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by claudius 13y ago
Rather than using RSA/public key encryption, I would rather suggest using OpenPGP so that others can encrypt email before it even arrives on the server. Instead of generating the private key on each login, it might be better to either
842.
by claudius 13y ago
>> However the USA introduced important ideas from the native Americans that had not previously been part of the European tradition. The last part is the bit that annoyed me. Of course I don’t know how or where the founding fathers go
843.
by claudius 13y ago
It appears this was justified by a specific law that was passed by the representatives of the people for the people, so why should they investigate the NSA, especially in a democratic country?
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by claudius 13y ago
There are various cloud storage companies, TUB apparently just installed ownCloud[0], aforementioned GMX[1] has some storage thing with iPhone, Android and Windows clients and then there is always git-annex which you can run against basical
845.
by claudius 13y ago
Freedom of religion and freedom of speech were already common in at least some European governmental systems and certainly in the philosophy of enlightenment. I am not quite sure what you mean by ‘2 state legislature’, if you refer to two c
846.
by claudius 13y ago
Well, some (read: United Internet aka GMX, Web.de, 1&1…) providers offer a XMPP-based IM solution[0], but I have to admit that I never used it so far, preferring to host my own ejabberds. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
847.
by claudius 13y ago
The only major market only served by US companies at the moment is search and possibly videochats, in all other markets, there are already European service providers (think United Internet or even DailyMotion). But then search is also a fie
848.
by claudius 13y ago
Yes, if you compare fingerprints, then the important point is to authenticate both sender and content of the message. ‘Common Secret’ authentication as it is supported by OTR with Skype as the channel to negotiate that secret won’t be any g
849.
by claudius 13y ago
Correlation, causality and such…one of the comments on the article claims that, since coffee usually tastes bitter, those who drink coffee might also like other bitter foods, most specifically vegetables. And given the choice between three
850.
by claudius 13y ago
Then you need to secure the OTR channel, i.e. authenticate the remote users; the same goes for using PGP-encrypted email – in both cases, it is almost impossible to securely authenticate someone who isn’t sitting next to you.
851.
by claudius 13y ago
> Once installed, you send an email to your Friend(s) with a copy of the F2F key. Then, they do the same, by installing RetroShare and sending you their F2F key. Uhm.
852.
by claudius 13y ago
Scientific papers, other papers, letters, other texts, documentation, homework… Could you maybe be more specific?
853.
by claudius 13y ago
*your
854.
by claudius 13y ago
Fingerprints are left all over the place all the time, and it is probably not much more difficult to acquire eye scans. And for such a system, the user would have to re-use his passwords at many different places again…
855.
by claudius 13y ago
Do you have one example of a system that is secure even if the user is dumb (for example forgets to lock the front door)?
856.
by claudius 13y ago
Email is secure iff you use it properly. Just like everything else.
857.
by claudius 13y ago
They can replace the booting kernel. Unless you use SecureBoot, TPM or some such thing, there is no way to protect against that (assuming that the attacker has access to the shut-down system at one point and you boot it later).
858.
by claudius 13y ago
> Mega’s founder doesn’t specify any numbers but Mega’s bandwidth should be well over 100 million petabytes at this point. Someone needs to look into their units. For ‘bandwidth’, 10^8 PB/s is obviously…wrong – and even if that was only
859.
by claudius 13y ago
> I want to see main idea of article first, then decide if this text worth my time to read. Well, usually you put the main idea of a text in its title.
860.
by claudius 13y ago
Determinants (a) are helpful if you want to invert matrices, (b) are easy to calculate for 2x2 and 3x3 matrices, (c) nicely generalise to the infinite-dimensional case were you take appropriate generalisations of sums and the totally antisy
861.
by claudius 13y ago
The article explicitly states that people expect this clock to show the correct time in the UK, which I find a somewhat reasonable assumption for the B BC.
862.
by claudius 13y ago
Ignoring the issue whether a clock on a website is even remotely useful, this: > The corporation also added that it would take around '100 staffing days to make the changes involved in switching to an independent clock'. strikes me as a
863.
by claudius 13y ago
Surely the LLC must have shareholders or executives that could be held responsible?
864.
by claudius 13y ago
"I don’t want to provide extras to others as that would devalue their accomplishments, hence supporting prejudice"
865.
by claudius 13y ago
I must be a very strange/negative person, as I tend to downvote much more often than I upvote, be it on SE[0] or HN. I also killfile people much more quickly than others, or so I was told. Maybe I’m just angry and hate everyone =) [0] Not r
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by claudius 13y ago
Then why would one want to use them? :|
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by claudius 13y ago
The control software for the Ariane rockets is written in Ada, which is apparently meant to be especially ‘secure’/predictable. And promptly blew up the rocket.
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by claudius 13y ago
Plebiscites in Germany are rather rare, and the only recent one I can think of is Stuttgart 21, where a train station was/is to be re-built. There was also only one plebiscite specifically about it, it was announced well in advance and it w
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by claudius 13y ago
Could someone explain why my comment about the likely falsehood of the claim that a third plebiscite was introduced less than 8 hours ahead on a holiday in Germany gets downvoted? o.O (Also note that practically all votes/plebiscites take p
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by claudius 13y ago
> Do you really think the people wanted the park to be turned into a shopping mall, or is perhaps a better explanation that a handful of rich people with political connections wanted that? I really don’t know. One of the confusing (to m

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