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by emhart 12y ago
Hah, that's an absolutely fair point. I agree completely that this is news and certainly don't appreciate it being disregarded out of hand. We are, perhaps, in some sort of heated agreement at the end of the day :)
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by emhart 12y ago
I've researched the "why" and a couple years ago had the opportunity to discuss some of the broader ideas in the history & anthropology of locks. It was actually titled "Why do you lock your door?" https:/
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by emhart 12y ago
The concept of physical locks as a lone defense is a very new idea in the long history of mechanical security.
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by emhart 12y ago
A: He implies it was previously impossible in the article with this line: "As a result, all anyone needs to open many locks previously considered “unbumpable” ..." B: He asked someone to tell him how it could have been bumped prio
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by emhart 12y ago
You literally asked someone to describe how they would have bumped it previously and I gave you a reasonable answer that included a scenario in which you haven't purchased the machine, but instead purchased a blank cut by the machine f
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by emhart 12y ago
Well, except for this line: "As a result, all anyone needs to open many locks previously considered “unbumpable” ..." You are implying that this has made the impossible, possible. I think that may be valarauca's point of cont
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by emhart 12y ago
EZ Entrie machines[0], first of all, as they've been around for a decade or so and are purpose built to mill one-off high security blanks out of brass, so they're significantly more effective than their plastic counterparts. They
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by emhart 12y ago
Do you remember when this was? Multiple rows of pins have been around for ... well, since 1848 at least, but in modern locks, Kaba & Sargent (later bought by Kaba) have been using multiple rows for many decades. Doesn't actually pr
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by emhart 12y ago
Two very different problems, though both are locks. In the case of a car you don't always get to choose the security of the community it lives in. Its portability, price and effective lifespan dictate different standards of security. I
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by emhart 12y ago
That app/service has existed for years, first Shloosl (now keysduplicated), then KeyMe and I believe the proprietors frequent HN, so I expect you may see them pop up to offer an informed opinion on this article. https://keys
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by emhart 12y ago
Jos Weyers has repeatedly brought plain sense to hyperbolic reporting. His statement at the end is bang on: “The sky isn’t falling, but the world changes and now people can make stuff,” says Weyers. “Lock manufacturers know how to make a lo
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by emhart 12y ago
Most of my life we've had an outsized problem with heroin and other opiates in Vermont. Recently this has developed into an odd symbiotic relationship with New York State, where Heroin is exchanged for guns across the border. I recentl
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Judge Sentenced to 28 Years for Selling Kids to the Prison System (2013)(blog.blacknews.com)
184 points by emhart 12y ago|102 comments
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by emhart 12y ago
I'm a historian? Maybe? I've taken to calling myself a security anthropologist lately. I study the history of security, talk about it, write about it, think about it endlessly. I love this community. I've had amazing conversa
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by emhart 12y ago
Going from movie to comic, how did you feel about the difference in ending? I was frustrated by that specific change in the film, as in the comic it is building and building and building and then absolutely shocking at the end.
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by emhart 12y ago
And another that ended not long ago: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/partyrobotics/bartendro...
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Ask HN: Current state of Geo-IP?
2 points by emhart 12y ago|1 comments
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by emhart 12y ago
Man, I thought that getting a "yes" back would lead to a Eureka moment for some awesome use case...but the best I've got is just how cool it would be to show off, haha. Amazing work!
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by emhart 12y ago
Could you potentially still use the card in a camera, while it was running linux?
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by emhart 12y ago
Bah, sorry. Accidental downvote!
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by emhart 12y ago
It gets much stronger EDIT: Though the vitriol does go off the rails a bit toward the end...
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Thief in the night: Stealing in a digital age(national.deseretnews.com)
1 points by emhart 12y ago|0 comments
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by emhart 12y ago
I've been freelancing off and on for about 5 years, and had a horrible time with this sort of thing early on. What I eventually learned was to manage expectations right at the outset. Establish that if you want to get paid for research
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by emhart 12y ago
That's what finally happened, thankfully. His fiance stepped in and acted as a silent wall to the president's ongoing requests. Thankfully he finally got the message and relented. EDIT: Hah! Just parsed your message correctly =P n
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by emhart 12y ago
I wish this were extraordinary. President of our company showed up in the hospital room of the Sr. Developer he fired who had terminal cancer in order to ask him for documentation on various projects. Showed up multiple times in fact. I act
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by emhart 12y ago
I applaud that honesty. Congrats on the acquisition!
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by emhart 12y ago
LayerOne is one of my favorite conferences every year, and that talk was one of the best I've ever seen. The depth, clarity and cleverness contrasted nicely with the ever increasing intoxication.
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by emhart 12y ago
I love this idea! I virtually attend a lot of auctions that only provide still images of items from flattering angles, I'd get good use out of this for previewing items alone. I think you'd need to build in some sort of instructio
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by emhart 12y ago
Thanks! Both great insights, and and the self-polinating/asexual reproduction bits seem like they'll occupy the rest of my afternoon in a wikipedia-hole.
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by emhart 12y ago
Perhaps Russian authorities realized the shock value of helping Snowden had worn off and thought it was about time to leverage their position as asylum-granter to pressure him into lobbing the softball?

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