
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by antics 13y ago
We (or I) actually read your writeup before approaching this, Ron! It did impact some of our design decisions. :)
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by antics 13y ago
But then it wouldn't have been a hack! We wouldn't have had to understand anything to get the job done! ... Though, credit where credit is due, the C code we used to generate the audio signal actually is pretty much a direct port
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by antics 13y ago
Interestingly, in practice the laptop-to-A2e audio transmission almost never fails -- the fidelity is probably not an issue anymore. FWIW, we would have picked a better way to transmit the data if we'd had more hardware. This was basic
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by antics 13y ago
This is true, of course, but our point is that there is not a lot of stuff separating the lisp from the machine -- no OS for instance. It's just a machine that runs lisp and nothing else.
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Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1(blog.nullspace.io)
169 points by antics 13y ago|62 comments
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The obvious Python parser(blog.nullspace.io)
16 points by antics 13y ago|0 comments
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by antics 13y ago
Absolutely not. I have been quite impressed with each and every female participant. It is incredibly obvious that no one in the batch was a pity case. But even if you don't believe this anecdotal evidence, consider that the ratio is wo
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by antics 13y ago
To be clear, there is no "tuition" and therefore no "tuition assistance". The living stipends are provided by external companies, like etsy, and they are provided as an outreach effort. Now. On a purely practical note, H
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by antics 13y ago
The picture this article is painting is almost completely wrong on every point that matters. First of all, the NSA has not sponsored development of Accumulo for more than a year. The gist of the story is that companies that charge to suppor
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Google proposes to buy the Provo,UT fiber network for $1(transmission.xmission.com)
6 points by antics 13y ago|0 comments

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