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by glurgh 13y ago
a program which marks the bleakest moment yet in the history of the Internet Writes someone from the other side of the Great Firewall.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Isn't the logical conclusion of this (factually unsupported) argument that we should just stop paying and collecting taxes? You might as well give up on having an organized society if your criteria are things like 'no tax cent sho
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by glurgh 13y ago
Just standby for the next travesty. What's the specific travesty here? The IRS already looks at and analyzes your private financial data both as reported by you and others and this is generally considered acceptable and a necessary p
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by glurgh 13y ago
Just expanding the acronyms should give you a decent general idea - one is a 'secure shell' the other a 'secure socket layer'. For more details, it's pretty googleable.
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's just the first sentence of the original, poorly titled article. Click through to the PDF and see what you make of it - in my reading, neither the question nor the answer say anything specific about PGP at all - especially the an
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's not a scary mistranslation, just a lousy title in the original article. The question is posed in such a general way that it can be answered without providing any specifics or making any claims about particular crypto technologies.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The answer provided by the government does not make a specific claim they can decrypt PGP or SSH. The question is quite vague - can the government decrypt, at least partially, encrypted communications (e.g. PGP or SSH) The answer is even va
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by glurgh 13y ago
SSH is not 'ie SSL'.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Great example why never to link to a techcrunch regurgitation of some story originally reported elsewhere. http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142412788732404950... The TC version fails basic reading comprehensio
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by glurgh 13y ago
These are openly available, highly reviewed algorithms - their adoption as standards, too, is done by a process of open competition. And it's probably safe to say that the amount of research and analysis being done on them in the open
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by glurgh 13y ago
The OP's contention was that government computational resources and the progress of technology itself make currently-available, robust encryption technology worthless. This is inaccurate. The fact that someone can beat a key out of you
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by glurgh 13y ago
Sure. A 128 bit key is 2^128 or 3.4e38. Numbers about total world computing power (most of it probably stuck in GPUs doing windows animations and playing Call of Duty) bandied about are in the Ne18ish ops/sec range, age of the universe
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by glurgh 13y ago
This simply isn't true. Even if you (with likely a few orders of magnitude margin) overestimate total world computing capacity at 1e21 decryption operations per second it's going to take you about age-of-the-universe seconds to br
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by glurgh 13y ago
You can't 'reset the password' on gigabytes of already encrypted data. Lose the key, you've effectively lost the data.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The original purchaser was Sun and they presumably bought it, in part, to compete with Oracle in the lower-end market, to ensure MySQL runs well on Sun hardware (which, in turn, sells more hardware), to sell MySQL related support and profes
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by glurgh 13y ago
Not sure how the original developers can create a fork of a product they sold for 1 billion? Product was GPL licensed. For many years before Oracle bought it.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Only if you apply the loose criteria conspiracy theory wingnuts apply. Like with anything else, you should ask yourself 'what's the evidence? how reliable/well-sourced is this story?'. In this particular case, the answer
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by glurgh 13y ago
A little snark is probably the politest thing you're going to hear if you're supporting your speculation that 4) Services (Google, Facebook, etc) automatically grant request without question as it is a legally binding FISA order
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by glurgh 13y ago
Oh that part seems plausible. The bit that seems like over-reaching is that we can easily and quickly gain some insight into the situation by hitting google maps. Mohamed Bouazizi's suicide sparked popular protests in Tunisia and subsequent
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by glurgh 13y ago
Try ports, perhaps? http://www.macports.org/
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by glurgh 13y ago
I don't have any trouble believing there are many malls in Istanbul. I do have some trouble believing you can reasonably answer whether they are too many by just checking on the internet. In fact, as you point out, it's possible to visit NY
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by glurgh 13y ago
Just because you can type them into google doesn't mean they're 'easily researchable'. How many shopping malls in NYC? https://maps.google.com/maps?q=shopping+mall&hl=en&l... These results seem pretty lousy and not particularly di
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by glurgh 13y ago
You are right, 'homework' makes it sound needlessly disparaging. 'Class project' would have been better.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong or obvious about it, or for that matter, with homework.
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's seems to be a project for http://dolores.sp.cs.cmu.edu/15418_spr13/ Which answers the first question that comes to mind 'why would anyone do this, for an i/o bound process'. For homework, of course.
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think it is. If you make such a tremendous claim (and it is one), you're likely to hear some counterclaims. Even if they are 'your singing totally sucks' http://www.jwz.org/hacks/why-cooperation-with-rms-is-impossi...
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by glurgh 13y ago
If you're already a programmer, you should probably read Paul Graham's On Lisp . It's a technical book, written by an advocate but before he became a VC or took up writing on woolly topics like the relationship of programming to painting.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Surely several of these are possible, by any individual, at once. You can admire and benefit from Stallman's work and achievements, without necessarily agreeing with all of his positions. And if someone essentially judges you morally defi
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by glurgh 13y ago
The logic of it is that the pursuant might shortly commit further crime and not-pursuing endangers others more than pursuing. Additionally, it might serve as a deterrent to crime if criminals know they will be pursued strenuously. It's not
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by glurgh 13y ago
if progress continues you mean if there is the slightest bit of evidence for any of these. For which, while avoiding any sort of predictions about the shape of the future, there isn't.

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