khrakhen

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   by khrakhen 9y ago

   Pinker is most certainly Whiggist in his historical outlook.
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   by khrakhen 9y ago

   We can simply look at /Better Angels of Our Nature/ to know what a hack Pinker is. His thesis is only good for intra-civilizational violence on decline, which is true and fascinating. Not a cause for celebration, but for study --
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   by khrakhen 10y ago

   Not just clicking on them. They are entering their details. I can excuse (sort of) clicking on infected files. Honestly, how many of us are checking unsigned e-mails' headers in the source code? At the very least we should confirm if t
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   by khrakhen 10y ago

   Yep. All the more infuriating. They know better. NGOs, private industry and the US government at most levels there has been a movement away from password length limits and password expiration and SMS as a second factor. (Even OTP and hashes
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   by khrakhen 10y ago

   > I've heard exactly zero claims that the leaked emails were falsified in any way. Podesta and high-ranking Dems have leveled this very charge. The extent of the DKIM signatures all being true makes this very unlikely. RSA1024 and S
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   by khrakhen 10y ago

   Great. Password expiration. Cue everyone recycling a set of 10 unique passwords among devices and/or writing passwords on Post-It notes on work computers at the office. Only bit of truth in here was the phishing campaign. That could be