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by conformal 13y ago
i don't think the NSA works like that :) remember "national security" equates to "we will watch you all the time and steal all your dataz". it would obviously be great if "national security" meant what it
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by conformal 13y ago
well, i appreciate mr dipropyl tryptamine having linked this. anyone who has looked at openssl source knows the score. to quote one of our devs (davec) on the topic of openssl: "funding openssl won't stop it from happening again..
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by conformal 13y ago
not sure what you have to maintain, but it sure sucks having to scramble and fix this right away. our (quick) fixes are almost all done: - recompile openssl where necessary (web, chat, mail, windows binaries) without heartbeat support - rol
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by conformal 13y ago
hi there. i'm the management behind btcd, an alternative full node bitcoin implementation, and i can say that it is very unlikely the original code is the product of a single person. additionally, the amount of work that must have gone
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by conformal 13y ago
something that this article does not address is all the other things that need to happen to give employees private offices, e.g. architect, permits, construction. i have previously leased and built out a high-end office in a building in dow
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by conformal 13y ago
based on the region where this occurred, you can rest assured that one, if not several, state intelligence services knows exactly what happened to the plane and has near continuous knowledge of its position. the area of asia where this occu
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by conformal 13y ago
it's pretty clear to me that HN is already an echo chamber in many respects - the consensus VC and corporate views are frequently those that get the most upvotes. requiring approval from 'old guard' users will only exacerbate
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by conformal 13y ago
agree, something very valuable was on that flight, whether it was a person/people or the cargo. the 50 blocked-out seats indicate a heavy and/or oddly distributed cargo. let's get real here - this is definitely not the work o
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by conformal 13y ago
totally agree. it must be a what/who scenario by merit of the lengths to which they went to get the entire plane. this is surely a state-level intelligence action. the blocking off of passenger seats often indicates an especially heavy
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Summer Internships: hacking Bitcoin with Go(blog.conformal.com)
3 points by conformal 13y ago|0 comments
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by conformal 13y ago
i absolutely hate paywalled sites and refuse to read the articles. that said, this is entirely unsurprising since scientific and mathematics research were almost entirely patronized fields until the rise of the modern university. this is ve
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by conformal 13y ago
fuck the police. they are just another gang and do little to stop real crime in most urban areas. i would venture to say that police actually facilitate more crime than they prevent on the average. in chicago, i have never received anything
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by conformal 13y ago
a favorite song of mine by kool keith comes to mind: "i don't believe you" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc5cOohfHhA ). the world's largest cpu manufacturer, which also happens to be based in the US,
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by conformal 13y ago
bitcoin is obviously a great system, but to just accept it as the next financial system is missing the larger point with cryptocurrencies: they are a significant step in the evolution of banking, an industry that has traditionally been very
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Redecentralization: building a robust cryptocurrency developer network(blog.conformal.com)
8 points by conformal 13y ago|3 comments
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by conformal 13y ago
funny. i was in this position many moons ago with 50/50 ownership between me and my partner. it blows and there is never an easy way to dissolve such relationships. i had to threaten 'going nuclear', i.e. closing the business
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by conformal 13y ago
ken and his staff are really cool easygoing people. it is great to see an article about them in the economist.
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by conformal 13y ago
TPM uses 2048-bit rsa keypairs that are hardwired into the hardware. gee, i wonder if someone can get into them... derp
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by conformal 13y ago
first, i'd like to say i quite enjoy the UK, both as a country and its people. however, politicians in the UK have a history of doing some very extreme and very stupid things. since i am not a citizen of the UK, i cannot vote to try to
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by conformal 13y ago
consider that every factory-default mobile OS has vendor backdoors, if not ISP, firmware and hardware backdoors. no need to keylog everyone, just remotely take over on-demand using vendor backdoor.
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by conformal 13y ago
not going to buy you much if an attacker has dma, which is what a proper backdoor will give.
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by conformal 13y ago
ding ding ding! you have won the prize! expecting anything to be secure on a mobile device is a serious mistake. in some ways, textsecure and redphone actually induce behavior that puts people at risk: no amount of encryption can make a mob
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by conformal 13y ago
this is a reminder that prizes or cash for breaking crypto products is a silly PR stunt. mega did the same thing, ended up paying out some money, then their product is "secure" by the same sort of argument. same deal with cryptoca
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by conformal 13y ago
great blog entry, moxie et al. it is wonderful to see what i consider to be legitimate improvement in crypto protocols. NOTE: i still think it's a really poor idea to assume that encrypting stuff on your mobile device / smartphone
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by conformal 13y ago
i have long suspected that BGP routes can be altered on-demand to push domestic traffic outside national borders and justify its recording and use by intelligence services. it is entertaining to see this done in the wild.
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by conformal 13y ago
hah. nice try, satoshi!
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Deslugging in Go with pprof: btcd(blog.conformal.com)
1 points by conformal 13y ago|0 comments
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Btcwallet and btcgui: Wallet handling for btcd(blog.conformal.com)
1 points by conformal 13y ago|0 comments
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by conformal 13y ago
it confirms that most mac users have extremely short passwords (airhorn) -> the mac user
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by conformal 13y ago
completely agree, it's long overdue. hardware manufacturers should be less concerned about what their firmware reveals about their IP and more concerned with what not revealing their firmware source code reveals about their security. t

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