mashedvikings

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by mashedvikings 8y ago
One of the greatest heroes we have to thank are Diffie and Hellman who put up a fight when US government went against their research on public key cryptography. But I suppose the reason NSA was delaying was they had to develop a workaround
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by mashedvikings 8y ago
"Often hear that the reason today’s Internet is not more secure is that the early designers failed to imagine that security could ever matter." Related to this, you should definitely watch Moxie Marlinspike's (lead dev of Sig
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by mashedvikings 8y ago
It's also unethical to solve world hunger by feeding the poor to the hungry. If defending is done not by installing firewalls, but by spying on everyone in case they do something bad, you have a huge problem.
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by mashedvikings 8y ago
Not sure if the article claims Eric Schmidt was ousted. But Schmidt has worked for the pentagon since 2016 http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/02/technology/eric-schmidt-pent...
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
Aral Balkan has excellent things to say about charades such as "privacy on facebook": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8supIUj6c#t=34m10s All in all, this is a great talk, I highly recommend you watch from start.
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
What are the benefits of decentralized servers over p2p? "Metadata concern is bogus" yet the linked documentation explicitly says bridges expose metadata, and that home servers expose metadata. One advantage of Pond-hybrid is &quo
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
Makes sense only if he didn't spend the $19,000,000,000 on one go when FB bought WhatsApp.
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
So, what are you using the 15,800 MB of RAM for?
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
Fully agree and I want to elaborate. After SHA-1 broke, IETF's OpenPGP work group have failed the community by wrestling hand over what hash function should be in 5th revision of fingerprint protocol. When they couldn't reach an a
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
You mean, Matrix does not pose arbitrary limitations to clients that want to use end-to-end encryption. Clients that do not yet feature it by default, and that give huge warnings when you try to enable it. Clients that have problems with co
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
Quoting Moxie: THere's nothing to be broken because there's no end-to-end encryption to begin with. Do you think nation state hackers publish their finding about the trove of private messages telegram's vast server complex ho
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
Telegram is exactly as secure as email. SSL where third party email servers can see your traffic.
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
"I have yet to see satisfactory cryptanalysis that shows a weakness (theoretical or real) in the protocol": https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1177.pdf
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by mashedvikings 9y ago
Yet the developer is world famous for his security work, not for something like inventing Facebook for Russians. Are you sure you can handle 100% anonymous connection to servers of apps that could at any time identify you based on your IP?