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by mukyu 15y ago
It is the anniversary of the overthrow of the Shah and they do something like every time there is something politically sensitive going on. It is clearly population/sentiment control and not 'fear of spies'.
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by mukyu 15y ago
They can only do that on sites they control. Iran wants to prevent users from getting into the Tor network and going to sites that they do not have control over. Since it is easy for them to block the public routers Tor uses "bridges" wh
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by mukyu 15y ago
A thesis on anonymous p2p networks that fails to mention basically any of the notable anonymous p2p networks (e.g. freenet, Share, Perfect Dark, ...) or protocols (WASTE).
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by mukyu 15y ago
These accounts are strikingly different. I'm sure the true lies somewhere between "he was locked up in a safe room with a sawed-off shotgun" and "all you had to do was ask". I don't really know about that dumb waiter though. It certainly do
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by mukyu 15y ago
Just because enterprises have silly rules about updating software does not make it a 'good reason'. Just think of how much effort has been wasted over the years by most of the internet propping up IE6 to appease corporations that have these
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by mukyu 15y ago
For context: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.ssl.observator... Basically, a CA gave someone a cert that allows them to make and sign their own certs (for any domain) for the express purpose of allowing them to snoop on all s
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Clarifying The Trustwave CA Policy Update(blog.spiderlabs.com)
3 points by mukyu 15y ago|2 comments
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by mukyu 15y ago
One of Unicode's goals is that you can convert any character set to it without losing information. When you have multiple forms proprietary character sets used by cellphones that have emoji you need to be able to represent all of them. That
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...And Scrabble Proved PSPACE-Complete(technologyreview.com)
2 points by mukyu 15y ago|0 comments
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by mukyu 15y ago
Megaupload has been captcha-less for a while, and from time to time without a waiting period. Some hosts are really bad. It can be hard to find the proper thing to click with 12 different 'Download button' ads and the real one is tiny and h
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by mukyu 15y ago
A slightly related previous discussion [1] on the aspect of blindly submitting stories. Even not doing it blindly (say, you save up links that are good and post them all at peak times for better results) is not in good form either if it is
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by mukyu 15y ago
My money is on conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation and National Review coming out against it (largely for reasons that the tech community was not focusing on) as the main driving force of change, at least on the Republican side
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by mukyu 15y ago
Most universities have free tutor services, including for writing. Also, most professors are willing to take a look at your work ahead of time and give you advice. Given those two options why would a student pay for this service and why wou
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by mukyu 15y ago
The current DMCA exceptions granted by the Copyright Office[1] do allow you to circumvent CSS, but only for very specific educational or such use. Making a personal backup copy does not fit the criteria and thus is illegal, even though that
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by mukyu 15y ago
No, I'm pretty sure I can blame spammers and people that employ them for spamming. It isn't Google's fault and it being their "only" option to make money is not an excuse either.
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by mukyu 15y ago
Twitter said they aren't going to do it. [1] [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/sopa-twitt...
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by mukyu 15y ago
Is there anything to actually have a discussion about relating to this? Seems too navel gazing to me.
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by mukyu 15y ago
The english Wikipedia uses a massive number[1] of MediaWiki extensions. At the very least you are going to need parserfunctions (used in basically every template) and cite to properly display basically every article. Math, wikihiero, syntax
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by mukyu 15y ago
If you are going to do this you should use http://publicsuffix.org/ instead of trying to maintain a list yourself. Mozilla is clearly going to do a better job at it.
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by mukyu 15y ago
natsukashii I normally would not feel the need to correct a typo, but in an instance like this it is different as most people on hn do not automatically know what was intended.
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by mukyu 15y ago
http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber... I read this write-up of the problem years ago that takes a different approach.
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by mukyu 15y ago
It is talking about people making purchases through retailer's websites from mobile devices, not app purchases or anything along those lines.
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by mukyu 15y ago
Odd that they didn't use the API or action=raw to get the wikitext and instead just scraped and went digging. It would require post-processing anyways (rip out templates, wikilinks, reflists, whatever) but it would be easier to isolate what
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by mukyu 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system
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by mukyu 15y ago
While it may be true that all DRM is pointless in an ideal world there are cases where it actually works. Good counter-examples are Autodesk's products (their DRM/dongles stand up for 6+ months) or the PS3 that took years for people to be a
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by mukyu 15y ago
I was referring to this graph and the premise that it supports. Also, Jimbo has very little to do with the running of the English Wikipedia. He stepped down as a leader of it because of how often his actions were sharply criticized by the c
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by mukyu 15y ago
A fundamental misunderstanding of how decisions are made on the English Wikipedia.
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Digital certificate authority suspends ops following breach(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by mukyu 15y ago|0 comments
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by mukyu 15y ago
I know that http served https form target login is an anti-pattern. I was saying that a) firesheep does not have anything to do with passwords (which he implies it does) and b) it would be prevented with ssl anyways. I don't even know why h
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by mukyu 15y ago
No source, no actual mention of how it works besides curve25519, and only available for 'Mac'. I don't have a lot of confidence that this is secure or useful, but it sounds like it is already useless because it fails over to normal DNS and

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