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by nikcub 9y ago
I never trust Chrome extensions - too often the business model is to build up a user base and then sell the spot in the store. The only way to safely install extensions is to pack them yourself from versions you trust, then drag + drop them
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by nikcub 9y ago
Coinbase is well known to randomly lock people out of accounts - they're the Paypal of Bitcoin wallets. They are likely associating accounts with 'bad' addresses and doing what you describe. The downside here is that a lot of
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by nikcub 9y ago
There is the spoofer project at CAIDA: https://spoofer.caida.org/summary.php 23% of the address space, about 33% of AS's. It has improved a lot but still some way to go
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> attributed some of this delay to his difficulty in finding independent experts who hadn't signed the open letter. They emailed me asking why I hadn't signed and if it meant that I didn't agree with the petition. Funny th
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Probably because the next person will take this well intentioned and well executed idea and take it a step too far.
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because that is what they're implying when they say "controlled" by the kremlin
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Telegram being secure or not is a separate question. Secure messaging is hard, most people when producing secure messaging will produce poor secure messaging - it doesn't mean they've been compromised by a government.
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Why would someone who has stood up to the Russian government multiple times, had a company taken away from him already for not being compliant and is now living in exile hand control of Telegram to that same government?
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Two books cover it extensively, Apollo[0] and Red Moon Rising[1] - I can't remember the exact date, but at some point even Albert Einstein wrote a letter opposing Von Braun. By the mid-50s his history had been all washed over and forgo
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> For example? I'm not here to post up your argument. Easy as looking at the other V programs. Fritz Gosslau was the designer of the V1 - not a Nazi. August Coenders was the chief designer of the V3 - also not a Nazi. Robert Lusser
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> Well, the choice was basically, > * Become a member of the Nazi Party > * Death No it wasn't. This is what Nazi's say to excuse their decisions and behavior. There were millions of people in Germany in both industry and
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by nikcub 9y ago
Based on the names mentioned I searched for their email addresses in password dumps and they all match the large 500M+ lists (anti public and exploit.in - covered here[0]) that have been available on some of the credential-stuffing and hack
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Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault(washingtonpost.com)
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Oh man, I suspected it but to have it confirmed really sucks. I just noticed their post had 1.1M views and they still haven't updated the story or left a note. If you're thinking about what to do next - try a DMCA to them and co
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by nikcub 9y ago
If you're in the USA and keeping tabs of the controversies I think it is easy to overestimate Lyft and underestimate Uber. Uber is in 100 more US cities than Lyft and 81 countries where Lyft isn't. I find that in large parts outsi
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It is working about as well as the Saudi plan to tank oil prices to push indy frackers out of business.
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That is a bad example - Scandinavia is punching way above it's weight and reputation in terms of number of unicorn startups[1] produced on a per capita basis. Sweden has a population of 9.8 million yet it has produced Skype, Mojang, Sp
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Bored Panda appear to have ripped off the original source wholesale .. wonder what is up with that.
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> My GPU was able to try 20GB passwords in a couple of minutes. That was the largest password list I’ve found on the internets. Password matching is the low hanging fruit, I usually run them on a regular server. Where you need the large
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You can get over that feeling very quickly by reminding yourself to focus on what you might be missing out on today that you don't want to regret in years from now.
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md5 collision in signing Flame malware[0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/security/2012/06/flame-wields-rare-c...
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Opioid Dealers Embrace the Dark Web to Send Deadly Drugs by Mail(nytimes.com)
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All the commercial sites on Medium are finding new homes since the company abandoned the ad model earlier this year[0] > Upon further reflection, it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn’t ser
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The story title mentions Australia but this is relevant to all the 5eye nations, as they're obviously pre-briefing the media on what the agenda will be and this is the first time that we're getting detail on what they'll be p
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I think it's pretty well known that you can use reviews as leverage even with horrible companies. I'd be more curios as to how their customer service is in non-review situations
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Happen to another Qantas flight in the area, QF71 - hence the theory about the high-power VHF transmission station in the area being responsible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Ha...
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> Was there ever a honest belief by anyone (except the Ayn Rand fanboys) this could work? On the contrary, it was (generally) those in favor of government-mandated privacy and security who heavily supported the DNT efforts. The "Ayn
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For self-hosted PKI checkout Lemur from Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/introducing-lemur-ceae88...
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I've been spending way too much time on the finance boards so I can't tell if this is sarcasm - because it would be in many other places
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Top 5 companies by market cap in 2007: Petro China, Exxon, GE, China Mobile, Industrian and Commercial Bank of China Top 5 companies by market cap in 2017: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Berkshire That's a hell of an illusion

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