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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
At the end of the abstract of your paper: "We recommend changes to route selection design and implementation for Tor. These changes require no operational increase in network overhead and are simple to make; but they prevent the attack
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
There's no specific details of how they're staining. The two clues I can find: - It's called "User Agent staining" - "Each stain is visible in passively collected SIGINT and is stamped into every packet, which
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
This paper is from 2006, so there's almost certainly more developments since then.
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GCHQ report on 'Mullenize' program to 'stain' anonymous electronic traffic(apps.washingtonpost.com)
89 points by ethanhunt_ 13y ago|17 comments
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49-page NSA research paper on how to crack Tor(apps.washingtonpost.com)
7 points by ethanhunt_ 13y ago|3 comments
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
This is fundamentally opposed to personal computing. The goal of this DRM plugin is to stop your computer from doing what you tell it to do, in favor of doing what a corporation tells it to do. If this is given to them in the W3C spec, they
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
> The story is the FBI asked for Snowden's emails and correspondence. That's not the story that you linked. From the article you linked: "The filings show that Lavabit was served on June 28 with a so-called “pen register”
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
You are incorrect. Second sentence of the article: "A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID."
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
Would be interested in seeing this if you can find it.
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
> How do they know you performed physical activity -- they issue you a pedometer or allow you to connect your Garmin/MapMyFitness/Fitbit/MyFitnessPal/etc account to the program. It's brilliant, and the $0-75&#x2F
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
No, it's a fabrication. Amazon used to a/b test prices (but don't anymore), so people would see a lower/higher price when they deleted their cookies (thus putting them into the opposite a/b class). There is no evide
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
> causing its stock price to plummet and forcing the company to lay off half of its workforce of 900 employees Seems like it almost destroyed the company. I wonder how they should've protected against this. Their source code was obv
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Chinese firm paid insider 'to kill my company,' American CEO says(investigations.nbcnews.com)
12 points by ethanhunt_ 13y ago|5 comments
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
> I wonder what the average citizen can do about this? Donate to the ACLU.
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
No they cannot. It's a fixed funding campaign: "This campaign will only receive funds if at least $32,000,000 is raised by Wed 21 Aug 11:59PM PT."
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SpeedForm: Under Armour Has Built a Bra For Your Feet(gizmodo.com)
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
They could just spin up an EC2 instance when someone connects. It's $0.25/hr for a Large (~ 8gb ram, 2/4 core), so if they're servicing someone for a working day (8 hrs), they're out $2. If the user wants to save that working state, they ca
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by ethanhunt_ 14y ago
> it also forces you to think about how your change is going to affect the whole system. That's a good thing. How do you reconcile that with software's pervasive idea of abstractions, which lets us avoid exactly what you say is a good t