nyarlathotep

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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
This may interest you: http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-usenixsec2011.pdf
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I think we have to wait a little longer to make that call. The "correction" seems to be correcting itself now:)
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I don't doubt the EFF, but I am automatically skeptical of anyone who tries to get me to take action without bothering to post the bill or even relevant excerpts.
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
Well, you could use a site like this: https://localbitcoins.com/ but then again doing hundreds of these cash transactions in person seems like it would be stressful.
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
HIPAA means a little more than that. I spent years as a pharmacy technician and can attest to all the shredding, blacking out of names, etc. Disclosing PHI (Personal Health Information) without a reasonable need for it was a very serious of
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I think the HIPAA comment is likely referring to users being able to talk to healthcare professionals. I very much doubt that line was talking about surgeons, etc. asking for advice.
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I usually enjoy Schneier's postings but this is a little bit silly. There's no evidence that "government monitoring" had anything to do with this incident. Someone noticed the tweets and informed Hayden. We don't se
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I found that portion a little shocking. Is that at all common?
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/hardware3.html HotBits already has implemented the idea
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
Make a hardware RNG that's truly random by detecting the interval between decay events :)
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
It seems likely that the seized funds were taken from SR's escrow accounts. It matches up roughly with the amount of money said in the FBI complaint to be stored in escrow. I can only assume that they have no idea where his personal Bi
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I notice it's stated that around 3.6 million USD worth of bitcoins were seized in the arrest, taken from Silk Road's wallets. Am I correct in assuming that because it came from SR's wallet it was the escrow fund? The FBI comp
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
Well he certainly won't go down for murder, seeing as how there's no evidence that the "victim" ever existed in the first place.
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
No, they can't keep the whole 20 billion as profit. They still have to pay for administration, marketing, etc.
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by nyarlathotep 13y ago
I believe the 80% figure refers to 80% of the insurance company's annual revenue, not 80% of the premiums you specifically have paid to them.