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by gherkin0 11y ago
I mentioned your first link, the factoring of a 768-bit RSA key, in my first comment. RSA isn't a "broken encryption scheme": it's a perfectly fine one. It's just that you need to use key lengths long enough to def
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> I first saw a “web app” when Steve Jobs introduced WebObjects at the Moscone Center in 1995, which he claimed was the first dynamic HTML app server to go to market (followed by a few others like Kiva, WebLogic…). It was quite somethin
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by gherkin0 11y ago
That only covers half of the wireless equation. ...unless they ran a wire up the the controls to carry power :)
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> He didn't compare anything. No, he did: >>> 1024 bit keys are endangered? .... You can't even break 256 bits 1024 bit key = most likely something like RSA 256 bit key = some symmetric algorithm or ECC He's imply
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by gherkin0 11y ago
And when your batteries inevitably die out on the trail and you're stuck in some random gear, you'll bless the day you bought into this ~ innovation ~.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
It's a total dick move on Philips's part to "update" incompatibility into existing products that people already own and have spend money and effort to integrate. These people bought product with the expectation of com
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by gherkin0 11y ago
You're comparing keys from two different cryptosystems, which is a mistake. A RSA key ("1024 bit keys") needs to be longer than a AES key ("256 bits") to provide a given amount of security, since more conditions ar
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by gherkin0 11y ago
In this case we're talking about embedded industrial control systems, I doubt they're easy to modify in that way.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
If Flash Boys is full of ignorance, perhaps you could recommend a better book? It also sounds like the term front running refers to many different practices, this is from the Wikipedia article: > One common practice of high-frequency tra
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by gherkin0 11y ago
In this case, I think the engineering effort required to proxy a real one to make it look like a poorly-configured honeypot would be greater than actually implementing some proper security measures, like a firewall plus a VPN for any needed
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Do they still even make Mickey Mouse cartoons? He really seems like nothing more than a logo and mascot at this point.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> High frequency trading gets shat on frequently. It's stupid. This is only a tool that evens out price differences across geological distance. 1. That's a valuable evening out prices may be a valuable function, but one reason
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Gone, too, is a classroom poster that once warned recruits that “officers killed in the line of duty use less force than their peers.” Wow. That was a thing that existed? > Alexis Artwohl, a former police psychologist and consultan
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> That's why you set up a separate entity to limit your liability first. That may limit their liability, but it won't prevent them from losing their investment. > Since the aim is to revive a game for its own sake rather tha
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> With orphan works specifically, the concern that I've heard expressed by some photographers is that companies will spend exactly 10 seconds trying to track down the copyright holder before deciding it's orphaned and using the
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Effectively, you'd be saying that if someone isn't exercising their rights under copyright with sufficient vigor by making something available for sale, they'd lose those rights. Couldn't there instead be some kind
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by gherkin0 11y ago
But by then they would've spent the money needed to update the game to a releasable game state plus any legal costs triggered by other parties "lawyering up," perhaps only to have the rug pulled out from under them.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Though I would not be surprised to learn that it has the same sort of biased reporting we see in other news media. I remember it as not being very biased, just watered down, often with some kind of "teen" angle. Channel 1 was
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Honestly, the user experience of paying by credit card is just getting too complicated. Which of the 3 contact-less payment vendors can you use? Do you hand your card to the cashier or not? Do you swipe it or insert it (who knows, the ca
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It's the fear of missing out. All the social media services build their foundation on that addiction. Once you delete the accounts then the feeling slowly goes away and you get back to what life was like before all this nonsense s
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Every once in a while I'll log in when she tells me to go do something like like a post or respond to a message or something. Have you noticed Facebook getting needy and messaging to remind you that "X posted a photo" an
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by gherkin0 11y ago
They're annoying even if they're legitimate, like CNN having an auto-play video (even on mobile) at the top of every news article. I use firefox, so I disabled them all using media.autoplay.enabled = false. That solved it, but it
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I wouldn't say advertisers are malicious actors: they are amoral ones. They want maximum short-term profit, and they don't care if they hurt people or not in the process.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Most large retailers only store the full credit card information for seconds while they process the transaction, when the transaction is complete it is discarded. Couldn't work around that by having some device that attaches to a
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> You can't book an appointment with most of these directly, and not all of them can write prescriptions legally. You can with many nurse practitioners (and maybe physician assistants, but I've had no experience with them) at p
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by gherkin0 11y ago
I think that argument is pretty weak. Many of the millions that the Soviets sent to the gulags were socialists and communists, but that action doesn't make the Soviets or those they imprisoned and murdered not-communist or not-sociali
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> The slightly less cynical view is that they know that the next time something happens they know that - if encryption is involved, they will be absolutely pilloried by the popular press, opposition etc. for "not doing everything th
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Some of those are really surprising. Notably the Monopoly one (I would have though that would be a copyright) and the floppy disk one (filed 1995, really?).
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> making programming look more like math I think what we're really talking about is making programming notation look more like traditional math notation . Math is math no matter how you write it.
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> Interesting that it is HFS+ getting accused of being crazy, rather than the (blatantly deficient) POSIX-style tools! That's UNIX parochialism for you.

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