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by nwh 12y ago
Closed source with that sort of application is uncomfortable.
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by nwh 13y ago
Your Mac does exactly that actually. http://blog.erratasec.com/2010/09/apples-secret-wispr-reques... Apple broke the page once and everybody's wifi broke in response. Single point of failure.
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by nwh 13y ago
This is an incredibly old feature. I found this in their binaries over a year ago, and it doesn't look like much has changed in the mean time. Still creepy as all hell.
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by nwh 13y ago
Cathode doesn't let you use custom fonts sadly.
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by nwh 13y ago
How do you verify that the information is correct independently?
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by nwh 13y ago
(Merino is a very highly regarded breed of sheep specifically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merino )
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by nwh 13y ago
> although .ng is the most expensive cctld of all cctlds($100 usd per year),but it is the most dangerous cctld of all cctlds. .nr is $500 USD a year. http://www.cenpac.net.nr/dns/index.html I've dealt with th
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by nwh 13y ago
Nobody exposes their RPC port over ssl publicly. Nobody. You can't even do it if you use the normal settings in the client.
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by nwh 13y ago
That's fairly incorrect. Wallets are not a single address, nor to they need to be known by the network to be sent to. Address creation happens completely offline.
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by nwh 13y ago
So ask them to prove their reserves if it bothers you so. Other large services have in the past.
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by nwh 13y ago
That doesn't really suggest malice so much as ill attention. From their posts it sounds like they are stretched a little thin under the load, if they wanted to steal they would just be gone not occasionally unresponsive.
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by nwh 13y ago
That's not convenient. Coinbase is convenient. You're suggesting a ride on lawnmower as a substitute to a car. As a spending wallet Coinbase is fairly close to ideal. Please read my post carefully next time.
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by nwh 13y ago
Coinbase isn't some random website made in a basement. It's a well funded, YC backed, known-founder company that complies with relevant banking law. There's absolutely nothing to suggest that they hold a partial reserve or ha
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by nwh 13y ago
Hot/cold storage as coinbase is using is probably better than any encryption. Even an end of world bug means that they can only ever lose a small portion of all stored user funds. Manual processing of this means there is some sanity ch
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by nwh 13y ago
Assuming malicious requests come from other countries would be foolhardy.
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by nwh 13y ago
Nothing really stopping somebody automating the creation of those either when you're up against people with ridiculous amounts of cost-free (read, botnet) resources to spam with. The Bitcoin reddit gets flooded with spam on an almost m
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by nwh 13y ago
What do rate limit by? There's billions of IP addresses a spammer could use, captchas can be solved by offshore farms, there's almost nothing to go by.
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by nwh 13y ago
I don't think I've seen anybody acting badly either. I've even had people talk to me after thrashing me to give me hints on how not to lose so thoroughly next time. I've played since SC1, there's never really been a
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by nwh 13y ago
I agree. I would have expected data to be nuked, not nuked on one volume and retained on another.
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by nwh 13y ago
A KDF is meant to slow down dictionary attacks by introducing a lot of computation. Normal values might be in the hundreds of thousands, even millions to bring the computation time down to less than a few a second on extremely high powered
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by nwh 13y ago
They left people's wallets with "aliases" open to be cracked by anybody who found them for years, messed up their RNG and revealed some users private keys, a few XSS mishaps, and their support reset 2FA keys for hackers with
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by nwh 13y ago
20 rounds of PBKDF2, there's tears in my eyes.
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by nwh 13y ago
I don't follow the reasoning. It's a country that's stuck in a variety of awkward situations with its neighbours, isolated, famine stricken, and threatening to wage war on the South- yet they're worrying about the people
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by nwh 13y ago
I know. I was demonstrating why it wouldn't be a 5v supply rather a 20v one.
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by nwh 13y ago
My MacBook would need 18A @ 5v + 10% loss in the DCDC, that's one hell of a thick power connector.
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by nwh 13y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but there's probably lots of round aluminum extrusions around to choose from. It would make the thing cheaper to build without having to go and make their own dies, just make two injected plastic end
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by nwh 13y ago
Not even that really. You might get a single difficulty 1 share or two, worth literally less than the maximum precision BTC allows.
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by nwh 13y ago
In hindsight I see how people have read this in a way I didn't intend, I'm being bitten by HN's two hour editing window. I meant that people picked out a large amount of coins as "satoshi's", and you mentioned
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by nwh 13y ago
That'd be easy, just rip the RFID tag from a legit cap and stick it on the fake one. Circumvention without any interaction by the manufacturer of the second party capsules. People have been doing that sort of thing on printer cartridge
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by nwh 13y ago
He's mentioned it on the forums directly, though I'm not in a position to dig it up right now. It's fairly easy to infer that he sold a lot at low prices, from his posts it doesn't seem that he is particularly rolling in

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