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by moxie 14y ago
I work on two of the apps Matthew reviews here (RedPhone and TextSecure). What I didn't expect when I started working on these types of projects is that the cryptography is the easy part. I'm really honored to hear that my code has the abi
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by moxie 14y ago
For generating memorable passphrases with high entropy, I like the "diceware" system: http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html Use it to generate the one password that you use for unlocking your password manager, where all of your ran
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by moxie 14y ago
I was surprised to read about that too. The same guy, Sudoplatov, was involved in that, though, and writes: "The establishment of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Birobidzhan in 1928 was ordered by Stalin only as an effort to strengthen the
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by moxie 14y ago
What's interesting is that according to several narratives from those close to the central committee under Stalin, anti-semitic policies in the Soviet Union started from geo-political maneuvering rather than any inherent personal sense of r
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by moxie 14y ago
This looks like new development that's just API-compatible with NaCL though, right? Which feels a little strange. The reason I'm drawn to the work of DJB is because of his fanatical attention to security-related detail. He wrote and relea
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by moxie 14y ago
""" > "We the People" are not the technolgenstia that hangs out on HN. "We the People" are my wife's parents in rural Oregon. There are things they care about, but this is not one of those things. """ Processes like this affirm the logi
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by moxie 14y ago
Just the opposite. What I'm suggesting is that it's better to recognize the lack of agency we have than to reproduce processes which give us a false sense of agency.
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Dude, this was a (really well executed) joke! It should be our responsibility to help keep this shit going.
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Exactly, I just think it's a tough sell when the difference between the non-believer case which sees this as ineffective, and the believer case that sees this as a "win," is sufficiently low expectations about what this achieves (nothing).
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by moxie 14y ago
Based on what you're describing, I think you're going to have a tough sell for the merits of this process if the "win" case and the "lose" case have identical outcomes, but differ only in the language that is used.
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by moxie 14y ago
If you have some information from the phone call that wasn't in the official response, then it's probably worth sharing it here. Otherwise, the official statement seems to absolutely confirm the doubts of the original skeptical responses.
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> Nostalgia is distorting and dangerous. That's one explanation. Another is that things didn't actually change the way people wanted them to. Where as Perestroika was supposed to be a transition from authoritarian communism to democra
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Those are by no means "middle of the road" estimates. What we now know (and everyone from Suny to Sudoplatov agrees) is that most 20th century estimates of Stalin's crimes are greatly exaggerated. Specifically, it was long thought that ev
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by moxie 14y ago
Penal labor is extremely prevalent in the US, and if anything, is growing (over 1 million US prisoners today are engaged in penal labor). It might not be "punative" penal labor, which takes it out of the category of "forced labor." But US p
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by moxie 14y ago
During the purges of the 30s and 50s, the most dangerous place to be was a member of the central committee. Ordinary workers were not affected by the bulk of the purges (and to some extent did not even realize they were happening), with th
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by moxie 14y ago
What's interesting is that they are in part re-creating the original problem they were trying to solve. The complaints about Debian were that they only cut a release like every two years. The Debian response was that people who wanted more
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by moxie 14y ago
Interesting project, but if this page is for developers, I think there should be less text and more code in it. If the idea is to make it dead simple to host opaque content, the second paragraph should say "it's this simple!" with a 10 lin
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by moxie 14y ago
Another way to look at it might be that #1 did happen, it's just called the internet . Twitter, for example, has an entire team of people working on "search and relevance." This is essentially #1, but it's not advertising, it's just how T
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by moxie 14y ago
I'm interested in the culture implications of your willingness to comment on a story like this and openly admit that you work in this area of the advertising (surveillance?) industry. Certainly, I don't think anyone would feel comfortable c
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by moxie 14y ago
In some cases, I can imagine that users paying for open source software would be a nightmare situation for the developers. For instance, whenever I'm the sole developer of a "type 0" OSS project, supporting users is typically the most diffi
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by moxie 14y ago
Was that running bitcoind on a server somewhere, or on a consumer laptop with a home internet connection? Even if it "only took about 2 hours," we're living in a world where companies are living and dying by shaving 30ms off page load times
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by moxie 14y ago
Please see any of the very many recent in-depth discussions about the security of webapp-based cryptography. Sure, it "works" in the sense that it's very easy to use, but it is by no means secure. I'm sure all of those other "online wallet
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by moxie 14y ago
The thing that makes bitcoin different than other online payment systems or virtual currencies is that it's distributed . That property, however, is also what makes it difficult to use. It's true that if you re-centralize things by trusti
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by moxie 14y ago
Yes, again, I totally agree that there many ideas for making bitcoin more usable, but they all unfortunately tend to undermine bitcoin. Bitcoin's fundamental core strength is being distributed . That's also the thing that makes it mostly
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by moxie 14y ago
Whenever I engage with BTC, "easy" is the last thing that I experience. Let's say that someone wants to start using bitcoin: it's as simple as downloading the software, double clicking on the icon, and... waiting 24hours or more for the
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by moxie 14y ago
It's simple to me: anyone who wishes to take our work and also openly contribute their work are free to do so. Those that don't wish to also openly contribute their work need to contact the copyright holder.
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Thanks. WhisperMonitor is on the roadmap!
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Hey, I'm moxie at whispersystems.org
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Mobile VoIP: Client side call quality(whispersystems.org)
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It's interesting that the author uses the word "lifestyle," because the popular etymology of the word actually comes from marketing research . The word itself was popularized relatively recently (only a generation ago): http://books.googl

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