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by exo762 12y ago
Context is king. I was talking about secure handling of one's BTC. Exchanges need warm wallets and that is totally different story.
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by exo762 12y ago
> Good luck securing coins Securing Bitcoin is a solved problem. Trezor is bullet proof piece of open hardware already working with multiple software backends, including two android wallets. And it's easy to use, as simple or even s
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by exo762 12y ago
Fat cats and drug cartels are currently doing great job of laundering money using banks. So the question is: was anything of value lost? Also - does this mean that Bitcoin will democratize tax evasion / money laundering? There is also
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by exo762 12y ago
Disclosure: same here. You can hide your money, but you can't hide your spending. If someone is living beyond their means, it's a signal to IRS or (place name of agency that taxes you) that you are worth their effort. Also, govern
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by exo762 12y ago
Is this agreement negotiated by reptilians? Where are names of people who is working on this stuff? Were they elected? Were they appointed? By whom? How in the world contents of such agreement can stay secret? Donated money to wikileaks. h
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by exo762 12y ago
Guardian call for censorship, with primary source being SRS mod which goes by moniker Dworkin, which happens to be a nod to Andrea Dworkin - very radical and men-hating person. Good job, Guardian!
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Linux caving in to pressure at 8th of March? I really don't know what to think about it.
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I heard that rhetoric when ones you are calling for help prosecuted Aaron Schwartz. All in times when NSA was hacking all the systems they could get their hands on both around the world and in USA. You may be overreacting and unwillingly su
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by exo762 12y ago
Yes, there is. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/03/how_secure_is_textse... https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf
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by exo762 12y ago
Ok, there are two types of transactions. Ones where you want to be able to spend money that you've just received - those are slow with Bitcoin (ETA 5 minutes). This is a price you pay for your independence of banks. You can transfer mo
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by exo762 12y ago
>> shifts risk from sellers to buyers (e.g. compare refund possibilities with credit cards). Dollar couples financial services with money transmission. Bitcoin allows to decouple those. Refunds can be covered by escrow services (with
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Assuming that humans make rational economic decisions. Which is false.
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(2006) Surprising history of copyright(youtube.com)
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My bet? Because classes does not deliver things that are promised - encapsulation.
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Comparing to amount of waste (cost of operations) of regular banking system and direct harm from banking system to society (influencing politics, strong-arming rest of players on the market), cost of bitcoin as network is a chump change. I&
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by exo762 12y ago
You are out of your mind. You are equating pennies of damage done by Anonymous with terrorism, which involves killing people for instilling fear and reaching unpopular political goals.
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> In 2012, for example, consulting firm Leadership IQ announced it had tracked 20,000 new hires over time and discovered that 46% of them had failed within 18 months. In other words, most recruiting practices are about as effective as a
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by exo762 12y ago
>> After all, creativity may be the key to Homo sapiens’ success. Unlikely. Creativity in this context is only useful when it's about problem solving. Otherwise it's about art at most. And problem solving may or may not be c
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As for "murder for hire": he was never charged with it. Why?! Why on earth prosecutors have chosen not to throw a book on a guy? Because it never happened. Whole "murder for hire" story is just a part of smear campaign.
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Appelbaum is a software guy. I suspect that he is out of his depth here.
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by exo762 12y ago
Yeah, my shit is irrelevant. My machine is not though. When attacking other, relevant systems, agency will always use infested low-key systems as a hop. Is this a valid reason to harden security of your machines? Yes, it is.
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Donated to Mozilla using Bitcoin. Feels good, man.
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If anything, google is mostly c++ shop.
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by exo762 12y ago
> I don't think that's how it works. From my understanding, a new address is typically used for every new transaction. What you are interested in is their wallet which would be the sum of their addresses. Single address can be
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"to have a field day" and "to pass with flying colors".
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https://blog.lookout.com/blog/2014/11/19/notcompatible/ This blogpost delivers both technical details AND better writing.
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Few sources that claim that TSL is almost free today. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2010/06/25/overclocking-ssl.h... https://istlsfastyet.com/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/sh
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by exo762 12y ago
You need to enable JS from time.com and akamai.com. Yes, there is no real need to construct pages this way.
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“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.” :)
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by exo762 12y ago
And as I understand this attack it is possible only if connection between target server and client is not protected by SSL.

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