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by ars_technician 13y ago
What don't you get? It's exactly facebook's goal to get critical mass to get the network peer pressure. If it's my goal to create a product that forces people via social pressure to do something, it's definitely my
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>Median household income in SF in 2011 was $72,947. You just proved my point.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>The processor could recognize that it is in common key generation code This is very unrealistic. It would mean that processors have to be shipped with every crypto library implementation baked into the hardware. Any update would immedia
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by ars_technician 13y ago
It's not checkmate. It's a completely unreasonable threat model. How would the processor know where the entropy pool used by the operating system is? How would the processor even know it's performing crypto operations that it
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>The existing 'good' entropy could be known by the hardware PRNG. That's a different threat model that doesn't exist here. These devices don't have free access to wander around main memory.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
How easy is to detect off-by-one errors looking at assembly?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>At least one person who is not the author seems to have liked this book, so I challenge the assumption that it "appears to be a bad book". Do you know why user reviews exist? >If you have enough time to reply to my dumb com
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by ars_technician 13y ago
The time scale in fact can go the other direction and still favor cars. It's about cost per use. If you drive every day like many Americans, it's cheaper to own a car than to use a cab. The number of people that fly enough to need
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>Cars are analogous. No they aren't. Many people need a car every day. Almost nobody needs a plane every day.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
How do you envision goods being delivered to people then?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Your sarcasm implies that he doesn't want to put effort into reading what appears to be a bad book because it doesn't have a return, which is a crappy assumption. People have a limited amount of time, and there are far more good b
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Right, but it's harder to detect subtle manipulation. It only takes a one bit error to reduce the key space by half.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Sorry, that's not how entropy works with XOR. If you do not know one of the inputs to an XOR, you know nothing about the output. XORing random sources is great because it acts as a minimum function for entropy of all of the sources. As
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by ars_technician 13y ago
People that are actually wealthy love this kind of misinformation. If they can get the society focused on hitting people that happen to have an upper-middle-class income hard, it takes the heat off of people that are actually wealthy. Screw
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by ars_technician 13y ago
People with the median income don't live in silicon valley. 50k goes further in the midwest than 100k in SF.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
That's exactly their goal. Get as many people to use it as possible so it will be painful to not use. Then exploit the information they gain as much as possible because the users have no alternative.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
These switches are usually fiber splits so they are slightly less complex than you are envisioning. The equipment doesn't have to actually duplicate L2 frames. It just uses standard fiber repeaters (already a common component in unders
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>How do you avoid thus when it comes to national security? You can't. The notion that you can know everything your organization does is ridiculous and naive. It might work if you restrict yourself to tiny companies, but it doesn&#x2
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>As for a "tendency to treachery", I find that description disgusting. Perhaps it's because you don't know the definition of the word? What he did is textbook treachery (betrayed the trust his government had in him).
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>The United States has done tremendous good for humanity. But given our history of extralegal, unaccountable meddling in the foreign policy of other countries and how spectacularly it's blown up in our faces over and over again, I m
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by ars_technician 13y ago
It doesn't require all of them. They just need enough to reach a critical mass at which point they can start rejecting. Also, a client can submit their cert to the log regardless of CA support. The only thing CA support is needed for i
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Hi Moxie, What do you think of the certificate transparency project they mentioned? It is quite a bit different than pinning and doesn't have any of the scalability issues. If you haven't heard about it, it basically requires that
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by ars_technician 13y ago
It's still just a platitude. Poetry is just a pointless distraction. You can put lipstick on a pig...
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>Clearly the problems she gets in school are extremely rote Not necessarily. It could just be that she is just learning how to answer tricky questions by using logic to determine what's not exactly spelled out. That's about the
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by ars_technician 13y ago
That's because protection was added (about a year ago I think) to rapidly broadcast detected double-spends through the network. Before the canary function, it actually used to be pretty easy to get a double-spend accepted into the netw
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by ars_technician 13y ago
i.e. not reversible. Once the buyer says they received the merchandise and signs off, the money goes to the merchant. If after two days the merchandise goes bad because it was fraudulent, the buyer is screwed. No 180 day waiting period.
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by ars_technician 13y ago
> used to find possible critical holes to exploit. If a competitor did this, they are risking having their entire business shut down for hacking. Seriously, what are you thinking?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
How? A phishing site can relay any of this information by acting as a client to the real site while prompting the end user for the requested credentials. The only way FIDO could prevent this would be to make the credentials dependent on the
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by ars_technician 13y ago
>Password leaks and user privacy breaches? Customer information that can be sold to competitors? Source code does not include that information. Do you know how software works?
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by ars_technician 13y ago
Nexus is the best selling android tablet. What else do you need?

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