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by ghughes 10y ago
Probably because it's difficult to explain E2E to users in an easily-digestible way, and most users don't know the cryptographic definition of zero knowledge. I'm not excusing their use of the term, but I can see why they thi
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by ghughes 10y ago
If the service doesn't enforce end-to-end encryption of customer data, then it's a misleading statement.
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by ghughes 10y ago
What would be the point of the CIA sponsoring jailbreak teams? The exploits they find are generally burned very quickly.
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by ghughes 10y ago
NYT's original scoop hints that the missiles or the systems controlling them were compromised by malware similar to Stuxnet, which worked by tampering with parameters used to control industrial hardware. That kind of attack could work
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by ghughes 10y ago
Does CF redirect all non-HTTP traffic to HTTPS? If not, NSA could have passively intercepted tons of leaked data, and all it would take is for one of their analysts - people paid to find stuff like this - to notice a single out-of-place lea
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by ghughes 10y ago
This smells like FUD. > They could have simply moved things on the desk. Is there any evidence suggesting something else happened?
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by ghughes 10y ago
If Cloudflare accidentally leaked additional sensitive data to Tavis during the handling of this incident, and that data wasn't already compromised by the parser bug, then you should call that out in the incident report.
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by ghughes 10y ago
> If there was an idea that could ‘fix’ democracy, it would have been thought-up already. If everyone accepted this fallacy, nothing would ever get built.
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by ghughes 10y ago
You've contradicted yourself. You initially said: > Nothing about this attack is going to impact the effectiveness of ASLR in the cases it was designed for. Then you said: > This article makes it sound like ASLR has been complete
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by ghughes 10y ago
Browser engines are common venues for ROP attacks. ASLR is absolutely intended to provide protection in that context.
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by ghughes 10y ago
Wouldn't the average human be fooled by those things?
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by ghughes 10y ago
Google's Key Transparency project [1] is based on this. [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2017/01/security-through-tra...
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by ghughes 10y ago
This is a stain on our industry, and I hope the drivers continue to unionize. The buses are the only reason that the big South Bay tech companies can attract significant quantities of engineers from SF and the East Bay. I think you'd s
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EU proposes new rules that could put an end to the cookie banner(digitaljournal.com)
2 points by ghughes 10y ago|1 comments
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by ghughes 10y ago
Why do I have to sign up to see the reviews?
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by ghughes 10y ago
No, because "pretty good" isn't good enough when your competition is Apple.
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by ghughes 10y ago
The article makes a lot more sense if you look at it as an acquihire solicitation.
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by ghughes 10y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.03242v1.pdf
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Image Synthesis from Text with Deep Learning – Two Minute Papers [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ghughes 10y ago|1 comments
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by ghughes 10y ago
> no social widget is responsible for figuring out your income That is actually an intended purpose of many social widgets.
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by ghughes 10y ago
Given that not too long ago they were publicly shamed for implementing an invasive tracking system that completely undermines their customers' privacy, [1] you'll have to do a little better than "some past experience" an
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by ghughes 10y ago
Lifecycle of a banking executive: 1. Commit fraud on a massive scale 2. Say "I accept responsibility" but fire subordinates 3. Ride off into the sunset with obscene personal wealth
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by ghughes 10y ago
So your solution is to put an end to the rental market?
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by ghughes 10y ago
It's good PR because it's the right thing to do. I certainly hope it's a trend. It's fairly well-established that humans make babies and need time off work to properly care for them.
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by ghughes 10y ago
I use it frequently, and it's painfully clear that they're drinking the "growth hacking" kool-aid. Their 20-40 minute ETAs are almost always way off. Pricing is intentionally deceptive; it's usually surging, but the
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by ghughes 10y ago
Welcome to HN. Don't bother with the sockpuppet accounts next time. This sort of thing is quite likely to get upvoted organically; there's no need to cheat.
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by ghughes 10y ago
This would surely be downvoted into oblivion if it was any other blog.
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by ghughes 10y ago
Imagine a slightly longer, single-lane-width version of this running along the middle lanes of Oak and Fell in SF, one every few minutes, almost never late because traffic is irrelevant. This coming at you from behind is not all that differ
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by ghughes 10y ago
Belligerent as usual. I wonder if Musk writes these himself. edit: I'm being downvoted for this, but I wasn't using "belligerent" negatively here; I was wondering aloud whether Tesla's characteristically aggressive
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by ghughes 10y ago
Many major car manufacturers expect to be shipping autonomous vehicles by 2021 or earlier: http://www.driverless-future.com/?page_id=384

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