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by cyphunk 12y ago
and many of those boom's were propped up by bots on mtgox desperately trying to recover itself. it's easier to manufacturer a boom when you have a monopoly on the market with little to no transparency. Point is, there are reasonab
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by cyphunk 12y ago
When news comes around about Telegram it typically includes the criticism of their team being hostile. I just haven't seen it though. Instead I've seen their team respond to posts with gratitude for the critique and disclosure. I
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by cyphunk 12y ago
many of the new secure chat systems have homecooked elements. this is because they are trying to solve usability features that have not been thoroughly dealt with before.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Indeed. Or to go further, you can't trust even compiled sources you place on dev mode device if you didn't also compile the entire OS and drivers. Still, not Telegram/TextSecure's fault
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Valid criticism but I feel the items you mention get blown out of proportion. The Cryptocat team had similar areas where it was lacking and yet did not suffer the same backlash. This could be because they never ran a competition and worked
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Okay this problem of binary verification you should blame on Google and Andriod app ecosystem. At least on andriod if you install the apk yourself with Telegram and TextSecure you know exactly what you are running. For everythign else, you
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Threema, Facebook, WhatsApp are not open source. TextSecure and Telegram have open source clients allowing for verification and trust of the protocol.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
This is exactly the problem with the communities "greater than though" tone toward anything non-EU/US engineered. The Telegram client is open source. Threema for example is NOT. WhatsApp for example, is NOT. Facebook Messenge
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Every one of these new chat systems have similar problems with key authentication. they fail in similar ways and try to solve the problem in similar and different ways. This articles contribution, while very valid with its "greater tha
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by cyphunk 12y ago
wtf? client is all OSS https://telegram.org/source
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by cyphunk 12y ago
impressed. are votes due to https://twitter.com/cyphunk/status/553116587071635457 ? whitehouse lurking around HN?
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by cyphunk 12y ago
WOW. Depending on what side of the firewall you sit this act can be interpreted as either "out of the box thinking" OR subtle arrogance and desperation. For those sitting on 192.168.* that thought this strategy up take note: Speak
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Releasing such documents, even if fully redacted, is important for State Agencies when dealing with a branding windfall. This, along with for example Obama's recent memo to the US Intelligence community asking them to be more considera
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by cyphunk 12y ago
lol! Am I the only one trying to understand why Stripe felt reason to give moralist post? "We’re proud to work with organizations defending digital freedoms such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Freedom of the Press Found
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I agree the logic of the threats makes no sense. There are very few state actors that are this detached from objective and logic. In-fact it feels like the work of a troll, aka anonymous or a reincarnated Lulzsec. The same people responsibl
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by cyphunk 12y ago
If you imagine a world where non-nationalist universal civil liberties is a reality you may find Assange's political agenda makes sense. While Snowden and others came to the idea of universal civil liberties only after being buffed for
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by cyphunk 12y ago
The most damning argument is, as mentioned in the article, that the NK+The Interview conclusion was not mentioned by the attackers until the media started speculating. That those responsible for investigation have not looked at the relation
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by cyphunk 12y ago
thanks
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by cyphunk 12y ago
http://youtu.be/tQhIRBxbchU?t=2m8s
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by cyphunk 12y ago
"looking forward" (as the article attributes to being Obama's argument for not prosecuting) is something one does to forgive others. self-punishment is something one does to prove trust to others. The looking forward policy o
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Does anyone have source for the analysis of the "program" used that the statement claims the FBI used as their grounds for the accusation? I still cannot find any details
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by cyphunk 12y ago
God I hope USG has some proof of the N.K. connection up their sleeve. Otherwise they are digging a deep ditch in which to thrust their trolled corpse.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
normally i'd ask the same question except that I know that the author only wrote this article because of this post from before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8776877
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Dean (the author of the article) mentioned that several other apps have attempted to use peertalk and other OSS code this app uses but had their app rejected by Apple (e.g. see mronge's comment). So perhaps the lack of attribution was
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DuetDisplay and Unattributed Open-Source(github.com)
139 points by cyphunk 12y ago|50 comments
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I would place my bet on the individuals with access to the trove from the Playstation Network hack. It's odd how the epic Sony Playstation Network hack from a few years back doesn't get discussed much in relation to the current ha
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by cyphunk 12y ago
From what I understand this gives the attacker administrative access via a routers Web UI configuration interface. So they could change the configuration of the router, which could be concerning in some scenarios but irrelevant most others.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
it should be obvious at this point that sony's gamification of this event is part of the problem and deserves some ridicule.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
that makes for an interesting americanism: if you don't torrent the film, the terrorists win
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by cyphunk 12y ago
We are deeply saddened at this brazen effort to suppress the distribution of a movie, and in the process do damage to our company, our employees, and the American public. I hope the spirit of "the American public&quot

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