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by kyboren 13y ago
Can anybody independently verify this? Is it possible it's just the authors' referenced "Unlocked Firmware Image for Huawei HG612" which is backdoored?
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by kyboren 13y ago
Neat, if you disregard the (justified? unjustified?) widespread suspicion of TPMs. However, this only prevents an attacker copying the key to another machine. If the attacker has access to that key, then they have access to your machine.
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by kyboren 13y ago
AFAIK, Lavabit might very well be able to do just that. If Lavabit can convince the appeals court that providing the keystone to the entire security model of the whole company imposes an unreasonable burden (in my mind, a quite convincing a
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by kyboren 13y ago
I agree that non-US-citizens are endowed with the same fundamental human rights, including the right to privacy, as US citizens. However: 1) US citizens alone control the US government's actions, at least indirectly and in theory. NSA
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by kyboren 13y ago
Did anyone else take a look at the site source code? For a trap, it's pretty damn obvious. The form submits the user name and password in plain text over the "secured" connection--the one that doesn't support forward se
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by kyboren 13y ago
As posted in this same thread, David House discovered that donations to legal defense funds can indeed cause problems (even for citizens) at the US border. I do not think the US is FUBAR: FU, certainly, but not BAR. And although I refuse t
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by kyboren 13y ago
I really do believe this kind of fear is justified. I posted this comment because: 1) I believe my analysis is sound 2) As I have posted previously, I am a US citizen and therefore cannot be denied entry to the US I have already donated, an
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by kyboren 13y ago
Non-citizens can be turned away at the US border for any reason, or no reason at all. Considering that a person's ability to travel to the US is so professionally important in this industry (for conferences, business meetings, etc.), I
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by kyboren 13y ago
Or more likely, move to a cushy, well-paid position as lobbyist or "VP of Regulatory Affairs".
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by kyboren 13y ago
I think you're right. Even if the law was changed to explicitly disallow these unconstitutional surveillance programs, these agencies would simply break the law and cover it up in a shroud of secrecy. The whistle-blowing provisions mi
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by kyboren 13y ago
That definitely fits with the 'hacker ethos' and all, but why not just use a smartcard with a Class III reader (i.e. dedicated pinpad and display on the reader itself). Support is already integrated with GnuPG, they are specifical
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by kyboren 13y ago
Lavabit's closure highlights the fact that third-party email providers cannot be trusted to keep your email private. Even running your own mailserver (on a computer in your home, for example) won't save you from dragnet NSA survei
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by kyboren 13y ago
.us -> .ch I do not currently plan to ever move back to the US. I moved here for other reasons, but I no longer feel free when back in my country of birth. I wonder how many others feel this way, and I wonder if it's possible to qu
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by kyboren 13y ago
I third this. I experienced the same predicament, and reacted in the same way. To my sibling comments: no, for purchases over $500, I believe you need a verified PayPal account, which is even more than the usual hassle.
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by kyboren 13y ago
Putting your data on Google's servers in Finland won't save it from the NSA. Google's headquarters are in the US, and so Google complies with "legal" US Government data requests. Your data is subject to US Governme
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by kyboren 13y ago
In that document, he proposed two different systems. The first transmits two tuples for every bit of the message. In pseudo-ish code: for(i = 0; i < message_bits.length; ++i){ send( (sequence_number, 0, (message_bits[i] ==
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by kyboren 13y ago
Just lay another cable from the tap to the nearest friendly shore.
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by kyboren 13y ago
If I send a letter with my email address and proof of citizenship to the NSA, that gives them specific information that my email address belongs to a US person. Will they not then be required to delete all communications collected under FAA
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by kyboren 13y ago
It worries me that Facebook is not deliberately blocking Tor. Suppose an oppressive regime wants to block its people from anonymously accessing a service: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc. They have traditionally been locked in an arms ra
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by kyboren 13y ago
Both valid points; I have no way to verify that's an authentic key.
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by kyboren 13y ago
Snowden called himself Verax[1]. Anyone who wants to send a message to Snowden* can just: $ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 79DEBE35 $ gpg --encrypt --sign --armor --recipient 79DEBE35 and post it publicly; perhaps on
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by kyboren 13y ago
Have you heard of William MacNaghten? Alexander Burnes? Do you remember the massacre of the British garrison from Kabul, or the awful retribution that followed? Yes, WWII was the direct precipitating event for the breakup of the British Emp
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by kyboren 13y ago
When put in context, this is hardly surprising. His wife was recently the CEO and vice chairman of Aegis, LLC, and is now a high-powered lobbyist for Manatt [1]. Straight from her biography: ... she focused on business development and ne
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by kyboren 13y ago
Check out http://bitvisitor.com -- they pay out hourly in > 10^-5 BTC increments (~$0.0012 at current prices). There are totally legitimate reasons to allow micro-transactions.
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by kyboren 13y ago
Derek Khanna, Contributor Looks like Derek found a sweet new gig after being kicked off the Republican Study Committee for talking sense about copyright.
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by kyboren 14y ago
Look at the pictures. Who do you think needs the laptop more? I think it's better (and probably all we can do) to inform the Iranian police and plead with them them to just find and ask these people who sold them the laptop. Whoever's ulti
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by kyboren 14y ago
Deterministic keypair generation isn't such a bad idea, but to email yourself the seed to your BTC keys and all transaction history? That sounds like an awfully bad idea...
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by kyboren 14y ago
You think this is new? DoD delegated "Information Warfare" (what would now be called 'cyberwar') duties to NSA in 1997. In fact, the reconfiguration of the power structure is explicitly touched upon in NSA's own journal Cryptolog, in the S
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by kyboren 14y ago
The president now asserts the right, but he does not actually have it. If our ossified judicial system has any remaining merit, he will (eventually) be called to account for his unlawful use of military force--assuming his successor does
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by kyboren 14y ago
I bought your book way back when Borders was still a solid company and devoured it. As an impressionable young teen, "Hacking the Xbox" inspired me as much as 2600 ever did. Looks like it's time to re-read it, again. Thanks for everything

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