chrisballinger

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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   Unfortunately, this was patented by Namco in 1995: http://www.google.com/patents/US5718632
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   Looks like they changed their license from LGPL to zlib as well. I wonder if this will increase adoption, or if it just was so Valve could use it in Steam for Linux.
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   5-HTP is potentially cardiotoxic by raising blood serotonin levels.
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   Hahaha, perhaps because we don't have a fancy graphic designer, marketing budget or PR firm? Version 2.x does have some bugs that we are working out, stemming from a large refactor to use Core Data. However, we actually don't touc
5. 95.▲
   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   Don't trust this any more than any other closed-source "encrypted" communication product (like Skype). If they control both the source and the backend, how can you be sure it isn't compromised? How can you be sure it won
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   Is the source of this available? Not that I don't trust you to run a service without security holes, but I'd prefer to run this on my local machine.
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   > Ostel works great on the Groundwire app. It's a paid app and for $10 you'll be able to receive encrypted calls. There's an additional $25 in-app purchase for the ZRTP extension to also place a secure call. $35 for secure
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   You just totally blew my mind. I had never considered that blocking ads could ever be beneficial for an ad network. Are there any numbers of this sort published by the industry?
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   by chrisballinger 13y ago

   See my response to parent here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5886613
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    You could theoretically clone the source, check out the release tag, compile it, and then compare the checksum of the binary of the .app file, but I'm not sure if that would even generate the same exact file or not. You might also need
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    ChatSecure will always remain free of charge to ensure that everyone in the world has unrestricted access to privacy technology. The project is mostly funded by very generous grants, so there is no need to "monetize" the project.
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    OTRv3 [1] has been designed to somewhat help the problem of differing instances and has been available since libotr 4.0.0, but in practice I haven't found a good way to solve the UI/UX problem in a user friendly way. The latest be
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    I am the original author of ChatSecure [1], the only free and open source OTR client for iOS devices. We also released an Objective-C wrapper around libotr called OTRKit [2] to help other developers integrate their apps with the OTR protoco
14. 104.▲
    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    Thanks for the additional insight! Unfortunately our server is barely able to handle the load at the moment, but as soon as the dust settles I will append that source to the investigation.
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    Ahhh sorry about the 504s! You should be able to retry if it's giving you issues. We only have 4 gunicorn workers running on a single Linode right now, we'll try to bump it up to 6-8 to see if that helps in the meantime. edit: Increased the
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    I think the ultimate human cost of not providing free native, easy-to-use cryptographically secure communications apps on iOS is worse than the ideological battle against Apple's idiotic walled garden. It's not just a threat against activis
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    I am very interested in developing an iOS client for this. We are developing a pluggable framework for Tor integration on iOS called OnionKit [1] based off of Onion Browser for the ChatSecure project [2], the only open source OTR compatible
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    http://www.pidgin.im and http://www.adium.im
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    At OpenWatch ( https://openwatch.net ) we are trying to solve this very problem from the open-source hacker perspective. Our original pitch was that we would operate on a "freemium" model: offer our journalism tools for free to everyone s
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    by chrisballinger 13y ago

    Downloading the new Google Search app for my iPhone re-activated "Location History" for my account and tracked me all day until it sent me an email (privacy notice) about how my location history was on. What the fuck, Google.
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    We have an open investigation going on about this issue on the front page OpenWatch ( https://openwatch.net ). On our platform, anyone can do research or conduct interviews on the public record, similar in a way to something like "Github fo
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    Hey moxie, your write-up about how you built your switching network was fascinating. Thank you for continuing to be an inspiration. p.s. you have a broken link to https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Signaling-Pr... in the writ
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    Looks like they skipped over two open source XMPP+OTR clients for iPhone/Android: ChatSecure ( https://chatsecure.org ) and Gibberbot https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber/ Disclosure: I am the original author of ChatSecure.
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    I requested the adjustable donation feature yesterday, thanks! Here is an example of it in action: https://chatsecure.org One thing I noticed is that very rarely the button image doesn't load and is replaced by a default Bootstrap navigat
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    I'm surprised no one has made a money laundering joke yet.
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    I switched to SSKeychain ( https://github.com/soffes/sskeychain ) after using SFHFKeychainUtils for a while because I think it's cleaner and more regularly updated.
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    Maybe your roommate/friend had a girl over last night who used your computer to check her email?
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    http://anomos.info Someone already attempted to make something similar to what you're describing, but it turns out that it's very hard to do right.
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    It's good to hear they will be releasing the source! A tool like this would be rather insane to use by anyone serious about security without the ability to inspect the source. The article states it will be under a "noncommercial open-source
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    by chrisballinger 14y ago

    I learned on Django but have turned to Flask for my smaller projects after wrestling too many times with Django's poor handling of static files during development.