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by nkobeissi 9y ago
That makes sense. In this case I think it would be interesting to analyze the state space for the network protocol involved.
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by nkobeissi 9y ago
Signal is applying SGX secure enclaves to engineer a new contact discovery server design. This is doubtlessly promising and innovative. My only question is the following: what protection is there against the server sending a correct remote
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
I want to understand how this story makes sense, and I can't. If you put the facts together, they don't add up. First, here's the chronology. 1. Original Note 7 phones were blowing up, Samsung issued a recall. 2. Samsung rele
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
Ugh, thank your for posting this, I opened up the comments section to post exactly the same thing. It's incredibly annoying how misleading this article is. I don't know what the HN rules are for dealing with things like this. It s
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
> I have a feeling that if WhatsApp were recording their users' locations in order to provide a more advanced location-aware version of the same strategy, people would not be very happy about that. They don't need to record you
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
> Money? That's harder, unfortunately. It's hard to innovate when people want to cling on to what they already know. This is a core element of my questions that other answers are unfortunately not addressing. Even if you make s
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Ask HN: Has all interesting desktop software already been written?
78 points by nkobeissi 10y ago|102 comments
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
I have no idea what that hash corresponds to and haven't even seen it before. Also, to be clear. I have absolutely not the slightest idea what kind of issue tptacek seems to be referring to in general. Honest. I'd swear under oath
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
Wow.
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
That's somewhat helpful but doesn't fully address Chris's story. Would Chris be able to write his own implementation, interoperable with AxolotlKit (the iOS Signal Protocol implementation), from scratch, without any explic
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
These kinds of arguments may have force on Reddit, but they're verboten on HN. You need to engage the argument itself and not try to dredge things up about the arguer.
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
> WhatsApp makes a lot of sacrifices to have encryption by default, like no backup of messages Small clarification: WhatsApp actually does seem to have a backup feature, at least on my Android phone. I was prompted by the application to
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
Of course, I was only referring to vulnerabilities I could verify are real. Steve was paid two separate bug bounties and invited to a Cryptocat hackathon in NYC. I also consider him a friend and never heard a complaint from him regarding th
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
I am the original author of the software you refer to. Before its complete rewrite (released two months ago), Cryptocat was based on a codebase that I wrote starting in my early undergrad and that was notorious for containing many high-seve
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by nkobeissi 10y ago
> Complaints about Signal are, unsurprisingly, getting dumber and more venomous. For instance, last week, Nadim Kobeissi (the author of Cryptocat, a competing secure messaging system that I think you should avoid) was on Twitter talking
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by nkobeissi 11y ago
Oh, not at all. I've been thinking this through for some time. I don't regret it. It's rather the case that I don't think much good discussion ever comes out of Hacker News specifically, and tend to avoid it like the pla
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by nkobeissi 11y ago
This is Nadim (someone just pointed this link out.) Please don't upvote this. I'm not appreciating the attention, not looking for drama. Just needed to set the record straight on something that's been bothering me for months,