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by cyphunk 12y ago
"Give the money to the people". The US did this in the form of tax credits for housing. Germany did something similar in the form of credits for car purchases. This form of giving goes directly toward an industry in need. I'm
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Ask HN: OTR/GPG/etc do not pin certificates, why?
2 points by cyphunk 12y ago|0 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Some words are ambiguous enough that a dictionary cannot fully describe. I think this is one of those. Second, wikipedia is a horrible source to trust for anything debatable.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Spoken like a true Stalinist, and so true. It would be complete debauchery. Unless the comments auto-delete after N minutes. This would create a very interesting metric giving insights into psychology at the same time. That is, it would be
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Then the government might start monitoring some phone calls. "It's just a few phone calls, nothing more." The government might install more video cameras in public places. "So what? Some more cameras
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Would be great if HN auto-swapped links to paywalled sites with a link to query on search site instead.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Why isn't the EFF already running an exit node to confront the legal ambiguity issue?
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by cyphunk 12y ago
one could also argue they would benefit from traditional colonization. whether beneficial or not this central banking setup is colonization by proxy.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
It's an ethical question. The argument of greater stability could be used to posit positive outcome for full traditional colonization as well. What we should ask: How much of the 60B Euro per month the ECB is using for QE in the Eurozo
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by cyphunk 12y ago
your guidance always welcome. i think posting about the community despite requests not to happens because there isn't a thread or forum to discuss administrivia. when people feel something strange or new is happening on the administr
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by cyphunk 12y ago
My question was concerning attribution. Though debatable lets assume still the original was not theirs and they remixed it. Even if they made massive changes turning into their own beast allowing us to call the Snowden version significant w
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I agree and this is what I was hinting at with the last point. I think in the end there is no way to update our understanding to a world filled with acts of conflict that are difficult to attribute. We've lived in an attribution luxury
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by cyphunk 12y ago
fare enough. but wondering what the value down voting brings at all, or if current model of blessing according to activity gives better results than blessing random users or randomly blessing users with N down votes per time or other quanti
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by cyphunk 12y ago
down voting on HN has become absurd. Also noticing this on other comments in this thread.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
It is worthwhile to apply the same scepticism for placement of attribution as was applied with the Sony hack. In the latter many security analysts question NK attribution based on the similarity of code argument given by the US -- pointing
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by cyphunk 12y ago
that link is mostly paywalled. do you have another source?
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Is it 0day or is it not. "0day" is not an important word except that the media has started using it. For those of us working in the field, it's just a fun term, not a legal term. It is used to distinguish the risk of a bug, n
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I don't have a source as reliable as Wikipedia. I base my definition on how it is used in the field of reverse engineering which I've been in for a long time. In any case, people can stick with the wiki definition. Not important.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I disagree with this interpretation. It remains 0 day until it is patched or has a work around (disabling the service). Further still the date aging starts begins when the bug is disclosed publicly, or broadly if not publicly. Internal disc
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by cyphunk 12y ago
if a ring introduces noise (meaning they attempt to avoid the "not clever" trap you describe) how does this effect the measurement? I can assume that introduction of noise is somewhat counter to the greed and objective of the ring
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China will screen all Apple products for NSA backdoor(cultofmac.com)
5 points by cyphunk 12y ago|0 comments
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Cryptowars 3.0 by CCC spokesperson Frank Rieger (translated)(translate.google.com)
1 points by cyphunk 12y ago|0 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
The scenario that merits trusting the OS, or app store, is one that assumes you are not individually a target. This means you trust Apple/Google and US/EU. I don't know, I could see there being reason for scenarios that fit t
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Unlikely they purchased an "expensive" 0day. It is more likely they would develop their own or purchase locally as they would have access to cheaper markets than the west. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/andyg
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Hackers broke into Sony Pictures using an unpatched security hole(engadget.com)
4 points by cyphunk 12y ago|1 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I can't understand how they made this conclusion in the article "This means that traditional utilities have turned instead to much more climate-damaging coal for generation." Also cannot find references for the claim &quot
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by cyphunk 12y ago
No, except the NSA/WhiteHouse has themselves said they would be the QA dept for corps. http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/82416436703/statement-o...
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The Nature of Conflict Is Changing(medium.com)
1 points by cyphunk 12y ago|0 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
The author sounds like a nice guy/gal but they seem to have selectively forgot several facts. First the NSA's Dual_EC_DRBG was used as the default in some RSA products. Is it debatable that the RSA was not paid for this (the $10m
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by cyphunk 12y ago
People, you are likely not a monster parent but the CPA and police are there to try to find the rare monsters. I understand resisting someone making rules for how you parent, and I support "free range" roaming "liberty fry&qu

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