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by higherpurpose 13y ago
So kind of like Bithub? https://whispersystems.org/blog/bithub/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916751
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
Whoever is defending this needs to talk about the "act of journalism", and say how in the digital age everyone can commit "acts of journalism" without having a "journalist job" or belonging to a "journalis
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
Too bad Netflix is also almost single-handedly bringing DRM to the web, which has far worse consequences in all areas of the Internet than the "convenience" of watching Netflix not in Silverlight , while also not doing a single
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
> In other words, you may be at risk from this exposure even if you've never bought anything from Target. This is why we must push back against companies who not only want to "track everything" about their customers, but a
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
It used to be where 80 percent of the transactions happened. Now it's more like 25 percent, and Bitstamp seems to have surpassed it recently, at least for BTC/USD: http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
You're using the same argument RSA used when they decided to just keep Dual EC DRBG, because it was "too late to change", even though they knew it was a backdoor. Granted, I think they are lying and did it on purpose, but eve
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
Don't forget to add PFS, Microsoft. And no NIST-corrupted curves, please.
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
I don't think this "benchmark" is that relevant anymore. It feels way too simplistic post-Snowden revelations. I think we need a more comprehensive benchmark, that also includes the type of security they use (perfect forward
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
> On ECDHE's side, handshakes almost always use the P-256 curve. Again, this makes sense, since Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox only support P256 at the moment. But according to recent research public by DJB & Lange, this
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
By the way for people who really care about privacy, there's Epic Browser, which has some anti-tracking stuff built-in, and is based on Chromium: http://www.epicbrowser.com/ I wish they'd allow people to change th
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
Yes. Startpage on the other hand is European, and so is Faroo.
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
You make it sound as if there has always been a high threshold of "goodness" in search engines, and Google has always been above that. I think it was only 2-3 years ago when people were saying how bad Google search had become beca
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EU report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance(dw.de)
2 points by higherpurpose 13y ago|0 comments
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by higherpurpose 13y ago
Probably because they want to keep the FISA Court. I would at the very least replace every single judge in that Court, and make their election a lot more democratic and open, and we'd need to see annual statistics about their rulings
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Colored Coins Vs Mastercoin Vs Open Transactions Vs Protoshares(voices.yahoo.com)
5 points by higherpurpose 13y ago|0 comments