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by cvwright 10y ago
This is very neat. Thank you! > The extension is no longer supported however. Sad. Unfortunately that's all too common...
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by cvwright 10y ago
This. Susan Dumais at Microsoft had a project called "Stuff I've Seen" [1] in the early days of desktop search. In a nutshell, it's indexing and information retrieval on the data that you use in your daily life -- web
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by cvwright 10y ago
Thunderbird downloads everything to the client too.
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by cvwright 10y ago
They have some pretty cool stuff for monitoring their internal systems. For example, this distributed live forensics system: GRR Rapid Response https://github.com/google/grr http://grr-response.blogspot.com
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by cvwright 10y ago
That's what makes this experiment so interesting! Because initially, the researchers had the same hypothesis. Yet their survey data collected from a highly educated, left-leaning audience gave the opposite result. Major kudos to the N
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by cvwright 10y ago
Yeah the US experience has been very different from many places in Europe. So much so that, for many people in rural America, waving the US flag harkens back to the defeat of Nazism and the end of WW2.
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by cvwright 10y ago
> the chance of a 'piss bus' Oh my. Is this a regular enough occurrence that there's a name for it?
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by cvwright 10y ago
It sounds like you want Silence https://silence.im/ It's a fork from the old Signal (nee TextSecure) code that retains the SMS capability. It was called SMSSecure for a while, but the name was changed to avoid tradema
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by cvwright 10y ago
Sorry if my earlier comment came off as rude. I was just trying to say that the walled gardens aren't really that much better than plain old PGP, and in practice they tend to lull people into a false sense of security. I think too man
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by cvwright 10y ago
It's not just security. Nicholas Nassim Taleb even invented a word for this kind of thing. He describes his complaint, in typical pugnacious Taleb style, here: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idio
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by cvwright 10y ago
Yup, and I've done these. But you can do similar things with PGP public keys, too.
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by cvwright 10y ago
This also raises the question: With a walled garden like Signal/Wire/etc, how do you get+trust the other's key? Their convenience comes at a cost.
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by cvwright 10y ago
Interesting that it's taken so long for web cams to increase their resolution. Especially when you can find several different brands of cheap IP security cameras on Amazon/Ebay that do 4K and/or 60 Hz. Also, the article read
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by cvwright 10y ago
I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with the parent comment.
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by cvwright 10y ago
I think AV Comparatives are independent -- at least they were when I last had to read up on all this several years ago. At the time (2010ish), they even had a few reports where they showed that pretty much all the AV products were quite bad
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by cvwright 10y ago
This is very helpful. Thank you!
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by cvwright 10y ago
A bit of context for those who missed this latest kerfuffle. The picture is relevant to the recent dispute between the Trump admin and the press, concerning the size of the crowd at the inauguration. Trump & co say that the crowd exten
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by cvwright 10y ago
> Have the new legalization laws generally made home-growing legal? Here in Oregon, they made it legal for people to grow some small number of plants at home. Maybe 4 or 6 or something like that. I'm not sure how popular this is in
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by cvwright 10y ago
Could be part of it. Also, election fatigue. The 2016 election has dominated every news cycle for more than a year. Everybody is just plain tired of it, for better or worse.
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by cvwright 10y ago
It really depends on your hardware. For the WRT1900AC mentioned in the article, DD-WRT seems to have better support in recent months. The Kong builds have an especially good reputation among the DD-WRT crowd. I'm running mainline DD-
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by cvwright 10y ago
Probably this one: https://dnscrypt.org/
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by cvwright 10y ago
I'm having pretty good luck with the WRT1200AC on DD-WRT. Note that OpenWRT doesn't seem to support v2 of this device, which is what you'll get if you buy one now.
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by cvwright 10y ago
Another way to look at this post: Here are some of the best laptops that you will be able to buy used for cheap in 12-18 months while the new Macbooks are still expensive. I used this approach in my student days and it worked pretty well gi
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by cvwright 10y ago
This is actually a really tricky topic. Things that sound like they should give very good security, often don't in practice. The "hashed bag of words" technique that you describe here sounds an awful lot like some recent at
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by cvwright 10y ago
> There'a a on/off switch to share contacts under Wire Settings/Options and it's off by default at installation, (it was at the end of August when I started using the service). Oh, thanks that's good to know. A
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by cvwright 10y ago
This issue is one of those that make it very difficult to build a single "secure chat" app that does everything for everyone. Personally, I want an automatic, encrypted network backup of all my messages so I don't lose them i
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by cvwright 10y ago
Interesting. Which code of yours are they using now? After the last flare up on Twitter, I thought they wrote their own implementation, using the Signal code as a reference.
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by cvwright 10y ago
I almost installed Wire this afternoon. Unfortunately this part > does not need a copy of your contacts is not quite correct if you read the fine print. From https://wire.com/legal/ > 5.1 Account ... You agree t
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by cvwright 10y ago
It's worth thinking this through one step further IMO. What kind of event would cause a private key to be compromised, so that it needs to be revoked? The most likely cases are that (1) the client machine was compromised, or (2) an un
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by cvwright 10y ago
Reminds me of Willamette Week's recent story about Portland's failure to build enough affordable housing. The reported reason? The city funds "cool" projects run by "cool" nonprofits instead of spending money

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