kyboren

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by kyboren 14y ago
This. A thousand times: this. I really feel like this really cuts to the core of the problem with "cybercrime". The fact is, most people have absolutely no understanding of the technical details of the "crimes" most hackers carry out. Mos
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Give the man who saved Timbuktu's manuscripts the Presidential Medal of Freedom(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
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by kyboren 14y ago
Well, of course the citizens played a key role. But it doesn't mean they weren't fleeced or foolishly lent to by sleazy, greedy bankers just like everyone else in the Western world. Even if you hold these citizens fully accountable, at lea
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by kyboren 14y ago
Not quite. These people, perhaps foolishly, took out loans denominated in Euro. When these banks imploded, they took a huge chunk of the Icelandic economy with them, and the Krona was heavily devalued. Yes, people should have been more wa
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by kyboren 14y ago
Fine, and so the case is complex and expensive. If the accused truly are guilty, then they will be afforded due process of law and then convicted. The case may cost twice as much for the government to prosecute, but the large company wi
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by kyboren 14y ago
Federal prosecutors' primary tactics mirror those of the medieval siege. They do their best to fling arrows at the castle by generating enormous amounts of discovery material They starve defendants with insanely over-broad civil asset forfe
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by kyboren 14y ago
We need to ensure that "Internet website" is replaced with "any computing device which intentionally uses electromagnetic radiation to communicate with other computing devices". EDIT: OK, how about, "any device which intentionally communica
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by kyboren 14y ago
Why don't they just replace the proxy with a list of other proxies for TPB? Any problem can be solved with just one more level of indirection...
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by kyboren 14y ago
The voters in the PUSD district are, by and large, highly skilled professionals. They understand what's going on. It's outrageous.
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by kyboren 14y ago
As someone who lives in the area, the PUSD includes (very affluent) parts of San Diego. The district is huge, and its Mello-Roos income is also huge. This is absolutely outrageous. Rest assured, the entire school board will be dumped com
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by kyboren 14y ago
No. Imagine a museum was displaying an oil painting that had been illegally taken by the Nazis in the 1940s and kept from its rightful owners, who were alive today and appalled that their property, evidence of the 20th Century's worst war c
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by kyboren 14y ago
I completely agree with you. However, he did 'break into' an MIT switch closet to run 'keepgrabbing.py' over a 1Gbit/s connection. He wasn't just downloading 100KiB PDFs, either. He downloaded at least two million documents. The indictm
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by kyboren 14y ago
I'm sorry, but this is largely irrelevant. There's a reason North Africa is usually included as the latter part of, "Middle East and North Africa".
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by kyboren 14y ago
That's exactly what it creates. The obvious strategy here is, "baby steps". The insurance lobby is ferociously powerful. They only accepted the PPACA (with many provisions which hurt their profits) because of the quid-pro-quo with the ma
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Qubes OS 1.0 RC1 Released(wiki.qubes-os.org)
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Nokia Preparing to File for Bankruptcy
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by kyboren 14y ago
Exactly, just like a synthetic aperture radar.
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by kyboren 14y ago
I wonder which key derivation function is used. In practice, this is probably more important for security against brute-forcing than choosing AES-256 vs. AES-128. I hope they take some inspiration from the excellent tarsnap and use scrypt.
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by kyboren 14y ago
Old idea -- PwdHash, Oplop, etc. were there first. Nice that this offers flexibility in generated passwords and uses a strong PBKDF, though.
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by kyboren 14y ago
While I definitely agree that Judge Alsup's instruction to the jury, "assume SSO is copyrightable," biased the jury for the next phases, I doubt he will find that SSO is copyrightable. http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise22.ht