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by leef 13y ago
Applied Cryptography mentions the 'Interlock Protocol' [1]. Why is something like this not used in today's protocols to try and detect MITM attacks? 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlock_protocol
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by leef 13y ago
The ephemeral session keys should protect against the MITM attacker getting anything but another encrypted stream of data, right?
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by leef 13y ago
So in order to see the information they may or may not have on you they ask for your name, full address, last 4 ssn, date of birth, and email... if they didn't have any data on you before they do now.
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by leef 13y ago
Highlights: * They encrypt all snaps with the same encryption key (AES in ECB mode). The key is embedded in the app and is the same key on iOS and android. * They have an API that, given a phone number, will return a users snapchat handle
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Snapchat Security Advisory(gibsonsec.org)
1 points by leef 13y ago|1 comments
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by leef 13y ago
I would attribute the efficiency to Amazon's frugal e-commerce culture translated into the cloud services industry.
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AWS Now Five Times The Size Of Other Cloud Vendors Combined(readwrite.com)
3 points by leef 13y ago|1 comments
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by leef 13y ago
The one I have been bitten by is the TCP retransmission timeout (RTO). This is the time TCP will wait for an ack before resending some data. This number has to be somewhat conservative because if the RTO is less than the normal round trip
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by leef 13y ago
This article seems to be mostly FUD. Per-session, ephemeral SSL keys are available and are used by at least Google [1], CloudFlare[2], and others. No keys are stored, no keys can be given to the NSA. 1 - https://www.imperialviol
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by leef 13y ago
That is not true. Success in a job is not always defined by thinking outside the box and being creative. Often it is much simpler - show up to work on time, produce, add value as depicted in your job description. The people that do these
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Paper-thin e-skin responds to touch by lighting up(esciencenews.com)
2 points by leef 13y ago|0 comments
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by leef 13y ago
There's no guarantee that CC2.8xlarge will own the whole box. It might be that way today, but not if Amazon runs virts on even larger boxes in the future.
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by leef 13y ago
Except that they have dumped Cassandra and continue to use and grow MySQL and HBase.
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by leef 13y ago
You just need your own set of insect-sized drones to find and destroy other insect-sized drones.
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by leef 13y ago
> Oh well, better in their hands than Oracle's. One might think that but it has surprisingly not been true. Oracle, already the owner of InnoDB, now owning the entirety of mysql has been able to stop fighting with Sun and push out a
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Father-Son Duo Reinvent Drug Testing With ‘Digital Lab Rats’(wired.com)
1 points by leef 13y ago|0 comments
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by leef 13y ago
Why would you assume a local company is any more secure?
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by leef 13y ago
This might be nice for one off orders of brand name items but it doesn't look to really challenge Amazon or any e-retailer that manages its own inventory. There are at least two main issues I see: 1) Selection - It’s easy to sell the popul
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Heroku Launches Platform API(blog.programmableweb.com)
2 points by leef 13y ago|0 comments
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Amazon: Creating A Customer Utopia One Culture Hack At A Time(highscalability.com)
1 points by leef 13y ago|0 comments
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by leef 13y ago
The algorithm does seem nicer than a 2PC protocol in that there is no need for a 2PC coordinator. By distributing the metadata as it does the clients and servers can figure out what has been committed and what hasn't. However it doesn't a
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AWS Achieves FedRAMP Compliance(aws.amazon.com)
1 points by leef 13y ago|0 comments
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by leef 13y ago
The actual purpose of this project is to provide years-long space travelers with food. This makes sense. The bit about solving world hunger looks to be a side aspiration of the creator.
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by leef 13y ago
Despite the name you can't actually assume DynamoDB is based on the Dynamo paper architecture.
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by leef 13y ago
Except, as much I am not a fan of the company, Oracle has done a far better job managing and improving MySQL than Sun so far. Having the same company own both the main engine (InnoDB) and the harness (MySQL) has been tremendously valuable.
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by leef 13y ago
The only real feature MariaDB offers over vanilla MySQL and Percona is an improved optimizer for complex sql queries [1]. In most cases Percona seems to be a win over both MySQL and MariaDB as it is just patch layer over MySQL with features
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by leef 14y ago
Interesting to see these posted on HN. I studied NEETS modules while working on radar and weapon systems electronics as Data System Technician in the Navy (DS). They cover a lot of ground and most teach things in a pretty simple way (as t
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by leef 14y ago
The use of JSON logging plus a tool like Record Stream [1] is very powerful and solves the tool chain issue. Recs is complimentary to standard unix tools as well. 1- http://search.cpan.org/~bernard/App-RecordStream-3.7.3/READM...
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by leef 15y ago
Dynamo as described in the original paper was not made into a web service. Facebook took up the Dynamo torch and created Cassandra... then switched to HBase after trying to use Cassandra in production. Have you ever stopped to wonder about
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by leef 15y ago
The CAP theorem is boiled down to you choosing whether or not you want consistent reads.

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