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by nathas 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5958879 It's not that unrealistic. Correct, it does not solve P = NP. It does, as another commenter pointed out, make it much faster (feasible) to reverse RSA by factorization. Re:
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by nathas 13y ago
You can't trust anyone. You can trust protocols and implementations and proven math. That said, I would bet good money they already have working quantum computers, in which case current crypto may have quite a few problems.
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by nathas 13y ago
This is the "fact sheet" in question: http://pastebin.com/5d7rHmYe
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by nathas 13y ago
And now an error notice: "It seems you have experienced an error." I guess they took it down. It responds with a 404 according to Fiddler. Edit: Here's a Pastebin'd version of the text in case the Google cached version e
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by nathas 13y ago
That was lovely. I always had a hard time wrapping my head around the exact behavior of metatables when I messed with Lua a few years back. Thanks!
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by nathas 13y ago
Why wouldn't it apply to HTTPS and SSH?
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by nathas 13y ago
The technology isn't going away, and public key crypto to protect your identity doesn't exist (visually) so...
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by nathas 13y ago
He just mentioned under 702 they DO get content, but it "can only be used against non-US citizens and on non-US soil"... So.. how do you confirm that if all you have is metadata?
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by nathas 13y ago
"Because you share that information with phone companies, etc". He referenced a court decision about that. Can someone who knows what the case might be find it?
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by nathas 13y ago
I'd put good money that this was a black flag article pushed by the USA. It seems out of character to go from "I'm not trying to get anyone hurt/in trouble, just showing the public what's wrong." to "Here&
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by nathas 13y ago
> Snowden is not a justice, an elected representative, or someone in general who we want deciding what we should and shouldn't know You're going to trust the people in power to make the judgement calls over their own power....?
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by nathas 13y ago
I just feel that shifts from a "we're going to legally bully you" to "cmon, we let you know". If someone were to get a notice saying, "Hey, we're going to drop a bomb on you in 3 months. You might want to leave." and continues to live there
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by nathas 13y ago
Mozilla and MOZ provide pretty different products. If your in a different category, it's often not "reasonable". It's the same with Mojang's "Scrolls" vs Bethesda's "Elder Scrolls". It's silly, but because they're both in the video game cat
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by nathas 13y ago
A very important snippet from the comments from Sarah Bird (COO of Moz) > So, I did what I would want someone to do for me. In January, I called him to give him a personal heads up that we had a problem, that the brand felt too close fo
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by nathas 13y ago
There's a secret ending to Hotline Miami that made it one of the most thought provoking games I've ever played. Rarely am I moved by a game nowadays. It's heavy. Hotline Miami alone is worth it.