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by dhx 15y ago
Previous NH discussion of the original article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3657026
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by dhx 15y ago
Even if you were to statically compile a software build from 5 years ago, it may require newer kernel features such as inotify (instead of dnotify). At some point of time the application authors (correctly) made a decision to throw out the
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by dhx 15y ago
Read some hacker/cracker zines from the late 80's/early 90's (Phrack, 2600, etc being the well known ones) and you'll quickly gain a deep perspective on the pace of computing/IT security advancement over the decades. Stuxnet and Duqu will s
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by dhx 15y ago
To anyone currently developing scripts to analyse comments on HN, please also consider use of unqualified opinions presented as fact. Statements such as "most", "a lot", "many" and "no one" fall into this category as per [1]. It would be in
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by dhx 15y ago
I don't quite understand the benefit of a transfer speed vs. progress percentage plot. Transfer speed should be viewed as a function of time.
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by dhx 15y ago
Unless you're operating a World of Warcraft forum :)
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by dhx 15y ago
“Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can’t pronounce.” This comes across as being poor advice. Some of the worst processed foods (sauces found in a supermarket isle) often contain 90% of one of t
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by dhx 15y ago
Black Hat USA 2009: Realistic probabilities in modern signals intelligence[1] attempts to provide a more realistic prediction of what could be possible. The paper is structured in a similar way to how Physics and Technology for Future Pre
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by dhx 15y ago
Yes: using IPv6 IPsec everywhere, a web-of-trust model and a distributed method for key exchange (DHT?). I may be dreaming.
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by dhx 15y ago
>We hope this will make it much easier to develop vendor-specific features. DRM[1]? Flash/"ActiveX 2012"[2]? We've seen a great deal of recent discussion about the harm vendor-specific CSS properties[3] and X- prefixed application pro
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Personality traits that correlate with job engagement(bps-occupational-digest.blogspot.com.au)
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by dhx 15y ago
Practically that would work, at least for the foreseeable future. Theoretically it's not so easy. If you know how Google translates from English to French (and vice-versa) you can at least partially reverse the process. Or perhaps authorshi
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by dhx 15y ago
The technology must be assumed to exist as there is plenty of commercial incentive to develop and use the technology. A threat model that fails to account for future advances in technology vs. expected period of protection is unacceptable.
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by dhx 15y ago
It may be possible under the proposal but is distant from the intended or anticipated uses. This proposed extension appears to provide a means for distributing keys between DRM chips/implementations (BD+/AACS/etc) and a remote license serve
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by dhx 15y ago
The proposal is an additional layer of cruft that doesn't assist copyright holders in any way with protecting their content. Content protection should be as simple as refusing the stream content to unauthenticated and unauthorised clients.
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by dhx 15y ago
Please explain why the specification makes continued use of the word "license" -- a word that has little meaning outside the context of Digital Restrictions Management. Why did they feel the need to use the word "license" and not just "key"
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by dhx 15y ago
Relevant bug report/feedback, code review and commit references (that don't make any mention of why the change was made): [1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=98264 [2] https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&#
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by dhx 15y ago
The + would have been removed from the Chrome UI because it reduces Google's claim to the "+" mark in their Google+ branding. Google wants people to think "Google+" when they see a button with a + on it (not "create new tab").
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by dhx 15y ago
Assume for a moment that the implementation of the encryption and decryption processes are perfect. You've now completed the easiest part of the problem (to be very generous, let's call this 10% progress). You still need to solve the proble
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by dhx 15y ago
Users need to verify the source code to cryptwit.com on every single page load to ensure that the "client side" code is not leaking the key/plaintext. There are many highly creative methods for leaking this information that would pass unnot
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by dhx 15y ago
Why interrupt what people are doing to organise a "meeting" that consists entirely of content that is much better read directly from a collaborative project management/issue tracking tool? A meeting may only be 10 minutes long but the loss
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by dhx 15y ago
OpenSSL isn't the best example to use. Cryptographic code is quite challenging to write because it needs to factor in timing analysis attacks (via cache misses, branching with different execution times, etc). For this reason, use of normal
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by dhx 15y ago
It's not even a case of politics for these companies. They need to avoid regulation to survive. The most important asset these companies have are highly skilled and sought after researchers. How appealing will Google be to work for if the
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by dhx 15y ago
Which chip are they using? The highest capacity NAND memory on Samsung's website appears to be 256Gbit. Example part number: K9PFGD8U5M (most of the detail is hidden behind an NDA) I doubt they can stack 32 of these chips into the same thum
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by dhx 15y ago
Remember to keep track of the call stack in your head as you write code. The trap to avoid is to invert control and then fail to invert (return) back to the main program flow. In the example referenced, the following call stack could be cre
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by dhx 15y ago
It's more useful to look at the plot for the million busiest domains. nginx places 3rd and if trends continue, may take 2nd place from IIS some time in 2013/14.
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by dhx 15y ago
The comment seemed apolitical to me -- it was a statement on the future of purchasing where consumers have access to a great deal more information. Instead of only considering the price of a product, consumers of the future could be making
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by dhx 15y ago
Our app makes one request over the internet to our server to find if the product is a SOPA supporter. We do not access any other data. It would be useful to have statistics available for this data. Which items are most frequentl
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by dhx 15y ago
If someone can execute a "SELECT * FROM user" query, it's highly likely that they can also intercept login form responses to retrieve plain text passwords.
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by dhx 15y ago
This information could be obtained by users/consumer review companies by reverse engineering (or purely testing) products to make numerical comparisons of various properties. In the case of mattresses, the size of springs isn't as relevant

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