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by jcrawfordor 12y ago
TrueCrypt is, to be honest, Windows software. The Linux version is a port and used to lag far behind the Windows version featurewise (for some time it was command line and even read-only).
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by jcrawfordor 12y ago
> If two groups with opposing messages control the key, it's pretty clear that the key is compromised in some manner.
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
HTTP hijacking is much more common than DNS. The reason for this is that hosts cache DNS results, so clients that just joined your network wouldn't get the redirect at all. And yes, they probably should block excessive DNS traffic, but
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
"If the above is correct, it is rational to not sign up for cryonics only if: 1. You believe that P = 0, i.e. cryonics will never work; 2. You prefer being dead to being alive." This kind of argument only discredits cryonics suppo
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
Keybase seeks to solve the exact problem you just pointed out by connecting PGP keys to established online identities (Twitter, Github, etc.). You could create a Keybase account for Edward Snowden, sure, but his friends wouldn't trust
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
You know, the fact that it's in urban dictionary doesn't mean it's not a joke about kerning.
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
I got a tour of the Burnside Bridge in Portland twice when I was in probably middle school, a couple years apart. The first time, the operator had a big panel of giant switches and buttons with a relay interlock system to make sure things p
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
I believe the transponder code can be changed to a special value to indicate a hijack condition. Perhaps they install a sort of "silent alarm" control to do this?
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
Not so hard when the guidance computer is telling you exactly when and how much to turn - or is doing it for you.
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
You make it sound like there's no valid point of security in between "anti-the-next-random-guy" and "anti-sophisticated-governments." There are a lot of people who care about their data enough that it shouldn't
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by jcrawfordor 13y ago
From an outside perspective it very much looks like data was acquired off the wire as it was sent for authorization. The data captured included a number of things that the retailer would not be storing at all.