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by aplorbust 9y ago
Whomever controls DNS controls Web PKI. True or false? Please explain your answer. You may assume "controls DNS" means potential control over delivery or content of unencrypted DNS packets, e.g. the operator of a parent nameserve
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by aplorbust 9y ago
More than a few comments trying to rationalize why Skype is different under Microsoft. (Supernodes are controlled by Microsoft, not users.) Also some comments exhibiting misconceptions about the relative feasibility of peer-to-peer network
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by aplorbust 9y ago
FYI re: PoC NS for hacker.toys not responding
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Reminds me of this, one of my all-time favorites: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/juggling_with_packets.txt Guessing date as circa 2003. Could be wrong. As for DNS, djbdns can store arbitrary bytes in RR (e.g., TXT), as octal.
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Pedantry: There is only one independent claim, making it even easier.
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by aplorbust 9y ago
FWIW, I just tried gathering some current 1 user-generated Yelp Data from Internet Archive and it was very easy to gather a list of all restaurants for a city 2 and then all reviews for each restaurant. 1 https://web.archive.or
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by aplorbust 9y ago
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/la... "for their empirical analysis of asset prices" Laureate Schiller is the author of the article.
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by aplorbust 9y ago
What is Bitcoin Really Worth? By ROBERT J. SHILLER DEC. 15, 2017 Robert J. Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, is an adviser to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, part of the CME Group. These are his views, not those of the exch
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Wikipedia: "Signal relies on centralized servers that are maintained by Open Whisper Systems." Would it be possible to use the same open source proto and crypto that Signal chose, but in a way that does not rely on third parties
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"This means the privacy of your end-to-end encrypted group chat is only guaranteed if you actually trust the WhatsApp server." "This undermines the entire purpose of end-to-end encryption." "And yet, the entire poin
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"... the bounds of criminal law should not be defined by the preferences of website operators. And private companies shouldn't be using criminal laws meant to target malicious actors as tool to enforce their computer use preferenc
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by aplorbust 9y ago
What does Telegram have to do with WhatsApps problems? The reasonableness of the WhatsApp design decision is ultimately to be determined by users. If users have no insight into the design then we can hardly say they have already decided on
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Would this logic be applicable in reverse? For example, do users explicitly consent to myriad shady practices by advertisers and others when using the www simply because they use the www? Do they "explicitly consent" to all these
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Over the years I learned most of what is in the early OReilly book below through daily use of the commonly used programs it describes. However I still go back to this book for the troff examples. The troff manuals I have seen are fine by m
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by aplorbust 9y ago
The problem with so-called "web APIs" is that usually they function as a way to get users to "sign up" to a website in order to use it, then to track them by some token, rate limit them at will or ask for fees. This is
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Greg Jorgenson is a typical programmer." Then who are all these commenters in mailing lists, forums, blog posts and source control systems who are proclaiming code they cannot read as "unreadable" or 'unmaintainabl
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Is there any non-artistic reason..." I have seen some programmers quoted as saying they believe writing programs is "art". I think one of the interviews with Arthur Whitney has him saying writing programs is analogous
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"A series of awks and seds look clever but they are annoying to deal with." Would the following be annoying for you to deal with? #!/bin/sh sed 's/#.*//' \ | sed 's/:/#&
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"Unpopular but probably very true fact: ..." Another unpopular but very true fact: "Email", the technology, not the business, can be defined as party A depositing an RFC811 formatted message on the computer of party B. E
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by aplorbust 9y ago
Blog states that author has 20 years of development experience. Blog post suggests he knew little of basic shell scripting until recently. Blog also reveals he is selling a book on shell scripting with Bash, "Learn Bash the Hard Way.&q
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by aplorbust 9y ago
"How many people are doing that?" Probably very few. AFAIK, wired keyboards were never officially supported. Plus one needed the "Camera Connection Kit" adapter (later rebranded as Lighting to USB connector). Plus some U
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by aplorbust 9y ago
How many RPi users are using this board to run untrusted code? The RPi may mitigate risk of these attacks simply in the way it is used. Perhaps hobbyists use it to run their own small programs, not random third party Javascript in an enormo
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by aplorbust 10y ago
I think http://kparc.com/lisp.txt would be easier for the HN crowd to digest. Better marketing. K is like Scheme but with vectors instead of lists. If you cannot handle the one character APL verbs, you can always sacrafice
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by aplorbust 11y ago
"... smart people don't want to work on it." That's encouraging. At the same time, there are some clearly talented authors of networking code working in advertising (well, at least one). Impressive. I cannot comment on
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by aplorbust 11y ago
Someday maybe we will have small, pocket sized computers with enough RAM to run all our processes with space to spare. There will be no need for swapping. There will be fast recompilation. And no need for shared libraries of functions.
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by aplorbust 11y ago
"I wonder if there are sites..." Imagine a future where common sense prevailed. "Sorry, your browser is too complicated. Be smart and downgrade to something more secure." (Replace "secure" with whatever word o
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by aplorbust 11y ago
Do you ever feel that companies that do online advertising are not the best use of your talents? Is there no choice in life? Nothing better to work on?
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by aplorbust 11y ago
"...making their OS specific to their computers..." As a non-Linux open source project OS user, I am continually faced with driver deficiencies as a result of hardware specs being under NDA. A recurring idea I have which I am here
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by aplorbust 11y ago
Amoeba was mentioned toward the end of the Hanson paper you cited above. I have read about Convergent in the past, but had not read the Hanson paper. Thank you for that.
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by aplorbust 11y ago
I can appreciate the response from "alvin" in the superuser comments. Too bad networking was not part of early UNIX; sockets could perhaps have been part of the "carefully selected set of fertile ideas" that could be &qu

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