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by oconnore 14y ago
That's sort of the whole point, isn't it? Anonymous, by definition, is anyone (including employees of the US Government) acting on any motivation (including discrediting itself or other groups within itself), so long as they don't sign thei
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by oconnore 14y ago
They get shut down for copyright infringement and immediately come back with a service touting a privacy system. Privacy from whom? At Megaupload, your files were private from other people. Mega themselves has/had no interest in snooping th
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by oconnore 14y ago
It's important to understand that the only reason they are doing this at all is for copyright defense.
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by oconnore 14y ago
Why is it that every time Kaspersky does anything at all, the article says "Russian researchers", or "Russian security analysts"? When Twitter does something, the news article doesn't read: "California based social media experts released ..
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by oconnore 14y ago
> But the A/B tests showed various negative effects of the feature, including fewer clicks on the results and fewer items “favorited” from the infinite results page. And curiously, while users didn’t buy fewer items overall, “they just
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by oconnore 14y ago
I won't say that you can't approximate what you get from a liberal arts education without actually going, but it will be far more difficult than working at a few companies and traveling, it will require an incredible amount of determination
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by oconnore 14y ago
"Based on this, framework, one model for the per-capita gun death rate D would be D = V * G * k, where V is the average tendency toward violence and G is availability of guns, with killing power k factored in." Ah yes,
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by oconnore 14y ago
You didn't actually disagree with what I wrote. What you wrote is also true.
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by oconnore 14y ago
Sorry that was not clear. I was referring to his SHA1/MD5 version. My version is not cheap to brute force, but it is silly.
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by oconnore 14y ago
This is silly, true, but "you are not a cryptographer, use bcrypt" is not helpful. You could design an equally silly password hashing scheme using pbkdf2 and bcrypt, the recommended alternatives: sillysalt(user):=user+date+mersenne_tw
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by oconnore 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_compilation
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by oconnore 14y ago
It's also within the scope of the first amendment to drown out their chants with motorcycles, to create human walls to distance them from the proceedings, and to conduct the ceremony on private property where there is no trespassing allowed
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by oconnore 14y ago
I don't think it matters whether WBC 'wins' or loses, as long as the families are protected.
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by oconnore 14y ago
Look at the matrix in [1]. The matrix here is +-----------+ | A,A | C,B | +-----------+ | B,C | n/a | +-----------+ With (A=B) > C [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma#Generalize...
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by oconnore 14y ago
More that it's way too hard to navigate twitter without giving some random app write permission to your account. Modifiable permissions would help a lot, but of course Dwolla can't do anything about that.
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by oconnore 14y ago
The Prisoner's Dilemma is different, since (here) there is no punishment if there is no betrayal, and betrayal is basically atomic.
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by oconnore 14y ago
> You aren't working while holding it in your hands like you might be with a tablet. Why not? I do this all the time. I also bike with it in my backpack, pick it up with one hand, toss it on my bed, hold it sideways to read a paper whil
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by oconnore 14y ago
The most useful feature (of course, not a unique feature) of OTR is perfect forward secrecy. This means that, unlike GPG, you can lose your private key and not give up everything you have ever encrypted. The plausible deniability stuff is p
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by oconnore 14y ago
"Just a few bytes of brilliance" Actually, 13 of them.
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by oconnore 14y ago
I don't think their security model relies on the pattern being secret. The worst case scenario is company B steals company A's number. This results in company A getting additional payments. Or perhaps company C, seeking to ruin the reputati
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by oconnore 14y ago
Well, it's equivalent to static RFID or QR codes, and seems easier than either. It's neat. Other ways of doing handshakes with limited hardware: musical chirps, exchanging graphical codes with two front cameras, and ad-hoc wifi.
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by oconnore 14y ago
It was also used as insurance so you could criticize the war and then point to your car as defense against the "but I stand with the troops" nonsense and say "I do too". At least that was my perception in suburban Massachusetts.
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by oconnore 14y ago
Those people also know enough (or know too little) to ignore advice on the internet. For everyone else, disclaimers are good.
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by oconnore 14y ago
Do you think that your company could do this better at a reasonable cost? How would your company handle a scenario like this internally (an entire data center becomes unrecoverable)? If you don't have a good answer, it's simply grass-is-gre
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by oconnore 14y ago
You missed the part where he qualifies almost every statement about getting rid of the local disk with, "except for caching". This implies that he's not talking about a dumb terminal. If your device has frequent (not necessarily constant) i
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by oconnore 14y ago
A lot of these are good. Some not so much... passwords123 passwored12 password$qwerty qwertylol@me passwords123456 password123 password111111
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by oconnore 14y ago
A published hash sum on its own only protects against non-malicious errors in the download. This is of limited use, since even regular HTTP is verified with a 16 bit CRC checksum. Distributing a hash check over HTTPS would offer some protec
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by oconnore 14y ago
Well, it is likely that some deal-making (or lack thereof) behind the curtain is why Apple had to release a new maps tool in the first place. But for users, yes.
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by oconnore 14y ago
Wikileaks needs to start distributing files encrypted before they announce what's inside them. It wouldn't provoke a DDOS and distributing the password after the announcement is much simpler.
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by oconnore 14y ago
You are now talking about the washing machine effect, which is not what you were talking about before. You described a photo sharing site as, "a network of tens of millions of people sharing data about their day-to-day life", which is ridic

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