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antocv
13y ago
Indeed that is the problem, we are now at the point where you are marked a target for trying to keep some privacy between you and your friends, when you try to keep a third-party, the government, at bay your citizenship rights are temporari
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antocv
13y ago
I liked this part "In the case of instant messaging, we have merged the Skype and Windows Messenger message delivery backend services, and this now gets you delivery of messages even when the recipient is offline, and other nice featur
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antocv
13y ago
I see, my radar didnt go pick up on that. Well, not to nitpick but Linux also has a task manager, and in many desktops it is also called a task manager, I believe in KDE that was the kase.
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antocv
13y ago
How do you know that he uses Windows? I found his comment not very snarky, but quite interesting, indeed, one of the main arguments against Flash, and here we are with the same drawback with this amazing new technology.
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antocv
13y ago
What makes this "for developers"? Whats the difference if a sysadmin is reading this, or a Linux user? Im surprised to see this on the frontpage, it is less than basics in anything any hacker worth its name can do.
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antocv
13y ago
Because they wanted "BigBird" to be the same as "bigbird" or "BIGBIRD". Hence if you wanted to rely on a userId, you would still need to ensure all the variations of BiGbirD map to the same userId.
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13y ago
That would be damn interesting if during decryption it could exploit the decryptor software, PGP, and ping a server or two. Is that possible? To epxloit a decryptor software while it is decrypting something.
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antocv
13y ago
I may be on the edge but a "Trusted Platform Module" doesnt automatically let me conclude that indeed the hardware module is to be trusted. It seems quite unlikely the masses would have access to a trusted platform of any kind, es
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13y ago
They can and they most probably have done that. Even Iran and China did it, stole root CA private keys, kind of sloppy because we know. Coercion by legal means, moles or good old hacking or planting bugged hardware in the targets system and
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13y ago
That is correct yes. UDP doesnt have ports either.