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by gherkin0 10y ago
The device should not have the private key loaded onto it at all, just the corresponding public key. The private key would only exist on the sticker and thus be unrecoverable if you threw it out or destroyed it. The IMEI example was just t
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> though it's pretty darn impractical to do at any kind of scale. How so? It's a solved problem. Don't smartphones already have numerous device-specific identifiers and keys loaded to them? All they would really need to
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Allowing the user to lock out that second key doesn't fix anything because 99.99% of users will never do that, or even know it exists. That's easily solved: On initial device setup, the user could be asked to explicitly disab
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> GPLv3 mandates that your hardware be insecure (because you cannot prevent a malicious actor from installing malicious software on someone's device, which would normally be done by requiring all updates to be codesigned by the manu
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by gherkin0 10y ago
How big is the sci-hub database? Are there full/partial mirrors published anywhere?
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by gherkin0 10y ago
My understanding is that often the "public" job postings are posted to places where no qualified American tech worker would look, like newspaper classified sections.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> and it's worth saving. That's kind of an interesting question. There's certainly some stuff there worth saving forever, but there's also stuff that's just plain bad or that's the intellectual equivalent o
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by gherkin0 10y ago
There should also be a timer that puts the phones into require-password mode. So after a few hours they'll need more than a fingerprint. Maybe you should also have the option of setting up a "coercion fingerprint(s)", which
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by gherkin0 10y ago
You can see that process in action on metafilter.com. There, terms like "treating people with respect" are basically euphemisms for a continually narrowing set of opinions-treated-as-fact. You can't go against them without
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Didn't Satoshi also sign his earliest messages with a PGP key? If this guy's really Satoshi, couldn't he just sign a new message stating so with that same private key ?
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by gherkin0 10y ago
It's really unfortunate that this post about the (final?) end of Kuro5hin.org ended up getting completely derailed and dominated by an unoriginal discussion about reddit.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I used to post there when I was a lot younger. I'll miss it, but only its early days. It had decayed so much that it should have been shutdown a long time ago. I used to see some kuro5hin usernames I recognized on Metafilter, but for
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by gherkin0 10y ago
So did trhurler: https://web.archive.org/web/20080113234818/http://www.swtime...
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> If you actually email the users, I guarantee they'll tell you that isn't their real public key. Have you tried emailing them to test your theory?
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Define 'squishy'. You can't, can you? Underspecified. Understanding, correctly, what an underspecified system should do is a strong AI problem (in most cases, at least). All (or nearly all) unbuilt systems are underspec
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> but this still seems like a bad precedent for the financial markets in general. Isn't this sort of thing really common? http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/share_class.asp
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> manual maintenance without the proper bookkeeping would be viewed as tampering/sabotage, and the plane would refuse to operate. If that's true, it sounds like a solution is search of a requirement. IIRC, but I don't thi
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by gherkin0 10y ago
It Apple paid for the exploit, then they could assess if it's usable against next-gen phones.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
IIRC, the Space Shuttle had four identical computers: three ran the same (full-featured) software and detected errors with a voting algorithm; the fourth ran different (minimally-featured) software developed by a separate team as a final ba
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by gherkin0 10y ago
My dad has a US Volkswagen diesel. He's told me he can refill the urea tank, but he can't reset the computer to tell it the tank was filled, so there's very little point for him to actually refill it. His car will stop
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Some possibilities: * They don't know that their beans can actually sell for so much * They don't know how to sell their beans for higher prices (e.g. they don't have access to the right middlemen) * They aren't coordina
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Instead we will go back to the age of "durable" / "longer lasting goods". I think it's more likely that, goods will become more flimsy, cheaply made, and disposable. If true progress no longer provides mo
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by gherkin0 10y ago
...also military, law enforcement, and other government secrets.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I know you're playing devil's advocate, but that attitude is making the perfect the enemy of the good. Backups are non-trivial enough that many people don't set them up correctly if at all; and even if they do, a restore can
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> and you have a way to ship those orders separately from Amazon ones What do you mean by this? How likely would it be for a seller to even be in a position to ship orders from multiple websites in the same box? And how would Amazon fin
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by gherkin0 11y ago
tl;dr: little guy takes the risk, big guy takes the profit
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by gherkin0 11y ago
Was that person his colleague?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> so they may well be unaware of how it would be percieved by his colleagues when worn in this context. Wasn't the controversy more about how the shirt was perceived by randos on twitter, not by his colleagues?
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> It would probably cost more to start up the A-10 lines again than finish up the F35. It's not just about cost of the platform, but also the capabilities provided by it. So even if the F35 is "finished" it won't nec
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by gherkin0 11y ago
> In that case, if the design itself is still viable, it seems like it would make more sense to just produce more A-10s. Tooling up won't be cheap, but it might be cheaper than throwing yet more money at a wastefully expensive repla

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