armitron

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by armitron 9y ago
How many fiascos with CAs do you need, not to mention protocol issues, to stop believing in HTTPS guarantees?
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by armitron 9y ago
Your absence from emacs-devel is felt, there was so much excitement when you were around.
813.
by armitron 9y ago
Do you have something concrete in mind when you refer to gnosis (akin to mystery school methods)?
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by armitron 9y ago
Morality is a human construct, tied to self-awareness which isn't necessary for (super)intelligence. There are theories that posit self-awareness as an evolutionary dead-end. If the stars are teeming with "machinic" intellige
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by armitron 9y ago
Obviously the narrative you put down makes no sense whatsoever, game theoretic and otherwise. For a better, much more realistic understanding of how intelligence agencies may react to something like this, I suggest you read Richard Heuer&#x
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by armitron 9y ago
"There are HN commenters that I think have more reliable takes on what's happening in the computer underground than Schneier." Can you name them?
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by armitron 9y ago
Carl Jung has written extensively about these "parts" of the mind. His process of "individuation", which is modeled on the alchemical spagyric -- take apart and reintegrate -- process, can be used by people today in ord
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by armitron 9y ago
Why would you use Google/OpenDNS/whatever when you can use dnscrypt [1]? [1] https://dnscrypt.org/
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by armitron 9y ago
Still looks like crap on OSX and Windows due to using GTK. I wish projects with aspirations of being cross-platform would stop using that shitty library and switch to QT.
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by armitron 9y ago
I do the same thing with some of the suggestions I described in my previous comments. Here is an older relevant thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12938269
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by armitron 9y ago
asdf-install is absolutely the [vastly] more secure and more efficient model in terms of software distribution since it places the author in charge of his own software and not some arbitrary middle man. You seem to think that convenience ca
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by armitron 9y ago
Debian has a dedicated security team with vastly superior understanding of security issues -- and more resources -- which simply isn't the case with Quicklisp. And even so, there have been Debian debacles [1] and allegations of comprom
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by armitron 9y ago
This still doesn't solve the problem of upstream security, since it requires clients trust the Quicklisp repository which is centralized rather than the individual package authors. The chain of trust is now bigger and more fragile. Qui
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by armitron 9y ago
Excellent read.
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by armitron 9y ago
Then prove it, list substantial codebases written in C++ that you deem secure. You'll find that it's not easy to do.
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by armitron 9y ago
It's not CBC but ECB.
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by armitron 9y ago
His ideas stand on their own and should not be polluted by armchair psychoanalysis or worse, immediate dismissal by people who are too lazy [or too stupid] to read and comprehend what Kaczynski has written. It should be obvious to any educa
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by armitron 9y ago
Rather than dismissing him in such a crude manner, why don't you take the time to read and comprehend what he has written - and, assuming you find any - try to point out the flaws in his reasoning. Kaczynski was a genius, among other t
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by armitron 9y ago
I doubt that teenagers exhibit this level of operational capability. I wouldn't even call commercial red teaming software (cobalt strike) up to par. Can you give us an example of tech at the very high end level?
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by armitron 9y ago
Reminded me of CPU interconnects.
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by armitron 9y ago
$2000-$3000 was the price per unit/copy. There is no information on the total amount they allegedly made. Thus he is not facing 40 years for a $2000 sale only. Some of the arguments of his defenders are so ridiculous they defy belief.
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by armitron 9y ago
Even when it comes to simple function redefinition, Python is __nowhere near__ the flexibility of Common Lisp and that's why things like pyrasite are gimmicks and seldom used in the wild. The underlying reason is twofold: + Python lack
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by armitron 9y ago
And does that inspire confidence?
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by armitron 9y ago
Watch hypernormalization for a radically different take.
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by armitron 9y ago
Assuming one has additional browser vulnerabilities, sandbox escapes and privilege escalation bugs. "Broadpwn" doesn't exploit main processor __anything__ by itself.
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by armitron 9y ago
I hate the term "high level assembly" when applied to C since it's loaded against assembly (in the sense of C as its superset) which is obviously not true. C is full of undefined behavior, assembly is not.
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by armitron 9y ago
This is a very superficial way to look at things, and ultimately, entirely wrong. One of the cornerstones of OPSEC is persona creation & management. This is orders of magnitude easier to perform in cyberspace than in real life, and can
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by armitron 9y ago
I think it's pretty clear that Chrome won the battle and Firefox is going nowhere but down. Personally, I can't see it happen fast enough. The security of Firefox is (and always has been) atrocious to say the least, and will get y
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by armitron 9y ago
But this is the point that you're completely missing. Perhaps you have not spent a lot of time with Emacs? The implementation language does matter a lot in this case, because the part of Emacs that is written in Emacs Lisp (~90% of E
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by armitron 9y ago
You have little understanding of this space, as evident by your comments re: Zerodium. Allow me to inform you that there are plenty of buyers that are willing to pay top dollar for such exploits, as are plenty of people that keep such explo

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