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by bitsteak 12y ago
Why did anyone need this challenge in the first place? Couldn't someone have justed ASKED a good exploit developer what they would do and what the impact is? No, I guess we're all up for wasting people's time and creating pot
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by bitsteak 13y ago
What in this article associates USAID with the intel community? The fact that they both use technology?
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by bitsteak 13y ago
Ask any random person what they think of when you say "hacker." PROTIP: it's not your typical employee of some random consumer web startup, working 12 hour days and pounding redbull. It's someone who bypasses technical s
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by bitsteak 13y ago
NSA collects intelligence from people so that US policymakers make informed decisions (like about Russia invading Crimea or how badly Malaysia is lying to the world), same as every other intel agency does for their home country. Big differe
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by bitsteak 13y ago
Why anyone would voluntarily MITM their own data and hand ALL of it over to a single company (and a single point of failure) is totally beyond me. It's a market failure that services like these continue to exist.
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by bitsteak 13y ago
“When they deploy malware on systems,” Hypponen says, “they potentially create new vulnerabilities in these systems, making them more vulnerable for attacks by third parties.” Really, how does that work Mikko? You don't even have a cop
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by bitsteak 13y ago
Playing devil's advocate here. What harm was done by this? Was it really deserving of a news article and, further, a post on Hacker News? Now, maybe if there is a company out there working to replace or revolutionize passwords... other
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by bitsteak 13y ago
just wanted to say it's great seeing security integrated into such a product from the start!
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by bitsteak 13y ago
"Physicists and computer scientists have long speculated about whether the NSA’s efforts are more advanced than those of the best civilian labs. Although the full extent of the agency’s research remains unknown, ___the documents provid
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by bitsteak 13y ago
That's a pretty amazing hyperbole from kaepora (twitter description of incident vs actual e-mail response from Apple). And later, Apple accepted the fix: https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/issues/542#
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by bitsteak 13y ago
Tough talk from someone who can't even be bothered to use PGP. There are lots of people doing real good out there, like Moxie Marlinspike with BitHub, the kickstarter audit of TrueCrypt, and work in the CAB forum and the W3C on SSL and
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by bitsteak 13y ago
Scumbag Hacker News: Admires spies only after they're dead.