curmudgeoned

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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
I believe these sorts of people are also referred to as warez d00dz.
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
Whoops! Looks like your right... AES doesn't use public key exchange, and public/private key pair generation at all! I was entirely confusing it with other completely different things. Ha ha! Sorry...
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
EDIT: As drdaeman pointed out, none of what I'm describing is AES. I am describing something completely different. I am describing public key cryptography, which is completely different from AES. ...but if you still want to know about
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
Not really. It goes like something like this: 1. Starbucks' server has the private key, the iPhone app has the public key. 2. The app locks the plaintext up in AES with the public key, local to the phone, and keeps t
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
Because the author does seem to care about defining what COW means, because "atomic cow" doesn't readily google to its proper meaning, and because it doesn't seem to be otherwise mentioned here: COW: Copy-On-Write http:
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
How many personnel does it require to physically compromise 100,000 machines? 1,000 people gaining access to 100 machines a piece? 100 people, breaking into 1,000 machines? Is that per year or in general? If one targeted individual owns 10
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
This model of investment is one tactic. But in my opinion, it's not the one at play here. Another majorly significant tactic of investment is to buy your potential competitors early and often. Find the upstarts that pose a threat to yo
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by curmudgeoned 13y ago
Does anyone remember Friendster and MySpace? (stupid question, I know) But before Facebook opened itself to non-edu TLD email addresses (read: enrolled college students only), these were the only two major ground-breakers in terms of social