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by gst 16y ago
Although the linked article was posted in 2010 the included paper has been published in 1997. So I assume that most ideas in the paper are now either outdated or state-of-the-art.
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by gst 16y ago
In related news: http://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-18/dc-18-presentations/Z... I wonder what the legal consequences are when you log into the accounts of someone who stole your laptop (that you can still access via SSH). Are you even al
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by gst 16y ago
Aren't most unbranded HTC Android phones already sold unlocked? E.g., on my HTC Wildfire there was an engineering bootloader preinstalled, so shouldn't this bootloader provide me with the same features as an "oem unlock'ed" Nexus?
844.
by gst 16y ago
You can't really compress encrypted data. If it's encrypted it looks more or less like random data. So any encryption is very likely to result in a (minor) size increase, when compared to the original.
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by gst 16y ago
From the article linked within the linked article: "The site attracted five million hits in the month since its launch, but despite its success UCL asked Martell to shut it down. After he refused, the university fined him £300 for “bringing
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by gst 16y ago
Unless you're the operator of the access point. Are you really gonna trust each random access point that you find?
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by gst 16y ago
If you are using a public wifi hotspot it's an untrusted network. Even encryption does not solve this. How do you prevent someone from just setting up an accesspoint and then sniffing on all routed data? In addition, for the operator of the
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by gst 16y ago
Do you assume that their might be any problem with customs (e.g., due to the CE marks) when importing those devices to Europe? If not I'm considering using Borderlinx ( https://www.borderlinx.com/ ) to import the device.
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by gst 16y ago
Actually I think that a Bitcoin-style approach would be better. Basically just use something like Bitcoin's block chain, but store domain registrations instead of only transactions. So you only get a domain if you can prove that you've send
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by gst 16y ago
There's no reason to use GoDaddy - there are plenty of other registrars. I never understood why GoDaddy has some form of monopolly in the US. Personally I use Domaindiscount24 (based in Germany) for my domains.
851.
by gst 16y ago
Why not just register a .ch domain then?
852.
by gst 16y ago
Just switched to studded tires on my bike today (Schwalbe Marathon Winter). They make a HUGE difference. With my old tires I nearly hadn't any grip at all today. With the studded tires I can break on black ice and it feels like breaking on
853.
by gst 16y ago
Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it doesn't state under what conditions Google complies with requests: "The “data requests” numbers reflect the number of requests we received about the users of our services and products from government ag
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by gst 16y ago
The interesting question is how and when mail providers such as Gmail accept warrants issued by other countries. From some articles I've read in the past it seems that such warrants are accepted by Google - which does also make sense, as Go
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FlightPrep's patent bullying with 7,640,098(somebits.com)
3 points by gst 16y ago|0 comments
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by gst 16y ago
qmail itself is secure, but qmail without 3rd party patches is pretty much useless. This starts with qmail's delayed bounce behavior and continues with fact that patches are required for the integration of DNS-based blacklists or spam filte
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by gst 16y ago
Why should this company be any more of a patent troll than Apple, or any other of the companies that register trivial patents and then sue other companies?
858.
by gst 16y ago
The information on the encryption is not that in-depth. While I also don't have more information than available on Web-site, from the information available it seems that they server-side encrypt all files with the same key which is (therefo
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by gst 16y ago
You can use different keys for each file that you derive from the file itself. So if two user's store the same file they encrypt to the same data, but no one is able to decrypt such data without knowing the file. On the user's account you w
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by gst 16y ago
I meant client-side encryption of data before it is submitted to the server.
861.
by gst 16y ago
Although the website mentions that "files are encrypted to military-grade standards" that doesn't help if secure client-side encryption is missing. The best encryption doesn't help (me as a user) if I'm not the one in control of it. And eve
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by gst 16y ago
Only because something is good and valid does not mean that you automatically need to directly support it. I think that Wikileaks is a good thing, but I can't (won't) run a mirror because right now I'm not going to risk the legal consequenc
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by gst 16y ago
"It’s not as though Sweden can lock him up and throw away the keys." Don't be too sure. To quote from the Guardian ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/06/wikileaks-julian... ): "Assange has also said that he declined to return to Swe
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by gst 16y ago
I just wanted to post _exactly_ the same. I imagine that John Draper has some sort of health insurance. So why are those things even an issue? Healthcare is one of those few areas where I think that a government backed approach provides mor
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by gst 16y ago
The Fourth Amendment only protects you if you aren't inside the "constitution free zone". And as it happens, about two thirds of the US population live within this zone. See: http://www.aclu.org/national-security_technology-and-liberty...
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by gst 16y ago
I mostly use standard settings of Postfix and some extensions, nothing fancy. Some things that my mailserver's config does: - Wait 15 seconds until responding on the SMTP port. For real mailservers that's not a problem, but spammers typical
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by gst 16y ago
I've posted some ideas here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954992 The Bitcoin approach that I've mentioned looks basically like the following: Basically, you use Bitcoin's block chain described here: http://www.bitcoin.org/wiki/do
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by gst 16y ago
I had a similar idea some days ago and planned to write a simple prototype. However, instead of supporting standard registrations my idea was more similar to Tor's .onion namespace: You first generate a RSA keypair and build a hash of the p
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by gst 16y ago
Nothing. I'm pretty happy with the things that I have and I can't imagine anything that I need (but don't already have). When moving to two different countries in the past I've managed to pack all the things I need into a single backpack.
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by gst 16y ago
Spam is really not an issue anymore. I've got some mail adresses that would receive hundreds of spam mails per day (those addresses are older than a decade now). With fairly simple means I can block almost all of those mails on my own mails

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