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by brl 16y ago
The original encrypted video is not useful to anybody unless you are trying to determine who the source is. If you don't trust Wikileaks to not have tampered with the video they released, then why would you trust them if they provide someth
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by brl 16y ago
> I'm only saying they should present the information and leave their opinion out of it. They do both. Feel free to take their complete source material and republish it with your own analysis. There is no other media organization in t
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by brl 16y ago
Does having a transparent political agenda disqualify somebody from being a journalist? Should Amy Goodman and Geraldo Rivera be stripped of their credentials?
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by brl 16y ago
Since Wikileaks is intrinsically both a journalist organization and an activist organization, I'm not sure what you expect Assange to do. Are you criticizing how the Apache helicopter attack video was handled?
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Quotes from Julian Assange of Wikileaks(beginning.anitawirawan.com)
20 points by brl 16y ago|5 comments
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POET: A practical attack against encrypted client-side web application state(netifera.com)
6 points by brl 16y ago|0 comments
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by brl 16y ago
Scala is as fast as Java because similar code in both languages compile to the exact same bytecode. With type specialization in Scala 2.8 it will be even faster than Java in some cases.
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by brl 16y ago
I disagree with this to the point of saying that the Artima book is one of the most well written technical books I've ever read and the O'Reilly book is rather a mess. The Artima book is written by the creator of the language and while it
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by brl 17y ago
Since when is it hard to find and correct syntax errors that are preventing your C code from compiling?
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by brl 17y ago
The social norm is that generally we should avoid inflicting needless suffering on animals, right? If I set stray cats on fire for entertainment I can expect a visit from the police and/or an angry mob of my neighbors.
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by brl 17y ago
> animal cruelty doesn't bother me at all. Are you perhaps, a psychopath? Do you think we should get rid of the laws that prevent people from gratuitously torturing animals?
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by brl 17y ago
To me this is quite obviously a very related issue. As long as people refuse to recognize the moral interests of animals, it is not logically consistent for them to respect moral obligations to other humans. The moral distinction between a
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by brl 17y ago
Since we really have no way to know for sure how much thinking about the future a pig does while confined on a grim industrial farm or exactly how much anxiety that pig experiences nervously worrying about the future, maybe we could give t
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by brl 17y ago
As Colin mentioned if your cipher block size is the same as the hash output size there are no obvious attacks. In practice your options to accomplish this are limited since any cryptographic hash under serious consideration (ie: not MD5) wi
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by brl 17y ago
http://github.com/brl Some security and privacy related tools that I've written.
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MD5 hash extension attack breaks API authentication in Flickr (and others)(netifera.com)
58 points by brl 17y ago|22 comments
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by brl 17y ago
One of those potential scary applications of this technology is censorship. During the protests following the contested Iranian election last June, the government worked to prevent people from being able to use the internet to communicate
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by brl 17y ago
Kragen started blogging about 5 years before blogs were invented: http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/mailing-lists.html edit: oops, I thought you were responding to Kragen's comment. Read his 'blog' anyways, it's awesome :)
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by brl 17y ago
> However, Dvorak hopelessly destroys these simple, geometric arrangements. Oh, it's not really that bad. The vi cursor control keys still have a more-or-less logical mapping on dvorak. I've been using vi + dvorak for about 5 years and
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by brl 17y ago
I'm pretty annoyed at how badly the Richard Stallman cult members have flooded the Kindle DX Amazon reviews. It's very tedious now to wade through the spam to find reviews written by somebody who actually owns a Kindle. Is this supposed to
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by brl 17y ago
It's not the only thing to worry about: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070427/095314.shtml
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by brl 17y ago
That essay is excellent. Thanks for posting it.
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by brl 17y ago
c) Does not matter. The FSF does not get to write copyright law and decide what is or is not a derivative work.
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by brl 17y ago
I don't think there is anything clear about #6. Is bar.js a derivative work of foo.js? Probably not, but nobody knows for sure.
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by brl 17y ago
I can certainly relate to Hofstadter’s law. It always takes me twice as long as I predict a software task is going to take and awareness of this flaw in my schedule estimating abilities has not improved my guesses.
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by brl 17y ago
> are you really going to go through the trouble to cryptographically attack this weird password that doesn't work on other sites Of course you are, because this password does work on other sites. All other sites. With a single high
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by brl 17y ago
This is a bad idea which has been implemented a half dozen times. It's vulnerable to using a dictionary attack to recover the master password from a stolen hash. It's also a particularly bad implementation that uses a single round of HMAC-
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by brl 17y ago
Look at Paul Erdős.
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by brl 17y ago
Freenet fails to deliver on what it promises. Your peers can identify you as the origin of inserts and requests with a high probability. If you use Frost you are particularly vulnerable.
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by brl 17y ago
Even though I complained about not being able to learn Haskell in another comment, this is the tutorial that got me the furthest. I found RWH pretty much worthless by comparison.

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