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by bga 9y ago
Yet Equifax continues to evade giving details on the attack. That itself is damning evidence they weren't doing everything they should have been to protect their servers and data.
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by bga 9y ago
Exactly. You can't have perfect trust in every citizen to keep track of these things. And if it's a government issued ID in the first place, I see no trouble with them having your private key as well. Just don't reuse that
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by bga 9y ago
or a digital signature, or a MAC. Something where we could verify against a publicly-known value safely, and without giving that secret part away to anyone else. The secret would be between the Federal Government and the citizen.
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by bga 9y ago
This isn't okay. Don't dox this guy. Besides, lots of "hacker" hackers are self-taught.
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by bga 9y ago
No, blockchains are magic technology that makes money appear out of nowhere and hides all activity from evildoers.
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by bga 9y ago
Or Equifax became unresponsive while they investigated, but didn't reveal what was happening. Related, but not via inside info about the hacks.
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by bga 9y ago
I suppose the information is hidden to prevent gaming the system. As someone mentioned in another thread, they took out a loan for $1000, sat on it and just paid it off. Credit score goes up with zero risk for just the cost of interest.
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by bga 9y ago
If you're just hashing with SHA2 and a salt, an attacker with a run-of-the-mill GPU could crack any given hashing quite quickly. It might still take quite a bit of time to get all 143 million, but that's fine. Sell off the score
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by bga 9y ago
Right, which is where I think the actual return value ought to be "undefined" or something. Or an error. But I'm clearly in the minority on my thoughts of the js type system. But then again, you can avoid having to make int
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by bga 9y ago
Bankruptcy is the strange other side of the US debt system. In this case, it would be an unfair get out of jail free card, a shirking of responsibility.
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by bga 9y ago
Okay, so never buy food again and tell me how that goes.
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by bga 9y ago
Did he seriously claim at the end that that made sense "mathematically"?
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by bga 9y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by bga 9y ago
And so in Ruby, we use test frameworks with advanced mocking, as well as runtime-reflection coverage measurement. Metaprogramming: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
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Finding hidden x86 instructions with sandsifter(youtube.com)
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by bga 9y ago
Bitcoin seems like an investment in proving the ideas that may eventually come to form a truly practical cryptocurrency.
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by bga 9y ago
Keep in mind the energy costs of the supporting hardware for that brain, though.