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Debate HN: Is Bitcoin a currency or a commodity?
36 points by iuguy 14y ago|51 comments
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by iuguy 14y ago
Oh wow, thanks! I'm putting tagging together at the moment and hope to have ratings and top books by tag. Is there anything else you think I should put in to help people starting out?
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by iuguy 14y ago
If that's Jon Erickson's book, it's on my list to do so hopefully it'll be later this week. At the moment most of the reviews I'm writing from memory with the book in hand flicking back through, but I've had a couple of people offer to send
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by iuguy 14y ago
Backtrack is about a year old which is a long time in security tool terms and people are being pushed towards Kali Linux[1], by the same authors. This isn't a pop at the author of violent python and it's a problem that affects anyone choosi
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by iuguy 14y ago
That sounds like a great idea thanks, I think I'll steal it if that's ok with you!
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by iuguy 14y ago
I was trying to find reviews of a couple of technical security books this weekend and found I had the option of reading fairly short reviews on Amazon, or finding disparate reviews on the web. Given that there wasn't a dedicated review site
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Show HN: Security Book Reviews - My side project for hackers and makers(securitybookreviews.eu)
25 points by iuguy 14y ago|15 comments
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by iuguy 14y ago
That's interesting and I stand corrected, I was under the impression for some reason that subscriptions existed. As an aside, have you had a look at the Carna botnet output, and if so how does it compare to your data?
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by iuguy 14y ago
I've been playing with the data from the Carna botnet output[1]. Basically someone scanned a massive portion of the Internet using broken routers as bots. There's some interesting finds in the data but analysing it is quite awkward given th
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by iuguy 14y ago
Tony Blair was another 3-termer who lost it completely, again elected not because he was the best candidate but simply because the opposition weren't credible. I completely agree with a two term limit, would be a great thing to have here al
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by iuguy 14y ago
> She is essentially the reason the UK still uses Pound sterling and not the Euro. How so? She was out before Maastricht was signed. Germany wasn't even unified when she was around. She lost her job because frankly she presided over 3 t
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by iuguy 14y ago
Came here to post something similar but far less eloquent or well structured. It reads like long-form copy designed to get you click through to buy things you don't need. If HNers want to build strength they need to look at their surroundin
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by iuguy 14y ago
That was truly brilliantly presented. It's things like this that the Internet were invented for.
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by iuguy 14y ago
> It is solar powered. Oh that's good that it sounds authentic, because cities all across the world must get enough solar power to charge electric cars without pulling from the power grid all day long, right?
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Cyprus is historically a part of Greece but on a map it is closer to Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and even Egypt. Actually aside from a small part of the Bronze Age, Cyprus was never a part of Greece. It had been Ptolemaic E
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by iuguy 14y ago
My first thought was, "What does this have to do with Rails?" Then I realised that at 44Con[1] we have a daily Gin O'Clock break with Gin and Tonics all round. To be fair, the purposes of Gin O'Clock are to give us time to join the two thea
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by iuguy 14y ago
As I said, it's all really complicated and no-one wins. In the end Cyprus loses, Greek Cypriots lose and Turkish Cypriots lose too.
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by iuguy 14y ago
> And it isn't fair that if everything goes well you keep the interests, if it goes bad someone else pays for the risk. If you sincerely think that Cyprus doesn't set a precedent putting everyone in the Eurozone at stake you're wrong. M
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by iuguy 14y ago
I didn't mention it because the previous poster made a very valid point about ethnic Greeks speaking Greek next to Greece investing in Greek assets. However there was no reason as to why a country with such a small economy should come up wi
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by iuguy 14y ago
A lot of the British deposits were made by the UK MOD in order to pay staff at the two British airbases in Cyprus. Understandably, many of these staff had deposits in local banks.
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Greek's insolvency impacted Cyprus greatly, because a large portion of the Cyprus population are of Greek descent. Just to add a little context to this. Cyprus is a divided country, as a result of a conflict in 1973 between Turkish Cy
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by iuguy 14y ago
You must be great fun at parties.
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by iuguy 14y ago
Interestingly enough, how do rapid 7 think that they're able to do this sort of thing? It goes against Amazon's terms of service and AUP, not to mention against the people who have the data in insecurely configured buckets. In light of Weev
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by iuguy 14y ago
Came here to post this. The article promotes the dangerous idea that people should be free to blame Ted in a meeting. This is dangerous because we don't know Ted, we don't know the other people, we don't know the CEO and we don't know how t
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by iuguy 14y ago
Actually what these guys don't mention is that the Raspberry Pi is plugged into a relatively huge USRP, because that kind of blows their whole "Look how tiny it is" PR out of the water.
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by iuguy 14y ago
Sorry I had a brain fart, I meant UMPC and bluetooth keyboard. No idea where OLPC came from.
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by iuguy 14y ago
It's an interesting hack. I do wonder whether or not it's a little over-engineered. When you look at the costs of all the kit versus maybe an older OLPC type computer off ebay I'm not sure how well it stacks up. Then again, it's probably pr
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by iuguy 14y ago
> I don't find it very surprising that providers of security awareness programs don't agree with Schneier's arguments against their offering. Erm... I wasn't talking about commercial providers of security awareness programmes. I'm talki
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by iuguy 14y ago
If I can make a suggestion, build an official iphone and android app for this, and charge 99 cents. You can then add the ability to do live annotations to presentations from the phone/tablet and keep that exclusive to the app. This whole ap
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by iuguy 14y ago
What's so insane about it? I ask as I've recently been working with curl for webdav backup scripts and haven't had too many problems beyond fat fingers.

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