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by nikcub 9y ago
Taken from this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8oTJ8OZ5S0
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Their ads are everywhere - took me a while to notice that it's the same CME that run all of those expensive video ads that have that scammy "get rich working from home" feel to them. Their user acquisition cost must be $1k+
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I found blockchainbdgpzk in just under 3 days. It was the sixth blockchain* address I found. I ran 3x 4 GPU cloud instances on AWS on the old Teslas - which aren't very fast at SHA. IIRC it was doing 15GH/s total Today you can g
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use KeyPassXC - it supports generating word based or readable passwords and you can set it as the default
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by nikcub 9y ago
Not sure if you read that issue because it was closed as it depends on OpenSSL 1.1. Fire up 8.8.0 and you'll find crypto.scrypt is undefined. nodejs will have to get the OpenSSL 1.1 upgrade in as the support period for nodejs 8.x excee
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I'd like to see the non-LTS version of node in 8.x move to OpenSSL 1.1 and expose more: scrypt, schnorr, curve25591, bn etc. There is no good internal password storage, and bitcoin operations require bringing in most libs
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There were attempts at airline mergers just before 911. US Airways and United were going to merge but the deal didn't get approved. Both ended up filing bankruptcy some point later, and since then the airlines have largely merged from
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If you can verify one person as being a single participant then you've stumbled onto something as big as Bitcoin itself
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He accuses Tesla of stealing the three phase AC motor from Ferrari and being a business-minded promoter with absolutely no evidence and contrary to almost everything we know about Tesla That article is much worse than anything The Oatmeal h
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Sweden is the smallest nation in the world still doing end-to-end car manufacturing. Australia was the second smallest. The difference is Sweden sells cars all over the world, and in Australia despite decades of attempts and popular Top Gea
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Australia will always have whatever resource is in demand next. Three lithium mines are coming online every year for the next few years starting this year. Australia will become the largest natural gas exporter - it will overtake iron ore i
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Exactly. Good implementations like Whonix take steps to isolate your circuits between different applications and profiles[0]. Further in those cases you're isolating your identities with virtual machines by default, which helps enforce
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The criminal complaint has a lot more information[0] in what is a much deeper and involved story that this headline doesn't really do justice to. Lin had stalked her in person for over a year with a host of incidents - the affidavit is
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> Every ride Uber loses money. That isn't true - they're profitable in a lot of markets[0]. They're subsidizing rides in new and developing cities where they're capturing market [0] https://www.businessinsi
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by nikcub 9y ago
Since Ruth Porat came in as CFO Google has reduced other projects spending to $3.5B p.a on $80B of revenue - less than 5% Mozilla has revenue of $420M p.a - I don't know what they spent on Firefox OS but it would have been a big bet (
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> It's been fascinating to watch this space rediscover the reasons that the regulations were created in the first place. I've found that ICO's are almost identical to OTC pump and dumps - they're much less sophisticat
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That doesn't exclude the possibility of him being prosecuted tho and the regulation being abused. If Jose was communicating with an ISIS recruiter but they couldn't pin him on that - could they pin him on the Taco racket?
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People forget that VCs also raise money. Setting up a venture fund that is backed by an ICO token would be a good way to give public accredited investors access to the private market.
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Three recent and well known high-profile failures at the SEC and books or articles covering them: 0. Enron - Senate committee concludes Enron was enabled by a systemic and catastrophic failure at the SEC[0]. Smartest Guys in the Room[1] is
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> Groups known to exploit web shells most effectively include teams with links to Chinese intelligence, including one nicknamed Shell Crew. That's just silly. It is very common when exploiting web apps to utilize a web shell to pers
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by nikcub 9y ago
> like searching through message history You can do this[0] I'm personally rooting for them - e2ee group chat is a common request I get [0] https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/se.pdf
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by nikcub 9y ago
> Traditional consoles had fixed hardware which could be exploited through vendor specific APIs. Atari know that - they tried it with the Jaguar
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Interesting that the Gates Foundation have a former Saama employee co-operating with them: > For example, according to CW1, a Big Data/Analytics Lead, a certain segment of the Saama’s sales force involved in setting up the scope and
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This is what enterprise IT is all about - supporting legacy systems. It's different when you have a controlled environment. The standards for consumer products are different - especially in a case where your website requires a plugin t
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There are plenty of gaps in what Google do that Yahoo! do or did better (stocks, sports, news, weather, chat, groups etc). It's a shame they focused on competing against exactly where Google were the strongest.
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The address part is AVS[0] - where the digits from the address are verified against the card. Merchants can opt out of AVS in exchange for higher merchant fees. They can get a merchant deal where they don't require the CVV - Amazon doe
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It's no different to intellectual property theft. It doesn't matter where it is taken from, but who the property belonged to and who was being deprived.
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The industry term is application fraud - its a subtype of credit card fraud. It requires identity theft/identity fraud in the same way card not present fraud may require someone to break a database or spread a keylogger.
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Credit card fraud and identify theft are distinct threats with distinct solutions. On underground forums they're also distinct products obtained and sold in different ways (cvvs/dumps vs fullz). It has taken a long time and a lot
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> “I sold at $5,000 or $4,980,” he said. I doubt it. If you follow the Bitcoin price you'll know that a lot of indices reported the price hit over $5,000 but that was because the Chinese exchanges were trading at a premium (up to $5

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