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91.
by conformal 13y ago
open source ftw =)
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by conformal 13y ago
it is worth considering that bitcoind itself, as a single project, has created a nasty fork and may very well do so again in the future. better code that is actually readable and commented means a lower likelihood of a bitcoin daemon forkin
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by conformal 13y ago
i think it's a pretty good line - got all of you talking, didn't it? =)
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by conformal 13y ago
actually, we chose the title because it made us giggle a bit more than "your dad's". the phrase "not your mom's" is relatively common and normally applied to stuff like sandwiches, jeans, or some other somewhat
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Btcd: Not your mom's Bitcoin daemon(blog.conformal.com)
111 points by conformal 13y ago|55 comments
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by conformal 13y ago
it's been pretty apparent to me for some time now that "the war on drugs" is actually a mechanism to drive _up_ the price of street drugs, and i would go so far as to claim this is done intentionally. without ridiculously sti
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by conformal 13y ago
if someone's brain is backdoored, does that mean they are likely to enjoy anal sex?
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by conformal 13y ago
needless to say, android passed its fips certification with flying colors. just another secure mobile OS. nothing to see here, move along. did i mention that you should never store anything of actual import on a phone?
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by conformal 13y ago
the article title is a total troll, thx mit. for a real world example of failed uniformity assumptions, see cryptocat.
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by conformal 13y ago
the F-35 is one of the largest wastes of government money that is publicly known. by the time the aircraft has all the bugs ironed out, it will have cost USD 1 tln and be easily destroyed by much cheaper drones. the entire contract should b
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by conformal 13y ago
> Have YOU inspected your CPU/Firmware/OS/Applications for backdoors? Even with the full source code? this is absolutely spot on, especially the firmware. nobody talks about it and the attack surface is huge. just to be ex
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by conformal 13y ago
howdy seth. it's nice to see people calling out skype since i think it likely the service has been co-opted for many years, long before they are listed as having participated with PRISM. i stopped using it for anything but "casual
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by conformal 13y ago
you must have binged it :)
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by conformal 13y ago
i've got another question: why doesn't the EFF have a comments section on their articles? it's fucking irritating that i can't interact with the author of the article and have to do this on HN. skype uses "supernode
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by conformal 13y ago
painful reminder that you need to test payment processing code, by hand or however, after updating it. i've run some ecommerce sites and this is basic stuff - new payment modules, time to test card processing works properly.
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by conformal 13y ago
the age-old question of "cui bono?" remains the single best way to nose out what actually happened, and this often flies in the face of what most people regard and record as "history". NOTE: i'm supressing a serious
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by conformal 13y ago
i would not count on the canadian government not running a system that is substantially similar to the usg. intelligence services often aren't concerned with laws, so expecting legal protection matters is a very much misguided path.
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by conformal 13y ago
i like the effort guys, but secure web apps is a tall order. the attack surface of a web app is huge and the web was just not built for client-side crypto. the dependency list for most web browsers is gigantic and attacks against even one o
109.
by conformal 13y ago
i think it's more like 10-20 years ahead, but point taken :)
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by conformal 13y ago
consider that the FBI considers potential alternatives to the US Dollar to be a matter of "domestic terrorism": http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/08/30/bitcoin-fbi-admits... yeah, that seems like
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by conformal 13y ago
but the best conflicts to get involved in are the ones where nobody will ever win, as evidenced by arguing with stupid people on the internet.
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by conformal 13y ago
a couple quotes come to mind: - 1984 - "War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength ,Freedom is Slavery" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
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by conformal 13y ago
i think most people are unwilling to acknowledge such a problem with their business strategy exists, and if they do acknowledge it, are unwilling or unable to grasp the full extent of the problem. google, like many large organizations, hide
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by conformal 13y ago
it is amusing that you mentioned this because google's business strategy is to steadily erode the privacy of all human beings and monetize it at each step. they can try to dance around this all day with marketing and it doesn't ma
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by conformal 13y ago
same here! i want nothing to do with the world of pointless media sharing or other people's perception that recording everything is worthwhile. if i could legally destroy every glass rig that was anywhere near me, i would be a happy pe
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by conformal 13y ago
if you look on github, you'll notice that all the obvious names were taken, e.g. go-gtk, go-gtk3. that was what really drove the project name to be gotk3.
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by conformal 13y ago
seriously, password-based auth... have ppl not heard of public key authentication? allowing password-based auth in sshd is plain stupid. _always_ use pubkey auth, it's a 1-line change in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
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by conformal 13y ago
iirc renegotiation in openssl is mad broken, in which case, mad props to adam :)
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by conformal 13y ago
i did this several years ago, feels good knowing that google has to work hard to spy on me versus me just giving them all kinds of info about myself via search, etc. the only thing i use is a throwaway gmail address that is mostly a spam ma
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by conformal 13y ago
we've seen what happens when "3rd parties" audit stuff - think cryptocat... encraption :)

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