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“Citizenfour” Nominated for Best Documentary Oscar(pri.org)
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Peerio – Secure messaging and file sharing(peerio.com)
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U.S. Can Reach 50% Renewable Generation by 2030, Says IRENA(powermag.com)
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Show HN: PublicKey.js – Easy keyserver searching(diafygi.github.io)
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by diafygi 12y ago
What does OpenPGP do? If you have the MAC in plaintext, wouldn't anyone be able to determine who encrypted the message?
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by diafygi 12y ago
I went to an Encryption and Key Management in AWS presentation at the pop-up loft in San Francisco, and they explained how their KMS system is built on shared Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) that are tamper evident and have hardcoded loggi
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by diafygi 12y ago
Captive portals are fine if you use a VPN. When I go on a flight, I visit a non-https site, get redirected to the WiFi login-or-pay, pay, and then connect to my VPN. All traffic after that (to the airline) is encrypted. Plus, airlines would
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by diafygi 12y ago
That would be true only if the screenshot showed the "login or pay" page. Those things work by issuing a fake SSL cert for the initial request in order to redirect you to the inflight.gogo.com page to login or pay. The fact that t
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Current problems in cryptography(reddit.com)
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How the internet’s engineers are fighting mass surveillance(gigaom.com)
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The accompanying 31C3 lecture: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6258/ The accompanying Spiegel article: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/inside-the-nsa-s... Also, obligato
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by diafygi 12y ago
THESE DOCUMENTS CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF ATTACKS ON VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, TOR. What do we do now? No seriously, what do we do? The full list of documents: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nsa-documents-atta... T
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NSA Documents: Attacks on VPN, SSL, TLS, SSH, Tor(spiegel.de)
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by diafygi 12y ago
Then mark them as WontFix with a comment explaining why. Marking Obsolete without comment and restricting further comments is a huge slap in the face to your biggest supporters (those who went through the trouble of trying to contribute pos
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by diafygi 12y ago
EDIT: The original title of this post was "Someone silently closed 37% (19/52) of Android bugs with 500+ stars on Dec 25th" (it has been involuntarily changed by the mods). Here's the list (all marked Obsolete silently b
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Many Android bugs with 500+ stars closed as obsolete on December 25(code.google.com)
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by diafygi 12y ago
Firefox also used to have text reflow when zooming, but they removed it for some reason[1][2]. This is the sole reason I use Opera on mobile. [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710298 [2]: https://
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by diafygi 12y ago
Electricity is generally seen as going the way of telecommunications where it will skip a wired grid and go straight to wireless (in this case, distributed solar). Here's three startups I know are trying to make distributed energy happ
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by diafygi 12y ago
Great! We're better overall than we were! No reason to rest on our laurels, though. How can we be better than we are now? Here's some areas that aren't doing too well: 1. Climate Change - We're in store for a lot of trou
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by diafygi 12y ago
If you want to see torture prosecutions, write a letter to your editor calling out your elected officials by name (source below). I did it, so can you! How to get your senators' and representatives' attention on any issue without
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by diafygi 12y ago
This is a great example of how the media often confuses the complexities of environmental impact. Here's why: 1. This study is limited to particulate matter pollution, not greenhouse gas emissions. Most readers nowadays associate &quot
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by diafygi 12y ago
Rather than advice, how about some tasks? 1) Make an investor pitch deck for your idea. What questions will investors ask? Where is your idea strong? Where is it weak? What's the market size? Who are your competitors? What are they doi
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by diafygi 12y ago
Soft costs are a huge problem right now in solar. They accounts for 64% of installed cost[1], which is crazy. Luckily, there is a big effort to reduce these costs[2]. [1]: http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2013/5
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by diafygi 12y ago
I've never successfully been able to get pidgin otr to work in Ubuntu. Have any links to a step-by-step tutorial?
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by diafygi 12y ago
The government only has lawyers, so pretty much everyone in the audience (save for the occasional law student) is by default in support of the EFF. All we need you to do is show up 30 minutes before, wear a suit, be quiet, and watch.
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by diafygi 12y ago
Sure! Pay your taxes.
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by diafygi 12y ago
I went to the last one in Oakland and there was about 20-30 people who came to watch. However, at another case in SF, it was at capacity and they had to set up a live feed to the cafeteria for the overflow. Hopefully, that happens this time
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by diafygi 12y ago
FYI, these proceedings are open to the public. I've gone to two of them before to support the EFF. You just wear a suit and sit in the audience quietly. When the arguments (which are fascinating, by the way) are over everyone gets up a
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by diafygi 12y ago
Great! Be sure to do the recurring donation option. I donate $10 per month automatically, which is barely noticeable.
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by diafygi 12y ago
The equivalent Firefox bug was also recently reopened, too. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1041087

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