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by fabulist 12y ago
Nice. I have a CLI for a similar site (kopy.io); do you mind if I add support for your site as well? My project is here: github.com/xmnr/kopycat It boasts a single user right now, so it shouldn't burden you with traffic too m
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by fabulist 12y ago
Whoops, I guess I misunderstood the article.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Most criminals are caught because their groups are targeted and OPSEC (operational security) is really, really hard. They catch the people who didn't maintain strict discipline and get them to flip on the rest. This is an age-old recip
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by fabulist 12y ago
As always, one must consider their own threat model and make an informed decision. I personally would use BitLocker over TrueCrypt, but LUKS over BitLocker.
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by fabulist 12y ago
The article suggests that, since both companies are founded by Stanford grads, they have similar social networks and so are drawing on the same pool of talent. I have no idea if that is true or not. My two cents are, "why do you think
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by fabulist 12y ago
If they're all conveniently using the same tools, their system will work.
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by fabulist 12y ago
A lot of people seem who recommend TC seem to think the same about BitLocker. To be fair, TrueCrypt has been audited and the code is freely available; BitLocker is proprietary, and the code is only available to a select few under NDA.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I use a similar add on, but I've never gotten it to work. I didn't try too hard though, since archive.today is effective and has the nice side benefit of being linkable.
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by fabulist 12y ago
You've got me on that one. I have high hopes that the Internet will find a way to finance itself that isn't based on ads/surveillance. I'm thinking of launching a platform to monetize sites.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Non-paywall link: https://archive.today/kLrVp For reference, I find archive.today to be the most reliable way to bypass WSJ's paywall. I've never had occasion to bypass any other paywalls.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I rather like the idea that someone from Tor is going to be working at an ISP. If everyone who worked at ISPs shared ideals with the Tor project, perhaps the Internet would be a better place.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Definitely not a classy move; perhaps it would've been better to do it immediately on boot-up, with an error message like FOOLS_FAULT, and after a few seconds pop up a dialog that makes the "error" go away. "Your camera
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by fabulist 12y ago
People forget culture is the original technology.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Thanks for a good read. Its strange to think about a time when there were a myriad of incompatible networks, and their different capabilities could be exploited.
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by fabulist 12y ago
If you propose a better title and an admin sees your comment, they'll change it if they agree it is called for.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I think there are a lot of people in our government who fit that description. I don't believe that explanation makes sense in this particular instance.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I'd really rather if the people in our government were mature enough to understand that death is the inevitable result of being alive, and it is futile to trade our civil liberties to attempt a 100% survival rate. I'm much more wo
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by fabulist 12y ago
I believe the chinese government actually operates a CA. But it isn't worth it to them to expend such a valuable asset on an operation like that.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Relevant portion of the rant: File /securedrop/journalist.py, lines 125-128, missing @admin_required decorator 125 @app.route('/admin/add', methods=3D('GET', 'POST')) 126 d
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by fabulist 12y ago
They also coerced Google as a part of PRISM. The NSA likes redundancy.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I guess what I meant was, "We now have a huge amount of evidence about what they really are doing, lets talk about that and where the line should be drawn; speculating gets us nowhere."
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by fabulist 12y ago
Fair enough.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I doubt the NSA needs or desires a backdoor in Windows. If they were going to put that kind of pressure on Microsoft, they'd demand access to source code or perhaps a backdoor in its TLS implementation. These investments would pay off
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by fabulist 12y ago
I think he's saying many people today could brute force this public key. Less than 2048 bits is considered unsafe today.
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by fabulist 12y ago
A buddy who is an excellent reverse engineer assures me that this isn't a conspiracy. Crypto services had to be verified by a key; the NSA's crypto services were classified, so they couldn't let Microsoft sign them; therefore
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by fabulist 12y ago
This project takes a whitelist approach, rather than a blacklist approach. Malware authors could certainly turn their programs into random GOTO spaghetti in order to obtain a unique power consumption pattern. But this approach is to fingerp
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by fabulist 12y ago
Some thoughts on how a hacker might defeat this; * Broadcast signals at the PFP enabled devices to cause false alarms, in order to convince the operators that the devices are unreliable. * Hack the system at a time where the administrators
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by fabulist 12y ago
I think responding to this question would threaten their job security (and, as MrZipf said, the were probably not involved.)
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by fabulist 12y ago
It would be incredibly nice if there was a home security system that was actually difficult to defeat. The existing ones are susceptible to denial-of-service attacks against their communications infrastructure (cutting the phone line, jammi
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by fabulist 12y ago
The web was built on shaky foundations which cannot support the weight of its teeming millions. For instance, a 51% (I cannot seem to find the study, perhaps someone else has it bookmarked) of compromises result from attacks on passwords; m

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