firepacket

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by firepacket 5y ago
Why do you think they say that? Because they really want to help you? You believe that crap if you want, I'll do my own research. SOMEONE has to write it, otherwise where does it come from?
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by firepacket 5y ago
It's a real conspiracy. Simple as that. Google proved they could beat spam around year 2000, but now suddenly they are now letting messages through with headers that a toddler could tell you are fake. They know it' spam, we all do
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by firepacket 5y ago
My password manager works just like this! It just monitors shared folders and keeps everything in a compressed/32k encoded XML file that you can open with a text editor. It's 1 file per vault, but multiple people can use the same
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by firepacket 5y ago
I believe the most popular password managers have been cracked already, that is why I did a LOT of research and built my own. It was not easy, but it was fun, and if anyone wants to decrypt my files they have a lot of difficult hurdles to j
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by firepacket 5y ago
This is a huge problem. How do we reliably be sure we are entering credentials in the right place? I am thinking we need to look at a bunch of different factors, but what?
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by firepacket 5y ago
I wrote my own with ridiculous Argon2 requirements (Takes 18 secs to open) combined with PKDF hybrid hashing system. (not chained) and strong AES256 CBC implementation with proper random IVs for each field and correct padding. You can encry
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by firepacket 12y ago
> Cox is far from alone in blowing off Rightscorp's notices, so it isn't clear why the Atlanta-based provider was chosen as the test case Not only has Cox has been the most vocal about supporting its users' rights, but asi
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by firepacket 12y ago
Just for the record, if you want a new IP usually all you have to do is change the MAC address of your router and you'll get a new one.
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by firepacket 12y ago
You mean a super cookie? Not only would this violate tracking laws in some areas, but who would ever want to use such a thing?
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by firepacket 12y ago
I would think the courts would recognize a difference between advertising to the end user for the purpose of purchase/consumption, and advertising to 3rd parties as part of a compatibility protocol. The UA string is not visible to the
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by firepacket 12y ago
+1 I'm confused as to why so many people are saying that FreeBSD doesn't autocomplete when it always has. Also want to add that csh comes stock with historical auto completion which I very much enjoy. Typing "tail " an
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by firepacket 12y ago
I doubt it's intentional. Most common validation regexs that your average web dev would use tend to reject the + character.
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by firepacket 12y ago
> Currently, POS counterfeit fraud is largely absorbed by card issuers. It's a lie. Why do you think so many stores ask to see ID? From what I've seen, the accepting merchant account is always debited for every chargeback and
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by firepacket 12y ago
It's not even in the form of transaction fees. Fraudulent charges are withdrawn from the retailers. Even if it has already posted to the bank account, they will take it back. The CC companies never absorb the cost for fraud. Their grea
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by firepacket 12y ago
> He wrote nothing about whether he requires oxygen to live, but I'll wager with you he needs it. So you think understanding bitcoin applications is obvious as breathing oxygen? Sounds to me like you're making baseless assumpti
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by firepacket 12y ago
> I think he very clearly understands all the applications. Really? And what are you basing that opinion off of exactly? The only applications he mentions in his post relate to taxes and credit card fees. If he had any understanding of t
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by firepacket 12y ago
I don't understand- how they are lying exactly? Don't they explicitly ask you if you want to backup your recovery key to the cloud? Is it really that hard to read prompts and change the default setting to manage your own key bac
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by firepacket 12y ago
> the police can get you online the way they usually get you -- by having an undercover police agent pretend to be the seller. Except this method doesn't work online because they can't prove you are the one who ordered it. Anyo
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by firepacket 12y ago
This was a painful read. He says he "doesn't want to be educated about bitcoin" because "he's heard all the arguments", while at the same time claiming it's a "terrible currency (or not a currency at
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by firepacket 12y ago
Your communications can still be tapped, your location can still be tracked through cell towers, and remote malware can still turn your phone into a persistent bug. I don't think there's much of an advantage to using a dumb phone.
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by firepacket 12y ago
Assuming your are using SSL, what exactly is the attack vector for getting a "foothold into your javascript execution" besides hacking Coinbase itself? Also, any attacker who gains a foothold of your operating system execution e
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by firepacket 12y ago
It looks like they are basing OneGet off of NuGet - their package manager for Visual Studio. It does handle dependencies and is actually quite good compared to other package managers.
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by firepacket 12y ago
They are using the same syntax as NuGet- the Visual Studio package manager console.
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by firepacket 12y ago
Thanks. Yes, I somewhat agree with your clarification. And to further your point, it appears this guy ( https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2k38ta/my_wallet_w... ) just got his coins stolen by using
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by firepacket 12y ago
Siphoning bitcoin transactions is not trivial. Transactions need to be signed by the holder of the private key to the inputs. A MITM attacker still does not have access to any keys. If it was that easy, bitcoin would be worthless.