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Comcast Has About 76 Lobbyists Working Washington On The Merger. This is Why.(time.com)
7 points by bdhe 12y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 13y ago
Agreed. It is an interesting article to read. The survey cited is also interesting in its own right [1]. We often forget that ideas we find trivial and intuitive are only so because it took the work of many more people and centuries to hone
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by bdhe 13y ago
Care to elaborate? I was a bit struck by that point too.
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by bdhe 13y ago
I think you're missing the bigger picture. This is not just about an app breaking rules. It is a story about how bitcoin, something that was virtually unheard of just a few years back, is now able to rile up people's emotions. T
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by bdhe 13y ago
Thanks for the info. I forgot about the Grover speedup. I think it would still be amazing to get 2^64 operations on a 128-qubit quantum computer to break current 128-bit schemes. It seems like quite a tall order. Does using Shor to attack E
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by bdhe 13y ago
Why do you say that? Is it because 100-qubits roughly corresponds to attacking 100-bit keys? I am not sure if that intuition is correct. AFAIK, quantum computing is supposed to help with mathematical cryptanalysis like breaking Discrete Log
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by bdhe 13y ago
Can you provide a reference about the fact that 100 qubits would enable qualitative advances in cryptanalysis? I'm also not sure what you mean by `qualitative'.
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by bdhe 13y ago
Now this might be just gossip-mongering, but care to enlighten us on why djb on the IETF crypto review board would be potent irony?
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by bdhe 13y ago
This is as good a thread as any to perhaps start a discussion on something that's been on my mind ever since I learnt about the NSA's penchant for hiring mathematicians and cryptographers. How would you reasonably estimate the NS
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France Accuses US of Using Flame Malware to Hack President's Network(threatpost.com)
1 points by bdhe 14y ago|0 comments
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CRIME Attack Uses Compression Ratio of TLS Requests as Side Channel(threatpost.com)
2 points by bdhe 14y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 14y ago
It is in fact stealing, just as "copying" a song is stealing (I know the HN audience won't like that!). "Copying" software is stealing it. This is incorrect. And you're making the same mistake as the one you point out in your next sentenc
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by bdhe 14y ago
This is as good a place and thread as any to write out some questions that have been bothering me. Maybe HN can help out. I've seen over the past several years several such posts (leaving facebook, leaving the internet, etc.) and they have
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by bdhe 14y ago
Does anyone know of any good hard science fiction that deals with such "first generation of space exploration" themes? This might be way off base, but something like the future East India Company of space, where corporations end up colonizi
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by bdhe 15y ago
PBKDF2 is worse than bcrypt. Can you elaborate a little bit on this? Or point to a reference. Wikipedia mentions that PBKDF2 is easier to implement with ASICs or GPUs. Is that the primary reason?
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Aldous Huxley's letter to Orwell on "1984."(lettersofnote.com)
17 points by bdhe 15y ago|3 comments
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by bdhe 15y ago
Wow, this is a real eye opener. Only having heard of Napster, I didn't realize there were other services similar to Google Music back in the late 90s. Here's solid proof that in claiming to promote innovation they are quite literally stifli
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MITx, MIT's online education initiative launches its prototype course.(mitx.mit.edu)
4 points by bdhe 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 15y ago
Just a nitpick on an otherwise largely accurate article. IIT Mumbai and IIT Powai (though commonly used in media) are erroneous ways of referring to IIT Bombay which still retains the old name of the city Mumbai in which it is located. Powa
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by bdhe 15y ago
This is not about some new vulnerability. A more accurate statement is: the thesis that "when hundreds and thousands of RSA keys are generated, the entropy of each key (given the remaining keys) is still large" is shown (in this paper)
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by bdhe 15y ago
Please don't resort to these kinds of comments. Its hard enough to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high in "gossip stories" posts such as this one.
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A Senseless Conversation (sci-fi short on the Turing Test)(sites.google.com)
2 points by bdhe 15y ago|0 comments
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Fields medal winner Tim Gowers on online review systems(gowers.wordpress.com)
3 points by bdhe 15y ago|0 comments
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (1960)(dartmouth.edu)
8 points by bdhe 15y ago|0 comments
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The Right to Read by Richard Stallman.(gnu.org)
8 points by bdhe 15y ago|0 comments
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Authentication by "Cognitive Footprint".(schneier.com)
2 points by bdhe 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdhe 15y ago
I also recently purchased an Android phone and have been very impressed by the accuracy of Swype. However, I notice that in landscape mode, because of having to move through a larger region, input entry slows down significantly. I find myse
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by bdhe 15y ago
Although some aspects of DMCA aren't bad, I believe this is also the Overton Window[1] in action. I wonder if all this outrage of SOPA might actually allow the Senate's Protect IP Act (PIPA) to pass "as a compromise". [1] http://en.wikipedi
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by bdhe 15y ago
For example, look at crypto algorithms like DES that, ten years ago, people thought would take thousands of years to crack given Moore's law growing computational resources. Wide freakin' open now, thanks to improved cracking algorithms. A
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by bdhe 15y ago
I think it is another example of quality versus quantity . Often people use quantity of time rather than quality of time towards a particular task as a metric of effort and that is unfortunately wrong. Another big point in favor of telecom

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