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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
"Serious Cryptography" is good. There's an updated edition dropping later this year. "Real World Cryptography" is also good.
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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
When you say "Mention Schneier," do you mean Schneier himself or Applied Cryptography specifically? I was unaware of any particular generalized disdain for the man, though I'm certainly aware of plenty for the book, which you
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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
Personally I also require those groups to include at least one special character.
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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
And they'd act like you were imagining things if you said otherwise. It was like: - (email) Delta: Your flight has been cancelled, and we are unable to rebook you onto another at this time. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Here
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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
CSRB's report on the Exchange Online breach that dropped a couple weeks ago was pretty damning. Microsoft had a situation where a threat actor had access to the entirety of Exchange Online, and possibly their entire cloud. CSRB describ
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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
Police can be extremely vindictive. For instance, they tried to put this guy away in prison for potentially decades because he recorded phone calls of statements they made in an official capacity. I've seen cops make statements that th
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by helpfulclippy 2y ago
For my money, I think the way this works out is that the idea of global social media conglomerates also falls apart. I think instead of subsidiaries of mostly US companies, governments will prefer to have the social media platform and its o
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
The goal of the state lottery is to generate additional revenue by using its lawmaking power to protect and exploit a monopoly on gambling.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Oof. Guess I know who I’m not including in the next round of PC hardware.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
How would we know if this is true? For instance, is the source code subject to independent review, with verifiable builds made from that source so that all deployments have to show matching hashes? Or is more of a pinky-swear kind of a thin
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I wonder if Caesars' cybersecurity insurer had an opinion about writing a policy for a casino resort that hosts something like DEFCON, especially after the MGM hack.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I’ve seen several articles now about an increase in private and home schooling after the pandemic. I don’t recall the numbers quoted, but my local district’s budget shows a significant drop in enrollment in a lot of its schools in 2021, whi
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
> Obviously, this would be less convinient and wouldn't sync between devices. But would do the job. Allowing convenient use of strong, unique passwords per-account IS the job. If a user can't quickly access their passwords on a
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
That’s bound to be fun. Encryption is easy; key management is hard.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I think of Peter Zeihan commentary as having two parts. The first part is where he takes a current event and contextualizes it with a bunch about the geography, demography and supply chain stuff, or maybe some history. I'd say he has a
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
The author proposes a corollary to Kerckhoff's principle: > A cryptosystem should be secure even if all the parameters, except the key, are shared across every user. It seems that if the key counts as a parameter, then surely nonces
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Yes, exactly. It was a BBS with larger scale and a GUI. You dial into it, and you're in their walled garden -- stuff on AOL was not accessible from the wider Internet, and at first, AOL provided no access to the Internet at large. Even
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I found it pretty weak compared to prior years. It is too crowded, too full of itself, and has too many things that don’t work. I basically ignored the content after getting burned out on it Friday and just focused on networking. So, uh… ye
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
On the other hand, public schooling can cause lifelong psychological or physical trauma due to bullying, abuse or neglect by other students or school staff. In the US, the risk of school shootings is a reasonable concern as well.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
While it is theoretically possible that the proprietary software is well-written, I would feel much safer if “defense in depth” were achieved by opening the server code and exposing it to as much audit and commentary as possible.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Obviously you can make LLMs that subtly differ from well-known ones. That’s not especially interesting, even if you typosquat the well-known repo to distribute it on HuggingFace, or if you yourself are the well-known repo and have subtly bi
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
A fascinating read from the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau about the history of this remarkably potent veto: https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/misc/lrb/reading_the_consti... Long ago, Wisconsin added a clau
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Exactly. There’s a lot of danger waiting for you when you grow up and leave home. Money would certainly solve some problems, but if everyone knew every 20 year old had a big check they could go get a piece of, it will cause many more proble
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Your take is also dangerous. Sending a load of militarized cops to breach someone's home with the intent to use lethal force at an instant based only on an anonymous phone call empowers bad guys to create extremely dangerous situations
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Which is more trustworthy: - The bank that says "We have strong security measures," which it details for in full and you can audit to any depth you like and see they are in place, and you can see that security professionals have t
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
It seems to me that there’s lots of room to change stuff that profoundly affects the range of responses without altering the base model. The prompt template alone seems like a place outside the model where we’ve seen safeguards get implemen
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Sounds like this is meant to avoid interfering with internal DNS servers. Mozilla's documentation says that if you enable DoH manually, it will use DoH even if the canary domain check would have turned it off.
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I am on the whole not that impressed with the quality of Google stuff. It's not like it was 20 years ago, when seeing the Google version of something was really exciting, like when Search, Gmail or Maps first came out. Now I look at Go
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
Same. When I started using 1p, the vault was stored locally, and it was possible to decrypt it at the command line using openssl. They prided themselves on this. They moved to cloud-based, and at one point I went to check if data export wor
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by helpfulclippy 3y ago
I didn't know him personally, so I wish I could say I had some firsthand experience. Rumor-wise, there was every story you can imagine. The guy loved the spotlight and was personally bankrolling something that was simultaneously a VC f

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